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And didn't cloud seeding used to be chemical-based where this is electrical? Does that make this less sketchy?

I do find that I have time for side projects even with my wife and I working full time with a one year old but some / most weeks I feel like Im going to drop dead and that is in part because I find myself with little time for exercise and other self care. I just think its worth regurgitating the adage that every child really is different and so is every tech job. My friends that end up working till 9pm and on weekends regularly or have more demanding children are living in completely different realities and my heart goes out to them every day. With all this said my side projects end up being very consuming and not necessarily geared towards looking good on a resume.

The last time I went to Wisconsin and New York it seemed way greener than ~8 years ago. So make that sample size three (or maybe even four?)!

Great links! Other related rabbit holes to go down might be Adam Curtis (kinda obvious) and Liu Cixin. Anyone else have any good living scifi authors indirectly or directly dealing with related ideas?

Any other projects (especially software or web related) you can recommend in this same spirit? Or maybe hackathons / conventions / irc / discord communities etc. for software engineers interested in getting involved?

Thats such an excellent succinct counterpoint to all the doomer nihilism we tend to slip into on HN. I feel like this should be on some kind of open source tshirt or commemorative plate.

omg I love that farming bot project! perfect concrete example after reading that manifesto :^) super inspired

yes... go on?

Agreed. The great filter and collapse theory in general are fascinating in theory and can motivate some great positive action but they can't undermine the fact that humans beings are doing better than they've ever done in our history by almost every imaginable metric.

Can somebody please explain the SO2 thing? Im googling to no avail...

Personally Im into Cornel West but I do agree that the phenomena of celebrity academics / philosophers needs to be discussed more openly and critically.

And unlike every other Ivy League school it doesn't have a graduate fine are art dept. Even more retro.

A lot of talk on HN about drop-shipping lately, wondering what it is exactly? Why its good / bad?