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I was replying to the parent, who suggested a cure for all cancer cannot come soon enough - I'm not so convinced we should be aiming for immortality. Point taken though...

I appreciate your arguments, but why then is the world population graph basically linearly increasing since the 60s? It's not slowing down.

Remember when they said we'd run out of coal in the year 2000? Or that the ice caps would have melted by 2012?

https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9... World population. Up and to the right.

* Population growth in the first world is stable, low, or even negative. A quick google search shows that whilst population was pretty stable in UK in the 80s, since then it's been…

There is no solution I can see, and that's worrying. While we're all running around curing diseases, solving global warming etc, the thing that will kill off our species is our own…

35 is too young, and I really do feel for anyone in that situation. But cancer when you're over 60? That's basically just dying of old age...

IMHO we should focus on quality of life. Not quantity.

Without sounding unfeeling, do we really want to add to the overcrowding and population explosion problem that much? Earth is full. Our population has doubled in the short time I'v…

Political correctness is such a depressing drain on the world. Leave it how it is. It's fine. Reminds me of when they tried to rename Manholes to "Personnel Access Units" to avoid …

He didn't "invent" JSON. JSON is a subset of javascript which already existed. He just coined the phrases 'json' and wrote it down.

> unless you work in a truly remarkable place men considerably outnumber women. That in no way points to inequality. It points to the fact that men and women want different things,…

You can still be an outlier in terms of the population as a whole. With all due respect, perhaps you're in a bubble. Do you watch American Idol? Do you read celebrity gossip magazi…

Advertising shows you things you might want to buy. It's useful. if you have money to buy such things. Who wouldn't want to see adverts for cool gadgets, toys, houses, suits, holid…

> What was your last product you did not hear about before and bought after seeing an ad? Probably buy something each week that I saw previously advertised somewhere. The last thin…

When you go see a movie, do you enjoy seeing the trailers showing what other movies are coming out? Because I do. It's useful information. Same with adverts in magazines. It shows …

They're not a pain to most people though. That's the point. If I buy a car magazine, guess what... it has some adverts for cars and car related products. Some of which are interest…

FWIW, It's trivial to detect adblock and degrade the users experience. It's also trivial to get around adblock and show the user adverts. If adblock usage ever became mainstream, i…

So about 2% of their hosting bill...

IMHO, the type of person who installs adblock isn't the type of person you can sell things to easily. They're decidedly anti-mainstream, anti-corporate, probably not particularly r…

The conclusion is, that if you want to make money, you probably don't want to think of yourself as a customer, especially if you're such an outlier. You want to think about what 'n…

I've never understood advertising on Reddit. It's basically a very anti-advertising community, who will very likely be hostile to your product/service.

If Reddit ever became profitable, I think their userbase would revolt. The average Redditor is pretty anti-corporate, anti-rich, anti-profit, etc etc. It's more in line with wikipe…

Do you understand you're an outlier? You're a small but vocal minority. Just like people who don't own TVs, people who don't listen to pop music, watch reality TV, indulge in celeb…

I disagree. There are many things that are illegal because they are bad for society. "crowdfunding" is completely unregulated, and just like other startups that decide regulation i…