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Society advances at the rate of emotional validation of the median voter.

Yes, that's what makes it interesting. Interesting discussions about energetics are best had from a distance.

It's an interesting discussion, because if you assume access to atmospheric oxygen, gasoline is MUCH more energy dense. TNT.....: 4 kJ/gram and 7 MJ/liter Gasoline: 43 kJ/gram and …

He was towed outside the environment. (I think he would laugh at this)

98% of any particular audience at a live event is well behaved. Unfortunately, in an audience of 1,000 people, that means 20 people are not well behaved, and if each of those 20 pe…

This is load bearing guanxi

I've lost my ability to believe that things will feel 'normal' at work. I no longer want to make connection with any coworkers.

Implemented by intention vs implemented by history

Signal and noise. Lots of noise. SO much noise. To be clear, I don't know which part is signal and which part is noise any better than anyone else.

The work product is not the work.

I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools. Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direct…

"The Medium Is The Message" - Marshall McLuhan People aren't nihilist - social media is. People aren't shallow - dating apps are. The world isn't shit - late capital is. But of cou…

Source? Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerogen ? At any rate, this is why I would like to see a better investigation of the subject Better Kerogen wiki: https:/…

Well, there are a lot of planets, and a lot of time. So I would say yes. On average though, I would say no.

Thank you? Solar panels don't convert air to fuel directly, but you could use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

I'd love to see an investigation into fossil fuel accumulation over geological time scales - especially petroleum. From what I've seen, 10,000 barrels per year is a reasonable gues…

Something interesting to me is that YouTube doesn't even capture the majority of the value stream. They allow content creators to use things like Patreon and their own ad reads to …

The fun thing about learning to juggle is that no one can teach you how to juggle, but they can teach you how to teach yourself how to juggle.

If it is a part with a regular maintenance schedule, it should be designed for maintainability. Most maintainability conflicts come from packaging and design for assembly. Efficien…

Yes propaganda and bullshit, but by way of exaggeration and puffery, not lying. I wouldn't expect even a lightly informed mid-wit to think that this murderbot held the ground by it…

And here I assumed they sounded like red-tailed hawks!

Compared to the cosmic spacetime scale, "snaps" fits pretty well for me =)