Scientists should stay in their lanes.
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#12Opposing nuclear power was probably a mistake at scale. Now? it's too late to be effectively useful at scale, we can solve the problems via other methods but we've wasted 50 years of the problem by being "too green"
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#13Europe should have paid more towards NATO, for a long time.
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#14A strangely misplaced whiff of anti-intellectualism seems present and
growing within tech/hacker circles (?)
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#15The tech community is not only not smarter than most other communities, in many cases tech workers are less capable and intelligent than the average person.
Half a century of conformist education and a financial machine around scaling companies has made tech workers soft. And their choice to insulate themselves in specific metros/social circles has made them unable to see this.
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#16Truth is being obfuscated by making us mentally fatigued and thinking too much about problems which are largely irrelevant. As long as there is bread and circuses, the truth will not reveal itself.
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#17God is real y'all.
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#18Docker is an excellent way of distributing modern software, whose increasingly complex dependencies have become unwieldy to manage without containers.
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#19AlphaFold will have only a marginal impact on biotechnology research [0].
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#20Linux really is a good general purpose desktop OS.