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Fleur_

@ Fleur_ @aussie.zone

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  • Patents are a good idea in every form of society. People are motivated by material rewards. By ensuring a creator is entitled to their labour and that some scum fuck corporation isn't going to steal it, society incentivises innovation. The problem isn't patents, it's corporations abusing the system to serve their own interests because public institutions (such as the patent office) aren't strong enough to push back.

  • Kapitalism

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  • The problem is with corporations pushing up against weak public institutions and finding no resistance not those public institutions dummy.

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  • I feel like so many people don't understand the purpose of IP law.

    So someone arranges some atoms for the first time, let's say they make a vaccine. Now the creator of that vaccine might be financially motivated to sell it for profit. If no IP law existed then the only way to ensure that they'd be able to profit from their arrangement of atoms is by keeping the way they managed to create it a secret. IP law is a social contract that says "hey, if you share this massively beneficial idea with the rest of society we'll make sure that you can make a profit off of it." In this way IP law incentivises creators to share their creations with society in a way that everyone benefits from.

    The problem is with public institutions being eroded away by corporate interests not with the concept of IP law.

    Also for anyone coming out with the "creators aren't profit motivated" bs. Yes they absolutely are. No it is not because of greed. Material success for people who have made contributions is the most valuable encouragement.

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  • It's about incentivising people to share their ideas by ensuring they'll be rewarded for it. Without IP laws it's beneficial to keep new ideas a secret so you can profit off of them. It's a social contract that promises creators compensation for creating. Everyone benefits from the system the problem has been its exploitation due to weakening public institutions.

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  • Oh no, I'm vegan thanks

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  • Only a viable option for rich people's dogs if they are willing to pay a carbon offset tax. Poor people dogs unfortunately have to be braised and sautéed.

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  • Yesss exactly!!

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  • Eating dogs is morally good actually since pet dogs are a massive drain on the environment.

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  • Wouldn't a reverse filter mix things together

  • Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?

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  • I feel like the bottleneck will be with smooth continuous motions. It's very easy to move a cursor in that way with a mouse but you can't do that motion with your eyes unless you are looking at something else that's moving.

  • Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?

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  • Okay I've had this astroid mining concept dining around my empty skull for a while now. The way I see it is that going up to space and mining an astroid for minerals and then bringing them back down to earth will never be a worthwhile endeavour. If you're mining them in space and using the material manufacturing in space then that seems more plausible. The only way I can think of planetary based astroid mining being worthwhile is if instead of mining the rock and sending it down in crafts, you just bump the astroid so it's on a collision course with earth and then mine whatever is left from impact. In anycase, I'd say we are far off being able to mine asteroids since imo, the only worthwhile way to do it is by having the entire process in space. And we're not even close to that level of infrastructure existing in space.

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  • No, I don't really enjoy life and never really have. I don't want another person experiencing what I do.

  • Some things don't change

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  • I'm the one being sarcastic Einstein

  • Some things don't change

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  • /s

  • Some things don't change

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  • The correct way to learn math is chronologically

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    life goals

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  • Just want to work less and for stuff to be cheap

  • Does anyone else find chavs (aka bogans/gopniks) attractive?

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  • Anyone who finds anybody except femboys hot is SICK and DERANGED and needs to be LOCKED up.

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    What's the weirdest thing you ever saw someone do in their kitchen?

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  • Okay hear me out. Do this, lick the plate, see if you can taste the soap. Dishwashing soap is food safe (in the sense that you can only intentionally poison yourself with it) so taste is the only thing that matters. You could even do a blind taste test to really get scientific with it.

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  • Just turn off every camera/microphone that tries to record them lol