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While I agree that one primary motive was to get more food, Communist atrocities generally start out with noble ideals, at least on paper. Pol Pot also intended to create an ideal society[1], at whatever cost.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)

The Holodomor and mass purges all occurred well before WW2 so there's no pass there for Soviet repression.

Two questions: Aren't foundations necessary? What is the advantage over human builders.

"If Axial Seamount does blow, however, it won't post any threat human communities, experts say. It's too deep and too far from shore for people to even notice when it erupts, and it has no impact on seismic activity on land"

What kind of "space stuff"? Spacex/blue origin/nasa?

I can just see, shaking with horror, the image of missiles and anti missiles smashing into each other, raining immense radiation into the oceans poisining everything. And thats the best case, where the earheads are intercepted successfully.

>app to view all books in all libraries of Delhi

Is this an example of a scam or a legit app? Sounds nice but not profitable.

I remember my Dad telling me they had to memorize the logarithmic tables for physics studies. At some point after electronic calculators this was phased out.

Couldn't the Phoenicians to be descended from the Sea Peoples of Bronze Age Collapse fame, which would explain their non levant genetics?

Right, so when discussing a high productivity role, havig mastery of both the structure (such as a DB) and of the tools to investigate the structure (text manipulation, SQL querying) are key.

In my experience most developers like to skip knowing about the data.

The question is what you mean by highly valuable. The sad truth is that in most workplaces many just coast along doing only what's necessary to not get fired. In which case doing your job more efficiently might draw negative attention (tall poppy syndrome).

Having said that, I think that having a good (both broad and deep) knowledge of the database schemas is invaluable for almost any information related role. Also, being able to manipulate large text very quickly (with vi/sed/awk, let's say), is useful for production emergency debugging on servers.

Tau Zero is the title of an SF book by Poul Anderson in which humans make an STL interstellar voyage. They probably got inspired from that book.

I would not have thought any of the above. Rather, jobs that require in person hands on presence. Setting broken bones is likely to remain relevant more than coding. Though conceivably a bone setting robot equipped with ultra sound and xrays could do that. Hmm...

One problem is lack of law and order. You can build something and have it stolen by the local warlord or just randomly burned out of spite.

(I am not a physicist). Can this be explained in laypersons terms? Can radioactive material such as a warhead or smuggled material be detected from a distance? What distance? (the article says 10m which I assume means meters). Can it do so through material such as shell casing?

From the article:

>40 per cent of the world's 8.2 billion people live in rural areas

>the rural population is underestimated by half

Based on the first statement: 8.2*0.4=3.28 billion rural globally;

And according to the second statement, there re actually twice as many, so another 3.28 billion people, or:

8.2+3.28=over 11 billion in total on Earth.

Very interesting. Has this been declassified only recently, or has it been available previously?

From the title it would seem that there were several persons who were physically present inside some building, conveivably in sleeping bags and eating out of cans. Only after reading the article does it become clear that it was a remote breach. Disingenuous...

I'd think that autocracies are stable until they aren't, upon which they shatter completely, such as the Assad regime.

That's not to say that the successor regime is necessarily better.

I meant that I'm for it, just not to go myself, haha (not that I'd have any chance of being chosen). It's likely to be a high risk, high adventure endeavour.

It always sounded like the boondoggle to end all boondoggles.

I have noticed a spate of articles lately all claiming beneficial effects of aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen for preventimg dementia, improving performance, extending lifespan, etc. Not to say that's not the case, its just peculiar that there are so many articles/posts in the past few weeks.

These plans always seem fanciful or wasteful at first. Any mission of exploration has always been met with derision. Based on past history, it will indeed take a long time for space colonies to break even, not to mention self sustaining or profitable.

Despite the caveats above, building a sustainable earth-to-orbit-to-various targets is probably the most significant thing that could happen in the next few decades.

The title is slightly ambiguous, not sure if it's asking whether one should go oneself, or if its generally a good thing.

At first I thought it was a kind of snowed-in Overlook Hotel gig, but "Starting in April, the couple will spend six months living on this 1,100 acre island", so during summer. Also, not exactly uninhabited: "...five holiday cottages and a small café on Great Blasket, which the new caretakers will oversee".

From how SA is described, sounds edgy all right. Not the place you'd want to be seen in your/spouse/kids PJs through the front window.

Sounds like people feel secure, with law and order. The first thing you see in a less developed place is everything shut up tight. Even poor people have something that can be taken, like their children, or their bodily safety.

Yes, FT is paywalled by default.

I (layperson, non physicist) never understood how the Dyson sphere would work. Anyone far from the equator would experience low to zero gravity and float off into the internal sun.

I read an Astrid Lindgren children's book which had one of the characters die while saving his brother from a fire that burned part of the (Swedish) city.