Mobius01

Shogun is such a great book. I like to escape to it every year or so.

It seems like a fuel-inefficient maneuver. It could also expose the aircraft to anti-aircraft systems for longer than a high speed pass would.

A very apt name, I’m at a party and just lost about an hour revisiting old phones and chuckling at how the introduction of the iPhone changed the status quo immediately.

This argument is entirely pointless. You’re proposing to purchase land - crucial natural resource - from a sovereign nation(s). I can’t begin to imagine what a fair price would be, if there is such a thing. 300 trillion dollars? Who would pay? The rich nation taxpayers? Would the population of these benefactors countries be happy with increased taxation for no direct impact in their lives? Private investors? What would they recoup their investment from,, “responsible” exploration of the land they are ostensibly saving? Not to mention the political and cultural implications of attempting to buy a resource from a nation, after the purchasers have used up their own for economical and geopolitical gain. I ask for forgiveness if the tone of this message is overly cynical, but we are past the point of thought exercises over the fate of this planet.

If a solution to preserve the Amazon is to be found, that will involve helping Brazil rise above the cesspool of corruption that its been steeped in for the past decades. Assistance with education and economic incentives for alternatives to heavy reliance on beef and grain exports. Heavy tariffs or outright ban of these products on the international markets. Punish the large agricultural and cattle business that are decimating the forest for gain, give the people alternatives for subsistence. Until that happens, little will change.

This always comes to mind when an event like this is announced. Paging Captain Norton.

I have an SE running iOS 13 beta and it’s great. Some functionally will of course be disabled , but it feels modern.

It this price disparity will only last as far as the demand for these areas stays low. As the demand from remote workers fleeing large cities grows, so will the prices. See Austin for an illustration of rapid gentrification due to migration.

Is there a good documentary on the construction of these behemoths?

Maybe Google did create a sentient AI, and it made its first visible decision in displaying empathy towards these simple robots as we meatbags do towards animals.

I’m really happy to see this. There are so many segments that could benefit from Blender’s non-existing cost of entry that were running into too much friction with the user interface and general oddities of it’s interaction models, and this may help bridge that gap.

You’re mistaken about GeForce Now - it streams games running in nVidia’s servers. If I remember correctly, based on Intel Xeon and their own Volta GPUs.

GeForce Now has its own library of streamable titles for purchase, but it also allows you to link your Steam (and others) account to authorize streaming of games you already own and happen to be available in their library. But they run remotely.

I was very impressed with it, and my comparisons between streaming from nVidia’s remote servers or my own gaming PC yielded negligible differences in visual performance and latency. Your mileage will naturally vary.