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These paper hands, they fold... > My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk. https:…

You could use mining to incentivize the build out of remote energy generation before transmission infrastructure is ready. For example, drop some solar panels and miners in the mid…

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/20879/why-cant-w...

This is actually a pro for bitcoin. It's not useful as anything other than a store of value. If we collectively decide to switch to bitcoin as our store of value network, and retir…

Yeah, I was referring to the hyperloop and the boring company as separate things. I feel like the Boring company is what he settled on once it was made clear to him how monumentall…

Even still on Earth, we're mining ~2% more gold annually. More gold in absolute terms is being mined than any other time in human history. You just answered the quantum question yo…

Luckily, it seems like he's mostly abandoned the spectacularly stupid hyperloop idea. More tunnels would be cool, but I find it hard to believe there's really that much room for im…

It's perfectly scarce and rapidly trending toward 0 inflation. This is one of the key arguments for why it's ultimately a better store of value than gold, which is abundant in the …

Tax advantage? If you pay out a dividend, you force your shareholders to pay income tax rates. But, if you can use company profits in a way that pumps the stock valuation, your sha…

Can you describe the breathing exercises? Is it literally just sitting and taking deep breaths?

Manna continues to be prescient. https://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

A caveat to this is, what happens when we actually solve aging and involuntary death? Will the world eventually be owned by a single, Bezos like individual simply by the weight of …

Honestly. It really seems like the Tesla hype bubble has melted people's brains. Now every new company that comes out of nowhere with nothing more than a prototype is hailed as the…

“Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.” There's something to be said about the value of setting wildly unachievable goals. It takes you further …

Exactly. Scalable solutions to deal with the waste don't exist.

The reasoned panic over Covid-19 was never really about the individual severity of the disease or even the number of people it would kill. It's about the rapid spike in deaths and …

Get rich. Don't vote for morons.

Hope and possible solutions are awesome! BUT, this is a hair on fire emergency. We are fully and truly fucked and until enough people wake up to this reality, we'll continue with t…

Getting to space is absolutely NOT a solution to climate change. We have to solve climate change SO THAT we can continue on our path to become space faring. If we can't manage to s…

Exactly this. Before the oil age, we were already rapidly decimating forests for fuel. In a way, the discover of fossil fuels averted that ecological disaster and there are more tr…

If not direct human extinction, it could certainly mean complete collapse of advanced civilization. Even if humans manage to survive for millions of years into the future, we've al…

Nothing we can do. Brace for impact and setup a flexible lifestyle so you can rapidly move and adapt depending on what hits first/hardest. Obviously still support any possible meas…

Meh. The continuation of the species is more important than some silly desire to mix my own DNA into a new human. A kind of corollary to the Gay Uncle theory. I also consider the m…

To add to that, even if we can technically support a lot more people with the sustainable resources we have, which I personally doubt, getting close to our max capacity means we wi…

To the first point, I'm not making that argument. It's my interpretation of Freud's argument described in this article. Do you think I misinterpreted it? To the second, I understan…