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Imagine gene therapy to fix the problems. After a few generations, many diseases will be extinct. There's a guy on YouTube doing diy gene therapy to treat his lactose intolerance s…

Just move. California doesn't deserve you. People there think you can only use carrots and sticks are immoral.

What new powers should we give the government and how do we make sure that it's not abused later when the person you don't like is in charge?

Have fun staying poor.

Engineers tend to be good at enumerating failure conditions.

Ruthless brilliant maniacal tyrant. For more context, there's this famous story: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Also military, environment, mail, immigration, trade, and my personal favorite: currency.

Both. The internet was full of early adopter, tech enthusiast types. You'd certainly pickup on this. Maybe a bit of the magic was your youth, but the tech was new and magical to ev…

While this is a better analogy and worth reading, "fish" is funnier.

Pos hasn't been proven to work yet. Byzantine generals problem was unsolved for years until Bitcoin.

What is a bitcoin account?

Communists hate historical evidence that their theories are ruinous.

Great thing about Bitcoin is you don't need to argue. Don't even tell people you're into it. Just buy a little every week if you agree with the philosophy behind it.

I completely agree. When Twitter acts like this, it leaves money on the table for competition. You don't need to give the government more power. The rich will just hook into that p…

"Customer service" lol You're not the customer.

Innovation leads to profits, imho. "Short term profits" is the killer in most cases.

I agree testing is important and your historical perspective is illuminating. My question is: What happens if the FDA does a bad job? It has a monopoly. They have an incentive to d…

Systems tend to break down over time. This is normal. People getting fed up and trying to fix it is normal too. "Hard times create strong people. Strong people create good times. G…

Hello gpt3

How is this not kink shaming?

It's almost like it's not really about slavery or racism.

I eat 5000 calories worth of sawdust a day and can't gain weight.

I'm offended by this run on sentence.