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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If that's true, it's more than money. If you take money from the mafia and don't deliver, it's about your life. That could be one of the many reasons he tried to back away from the purchase. I don't get why CIA isn't all over this.

And it's not just about the election. They're trying to destabilize everything in the west.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I guess you're referring to the part I edited out where I said that there doesn't seem to be any evidence that life is supposed to be easy. I don't think that contradicts humans trying to make life easy.

But it seems to me that a lot of meaning is derived from being at the limit of what is impossible or at least difficult, and staying at the level of easy makes people depressed and unhappy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Dunno what kind of economic model we'd need if we had star trek -level replication technology.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

You get to exist and understand that you do. That's pretty huge already, as far as I can tell.

I see no evidence that life is supposed to be easy, even if it is for the majority of us commenting here.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

That might've been the plan all along.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Certainly going for the people at the top will ultimately result in less killing. The alternative is to just try to kill all the Hezbollah members.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's like a good C++ that is actually able to replace it. There are lots of places where a good C++ is useful. Like everything that needs low latency and low resource usage.

But it's not an easy language, so (I'm guessing) people who see everyone loving it but are unable to learn it start to suffer some sort of cognitive dissonance. If it's too difficult for me to learn, that must be its fault, not mine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Huh. Time to buy some stock.

 
 
 
 
 

Sam Harris talks with Steven Bonnel aka Destiny about politics.

 
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