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I think the revenue number needs a lot more context for exactly this reason

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And I'm writing my comment to understand it better...

The really haunting part is that Europeans often arrived late enough to see the collapse, but not early enough to understand what had collapsed

A landscape does not become "pristine" a decade after millions of people disappear. The human influence would still be everywhere, but it would not necessarily look like European a…

Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms

The important lesson is not that ancient people left no ecological footprint, but that a heavily managed landscape can still remain remarkably biodiverse

Finding hundreds of previously unknown earthworks is a major archaeological result. Extrapolating from them to millions of inhabitants is where I would slow down...

A machine civilization could probably spread into many environments that biology cannot tolerate, but it still has to be invented somewhere first

I do not really believe the wormholes or computronium scenario, but letting my mind run through those possibilities resets my sense of scale

Yeps. The target-selection problem will likely solve itself long before the engineering does

I went through almost exactly the same thought process reading this :)

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If Einstein had known about this, physics might have gone in a very different direction

The fact that the inviting red part is mostly fine but the plant around it is deadly is very on-brand for nature

The amount of childhood survival that comes down to "thankfully I only poked it and didn't eat it" is kind of alarming in retrospect

Nature keeps finding engineering solutions we would never arrive at from first principles

Respect for going back after 10 years, honestly. Cybersec while working full time sounds useful but definitely not light

Geology is a great choice. I sometimes think the best subjects to study are the ones that have nothing to do with your job, but they're also the hardest to justify when your brain …

It feels like the real reason many people go back to school: not some grand career optimization plan, but being bored, stuck and wanting life to move again

Also "petty, small change" is exactly the right scale for a walnut emoji campaign

Representation emojis and object emojis are solving different problems

Emoji work well when they feel like a tiny bit of personality leaking through the text

Emoji themselves aren't the problem. It's more that context changes the meaning completely