We should clone attractive people to enhance the population genetics present on the planet right now.
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#12Is this quora now?
I'd prefer if we don't have this kind of question here.
How can anyone even know that they are the only people that know a piece of information, it's not like they're going around asking people if they know it or not.
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#13Economics and related industrial, business, and commercial activities are designed to systematically control and subjugate individuals by imposing a way and manner of thinking that effectively short-circuits individual thought and responsibility - one feels obligated to deliver arbitrary end-goals because of a misplaced sense of "responsibility" despite having limited (in some cases, zero) real/effective ownership in…
So there was a whole book about this, Power Elite by C.W. Mills. I suspect quite a few people know this.
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#14I believe I have played for at least a few minutes every single game ever commercially released for the BBC Micro, a British 8-bit home computer.
I got slightly obsessed with playing all of them, a few years ago.
About 10-20% of them are pretty good. A small percentage are genuinely shockingly good, for such an old system.
The vast majority are pretty awful, with many of them being horrible BBC BASIC “conversions” of at the time current popular arcade games, with names and icons changed to avoid copyright problems.
I don’t feel particularly enlightened by my short-lived obsession.
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#15I've seen fractals that nobody has seen.
(Not hard to do with fractals :D)
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#16- Brushing your teeth during a long ultra-endurance event (100 miles or longer) can make you feel fresh and energetic.
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#17In any windows system this happens:
- show your desktop
- move your mouse over an icon
- keep pressing 'home' on your keyboard (home key brings the focus to top left icon) and then left mouse button (changes the focus to the icon you're over)
- do it faster and faster (home, lmb, home, lmb, ...), focus will jump between top icon and the icon under the mouse pointer
- when you reach the double-click speed, the icon will be launched
but it will not be the icon under the mouse pointer, but the top left corner icon.
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#18Economics and related industrial, business, and commercial activities are designed to systematically control and subjugate individuals by imposing a way and manner of thinking that effectively short-circuits individual thought and responsibility - one feels obligated to deliver arbitrary end-goals because of a misplaced sense of "responsibility" despite having limited (in some cases, zero) real/effective ownership in…
So there was a whole book about this, Power Elite by C.W. Mills. I suspect quite a few people know this.
I think capitalism can work but we don't have pure capitalism - corporatocratic bailouts have been normalized since the 1990s, and as a result, all systemically important losses are socialized, while the gains are always split across a handful of criminals that exploit a system they partially mold to their own liking in order to propagate the toxicity that enables them to further their own interests.
I predict that the Federal Reserve will gain new powers within the next quarter that will enable them to indefinitely prop up equity markets through large-scale asset purchases in the equity markets through some novel facility (I'm sure it'll have some super cool new vernacular as well) that changes all the rules and allows for unilateral action without any covenants - awesome!
For any speculators out there - just buy calls, nothing can go down anymore. Easiest outlook EVER.
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#19Economics and related industrial, business, and commercial activities are designed to systematically control and subjugate individuals by imposing a way and manner of thinking that effectively short-circuits individual thought and responsibility - one feels obligated to deliver arbitrary end-goals because of a misplaced sense of "responsibility" despite having limited (in some cases, zero) real/effective ownership in…
Quite a lot of people have read Marx and derivative works...
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#20I found a crazy exploitable logical bug in a network app running on MANY systems, can't sell it or expose it because legal/personal reasons. Not using it or anything.