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So, this question occurred to me after watching these two videos in quick succession and then doing some additional lit search, I apologize if my terminology is imprecise/inaccurat…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_space_obser...

The degree to which science has advanced since the Webb project started can't be understated either. We have a fundamentally better understanding of the technology available and wh…

What if he's not a genius and actually he's just some guy, and his wealth is actually arbitrary. Absolutely chilling thought, eh?

Those are both things you can just hire someone else to do.

The only two things that matter for success in entrepreneurship are who you know and who you decide to trust. Both knowledge and attitude only matter insofar as they influence thos…

We're closer than you'd think. Chlorophyll is only something like 28% efficient at absorbing sunlight, we have experimental solar panels pushing 45%. Collecting wavelengths the pla…

Yes, soil, temperature, and weather control are huge, as is the lack of need for pesticides. Hard to over-state how much controlled environments can improve yields and crop quality…

I'm not sure you actually understand how legitimately scared we all are.

A great way to get rid of outrage culture, btw, would be to get rid of all the systems generating the outrage.

This is not a one-in-a-million event, this is not something that no one could've predicted, many people predicted it and we blithely ignored them. This is the direct consequence of…

> Well, this was a one in a million thing. Nobody could have predicted the world to just shut down for six months, and it's not productive to plan for it. This is the most shocking…

> And taking on debt to do it isn't inherently irresponsible. In fact, it's just a wise financial decision when interest rates are low. New revenue streams aren't required to be ge…

> If eugenics doesn't work then how come every single Border Collie is smarter than every single English Bulldog? This statement is worse than wrong; it's nonsense. Even if you com…

Centralization is great, isn't it?

If the company could not possibly get that $1,000 in any other way, then yes the employee is worth $1,000. Without the willing participation of labor, a company cannot produce. If …

This is all very self-indulgent. People don't get paid what they're worth, they get paid the smallest amount someone can get them to accept.

To be fair, all that is really required for human extinction is for us to start firing our nukes. Geopolitically destabilizing events increase the potential for that considerably. …

Yeah, honestly, that sounds exactly like a Berkeley student to me.

We don't have the luxury of eating the investment on a "dry hole" when this is a global phenomenon. How is the path of highest caution not warranted here? What exactly are we losin…

Even if this is the case, addressing the issues caused by CO2 emissions would reveal that there were other sources of environmental damage at work. I just cannot see any incentive …

How much money do you think is in the "university industry" as opposed to the oil industry? Hint hint: one lives on charitable donations from the other. Seriously, the idea that en…

That's just stepping up tactics: most bots aren't engaged with, you hook someone then you use that opportunity to make yourself appear valid. You only need one person doing this fo…

This is nonsense. The only agenda here is money. Those bots are all twisting discussion towards climate denialism and in support of fossil fuel companies. You can draw a straight l…

Do they need to be so complex? Would it not make as much sense for Intel to be broken up into a large number of individual autonomous entities that then cooperate with each other o…