wilsonnb2

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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I think the Tesla fanboys who bought these would have spent $1500 on a coffee mug if Musk had asked them to. Would have had better margins than decorative surfboards but I guess they're optimizing for Twitter appeal instead.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> I said "you're by yourself". Forget the magazines, they are the crappiest magazines ever. The pages are sticky, they are awful. I assumed you meant "by myself" as in "not with anyone you know". I&#x27
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
So if Google is a monopoly, what should be done about it? Split it up into separate, competing mini-Googles? Keep fining them more and more money until they stop anti-competitive practices? Split off Maps/Android/Drive/etc in
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I find it rather easy to use android without selling my soul to Google. In fact, I use android on a Google Pixel 2 on Google's own Project Fi network and yet I don't feel as if I've sold my soul to them. I could switch to an
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
If banking and internet services are so vital that we justify the existence of libraries because they provide access to them, then the Government should be responsible for providing to it's citizens anyways. It's possible that lib
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Social media apps are easy to uninstall They're also easy to reinstall, and often times have good enough mobile web clients. Can't uninstall the browser, unfortunately.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It shouldn't surprise us that Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/Reddit are more widely addictive than alcohol. They are designed to be addictive, because it's good for business.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Just don‘t twitter, instagram, facebook, snapchat or whatever you do 24/7 The point is that choosing to not do these things is hard for a lot of us. Getting rid of a smartphone is a decision you have to make once. Not using Face
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Just sit and think. Watch other people. Read the old Vogue magazines. Listen to the conversations between employees. A lot of the time there will be a TV on or some music playing. It's really not that bad if you're not used to the
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I use Spotify on multiple devices every day and didn't notice anything about Drake recently, so it must not have been that effective a promotion.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Maybe someday we will all realize that daily fluctuations in a company's market cap don't matter. Just because something happened doesn't make it news.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Credit cards are an excellent tool as long as you don't accrue debt with them. I get 1.5%-2% cash back with everything purchased with it. I'd be losing money by using a debit card instead. Not to mention the $500 they gave me just
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
There are more people programming for intellectual reasons now than ever before in absolute numbers. However, that larger absolute number is a much smaller proportion of the total number of programmers than it was in the past. I think it&#x
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
But you're the one using these inventions as justification for future space exploration - shouldn't the burden of proof fall on the one making the claim?
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Well, unless we outlaw reproduction without government approval we will hit the limit of what the planet can support as far as human life. The birth rates of richer nations are significantly lower than the birth rates of poorer nations
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> But you take them for granted and so it is easy for you to make value judgments regarding how money is spent. It's rude to make such assumptions about me. I do not take the positive side effects from research for granted. You simp
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
You can't just point to a list of inventions that came from research in space exploration - you also have to make a case that these inventions would have otherwise not come about, or at least would have come about much later.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It's hard to pinpoint an exact generation where I stop caring. Here's how I like to think of it. If every human alive today died instantly and painlessly, ending the human species and potentially eliminating all sentient life in t
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Because I care to what happens about all living humans today. I simply don't care about the long term survival of our species. Spreading across the galaxy or the universe so that there can be more humans alive or to ensure that if one
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Getting off this rock is the first step towards getting all of our eggs out of one basket. Yes it is, but why should I care whether all of our eggs are in one basket, or two baskets, or a million baskets? The survival of the human race
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
The real question here is why bother spending 1% of our GDP on space exploration? What tangible benefits is it going to bring, and why are those benefits worth more than the benefit that will come from spending 1% of our GDP on something el
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It's also entirely possible that the cure for all forms of cancer is a diet consisting entirely of frosted flakes, and that spending $400B researching the effects of all-cereal diets would also discover the cure for cancer. However, it
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> why are you skeptics so certain that it's just another fad diet that will come and go? Because, like most skeptics, we have seen this pattern before. Supposed scientific support and loads of anecdotal evidence are common to all po
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Obama's approval rating was above 50% for his last year in office, so I wouldn't say that people were particularly unhappy with him. Honestly, I think he could have won a 3rd term had he been legally allowed to run. Hillary was un
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
The authoritative view that Brexit is a bad idea comes from the fact that is was sold almost entirely with lies and xenophobia, and even then barely got a majority. I would not consider Brexit an authoritatively bad idea if the leave campa
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> An important point that I made above is that the time to do something about these issues was in the early 2000s. You do say that this. But, you also say that liberals "need to start actually giving a damn" about the poor and
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> If liberals want to do anything about it they need to start actually giving a damn about America's poor and rapidly shrinking middle class in spite of the fact that they hold "backward and primitive" religious beliefs an
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Nobody should trust the will of the people. That's why we have representative democracies and not direct democracies. The Brexit referendum shouldn't get a special "do-over". Instead, the result should be ignored because
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I'd be curious to know why the many online advocates of intermittent fasting (and other time restricted diets) think it's any different than the many other fad diets that have come, gone, and come again. Diets in general seem to b
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
And I long for the day when fan-boys in both camps can admit that all current phones are actually quite good. If smartphone development stopped here and we never got a new smartphone, I don't think it would matter much overall. It prob

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