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Yes, I know what you mean, but you can say no to movies, social media, tv, and choose to live in the countryside for example (of course that depends on your financial situation and…

One thing I believe is that the less you're involved in fantasy, the more realistic your dreams are. So if you're a simple, practical man without beliefs in supernatural, your drea…

I hope you get better. You made the world a better place.

If cops are practically mandatory in a state, how is that statement meaningful? Why not just say state equals violence? Or are you saying humans don't need to control each other? I…

1) His way of giving away things for free undermines the suffering people go trough to make a living; it makes effort and hardship look like a joke (maybe in the future no effort i…

MS Word, huh. Hmm... Yes I guess it satisfies this one condition I have. Haven't used it for ages. But it's a key feature for me not to be cornered right from the start, so I would…

Hehe. Yeah, paper notepads would be nice, but they aren't big enough (they'd have to be tens of meters wide), and if I taped them together, they'd be difficult to handle. Also, era…

I'd like to be able to use a grid style text tool, similar to regular Notepad (or the likes), that would extend infinitely in all directions, and wouldn't require cumbersome linebr…

Yes, something like that crossed my mind also, but it could be that it's not feasible in small diy work. Have to check.

It's hard to say what kind of forces are involved. I could probably open the side panel and be able to see if I run it without water. I was hoping the rubber seal would mostly be f…

I was thinking of a truck wheel patch, but I'd like to be sure there won't be any stains, and that the glue won't react with the detergent, for example. I don't know if it's possib…

Maybe you don't mind me asking. I have a small hole in my top-loading washing machine's rubber seal and I have been wondering whether it could be fixed (a new seal costs 100$ and i…

Imagine using this across different platforms :/, and let alone using different techniques in addition... edit: maybe you'd catch some criminals if you tried to match reddit agains…

AI will kill the need for all these abstractions. There will be as many or as little abstractions you want. It doesn't matter. New languages of all shapes and forms will be generat…

Yeah, why bother with propaganda, let's just use nanorobots that spread in the air instead...

I'm down for purely text-based web experience :-).

I have thought along similar lines, and I think one's own abilities determine the places you end up :), meaning that the more one knows, the more likely one will end up in deep con…

I have had text file + folder system for over 4 years now, and I feel it iteratively gets better and better. The upper level (text file) category determines the high level structur…

Thanks. Yeah, I don't doubt that there are problems and that it could get really hostile and difficult. I'm just unsure how unsolvable the conflicts are, and I'm not convinced that…

I use Wikipedia for navigation mostly. To take anything at face value is not a good idea, even if most of it were "probably true" / true-ish.

I salute your efforts, but even if you have experience in the field (Wiki, OSM), I'm sorry to say that your arguments are weak and overly specific. I'd be more understanding if you…

If subject A's and subject B's synthesis created a new thing C, wouldn't he then be considered an expert in C, solely because there's no-one else doing what he's doing? In this way…

You do something and see whether it sticks. If it does, you continue; if it doesn't you switch. Then later on you might come back to the previous thing.

I think that was a good write-up, and he made a pretty strong case. I don't drink alcohol myself and I share some of his feelings. Talking about alcohol seems to be a really nice w…

Yeah. I learned in primary school that I could bypass a password prompt in a simple program just by changing one conditional jump instruction to another (if password is wrong, succ…