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Fertility rates have been declining across the developed and developing world for decades [0]. We haven't relied upon VR to maintain a reasonable standard of living thus far — why would such a change be inevitable in the future?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

For many, that gap is sufficiently filled by GitHub Pages.

Discourse around climate change is about problems, not solutions.

Who would mine those blocks? There has to be value in it for them. And there better be a lot of it — such a ledger would be an extremely appealing target for bad actors.

On the Lorem Ipsum code blocks: in typesetting Lorem Ipsum exists to provide the shape of text without the content. This seems directly contrary to the goals of your examples. Nobody likes looking at Lorem Ipsum and nobody ever reads Lorem Ipsum.

Why would they when the military is one of the biggest and most reliable funders of space technology?

As somebody who found it far easier to give up nicotine than 4chan, I empathize.

>However, the rocket component is not a necessity for putting an object into orbit, the company explains on its website: “Because kinetically launched satellites exit the atmosphere without a rocket, SpinLaunch enables a future in which constellations of satellites and space payloads can be launched with zero emissions in the most critical layers of the atmosphere.”

Agreed that this seems like a misinterpretation by the article’s author. A suborbital trajectory with 2km/s dv can certainly leave the atmosphere before the upper stage starts burning which I think is what SpinLaunch is referring to here. Depending on how you cut it the stated 200,000ft / 60km ignition altitude quoted in the article can already be considered “above the atmosphere.”

SpinLaunch isn’t trying to throw payloads directly into orbit, just replace the first stage of a conventional 2-stage launcher. Their target exit velocity is ~2km/s which is equivalent to the staging velocity on a Falcon 9. They’ve released renderings of a liquid-fueled upper stage but have been light on details thus far.

A subculture is more similar in scale to human societies during the majority of those 100s of thousands of years of evolution than to the mega/giga scale of modern society.

That’s great to hear, I’m one of the people who complained loudly about that unacceptable behavior. Guess I’ll be reinstalling.

What else does it tell you?

This sentiment echoes Socrates' famous position regarding the written word:

>If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

Both his point about writing and your point about Copilot are likely true in part or in whole. Ultimately it doesn't matter — the technology is here to stay and its adoption will be determined by the utility it provides its user.

This review is a fantastic reproduction of Melville's style in Moby-Dick. It must have been intentional, and tongue-in-cheek!

The M1 Air not having fans is the real game changer for me. If you haven't used a laptop without fans you probably don't realize how good things could be.

More than anything this article illustrates how inflated DeepMind's sense of self-importance is.

This is fantastic. Seconding the comment that this isn't only for developers—optimizing all user experiences for ease of use has become an antipattern and what's needed is UX that optimizes for preserving the user's brainspace.

The data I have seen does not corroborate this — in fact exactly the opposite.

According to [0] Sweden has 11,445 cases and 1,033 deaths (CFR: 9%) as of 6pm PT 4/14. For a population of 10.3 million [1], this is a confirmed infection rate of 0.11%.

According to [2] California has 23,338 cases and 758 deaths (CFR: 3.2%) as of 6pm PT 4/14. For a population of 39.5 million [3], this is a confirmed infection rate of 0.06%.

By all accounts, Sweden is being hit far harder by this virus than California or Sweden’s own neighbors are, and based on this evidence it is reasonable to infer that the distancing measures or lack thereof have an effect on transmission.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

[2] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California

Perseverance is bringing two microphones [0] with it, one of which has the secondary purpose of recording minutes of ambient sound including rover and wind noise.

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/microphones/

Per CDC numbers [0], in the US the death rate of the flu for the 2018-19 season was roughly 0.1%, an order of magnitude lower than the number quoted above.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

This is exactly what GP meant by "blinders" — people (including children, the elderly, the disabled) should be free to engage in healthy, enjoyable, green recreational activities without fear of death by two ton tank.

Could you provide a citation for the claim that European countries have had a hard time repatriating gold held in the US?

It seems to me that this is the clear trend. MacOS is increasingly “mobilizing” and Microsoft has already moved to a Windows-as-a-Service [0]. The only sane desktop/workstation choice is Linux and the rift grows wider every year. As the number of use cases for a workstation OS continue to diminish and the big players stop catering to that market segment, sooner or later we’ll reach the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop!

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...

Thank you for posting the exact wording of the bill.

Which of these three clauses are not satisfied by drivers for a ridesharing company?

In my experience business ethics courses encourage behavior that is a far cry from what the rest of us would consider ethical — effectively boiling down to “generating the most value for shareholders”.

This is not really true; ‘w’ is one row up from the home row and is easily accessible with the middle or ring finger. An arrow key is a hand-shift or an awkward pinky stretch away. Vim keybindings were explicitly designed to be simpler than arrow keys once you’ve gotten over the learning curve.

Do you mind elaborating a bit on your use case for PXE booting?

The article goes on to elaborate on that statement, claiming that Docker as a container runtime is going to get elbowed out of the market by faster, safer, more feature-rich container runtimes.

The circumference of Mars is 21,344km around the equator [0].

[0] https://www.universetoday.com/66605/circumference-of-mars/

Unbelievable! In all of my searching and asking around for exactly this I was unable to find a suitable app. Thank you for sharing—and, to the author who may be browsing this, thank you for sticking up for us digital dinosaurs who refuse to integrate into the “library as a service” dystopia. Let me know if you ever need a helping hand.