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This comment reminded me, with a smile, of Scott Alexander's Unsong: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/unsong-available-in-paperba...

> you'd have to decide when to stop binge-watching, because the show would always go on. I would argue that this is already the case. I'd hazard a guess that almost any concept one…

No. Please don't do that. It's called Pick-Up Artistry, and it is toxic. You will benefit more if you try to be a considerate human being, and not treat women like prizes, or prey …

> your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk Citation needed for the above. Maybe their standard of livin…

I haven't done any research, but my set of anecdata (3 Internet providers from Romania, 2 national and one regional) says that providers do have ways of bypassing their router at L…

IMAP is not an email provider, it's just another protocol for reading your mail. It is the successor of POP3, having several key improvements. Somewhat like HTTP2 is to HTTP. If bo…

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining :) Gary's response was obviously tongue-in-cheek, even somewhat flippant. My comment wasn't trying to be ironic, though I now see that it could be …

Okay, I admit my comment was a bit rushed, and I apologize for that. It's not tongue-in-cheek, and I don't feel that I'm rationalizing things (but then, I guess I wouldn't feel it …

No idea who's Gary Johnson. I'm just a guy from Eastern Europe, watching too much Isaac Arthur.

> effectively closed system of Earth. All the plants, algae, and everything with chlorophyll would beg to differ. I really think we cannot consider Earth a closed system, because w…

In the grand scheme, the "tons" (or rather, gigajoules) of energy wasted by the Proof-of-Work are nothing. The Sun radiation that hits Earth every second dwarfs this consumption. A…

> I wish I was happy. IMHO, this is a mistake, if not _the_ mistake. I feel like i've been in your shoes, in a past life. I've come to believe that happiness is like the horizon, o…

Looking at a clock from Earth through a telescope isn't as straightforward as you'd think. The image you see of that clock is actually light (photons) emitted from Earth, which wil…

AFAIK, there is no canonical time in relativity. There is the "local time", which is what your wristwatch shows, and the "time in place X", where X can be Earth, Mars, or some spac…

> a slight push in the direction of the sun That's not how orbital dynamics work; a slight push in any direction won't change the orbit enough for that thing to not be a problem an…

Heads up, the winamp 2.95 download from www.oldversion.com triggers a malware alert from Windows Defender. Another red flag is that the download is via regular HTTP, not HTTPS. So …

I don't think it helped him (Tim of WbW) either. I don't think it was even supposed to help; reading his writings, I never had the feeling he was offering a solution -- rather, he …

Unless it's something that was mined there, like Helium-3 or some other mineral resource that we may find it's cheaper to extract from the moon.

The less-obvious difference between Mars and "anywhere on Earth" is that no amount of environmental (even tectonic) damage done on Earth is going to affect Mars. I'm not arguing th…

Surprised nobody mentioned Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse. While it's a bit on the light side / vacation read (novels aren't very long, the storyline isn't complex), the author is a pro…

Though i wouldn't call it "hard scifi", the Culture series is indeed a classic and i second the recommendation.

Some enterprise-grade server platforms already have this functionality, it's called a "watchdog". Linux supports this since (at least) 2.4. I've been using this with HP ProLiant se…

> Companies that offer this service You can't possibly trust any company with this kind of service. This is something you need to [learn how to] build yourself. The concept of "dea…

Power over who? If you as an elite kill your subjects, who will provide for your needs? Who will work the fields that provide your food, who will repair your cars and house automat…

You can't "turn off" that bunker, it has multiple diesel generators and lots of fuel reserves. It also has clean water reserves and air filtering capabilities, so you can't gas the…