Virtue signalling to piles of money is big business. It's not as massive as the popular "destroying nature to save nature" - PV panel and wind farms - but it's in billions.
Meanwhile in other news: "Over 1,600 Scientists Sign 'No Climate Emergency' Declaration"
There is this one small problem, this team, probably after some juicy grant money, is "fighting" something that does not exist - a climate crisis.
+1
Crafting is not the same as directly screwing around with DNA while having zero idea what the long term impact will be.
It's hard to believe how easily USA was brainwashed into "GMO is good" BS.
Maybe its because you guys still believe that FDA works for the good of the people.
Haven't been her for a while.
Reading positively rated comments and all I can ask is: "WTF has happened to Slashdot?"
Who are you people? Why are you here? Maybe you all should F off back to Reddit?
RIP slashdot.
Second Sight has put forward an all-stock bid to acquire the privately owned NPM. Under the terms of the deal, NPM would merge with a subsidiary, retaining its existing name and leadership team while becoming wholly owned by Second Sight.
They are too busy buying up JPEG files of ugly apes and what not.
"That makes Starship, which conducted a successful flight to the edge of space last year, especially threatening to the contractors and their allies in Congress. "
What we are going to see:
1) Massive anti Starship / SpaceX propaganda from MSM
2) Someone will come up with bizarre proposals to change the law so Musk cant do his thing.
Try reality. It's a lot more fun.
This is a textbook CIA. #WarmongerJoe
> oligons
Are those 2 dimensional? If so, no wonder we cant detect it any other way except gravity.
When you allow too many professional complainers and trouble makers, usually with bizarre hair colour and face piercings, your team or even the whole business will got sh**t. Don't hire those freaks and keep everyone else happy.
Why are you guys constantly whining about China? Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and so on are all censoring search results/posts all around the world!
If you are not parroting what ever crap allowed by "Central Committee of Truth" your are probably censored or you never show up on the front page.
China is irrelevant!
"I’m not worried about artificial intelligence, I’m terrified of human stupidity."
"he debate about technology and its role in society that we need to have is being used to deceive citizens and scare them about the future so they accept to submit to politicians who cannot nor will protect us from the challenges of robotization.
However, there are many studies that tell us that in 50 years the vast majority of work will be done by robots. What can we do?
We have lived the fallacies of dystopian estimates for decades.
I always explain to my students that, if we believed the fifty-year-forward studies of the past, it has been seventeen years since we have run out of water, oil, and jobs. Fifty-year estimates always suffer from the same mistakes. First, presentism. Take the current situation and exaggerate it. Second, sweeten the past. No, no past time was better. Third, always estimate an impossible and negative future by ignoring the evidence of human ingenuity and innovation.
The reality is that today, the world population has grown to 7.5 billion, and we have more work despite the technology revolution. Global unemployment is at historic lows, 5%, global poverty has fallen to unprecedented levels, from 80% in 1820 to 10% today. Infant mortality has been reduced to less than half, from 64.8 deaths per thousand births in 1990 to 30.5 in 2016."
Keep reading, its good stuff: robots-do-not-destroy-employment-politicians-do
First post on any bitcoin related post should end with "Let the butt-hurt induced whining begin" or something like that.
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