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Afiak, the purposes are to begin to setup the infrastructure for permanent habitation, and to prepare for a crewed flight to Mars. > That is explicitly an Artemis mission purpose. …

Maybe I just have a different perspective than you; it's not a mistake to disagree with you - or vice versa. Unless we're interested in the world outside our perspecitve, how will …

If everyone with flaws is disqualified, or is equal to everyone else with flaws, then it all loses meaning. I'm not certain those were flaws in forsight, or necessarily even in hin…

> this is bog-standard MAD that’s been a big part of the US strategy since the Cold War. That's not MAD as I understand it: The essential challenge of international relations is to…

I think it's a strawperson, a distraction, to take it literally and criticize it. That's not the main issue or point of the article. They can't flesh out every point in detail.

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The kids painting street art have no power to consent or not consent to anything. If they had access to art supplies, a loft, and a gallery, they'd probably use them.

What are you referring to? I don't see that in this discussion.

> It’s always a struggle for me to accept that many people actually like graffiti. It's a struggle for everyone to accept different perspectives on art and aesthetics, but we need …

In a way you are just debating who gets the power, and saying the people you like should have it. The fact that you or I like someone isn't a reason to give them power. The buildin…

Where do you live that you see that? I see it in places that are isolated, and as a proportion of urban surface area, very small.

It's usually on public property, or sometimes on corporate property. I don't think I've seen much graffiti on some private individual's property. It's not on the front of people's …

People tend to apply such hard-core legal standards to those they don't like. As the corrupt dictator says, 'For my enemies, the law! For my friends, everything!' Law-and-order lea…

People do lots of illegal things. When some tech titan does it, many on HN decry the laws, the government, etc. Painting graffiti is relatively, completely, harmless.

> exactly nothing ... tiniest ... I know it's commonplace, but let's consider whether extreme expression has any rational substance to it, whether it's somehow more meaningful than…

Is outrage somehow a rational reason for anything?

> It always baffles me that people are in such a defeated state of mind that graffiti is just simply accepted and seemingly nothing is done about it. As usual, the answer is found …

Factually, the property isn't destroyed. Beyond that, I think the street art often enhances it and otherwise is easily ignored. You may see it differently, but what you see isn't "…

> it’s not something everyone can stick their heads in the sand about because it makes them uncomfortable. That's a strawperson and you know it; IMHO that argument is sticking one'…

That's really looking for problems. The Palantir CEO said things much more extreme: As the moderator asked general questions about the panelists’ views on the future of war, Schmid…

> The silver lining is that the people with less scruples might also be less competent and their solutions more fragile resulting in operational failure when deployed, in turn savi…

> if you refuse to build it, someone with less scruples will. Every time you see an argument for the inevitability of X - especially something frightening - know that it's just an …

The ability of the extreme right to promulgate talking points seemingly directly into people's beliefs, bypassing the moral, spiritual, and reasoning parts of their brains, is surr…