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For what it's worth, the simulation does account (in a crude manner) for the heat causing increased water vapour uptake from the ocean and accelerated plant growth (which in turn i…

Thanks. Perhaps, feel free to send me some more details about it

Heh, I'm not sure how to answer that question. As much of a god as in a god game, I suppose, SimEarth was a big source of inspiration for me. I occasionally get a vague urge to cre…

Yeah, I took a bit of artistic license with the timescales, in reality the systems evolve at such different rates that's it difficult to visualise them all simultaneously. Towards …

Author here. This was definitely something I struggled with when creating this simulation. Reasonably fast simulations of tectonics and erosion have already been done before: some …

My point is that people have been making the same complaint for a very long time, even back when people paid for news printed on sheets of paper. "This kind of thing is frightening…

I'm curious as to when this mythical age of widespread access to "real news" existed. George Orwell dated it to at least 80 years ago ("History stopped in 1936")...

It's not a coincidence: http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/about/research-behind-the-di...

Also Sketch (for ps/pdf rather than svg): http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net/

They kind of did do that with Offline Gmail, though.

> Do normal humans publish "waking hours"? Not typically. It would kind of be great if they did though, it's not necessarily the same for everyone in the same geographic location.

I think Lingotopia was supposed to be something like this (though not VR). https://www.lingoludo.com/lingotopia/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad > A word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of…

dict uses something similar: https://linux.die.net/man/1/dictzip

> There's also an open question as to whether evolution necessarily leads to intelligent species. Especially when, in this context, we're talking about a rather peculiar type of in…

> but it is neat to see it actually work. Your brain does this all the time - the resolution of your eyes is actually quite poor compared to what you perceive (as much as a 25x dif…

... revoked in Australia after the right wing party spent years demonising the "great big new tax." The government had used the income from it to compensate consumers for price inc…

I found Wikipedia to be more informative than this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness_behavior

Uh, Australia is the West.

The fight-or-flight response has a physiological effect on cognition: > we suggest that stress shifts higher cognitive processing in a way that facilitates both engagement with and…

And again in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778958 (128 comments)