theknown99

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by theknown99 13y ago
I was replying to the parent, who suggested a cure for all cancer cannot come soon enough - I'm not so convinced we should be aiming for immortality. Point taken though...
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by theknown99 13y ago
I appreciate your arguments, but why then is the world population graph basically linearly increasing since the 60s? It's not slowing down.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Remember when they said we'd run out of coal in the year 2000? Or that the ice caps would have melted by 2012?
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by theknown99 13y ago
https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9... World population. Up and to the right.
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by theknown99 13y ago
* Population growth in the first world is stable, low, or even negative. A quick google search shows that whilst population was pretty stable in UK in the 80s, since then it's been steadily rising. Growth is now 0.75% a year. But that
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by theknown99 13y ago
There is no solution I can see, and that's worrying. While we're all running around curing diseases, solving global warming etc, the thing that will kill off our species is our own "success".
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by theknown99 13y ago
35 is too young, and I really do feel for anyone in that situation. But cancer when you're over 60? That's basically just dying of old age...
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by theknown99 13y ago
IMHO we should focus on quality of life. Not quantity.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Without sounding unfeeling, do we really want to add to the overcrowding and population explosion problem that much? Earth is full. Our population has doubled in the short time I've been alive. Doesn't that scare the shit out of
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by theknown99 13y ago
Political correctness is such a depressing drain on the world. Leave it how it is. It's fine. Reminds me of when they tried to rename Manholes to "Personnel Access Units" to avoid offending women. If you're offended that
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by theknown99 13y ago
He didn't "invent" JSON. JSON is a subset of javascript which already existed. He just coined the phrases 'json' and wrote it down.
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by theknown99 13y ago
> unless you work in a truly remarkable place men considerably outnumber women. That in no way points to inequality. It points to the fact that men and women want different things, and have different strengths and weaknesses. The idea th
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by theknown99 13y ago
You can still be an outlier in terms of the population as a whole. With all due respect, perhaps you're in a bubble. Do you watch American Idol? Do you read celebrity gossip magazines? Do you play bingo or the lottery? Do you watch Fox
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by theknown99 13y ago
Advertising shows you things you might want to buy. It's useful. if you have money to buy such things. Who wouldn't want to see adverts for cool gadgets, toys, houses, suits, holidays, etc?
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by theknown99 13y ago
> What was your last product you did not hear about before and bought after seeing an ad? Probably buy something each week that I saw previously advertised somewhere. The last thing was probably some pig electric fencing that was adverti
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by theknown99 13y ago
When you go see a movie, do you enjoy seeing the trailers showing what other movies are coming out? Because I do. It's useful information. Same with adverts in magazines. It shows me products and services I didn't know about, some
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by theknown99 13y ago
They're not a pain to most people though. That's the point. If I buy a car magazine, guess what... it has some adverts for cars and car related products. Some of which are interesting and useful to me.
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by theknown99 13y ago
FWIW, It's trivial to detect adblock and degrade the users experience. It's also trivial to get around adblock and show the user adverts. If adblock usage ever became mainstream, it'd become an arms war which advertisers woul
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by theknown99 13y ago
So about 2% of their hosting bill...
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by theknown99 13y ago
IMHO, the type of person who installs adblock isn't the type of person you can sell things to easily. They're decidedly anti-mainstream, anti-corporate, probably not particularly rich, etc. So it's not just a matter of convin
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by theknown99 13y ago
The conclusion is, that if you want to make money, you probably don't want to think of yourself as a customer, especially if you're such an outlier. You want to think about what 'normal' people do, and like. Because ther
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by theknown99 13y ago
I've never understood advertising on Reddit. It's basically a very anti-advertising community, who will very likely be hostile to your product/service.
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by theknown99 13y ago
If Reddit ever became profitable, I think their userbase would revolt. The average Redditor is pretty anti-corporate, anti-rich, anti-profit, etc etc. It's more in line with wikipedia.
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by theknown99 13y ago
Do you understand you're an outlier? You're a small but vocal minority. Just like people who don't own TVs, people who don't listen to pop music, watch reality TV, indulge in celebrity gossip etc. You're an outlier
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by theknown99 13y ago
I disagree. There are many things that are illegal because they are bad for society. "crowdfunding" is completely unregulated, and just like other startups that decide regulation isn't a good idea (Mt Gox, airbnb, that unlice
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by theknown99 13y ago
For me, it'd be like "virtual-parent.com! No need to be a parent to your kids, just point them at this website and we'll be their parent for you". If you want less stress, or to calm down, the last thing you should be do
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by theknown99 13y ago
If you want less stress, turn off your computer and go out for a walk, do some exercise, be with friends/family. Can't put into words how horrible this idea is.
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by theknown99 13y ago
> "People are quite concerned. Mt. Gox's crisis communications have been wildly below the level of professionalism one would hope to see from a company with several hundred million dollars of financial assets." That's
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by theknown99 13y ago
I agree, and the banks should have been allowed to fail. There should not have been any bail out. But that's a completely different argument to the one of "is there cheap enough housing".
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by theknown99 13y ago
Not sure you understand quite what free market means.

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