"SMRs will never work and you'd have to be a moron to try!"
Yesterday:
"We will never land reusable rocket boosters vertically, they're just too unstable to control, and you'd have to be a moron to try"
"Electric cars will never be more than golf carts with 10 km range and 5kph topspeed, the battery tech just isn't there and you have to be a moron to try"
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"You need sails to make ships go, you'd have to be a moron to think you can propel a ship by lighting a bonfire under its deck!"
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"Making fire is the domain of gods, and you have to be an utter moron to think you can do it by rubbing sticks or hitting two stones together!"


Thank goodness for "morons". No, not you though.

Not "western economic system", just the neo-Keynesian doctrine which goes "let's make the money printers go brrrrr and hope the capitalists (whom we hate, but depend on) manage to catch up". Just fucking stop printing money and all the problems will go away. Including rampant consumptionism which I thought was making Gaia sad and stuff, but moron Keynes said it's a good thing so it must be good!

Don't play dumb. He'd sign the peace as the guarantor. Hopefully.

Wow, got a leftist to acknowledge that drugs loose patent protection instead of whining about "eternal evergreening". Well at least in this thread, because we all know you'll get right back to the whining in next discussion.

Ah, here we go again with the "Big Pharma is holding back cancer drugs cus evil reazuns and 'em stuffs!" conspiracy theory.

In actual, you know, real reality, the one who invents cure for disease as nasty as cancer is going to be raking in unimaginable money. Just like happened with HepC, when we finally found the medicine that cures it rather than the long-often-for-life treatment we had previously that supposedly is "Big Pharma's dream situation". How come Big Pharma didn't "hold back" sofosbuvir? Oh wait, because the world doesn't work the way you think it does.

LOL, what? The EU also has barrier tariffs on BYD, to protect German automakers.

You don't get to use the word "appropriating" when it is explicitely and deliberately permitted by the maker of the software, through an OSS licence. And if you have a problem with that, maybe you don't belong in Open Source community, and need to piss off to some proprietary shareware makers or sth like that. I'm sure they'll have a licence template you'll like. Used by 3 projects noone heard about.

Eh? Economy 101, companies keep their value when FED crashes dollar by printing more money, so of course their stocks will go "up" when inflation is high. Scare quotes around up because their value actually stays the same, and it's the dollar that's falling.

When will people learn. You CANNOT sidestep a dictatorship with technical means. Any dictatorship worth its salt can do wrench decryption perfectly well, is your fancy open-source app secure against that? Or they can not even bother decrypting, just toss you in gulag for violating encryption ban. How many people you think will use your app when you can get tossed in labour camp the moment your ISP tattles on you that you're passing what looks like ciphertext?

Oh that's easy. Those are financed by fuel taxes (roads), property taxes (water, electricity, etc. And bills too). Unless you institute a walking tax to finance it, every tax dollar spent on "walkability" is you getting your preferred lifestyle subsidized by others.

Because programmer time is more valuable than CPU time. If I want to run some one-off analysis I prefer a language where I can whip up the script to make the plots I need in half a day, and have it run for an hour, and be done in a day with the whole thing, rather than spend a week messing with pointers and debugging segfaults, but hey, it'll run in 3 minutes instead of an hour when I'm done!

The number of cattle being raised in the US is almost exactly the same as the number of bisons roaming the plains before colonial times. Please tell me more on how "unsustainable" it is.

LOL, nice fantasyland you live in bro. In actual, you know, real reality, if there were safe assets that appreciated in value faster than bank's interest rates on loans, banks would just invest in them directly, instead of using the scheme you propose, in effect via a proxy of the rich people. They don't, so that tells us those assets do not exist, or carry a substantial risk of loss, which you of course fail to account for in your fantasy. And for all the leftists outraged about how I should pay humongous taxes on any profits I make off stock market when I win, I've never heard any of you propose that if I take a loss instead the govt should compensate me by same % they take from my winnings. How strange.

I wonder if you have the same sentiment when "not stealing" is used to integrate GPL code into some proprietary software, or to train AI.

Privacy is for CRIME!!!!!1111oneone

If you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide and you should be perfectly fine with government reviewing your every online pruchase!!!! And credit card company vetting it!!!! Also, only criminals do not consent to warrantless searches of everything!!!!! If you refuse a patdown at the airport you're a TERRORIST!!!!!!

Slash fucking s for those who can't tell.