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50/ yes and that improvement in rubber technology means that everything you buy costs 0.1% less than before, which means you can take a slightly longer vacation ...and 5 days on the beach instead of 4 doesn't "count" as technology.https://twitter.com/leepavelich/status/1345113209947111425 …
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51/ These 1% improvements are going to keep adding up, and in 30 or 50 years you'll take a vacation to Mars. ...and people will bitch "well, space travel isn't a NEW or REAL technology ... we had this a century ago. They just PRODUCTIZED it." Again: "just".
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52/ I don't, as I explained in the above 51 tweets.https://twitter.com/k0stoglotov/status/1345118922404630528 …
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53/ Technology has ALLOWED ME to live on a farm and grow my own food. Technology allows others to live in places with indoor plumbing (another simulation, I guess, of the more visceral and real state of nature). So maybe it's a toss up.https://twitter.com/GregSuburban/status/1345119293059416064 …
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54/ Asserting "X is Y" without an explanation, cites, discussion, etc., is very boring. Everyone has an opinion. Your opinion WITHOUT ELABORATION is hideously boring. so...EXPLAIN. GIVE EVIDENCE. MAKE THIS NOT BORING.https://twitter.com/k0stoglotov/status/1345119387234099200 …
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55/ Exactly. Tiny improvements compound and make things move from "the lab" to homes, "all at once".https://twitter.com/Jubalnc/status/1345119856010686464 …
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56/ Rome was a society that routine tortured political criminals to death, practiced infanticide, and child sexual slavery. I'm very glad that productizing steam took a while.https://twitter.com/JohnTaloni/status/1345131866651676672?s=19 …
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