herewegoagain2

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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
True overall the price is probably not that significant. I appear to have bought about 250 ebooks for my Kindle over several years. So even if I had saved 2€ for every one of them (which would be a lot), it probably wouldn't really war
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
I've decided to get rid of Amazon, and ebooks are one of the difficult issues. Are there no independent sites like goodreads or LibraryThing left? I don't really need the tracking, but the discovery. Also I have found that actuall
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Extracting gold is very wasteful, I'm not sure it is better than Bitcoin in terms of environmental impact. And Bitcoin is much more useful than gold. You can easily send Bitcoin to your family at the other end of the world. With gold,
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
In many cases it doesn't.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
So you propose shutting down the internet to end Bitcoin?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Interesting idea, but how exactly would you validate the CO2 emissions? If somebody mines a block and claims it only consumed x of CO2, how do you know it is true? What seems possible is to check what miners mined a block, and externally ve
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Sorry but "doctors going on social media" is absolutely no proof for anything. I have also seen several doctors on social media say that there is less activity at hospitals than usual. Seriously, just provide the numbers about hos
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Why not simply provide data to counter their "lies"? What makes you so sure to be in possession of the truth? Have you verified yourself, or have you simply chosen to trust the authorities?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
So individual labs can set their own standards for detecting an infection? Isn't that rather support for the skeptic's viewpoint? So there actually is no standard, just labs claiming things?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
I don't know about the UK, but for example in Germany there are official statistics about ICU use. ICU use was at normal levels the whole time. But of course that is also being managed by scheduling risky surgery, for example. Neverthe
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
It doesn't matter, the German government hardly ever finishes their big projects. They just want to look good on paper and spend some tax payer money.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
That doesn't make sense. You claim Trump rejected the offer that Amazon secretly made to him?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Who was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? I had always defended Amazon, until that moment, when they declared they would let people die for their ideology. Now I am trying to purge Amazon from my
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
You mean Brexit was kind of UK truck drivers smashing the trucks (because of cheap competition, and AI would be even cheaper, so more truck smashing)?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Maybe they will? I think somebody will still ship stuff to the UK. Or are the predictions coming true and the British people will now starve to death because of the EU trade embargo?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Nobody can prove existence or non-existence of a god (except a god if a god would exist). It is usually just a statement about likelihoods. Absence of evidence for existence of god(s) makes it seem very unlikely god(s) exist. Especially aft
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Do you personally feel like smashing such a truck? Or would only ex truck drivers feel that way? Because if they are simply being faded out of existence (replacing retiring drivers with AI), there won't be any ex truckers to smash the
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Fair enough, but I would still maintain that even for "internet culture", don't let journalists shape your views of it.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Why you shouldn't read the news. They always want to create narratives and drama. And reshape how people see the world. Don't let journalists shape your view of the world.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
And I actually really wonder if other people see such things, because I really don't. Not saying they don't exist, but they don't seem to get pushed into my "timelines". What you could find if you were looking for i
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Yes, please do! I think there is an inflated perception of risk because of the relentless media coverage. Risks are probably still higher than the meteor example, but the point of the example is to call for actual numbers! It's not eno
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
A lot of things COULD happen. For example, a meteor could hit the earth and wipe out all life. Therefore we should pour ALL resources into space exploration, not medicine.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
No that is not obvious at all. It doesn't depend on the transmission rate, just on how many people get infected. Higher transmission rate just means it spreads faster, not that it infects more people in the end.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
"He notes that a more infectious virus is more dangerous than a more lethal one, “because every new case will infect more people, and each of them will infect more people, such that the number of cases will grow exponentially.”" O
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Not really, no.
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
That sounds like almost everything on TV. I can't stand any of it anymore. I think there is not enough awareness of how manipulative moving images really are. It's probably really difficult to make a movie or documentary that is n
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
The other aspect is that Google is now jeopardizing many people who now enable "other sources", making them more susceptible to malware. (Not saying you shouldn't enable "other sources", but many people don't u
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
So you are saying asymptomatic infections are not an issue?
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
Such things don't make logical sense to me. So assuming Facebook is a "natural monopoly", it is only so because of millions of people (the voters) choose to use it. Instead of voting for legislation, those people could simply
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by herewegoagain2 6y ago
1) The Kenosha shooting was self defense. And if you arbitrarily lump things together, you can probably find an arbitrary number of victims. BLM is connected to socialism, so I guess you could count the 100 million dead in the Chinese Cultu

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