kerbalspacepro

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Comment · 7 years ago
If you can afford to live within jackhammer distance of a metro, you can afford earplugs
Comment · 7 years ago
It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to develop a "Further Than Fish" replacement
Comment · 7 years ago
People got very mad at this, but it seems preferable. Movies/TV shows that you "like a lot" versus movies that you "just like" are both movies that you'd watch, and watching is what you're buying.
Comment · 7 years ago
It seems like the biggest problem is the retreat from nuclear, not the focus on solar.
Comment · 7 years ago
You can look them up though? It's not difficult?
Comment · 7 years ago
It sounds like something from the last book of the Three Body Problem trilogy
Comment · 7 years ago
Are you made that they didn't leave open the possibility that she was Australian, a Kiwi or an Afrikaner?
Comment · 7 years ago
It's entirely built around linking between different parts of the sequence. In theory, you land on one page and can go to any number of pages. It has a set order (by that which the text was published), but is equally valid to read it in different orders.

The order of the text is determined by the lack of awareness of the reader and what they're trying to pursue.

Comment · 7 years ago
The first words are "A study published this week sheds"....

Except for its the author's study. "My study" is more appropriate.

Comment · 7 years ago
Yudkowsky's Sequences on Less Wrong (Rationality A-Z is the bookform) has a good claim on being a true future-book as webpage.
Comment · 7 years ago
Definitely more lonely, given that what finished them off was the same Power that still courses through most of the developed world.
Comment · 7 years ago
The point of a job should be to improve the world. The point of a career is to be able to do more impactful jobs by increasing skill and understanding.

Personality and job fit are only important as far as they allow you to do the job better.

Comment · 7 years ago
The answer is to use Microsoft apps on an Apple machine (or Linux if you're that kind of person)
Comment · 7 years ago
Conservation of Angular momentum collapses shapely sort of things into a disk
Comment · 7 years ago
Why do you say this?

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