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by AlanSE 5y ago
I played a bit into this game (maybe about 20 hours), and it's good. The size of the map dominates the game-play as you aim to explore all the types of destinations. It's a procedurally generated world, and some hilly towns will g
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I feel like this has already been happening for years... probably longer than that. I find a lot of the people I work with were pulled away from other industries. Some industries are over-represented, like science, engineering, education.
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Bread doesn't seem like the best example here, because the finished product is not dense, can't be smushed, and has to get shipped to the store. Transport plus the shelf space (and rotation) can explain most of the price. If you l
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Kickstarters? Pateron? Boy Scout popcorn? That water bottle that an NGO was supposed to ship you for anything over a $20 donation? There are some uses of money which are primarily philanthropic or social messaging. In these cases, the utili
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by AlanSE 5y ago
This has always seemed like a weird defense of college sports to me, because college swimming, soccer, etc. are still an elite cadre of extremely physically fit young people. Maintaining physical health is huge, but the demographic that nee
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by AlanSE 5y ago
> And my online classes were explicitly taken online, with professors who had done online stuff before, not hastily moved online in the midst of a pandemic. Knowing how computer-averse some of my professors were, I can only imagine the t
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by AlanSE 5y ago
There's another bias here that available materials were very different 1000 years ago. Designing with WW2 in mind is preparing for the next conflict based on the last one. Climate change will have implications, which tend to come out a
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by AlanSE 5y ago
The simple part is that we need to stop gathering geologically sequestered hydrocarbons and putting them in the atmosphere. I have made an effort to understand climate science. Personally, I think the deference to simulations and experts ha
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Invest in ESG funds. They vote in favor of corporate sustainability. You can do this yourself with proxy campaigns cross-referencing with NGO data, but the effort is overly burdensome. More importantly, companies know what the ESG funds are
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Your comment doesn't add up. I need to ask more questions to triage what your positions are. Let's start with the fairly basic premise that virtually all of us agree on: 1. Current human impact on the planet is unsustainable Now a
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Seems more complicated - industrial actions, technology, and personal preferences have intertwined roles. The most effective thing we could do would be to tax beef (and other meats on a sliding scale), because this would decrease the acreag
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Well, people get wildly irrational at me when I suggest that the only viable option here is for people to migrate from Earth into orbit. Space constraints will go away, because in 3-dimensional space everyone can live in as large of a house
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Used cars are up over 30% in these numbers. That's bananas. With the price of cars going nuts, that could be good for EVs.
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Really? This doesn't look like good news to me. It's fairly positive on the effectiveness of boosters, but negative on the original doses. That would still suggest a COVID spread through the vaccinated population (the bulk of the
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by AlanSE 5y ago
Am I alone in thinking that the Earth is finite and humanity has already outgrown it? We need to start making use of resources in space, because if we don't the ecological consequences are dire. Space doesn't have a biosphere. We
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I'm not getting the nesting argument here. At least in the early days, a window to space will be a key selling feature. That means that the surfaces will have greater value, like with skyscrapers, but worse. Worse because pressurizatio
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by AlanSE 5y ago
> At the same time, it feels infuriating that in order to afford medicine, clothes, food, shelter, and defense once you're past your working prime you must attach your fortunes to companies that have very little to do with the actua
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by AlanSE 5y ago
If you don't know what an algorithm is, then expressing preferences to a (non-human) web service does not make any sense. The fact that this is truly a nuanced idea is why it's such a troubled case as a feature for the uneducated
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by AlanSE 5y ago
You might not do great to start with computers, and instead, do better to start from the dawn of civilization. https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/ What I got from this is that I could make homemade coal by myself, MAYBE.
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by AlanSE 5y ago
In the update, the reason they give is: > You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations Not long ago in history, such a statement would have been totally incomprehensible, I mean completely nonsense. E
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I've also heard about how homes in Japan are (comparatively to the US) poorly insulated. So that tracks.
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I'm starting to develop a laundry list of problems that I perceive with the presentation of climate change science. People keep giving the temperature anomaly, as if there was something fundamental about the baseline temperature. This
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It's like Hawaii, but after adding back in some "cool" temperatures. https://weatherspark.com/y/145050/Average-Weather-at-Hilo-In...
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by AlanSE 5y ago
https://catechism.cph.org/ Yeah, that's electric.
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I saw this on Netflix Kiss the Ground. Feel like I'm missing something. State universities all over the nation have agricultural programs. Are they teaching stuff like cover crops? In other words, does this guy align with the conventio
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I was listening to some podcast episode from the author Patrick Wyman. He was doing an interview with Mike Duncan(?) in a very casual way. I really latched onto a point about Martin Luther - that his personality traits directly affected the
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I just finished reading this book, and the point I'm making comes almost directly from that. https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/patrick-wyman/the-verge/9... Luther grew up in a mining community, where pe
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by AlanSE 5y ago
This is deeply fascinating to read. But what about projects like Iter? There's a lot going on in fusion that has no alternative government justification. Surely those provide little to no value for weapons programs. If fusion for grid-
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The quote really speaks to people. It hits a nerve for me. I'd argue this with the context of macroeconomics. Our lives do nothing but fold back on themselves. Production becomes consumption. When production increases, consumption has
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by AlanSE 5y ago
I'm completely sold on the sugar argument. It's a home-run. Sugar is the new smoking. Our food environment makes it difficult to minimize sugar, but it's an extremely straightforward rule, and you will join an rapidly increas

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