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It was ok, but it felt more like a checklist of progression then the wonder of exploration.

1) Northgard isn't that, but it is a proper RTS with a way slower overall pace, so it might scratch the itch.

2) Anachron is a RTS with time travel, and issuing commands in the past depletes a resource, so it does something similar but for a very different purpose.

Many people rely on loan providers and most loan providers depend on proof of assets being provided and most organizations that store information are vulnerable to hacking. So that's at least one weakness that is at least one massive vector.

Historically, no group has a right to unionize until they fight to earn it, usually through unionization.

I think if commuting time was fully paid work hours, then companies would quickly agree that minor optimizations like this aren't worth it.

It seems like it would ne more accurate to say that each C role is has skipped other languages, and thus will likely skip Hare as well. The feelings of people in that role might not have anything to do with it.

They have nuclear weapons. The reactor stuff is just embarrassing incompetence, and not nearly as scary as the news makes out.

Why not make the sailboats out of modern materials?

It sounds like a great idea. I did notice a carveout in the privacy policy for "if we get acquired, they can do whatever they want with any information" which seems... undermining, given how getting acquired by one of the worst data brokers is generally assumed for any successful social media startup.

The games world has understood C# to be a reasonably capable language for a while. But that world often feels disjoint with the enterprise software world where Go has thrived, eating into Java's niche.

No, it can watch asteroids, kupier belt objects, etc. Sure, not ones already near earth orbit, but most objects are further out at least at some point.

However as far as I know it's unlikely to actively survey them. It's expensive and limited time, so it'd focus will be on what can only be seen in infrared, like the early universe and exoplanet spectra. But who knows what the scientists will decide look at.

This is fun, but I do get the sense this is another iteration of "Persom who is an expert in X thinks its important for everyone to know more about X", where X can be basically any field.

Agreed. We've had an entire scientific revolution since the days of arguing about humans as a fatherless biped or the angels that can fit on a needle point.

Articles like this that provide nothing but rhetorical arguments feel pointless in an era where tools like statistics and hypothesis testing exist.

I would argue it's not needed for the last sentence. In fact, when people are freed from convention in contexts like chat programs, they often drop unneeded bits like trailing periods

The basic technology of robotic space construction, though, could have far reaching benefits in its own right. So while it may not be strictly better for this one mission, it might still pay put dividends in the long run.

Anything with billions in capitalization will never stop looking for customers, and will bend and break the world to find them if needs be.

People hated Justin Bieber because he appealed to young girls, and tons of men automatically hate everything young girls like as some kind of twisted self defense of their masculinity.

People hate bitcoin because it appeals to people they find really annoying.

Those people are represent labor, not capital, and thus are never paid their share of profit under capitalism.

The other thing about kerosene is that it works for decades if not more with only occasional user serviceable maintenence. It can be dropped in mud, banged up, etc, and still be repaired most of the time without lots of expertise or tools. Will something like this have even a percent of the longevity and resilience?

That's sensible, I agree. My response was to "feeling snubbed for allowing preorders", which is childish.

Hitting it with anything at those speeds causes and explosion. At low earth orbit (LEO) most vectors cause the debris to rapidly deorbit, but a few can cause a slightly raised orbit that could hit things behind it. The problem is, if such a chain reaction does start, it's not likely limited to a single orbital plane like starling, but to destroy every single LEO satellite and make LEO unusable for tens of not hundreds of years.

Caring about this sort of thing sounds like some toxic masculinity grandstanding childishness. So it makes sense that politicans would.

Corruption is a type of conspiring yes. Your point?

Simply put, yes. The same effects could have been accomplished with extensive public transportation, subsidized to the point of being free for the same cost as the car and road subsidies. And with far greater positive effects on poverty, due to providing a smaller barrier of entry. Also likely far more free money and labor being diverted to more creative endeavors, due to the freedom from funding being forced to be allocated to a car for basic needs.

Last I heard they were still considered safe to use, if environmentally damaging, by scientific sources. Could you provide citations, so I might update my knowlege?

Similarly, my understanding was that soil depletion (caused by farming methods) and crops optimized purely for high yield (via breeding or otherwise) are problems causing nutrition drop in foods. And that neither are problems solved simply by going organic or GMO free.

Lots of different interests hashing it out in an at least somewhat functioning democracy are going to experience somewhat schizophrenic behavior.

A technology that is especially easy to use very negatively and relies on a constant maintenence of good moral virtue in government or law enforcement is a dangerously unstable risk. Its like how actively cooled nuclear reactors are just a technology, but its a far better idea to build them such that if power is lost even for a moment you don't experience a dangerous meltdown.

European means different things in different contexts. Sometimes it is used as the adjective form of EU member state. Discussion of an aarticle in which Germany is calling for a Eurpean ban is such a context, since that is the form the title is using.

There is a difference between incidentally public (someone can see you, snap a picture, but only on occasion) and surveilence public (someone can track your location and activity continously in public). If someone does the latter, and I know about it, I can still sue them for harassment, and maybe get a restraining order. Can I get a restraining order against Nest or similar?

I understand that this might not be the law, but I'm interested in if it should be.

> Math notation is the way it is because it's what mathematicians have found useful for the purpose of doing and communicating math.

That's only really a good description for the most well trod areas, where people habe bothered to iterate. I think a more realistic statement would be:

"Math notation is the way it is because some mathematician found it sufficient to do and communicate math, and others found it tolerable enough to not bother to change."

Personally, though, my problem has always been where publications use letters and symbols to mean things that are just "known" in some subfield that isn't directly referenced. It's not a problem for direct back and forth communication during development, true, but it dramatically increases the burden on someone who wants to jump in.