nightwing

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by nightwing 3y ago
Wishing slow death is indeed extremely disturbing and stupid. Politicians that way have time to do so much more harm.
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by nightwing 3y ago
Not everyone growing poor has the same experience. I also grew up much poorer than my peers, plus that was in a war torn country where we didn't even have electricity for several years. And it did not suck at all. Your mistake is think
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by nightwing 5y ago
Don't you remember people from Google saying that it should not be broken up to be able to prevent "next Trump situation"? https://www.facebook.com/ProjectVeritas/videos/2445258202376...
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by nightwing 5y ago
In this particular case it is very relevant, because Navalny himself was warning [1] that it is a dangerous precedent which is going to help the enemies of freedom everywhere. And he was absolutely right. [1] https://twitter.com&
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by nightwing 5y ago
That's true, but i hope if more people talk about it, and if techniques similar to cloning [1] get used more often in medicine, it will become possible. [1] https://www.britannica.com/science/three-parent-baby (
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by nightwing 5y ago
We need an experiment: create 100 clones of Terence Tao, wait until they become adults, and see how many of them become great scientists.
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by nightwing 5y ago
But if you send another message after that, then the indicator changes to delivered. May be a bug in adding a new feature caused by developer only caring about not sending the message part.
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by nightwing 5y ago
The only effective way to reduce use of anti-fungals in agriculture is to develop new resistant varieties of plants, but that is sadly blocked by people unreasonably fearing gmo.
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by nightwing 5y ago
And USA and China, they are too big and a threat to everyone else.
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by nightwing 5y ago
I'll try to be more careful in the future, but what part of my comment was more controversial and flame war provoking than sibling comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26684910 ?
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by nightwing 5y ago
Judging by history old fashioned moralist grounds tend to be a bit shaky, and often yield their positions;). I don't advocate for one policy or another. In fact i'd be happy if i was wrong and the fight with numbers was actually u
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by nightwing 5y ago
The law handles drawings and 3d graphics the same way as real images. The attempt to fight indirectly clearly had not succeeded so far. And most often is used as a pretext for introducing mechanisms that afterwards are used for censorship.
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The average Denuvo cracking time is now only 74 days(iscracked.info)
19 points by nightwing 6y ago|0 comments
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by nightwing 7y ago
> you can devote my comment. But, you can't change my mind. Is that really something to be proud about? Maybe you meant "By simply downvoting my comment, you don't change my opinion, so it's better to write a comment
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by nightwing 7y ago
The world where some people are smarter or healthier is always better than the world where everyone is in equally bad state. Inequality by itself is not a bad thing, it's like climbing over a high wall, one needs to push the the other,
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by nightwing 7y ago
The decision on risk/benefit can be handled only by parents and doctors, not some bureaucrats or hn commenters who do not know enough about the context. "Hey, you are going to be deaf, because someone decided that 10% increased ch
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by nightwing 7y ago
My point is that "ethics issues" with things like CRISPR and cloning are not real issues, and people talking about them do more harm than good. For instance if not for multiple countries banning human cloning, we could already hav
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by nightwing 7y ago
I agree that as with any new and powerful tool, caution is required, and it is important to make sure that parents fully understand the risks and are not misled to believe that CRISPR is the only solution when it isn't. But i think it
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by nightwing 7y ago
Why do you think CRISPRing embryos is a bad thing? Eugenics in 20th century was evil because government was trying to decide which people could have children together. The normal eugenics where people decide for themselves, worked well for
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by nightwing 7y ago
Yes, sadly he only had 10s of millions instead of billions, and i agree it would be amazing if he had billion. But in the context of articles proposal of "coalition of working-class, poor and middle-class" even millionaires end up
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by nightwing 7y ago
My main goal is to increase the number of people in the world, and to increase the opportunities they have. Because that also increases my opportunities too: living longer, having better computers, learning new physics, etc. will be possibl
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by nightwing 7y ago
With e-voting can keep mostly the same system we have now, but augment that with two small changes. 1) you can change your representative at any time, which changes the weight of his vote, 2) you can overrule your representatives vote on is
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by nightwing 7y ago
The method Elon uses for the persuasion is building rockets and taking money in exchange of services, i'll happily buy starlink internet when it is available. I have donated money to SENS foundation https://www.sens.org&#x2F
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by nightwing 7y ago
There are other rich people that are pretty cool and whose goals align with mine: Gates finances target malaria, Bezos works on Blue Origin, Thiel founded seasteading institute, etc. My point is not that all rich people are good, but that t
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by nightwing 7y ago
Rich vs poor is even less meaningful divide than right vs left. For instance i am not rich but my goals are much better aligned with goals of rich people like Elon Musk and Aubrey de Grey, than with any of poor people. The solution is not t
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by nightwing 7y ago
Most people have some family members or friends who would do that. Where i live (admittedly not USA) it's very rare for a person to go to a doctor alone.
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by nightwing 7y ago
Much more thoughtful comments are being downvoted too for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20257728 , so it's mostly luck i guess). No one suggests to destroy environment just because. As said above, i agre
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by nightwing 7y ago
The part you chose to not quote is rather important "we need to find a way to use it without breaking anything ". So i don't think the precaution should be zero. Maybe the thing we disagree about is the order of concerns,
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by nightwing 7y ago
I agree that there is a systematic problem, as far as i could understand your previous comment was suggesting that the issue is entirely in existence of private companies, but judging by previous attempts of eliminating them i think changin
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by nightwing 7y ago
Do you suggest someone else should pay for you to maintain the hardware for your tld? If enough people are interested in your tld, you already will get the capital to maintain it, if not, what's the point of having it?

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