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Re: The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

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Post by dghughes » Thu, Jan 06, 2022, 12:30 PM UTC

brchr wrote: post #94

dghughes wrote: post #80

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Patreon has gone from helpful support by a few to an exclusive club.

For the donation of a single dollar, you are given access to all of his videos. I would not describe that as "exclusive," although I understand what you are saying.

> For the donation of a single dollar..

x100 channels I may watch.

I can't afford to be a patron for all the channels I like. Maybe I'm in the minority for my salary but $100 or $200 / month is not a thing I can afford, or even half that.

edit: in a way it's the paywall of videos

Re: The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

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Post by DarylZero » Thu, Jan 06, 2022, 8:48 PM UTC

helloworld11 wrote: post #143

dghughes wrote: post #80

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Patreon has gone from helpful support by a few to an exclusive club.

What an absurd posture. HN is full of people endlessly harping about the shitty quality of free, ad supported SEO-rigged mill content that sucks, but then a site that allows often hard working creators to ask for very modest donations so that you can view their material is labeled as "exclusive" and implicitly elitist. The people who try to make some money on Patreon don't owe any special favors to children without c…

Labelled "exclusive" -- merely for excluding people? The indignity.

Re: The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

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Post by kbelder » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 12:09 AM UTC

antocv wrote: post #114

lisper wrote: post #36

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> It is inconceivable for us to imagine a rapid regression today To the contrary, I'm finding it increasingly likely that I will see the collapse of civilization within my lifetime, and I'm 57. I see two prospective tipping points on the horizon: the collapse of democracy in the U.S. leading to nuclear war, and climate change leading to world-wide food shortages. The former seems likely within 5-10 years, and the lat…

Havent you noticed that people who see dark future post and tell it more often the past 30 years, than people who think "it will all be just fine"? I remember the late 90s doom and "oh no millenium 2000" gloom predictions, and 2012 nostradamus end of the world maya calendar the end is near. I read about the 80s cold war "will go hot nuclear any time" and can be seen in movies like Terminator. US will not collapse, no…

I think I've mentioned this before on HN, but I remember a teacher in my highschool class in 1984, asking if we thought there would be a nuclear war with the USSR in our lifetime. I was the only kid out of 30 that didn't think there would be.

Doomsayers are sometimes correct, but usually not, and they are ever-present. And, for some reason, very appealing to many.

Re: The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

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Post by kbelder » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 12:16 AM UTC

ecpottinger wrote: post #99

asdff wrote: post #85

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Couldn't you just burn plastic directly? Mine a landfill and burn it up.

Mine it with slave labour to separate the items, and you end up with glass, metals and plastics is amounts that would be worth a fortune to a roman level civilization. We think of it as garbage, bur that garbage already represents a lot of energy already used to process them to that level.

Not just to a Roman level civilization; I think it'll be immensely valuable to us in the near future. It's a treasure trove of materials, we just need better refining tech to separate out all the metals and rare earths, reprocess the plastic, etc.

Re: The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

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Post by pohl » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

FpUser wrote: post #194

pohl wrote: post #189

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Tell the people of Ukraine right now how much Putin wants to be left alone.

I do appreciate your concern about Ukraine but this has nothing to do with Russia being against nuclear proliferation. If it wanted to it would have zero problems seeding those all over the places.

I do appreciate your condescension, but no one said it had to do with something about Russia being for or against proliferation.

Re: The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets

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Post by aa-jv » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 10:04 AM UTC

lisper wrote: post #187

aa-jv wrote: post #182

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Why was Trump your indicator that US democracy was failing, and not Bush Jr? IMHO, the latter did far more to destroy American democratic society than Trump - but the wealth and riches he provided through his war crimes seems to occlude this fact from most American's point of view. Trump is just the latest in a long line of failures one could point at as examples of the destruction of American democracy, and he wasn'…

Yes, the decay certainly goes back further than Trump. Before Trump there was Bush and before Bush there was Nixon. You could probably trace it back as far as the JFK and RFK assassinations, maybe further. Some see what is happening now as an extension of the Civil War. But Trump is unique in that he: 1. Has never accepted his 2020 election defeat 2. Wields enough control over the rank and file of his party to have t…

If only Al Gore had been a bit more ballsy about having the election stolen from him by Bush .. we probably wouldn't be dealing with the failure of democracy that is manifest in America's wanton destruction of so many other sovereign states and the murder of literally millions of people around the world .. the point is, Americans aren't the only ones who suffer when their democracy is corrupted for military purposes.