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901.
by gmuslera 6y ago
After watching the first illustration went up and confirmed that was Randall Munroe the one that wrote it. I've been missing for too long his what-if posts. Still, would be nice to have his typical mouseover messages.
902.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Better at what? Computers outdated a lot of employments already, but opened a lot of new fields and job opportunities. Making advancements is not the problem. Still worrying about the weapon instead of the hand improving and holding it?
903.
by gmuslera 6y ago
It's simple file format let to build different interfaces to access the same files. I prefer gopass ( https://www.gopass.pw/ ) as user interface as it have a few extra features that makes it a bit more confortable.
904.
by gmuslera 6y ago
The old object-observer duality. Where is the value in this case? It is in the observer, not in the object. It goes in a different layer. The problem there is that culture, social conventions, shared fictions and so on can be manipulated&#x
905.
by gmuslera 6y ago
There is money in privacy. But there is even more money in pretending you give privacy while giving everything or at least what is juicy enough to malevolent (usually state) actors.
906.
by gmuslera 6y ago
I would use Telegraf (a better/distributed collector far more efficient than cacti, even if you have to learn the OIDs for the snmp devices you want to monitor, because not everything is snmp anyway), InfluxDB (a timeseries database be
907.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Watching a decade ago her TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_blackmore_memes_and_temes ) was something like a shock for me, as I was unaware of the concept back then. Even if you don't agree with her conclus
908.
by gmuslera 6y ago
With a bit of luck, Sandra Bullock won't be involved in a satellite collision this time.
909.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Used to have some of them in my BBS in Uruguay in the early 90s, before internet got there. They (and CDs included with magazines and things like that) drove the shareware/freeware movement around here back then.
910.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Weather is so complex that a nearly chaotic system, the butterfly effect comes from the idea that the flapping of a butterfly in south africa could be the thing that start a tropical storm in the caribbean a couple of weeks later. It is so
911.
by gmuslera 6y ago
If you can pass photons through those microscopic wormholes, and put the end point of a lot of them in specific places in the spacetime, you get the argument of Light of other days, from Stephen Baxter and A.C.Clarke.
912.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Going to mars is something we must do if we want really long time survival as species/culture. But it is not a solution for our relatively short time problems (100-200 years). It won't solve global warming, nor will be an alternat
913.
by gmuslera 6y ago
There are reaction time after which the problem becomes something different and harder to solve. With COVID letting it become so widespread with not enough protection before the vaccines, means that more people got the disease, the virus go
914.
by gmuslera 6y ago
I'm not ok with the article. The analogy of taking balls from an urn put the focus on the technology and not in the people that may or not use it. Those omited but important players is what makes the difference for some existing techno
915.
by gmuslera 6y ago
They are focusing on the wrong end of the problem. Why try to produce cow milk/cheese? If they want a make food, they should start trying to make human milk, or Matrix's Tasty Wheat. Once you can turn grass or some easy to grow v
916.
by gmuslera 6y ago
In some countries is one of the safest way to get a job. Trying other careers may get you more free time, but it could be too much free time because you can't get a job at all. I'm not sure about if its a good long term strategy,
917.
by gmuslera 6y ago
I feels like explaining an old greek that the air that he doesn't see exists because it inflates a balloon.
918.
by gmuslera 6y ago
You have to take into account that both the 100m oil barrels/day, and all the carbon that is being released in the artic was not in the environment/carbon cycle. And those volumes are several orders higher than the amounts that re
919.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Oh, where is Admiral Ackbar when you need him? If it is about what people, not mostly corporations, need to do, then it is probably a trap/distraction. Or something that people must do that will destroy a lot of corporations, like full
920.
by gmuslera 6y ago
10 years is longer than a government and company balance sheet period. And the profits obtained in those periods will let you comfortably live through the ugly consequences of doing nothing expensive now. The ones not getting rich from that
921.
by gmuslera 6y ago
The ones with the levers don't worry about the cost of a house. If it is a message with a target, it goes to middle-high class (but not high enough). And, again, as the message is mostly "water will eventually rise" is not an
922.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Bloomberg can't see past the end of their noses. They worry about property value, but if the sea level rise is worse than the most pessimistic forecasts means that a lot of other things (not just that particular symptom) are getting wo
923.
by gmuslera 6y ago
About #4, a lot of dystopian stories have an "outsider" with mostly our current culture point of view to show why it is a dystopia (sometimes is the reader itself, sometimes is someone that comes from a different planet, or an iso
924.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Suppose that there is no need to have in the equation living beings. So you have your von Neumann probes assimilating all the matter in their path into new von Neumann probes, lets call them Borg von Neumann. And they are nodes of a collect
925.
by gmuslera 6y ago
How a civilization would expand at the speed of light? Unless it lives directly on the fabric of space or something like that, matter is discrete in the universe. You settle on planets that are not everywhere, or in space stations built wit
926.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Looking at how you will feel with the tenths of degree of temperature rise each year/decade is the wrong mindset. Because what goes up "slow" and steady is what we add of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We don't feel
927.
by gmuslera 6y ago
The solar system of the puppeteers had a similar configuration (I don't remember if it were with just 5 planets) and they were running from the galaxy, carrying their system with them.
928.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Could it be a message? Why to send from place to place a radio signal when we could set up a bunch of planets in an improbable/impossible regular configuration to be noticed from everywhere during a very long time frame? Probably it is
929.
by gmuslera 6y ago
Assuming how a different species, with different biology and a far more advanced technology than us, should think is naive. There is another approach for it. Or what we know about the universe is basically true (and we can't travel fa
930.
by gmuslera 6y ago
At our current stage and philosophy, it may seem that way. That is the point. It may not be valid for most or all of civilizations (if they could be called that way) that are far from us in those and more points. The same goes for some assu

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