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that is unfortunate. icons having a variety of silhouettes makes it easier to identify them and gives things a little personality.

you just restated what you already said in response to the question, "do you know what you're talking about?"

i'm not judging either way, i'm not a climate scientist and i have no opinion on the importance of ocean acidification, i just find it obnoxious when someone's asked to defend their position and they just say it again, but _harder_.

i meant the machines but the bigger the union the better.

they should form a union

space becomes time and the singularity becomes the future.

> How does increasing wealth inequality drive price increases?

i'm not the person you asked, and i'm just spit-balling, but here's a way: wealth inequality means there's a group that has substantially more wealth than normal, let's call that group A, and the complimentary group of people who don't have substantially more wealth than normal, let's call them B. A's wealth ultimately comes from B-- you know, you got workers who make you more money than you pay them, you extract rent from them, they buy your stuff.

past a certain point of inequality, A controls so much wealth that they could exert power over the market to squeeze B even more-- wages lag further behind productivity, rents go up, goods cost more. this is inflation, yeah?

sure they are, happens all the time

why not? because it's easy to doesn't mean it'll be seen a certain way, and "because it's easy to do" isn't actually an argument that it'll likely be seen a certain way.

haven't noticed compression culture to be honest, but if i may take a second to be stupid and uninteresting myself: i find nothing more stupid and uninteresting than the enormous volume of talking about talking that's done. this is a post about replies to a post about talking about a book, which is probably talking about talking, too. in and of itself that's fine, the problem is that feels like ninety percent of writing.

> And what we see there is that most people, as soon as they are eligible for their pension, they stop working.

oh well that's cuz they're retired.

i won't use the term p(doom), but i agree that the human race is "doomed" in the same way all things that exist are "doomed."

i've always thought a jury should be used instead of a supreme court. if the law people had their chance and couldn't settle an issue, kick it to the people.

running on a machine is a side effect.

> "It's not an issue of funding cuts," says Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a federally funded research center in Colorado that has relied on the soon-to-be-terminated Defense Department data **to track sea ice since 1979**. "There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."

hmmmmmmmmmm

a lot of actual conditions are actually treated with actual perscription drugs.

and if all those people paid the same amount then there would be the same end result, but the situation would have nothing to do with the conversation, so i'm afraid that explains nothing.

> It's made it so that relatively poor people can afford to regularly fly all over the world, which is a relatively new thing.

has _it_? do what is _it_ again?

>> All told, is all this chicanery benefiting airlines?

i'm really curious how screwing passengers has done these things.

> History ABSOLUTELY unfolds the way it does because they were tired of being 'taking the reasonable/way that makes sense path'.

i think we're talking at cross purposes. quoting myself:

>> ...everyone's doing the same thing: avoiding pain, uncertainty, and the limitation of their future choices; seeking pleasure, security, and to increase their future choices.

do you think that doesn't characterize the motivating factors that lead to invention?

you're being too fixated on individuals. everyone's doing the same thing: avoiding pain, uncertainty, and the limitation of their future choices; seeking pleasure, security, and to increase their future choices. the very few people who aren't doing that don't matter: history unfolds because people do what makes sense for them, not because some don't.

i read "flip twice" as recussion, so, given we're talking randomness, yes, that could go on forever. but i don't think you really need to replace "twice."

> Why bother with children at that point?

the premise is that the person doing it is very mentally ill. the question, "why would they do that when they could do something else that makes more sense?", doesn't make a lot of sense itself under the premise.

what if i write one in J and then post it on HN?

israel killing christian palestinians is what i assume they're talking about.

> Why do we write, anyway?

> I believe that the main reason a human should write is to communicate original thoughts.

in fairness to the students, how does the above apply to school work?

why does a student write, anyway? to pass an assignment, which has nothing to do with communicating original thoughts-- and whose fault is that, really?

education is a lot of paperwork to get certified in the hopes you'll get a job. it's as bereft of intelectual life as the civil service examinations in imperial china. original thought doesn't enter the frame.

that's crazy to say. mars is very cold and very dry and not shielded from radiation and doesn't have much air and that air isn't breathable.

i wouldn't say we've settled antarctica, which is on our planet and has air.

100 years would be a wild amount of time for us to settle mars.

so, it doesn't tell you much.

> Does anyone actually do any neutral reporting or analysis?

no, of course not, what a silly question. you think people are falling over themselves to tell you how things are for your sake?

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what's that got to do with what i said?

> Unfortunately, the MLB reviewed the torpedo bats after the game and somehow had zero issues with them?

"Unfortunately, the MLB reviewed the torpedo bats after the game and somehow had zero issues with them", isn't a question; adding a question mark just makes me read you with an obnoxious up-tone.