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by pharke 6y ago
Personally, I think they are just overreacting to their excessive optimism about the prevalence of life in our solar system before any of the probe missions to Mars and Venus. If you read old astronomy books from that period they were full
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Depends what qualifies as suitable. With enough engineering you could establish a colony practically anywhere with access to energy and matter. More near term, you could build self contained environments on or below the surface of planets a
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by pharke 6y ago
If we're still factoring in ground based solutions for interstellar communication I think we're assuming the wrong level of technological development. I'd like to see how it works out for a few dozen receivers positioned as f
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by pharke 6y ago
Market solutions work when applied to the correct areas, same thing with global cooperation. Too much interdependence in the wrong areas can be a hinderance. There is no panacea, we have to be smarter than that.
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by pharke 6y ago
In the case of Venus there's likely little left due to extreme volcanic activity[0]. Even if we didn't create a hellscape like Venus on Earth, over 700,000,000 years geological processes would grind those structures to dust. Repea
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by pharke 6y ago
> Building is hardest and costliest when population density is high, when 'land' (or equivalent resource) is in small parcels, and property rights are strong - but those are exactly the conditions that lots of people love to l
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Some people did. You can still see their caricatures in movies as obnoxious tourists doing silly things because they can't see much through their viewfinder. The reality though was that real cameras were big heavy objects that you had
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by pharke 6y ago
The points you bring up don't seem to support your argument. It took a decade from when people first attempted to haul freight with a steam locomotive until the first commercially successful railway was built. If you start counting fro
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by pharke 6y ago
This has already been proposed for shielding the entire planet Mars, see https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a25493/magn... (2017). I'd love to see SpaceX take a crack at this, conceivably i
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by pharke 6y ago
My problem with this framing of the argument is that it's reasoned from the position of "If we want to do X then how much do we have to spend to make it happen". It's very much a "moonshot" style of thinking wh
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> the raw materials to the manufacturing facility would cost ~$3000/kg This is also assuming the price per kg to orbit stays stable but Musk has stated he intends to drive the price down much further. He's even given figures f
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That's great that there is still an underground culture around this concept but my gripe is that it's been 5 years and we still haven't built anything usable. I think it's the same gripe the author has but his was that i
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by pharke 6y ago
From 2015, it's depressing that the sea change he felt didn't materialize. This is a very good exposition of what Vannevar Bush was actually describing and how wrongly we've interpreted it. The comparison to junk food for our
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't oppose the research or having more treatment options, I'm sure they would be necessary in many cases. My perception of it is a bit negative though at least when imagined to be an easy to access option for everyone, it&#x27
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it's hard to argue with a buddha I guess
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Psychotherapy is seen as prohibitively expensive because of the way it is currently practiced where the patient must see the therapist on an ongoing basis. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a lot like seeing a personal trai
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by pharke 6y ago
I believe the sentiment most people are expressing when they say you cannot separate the "trip" from the beneficial effects is that they both have the same origin or causative agent. Personally I'm in the "neural anneali
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by pharke 6y ago
I think the answer to that is to slowly increase the dose over a number of sessions. Starting out with microdosing to get used to the body feeling, then getting used to visual disturbances and the altered mental state, and then graduating t
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by pharke 6y ago
I think it might just be a hangover from the view that "you're missing X from what we consider a normal neuro-chemistry so we'll give you a constant dose of Y to make some changes to the level of X" This has always felt
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by pharke 6y ago
Exactly, and it works when those ideas succeed as well (although they are then post facto correct). We forget that there were times when things like inter-racial marriage, atheism, women's suffrage, union organizing, abortion and being
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by pharke 6y ago
I think there are a few strata of types of content that make up YouTubes base. The most viewed layer which seems to be what you're talking about seems to consist of short, outrageous or viral clips that people share all over social med
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by pharke 6y ago
There are a few more categories in there 4) conspiracy theory guests that he wants to get more information out of or find out if they're full of shit 5) subject matter experts on topics that he's interested in, and more recently 6
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by pharke 6y ago
It's strange, there are some interviews where he seems to reach a much better rapport with his guest. These tend to be guests who are also in the computer science and software domain. I think his biggest hinderance is his reliance on h
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by pharke 6y ago
There already exist a plethora of over produced podcasts, the thing is they just aren't as good as the more basic interview centered ones. Podcasts didn't invent anything new, conversation is probably one of the oldest human activ
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by pharke 6y ago
I think this comment more or less epitomizes the lack of understanding of conversational media and is probably the reason why traditional media is failing so badly right now. People can think for themselves, they don't want a self-righ
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by pharke 6y ago
I think the point is that software development is generally a continuous process. I highly doubt they've completely stopped all active development on Fortnight.
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by pharke 6y ago
>In France few workers drop off the "Industrial" economy , they buy a Farm and live of "BI" and their own agriculture and go back to the city to buy commodities ( Gas , Cosmetic etc... ), it's common in Italy and
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by pharke 6y ago
Netflix made it and proved a market for paid streaming services. Google has bungled this again and again and is currently in the middle of pitting its ad revenue against its top content creators which will only wind up killing both. They&#x
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I've always thought that the best solution for disagreement is to simply try everything and then figure out after the fact what works and what doesn't. I don't think there should just be one visual language, we don't jus
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by pharke 6y ago
Not sure it's that hard, what about Σ and 𝚷. Branching conditionals are also easy to represent graphically

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