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Wishing slow death is indeed extremely disturbing and stupid. Politicians that way have time to do so much more harm.

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 y…

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/2445258202…

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 …

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.…

We need an experiment: create 100 clones of Terence Tao, wait until they become adults, and see how many of them become great scientists.

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 mess…

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.

And USA and China, they are too big and a threat to everyone else.

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?i…

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 w…

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 intr…

Images of child abuse are not child abuse. Instead of wasting energy on fighting with windmills and numbers, it would be better to concentrate efforts on catching child abusers, an…

I would agree if the questions was about helping to catch someone who had made these videos. But hosting isn't a morality question, they are just storing a number, and hosting comp…

> 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 opinio…

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 clim…

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 d…

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 cou…

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 CRI…

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 e…

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-clas…

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 …

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 h…

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 …