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by pharke 5y ago
It is but they get cleared out of the equation by f sub c, the fraction of intelligent life that invents high technology capable of interstellar radio transmission.
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by pharke 5y ago
I've never understood the Von Neumann probe conjecture. Why would anyone design a probe that uses all of the available resources within a system to produce new probes that are sent to the N nearest systems? Surely it's more effici
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by pharke 5y ago
It's a historic railroad bridge that was originally designed to allow the passage of ships. Both its original use and the accommodation afforded by its design show deference to the city's industrial economy. I'd bet 10:1 that
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by pharke 5y ago
I thought the 'commotion' was due to them wanting to demolish it originally.
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by pharke 5y ago
Others have already commented in a similar manner but I think this is worth driving home since the argument you provide is so typical when it comes to these discussions. The money spent on the yacht has improved society. The evidence of suc
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by pharke 5y ago
It's being framed in terms of nuclear power because the original arguments that led to this situation were also framed in that context. The anti-nuke movement of the last century directly resulted in this situation by preventing the co
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by pharke 5y ago
Available land is not the limiting factor on new cities or communes. Look at the chart in the article and compare the amount of land used for urban development. Starting a new city or commune is the same as starting a new social media platf
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by pharke 5y ago
Isn't the simple solution to just not engage with comments on social media? Honestly, that's where the problem is aka trolls and partisan bots. Have face to face conversations between scientists and skilled interviewers, the scien
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by pharke 5y ago
The goal is to harvest heat that is already being wasted by escaping to the environment. They aren't putting an additional load on the system unless they are foregoing insulating the pipes but there are a lot of cases where pipes are n
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by pharke 5y ago
They announced that they're dropping that requirement.
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by pharke 5y ago
Which is why the Quest 2 and Horizons Workrooms can track supported keyboards[0] and the next gen headsets will have full color passthrough. These problems are being recognized and solved as we speak. [0] https://support.oculus.c
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by pharke 5y ago
This is already possible with the Logitec K830 and the Apple Magic Keyboard https://uploadvr.com/best-wireless-bluetooth-keyboards-for-m...
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by pharke 5y ago
> Creating content for these empty rooms is actually a problem as there are no open standards, the tools are complicated, there are lots of hurdles, and a lot of gate keepers with dollar signs in their eyes I have to disagree, most 3D mo
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by pharke 5y ago
Anecdotal, but a lot of people seem to be able to get over their VR motion sickness. I personally did by just playing the janky Rocket Mode in Richie's Plank Experience a lot. Same goes for heights in VR, at first it's terrifying
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by pharke 5y ago
Come join the other introvert techies on Helios[0][1] Fair warning, it's still under development and the meetups generally operate on a schedule but that also means it isn't overrun with annoying first time Quest owners. The found
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by pharke 5y ago
Technically, there are methods that would allow you to trace money all the way through the economy.
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by pharke 5y ago
I don't feel like that addresses the part of the comment I was speaking to: > "hey, this is going directly into fixing the roads, and your property tax will only go up $8 per month to afford it, otherwise your roads will stay s
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by pharke 5y ago
It would be helpful if you could just go to a website, enter in a code from your property tax bill and see exactly how every dollar of the taxes you paid were used. This is one of the valid uses of a public ledger I can think of. In my opin
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by pharke 5y ago
> the life of such pig would not even begin, which is a good thing The comment I was responding to said nothing about increasing the quality of life of any living beings. It only asserted that non-existence is a good thing. I made the as
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by pharke 5y ago
In which case it becomes an optimization problem where you have to find the optimal number of living beings to exterminate in order to provide the maximal amount of pleasure for those remaining. Not any better.
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by pharke 5y ago
It most certainly would matter for hunter gatherers. They hunt and they would be hunting the same prey as the dogs. They are feeding the dogs by giving up some of their potential prey as food whether thats by giving it to the dogs after t
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by pharke 5y ago
There's a lot of assumptions going on here. Domesticated pigs can live up to 23 years. We'd also need to know if heart failure is a leading cause of death in pigs, if it's not then the heart could be viable long past that age
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by pharke 5y ago
This line of argument also supports the extermination of all living beings because it prevents all future suffering. Think about that before you use it.
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by pharke 5y ago
Only if they're made from fabric. Leather gloves would certainly be hand shoes.
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by pharke 5y ago
Wait, you have outdoor socks to go with the outdoor shoes? What purpose does it serve to change your socks before going outside?
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by pharke 5y ago
We've been here before, set that graph to show the last 15 years. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/879968
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by pharke 5y ago
That last part is key, authoritarian countries operate in the same way a criminal or mafia organization does. Any significant trade will have money siphoned out of it through corruption or just outright theft. It doesn't matter who you
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by pharke 5y ago
Missed it, thanks. I still take issue with the design. I think over 1000 years the risk is much higher than they imagine.
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by pharke 5y ago
They forgot the most important part about making a structure last 1000 years: it cannot be made of materials that people would conceivably want to repurpose in times of duress or those materials should be in such a form that it is extreme
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by pharke 5y ago
What's worse, inciting widespread discontent with a government that has illegally seized power potentially leading to a violent overthrow of said government or continuing to deal with that government in perpetuity while they abuse thei

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