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The point of the article is that this does not have to be the case, and is not the case for all software.

In a classical computer, every bit of information in the system is in a definite state- 1 or 0. In a quantum system with such definite possible states, what you actually have most …

The kid can go outside, go to establishments with friends...

I doubt a guy running ship-building is 'bound by dogma'. The consumers are the ones who need to be brainwashed into buying new stuff every 20 minutes; the producers don't need to b…

"The medium is the message." The possible shapes of a river are determined by the underlying landscape.

The Brahmins eat steak bare-faced while you sip insect-protein soylent in your shipping container. You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy, you fucking pig.

Yes. People in close proximity are in competition. When technology makes the whole world your neighbour, you're at war with the whole world.

Yeah. Until we've tiled the solar system with solar panels, fusion reactors, and people, we're not done with local growth. Of course, Earth's surface would be converted first, and …

1930s Germany didn't hate the japanese, despite them being very different from them (appearance, culture). Instead, they hated the German/european jews, who were basically visually…

Is it? If everyone in a country used FOSS apps rather than paying (in money, data, or letting ads into their heads) for proprietary ones, wouldn't that country's people be better o…

It's not so clear to me that the abbatoir of nature is that great, inherently. You could probably make a decent moral case for wiping out all life on earth, should there be no pros…

It's insane to talk about ending growth when we haven't even put down colonies in the sahara.

If electric cars really are more practical, we'll see that reflected in their adoption.

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I reckon that eventually, there'll be 'lab-grown' meat that tastes better than animal-grown meat, while being healthier. Humans are omnivorous; we're presumably adapted for some am…

To filter out idiots and the lazy. 'Normies'.

Yes, stay home, consume product, and order your sex toys off of amazon.

People want to drink, and those who want to drink the most will also be the least reserved about what they drink. It's the circle of life!

The powers that be will ban alcohol and encourage replacing it with weed. Bezos & co. will swill their wine much more contentedly when the population's nice and doped up, rather th…

US schools don't need more funding, they need to be burned to the ground.

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More of your friends than you think hide their true thoughts and opinions from you, because they (often correctly) expect social censure if they reveal them.

In the end, the geometry does imply that for a given reproduction rate, you eventually reach a crunch where there's not enough surface area of new space to expand to for your colon…

Don't worry; the lockdowns will never stop.

Particular environments encourage different behavious in people. A lot of people in jail do things they wouldn't outside.