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So effectively, you want to subsidise scientists working on some arbitrary aim (Space exploration), in the hope they'll invent cool stuff you can spin off... I don't think you need…

Do you really think that firstly, those technologies only exist because of NASA, and secondly that the cheapest way to innovate is to pick some arbitrary aim (Space exploration) an…

Health, welfare, lowering taxes, employment.... y'know, things that enrich real peoples lives. Space toys and exploration are fun for those working on them, but will this event tra…

At the risk of turning political, it's a great example of how our taxes are wasted. Playing with space toys shouldn't be funded with taxpayer money. I'm sure I'll get downvoted to …

But we all paid for it. We paid tax so they could play with toys.

This is still true, and will always be true. If a moderator has a button "ban", and you piss them off enough, you'll get banned. Give people buttons, and they'll use them. Probably…

I thought mistakes never happen over there! Hellbanning people, and then asking them to email you later, is still a crappy way to act. It's not a hard problem. Just raise the thres…

You'd be surprised just how often this happens.

Maybe you don't personally, maybe you don't as a group anymore. As I suggested in my original post though, I have more useful things to do than look back at comments I posted years…

I had this happen to me when I critiqued a YC backed company. Had a few thousand in 'meaningless internet karma points'. You pretty soon realise after a few further comments anyway…