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Distilling doesn't make it more economical than traditional refining though, according to their whole position. Boiling involves ALOT of energy compared to passive membrane separation.

Reddit is older than Hacker News?

I found this comment to be quite humorous. I really appreciate comments like this from time to time.

Because most people are not in Canada? At least who use this website I'm guessing? Or does WealthSimple Tax also do American taxes? Also, the signal to noise ratio. This is the first I've ever heard of this company, and I usually am light years ahead of the "normal" person because I peruse sites like this constantly.

I see carbon nanotube tech and become immensely skeptical. I am under the impression that anything carbon nanotube still cannot be done at scale, and the article is very light on that part of the process. Following the rabbit hole leads to http links (in 2022?) and various publications from science journals I am unfamiliar with.

Does anyone else get the smoke and mirrors vibe from this or am I just being overly skeptical and not reading thoroughly enough into the literature provided?

If this tech is true, I can see the HUGE potential it has.

Careful, there could be an alien out there thinking the same about what you just wrote.

As a child of parents who did no have my best interests at heart, I'm going to whole heartedly disagree. I learned much better how to be from school than I ever did my parents.

What do you mean by unique?

> It's difficult to believe we are nothing more to us then a bunch of molecules because I still am me...

What do you mean by still "me"? If I lose an arm, I would definitely say I have lost a part of "me".

> What's the difference between me and a perfect imitation?

As far as I can tell, there is no difference until you begin to interact with the outside world, at which point the "yous" are no longer the same. Your body is constantly replacing itself with new parts and molecules to keep your brain and body functioning. This effectively means you are building a new copy of yourself all the time.

Why does it bother you if another process does it all at once? Does gradually replacing all of what is "you" make you feel better about "you" versus some ability to make it all at once and see it happening?

> I believe I am going to remain where I was if someone just makes an atom-perfect copy of mine and puts it near so the copy will probably have exactly the same memories I have and believe it is me but will not be me actually.

The other argument is that the "clone" you will very vigorously also try to defend it's "me" status since you are perfect copies, and it will claim that it is it's own "me" brought about not by birth, but by artificial means and claim it has the exact same rights as you would. It didn't choose the path of "birth", but if you are perfect clones, why does it have any less right to the life it believes it has that you do? Because you were "born naturally"? What if you made the clone for spare body parts and through a misstep, the clone woke up. I would argue the clone has the right to your life now for gross human rights violations if it so chooses while you would head off to prison hopefully wihtout parole.

Or your lose your laptop with .txt files and your internet sync to your home server was in a no WiFi zone.

Everything can break in weird ways. What you said is equivalent to, well, if the US internet infrastructure was attacked and disabled.

I wonder if they would use the same dehumanizing terms back at us? What makes you want to refer to humans as "beasts", and why use the term "beast" in the first place? Do wild animals frighten you?

It's pretty self explanatory when you click on it. Or are you saying at a visual glance you should know it's a color picker? Do you have an example of how you would do it?

I do actually own shares in some of those companies. That's kind of the point. You can own the internet, and that's before even "Web 3".

You just rationalized it. Our brains are adept at trying to understand what others are thinking. That's my whole point.

No, people aren't predisposed to believing in a father figure judging you. That's such a western biased view. People are predisposed to follow the crowd. Hence the dominance of religion in a prescience era. As a species, we are rapidly moving away from religion as a whole thanks to modern scientific thinking.

You should speak truth regardless of what others think. You'll get more respect even if you ruffle a few feathers.

Still a government handout to private corporation.

But thats just it. It's working for you. Not others. And increasingly so.

Oh sorry I understand that sounds dark. I'm not suicidal to be sure. There are other ways of go out before that.

It's just really how people my age feel looking at the world. We wanted things to be better and they aren't. War in Israel, pandemics where half the population can't even agree we are in one, political instability, the constant pressure to afford the life our parents had even though they had it easier. It's just a lot for our generation to deal with.

"In theory"...

Yet the whole world is suffering under capitalism.

It looks pretty bad from where we are all at. I dont think dying would be worse at this point.

The fact that it's general advice to everyone trying to by a home. Or do you seriously think everyone SHOULD have an OnlyFans in order to own a home?

I really do. It doesn't fix anything, only makes problems worse. Who cares that I can get a burrito delivered with a button press when people are starving and inequality is only rising?

Why does it not fix these problems and instead propagate them?

I guess that just kind of reinforces the concept that religion really is the only defining school of thought that has arbitrarily decided homosexuality is bad or unusual.

It seems they largely imported same sex religious discrimination from western law that was largely written by religious men.

Wait what? How does this deal with homosexuality? Because men want to continue to exploit women? So anything that deviates from that system is considered abnormal?

Specifically any religious notion really. Like, if you didn't believe in a particular outcome after death or reason for how we came to be, would homosexuality still be considered a not normal thing.

Yes. The internet for one. Thats kind of the big one thats easy to point to. Other things like infrastructure is often over looked. The Hoover Damn provided so much power.

Government investment seems to provide the most bang for your buck.

I'm curious. Say I meet you randomly on the street or in lime somewhere. What are the actions one such as I could take to make you feel comfortable around a stranger? I hate that these things have happened but I want to be aware so that at least I can be the mind of stranger you want in the world.