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Commented on Make Up a Guy
95 An accident may suffice to cause suspicion of their clone status, no intended messaging necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(2009_film)...
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Commented on Make Up a Guy
29 Thanks 31 A question of definitions and technicalies. If the organic brain is destroyed during upload, is it 'copy' because it recreates an existing structure in digital format, or is it 'cut' because said structure is no longer there...
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Commented on Make Up a Guy
David Brin has explored virts in affordable bodies in Kiln People, with added interesting effects of pull requests ("inloads") from virt to original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People: The novel takes place in a future in which people can create clay duplicates (called "dittos"...
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Commented on Decision Fatigue
Companies in the EU: Ireland has ridiculously low taxes, that lured the tech companies into putting headquarters or parts of their companies there. Then they could shift the revenues to Ireland, and the losses to countries with higher taxation. A...
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Commented on Bad news day
Jaws / 34 Russia's population is spread thin and declining. It is Raum ohne Volk here, and it is an aging population, too. The Russian capacity for defence is declining. Squinting hard from afar, the whole thing looks like a...
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Commented on Bad news day
Jaws / 34 Russia's population is spread thin and declining. It is Raum ohne Volk here, and it is an aging population, too. The Russian capacity for defence is declining. Squinting hard from afar, the whole thing looks like a...
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Commented on Bad news day
To better understand Putin's holy mission, read Solzhenizyn. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/vladimir-putin-isnt-going-to-stop#473b6es https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/how-a-famous-soviet-dissident-foreshadowed-putins-planin-1990-russia-ukraine/379467/ Also, he is running out of time. Decarbonization will ruin his rentier state, and there are no realistic prospects to make use of a warming Siberia....
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Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
EU customers DE customers, beware! The minimum value for import tax has been scratched. Now everything from €1,- up is taxed. Imports usually go through DHL, who took the opportunity to charge an extra €6,- per shipment for the...
