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Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind just turned 15 years old. There's still an active mod community for it.

> Does anyone have ideas on how a mid-career software developer can switch gears into the clean energy/climate change industry, to do something to help It's easy. - Stop flying. - …

Rising sea levels are a concern in the long-term, but what I'm most worried about in my lifetime is the collapse of the industrial food system due to rapid warming. Basically if th…

The idea that building high-income housing makes rents rise is pretty obviously bunk, but the idea that building high-income housing "helps affordability" is not as clear cut. Is i…

> how we've become accustomed to the quality and price of software that's been heavily subsidized by massive VC investments. See: Uber

I'm shocked - shocked! - to find that gambling is going on here!

But why are we talking about this in terms of "mysteries"? We'll always be able to reduce things down to a level where we don't know how it works. Right now, sure, we don't know wh…

Perhaps I'm just not smart enough to understand what the hell this article is driving at. But I'm pretty confident in my personal understanding of "consciousness": it's a word that…

It's not that consciousness "isn't real" in the sense that flying unicorns aren't real - it's that "consciousness" is just a word that humans made to describe a phenomenon, just li…

> If consciousness is just matter, why isn't yours accessible to me. Because my matter and your matter aren't in close enough physical proximity or the appropriate configuration to…

> What does a website platform need $850 million more for? Like others have commented, at least some of this money will be used to pay off initial investors with a nice profit. It'…

But this whole game is inherently one where some governments will lose. If countries are free to set their own corporate tax rates, you'll get some with high rates and some with lo…

Are you familiar with a country called the United States? I hear they've done pretty well with immigrants from vastly different cultural backgrounds, many of whom don't speak the l…

Also ponzi schemes.

But it's important to point out that 1) That $1.1 billion was for two facilities 2) LIGO underwent a huge upgrade over the last decade, making the instruments tremendously more sen…

I think there might be state-based chapters? My friends here are actually part of "Code for Maine."

The funny thing was, in interview #2 I did mention that that they were asking me all the same questions, once it became clear that that was happening. The interviewer was like, "Oh…

Thanks for your thoughts, I think you have a decent point there. My experience does include running front-end at the startup I worked at, and even being part of the three-person gr…

I've actually started working with some Code for America folks here in my community - independently of CfA - on some city open data projects. They're awesome. :-)

My experience has all been with teams and companies The startup I worked on had 12 people at its height (before it was bought by a large tech company), and I was the first employee…

For what it's worth, I applied to work with 18F late last year. I'm a web developer with a wide array of skills - front-end, back-end, and even UI/UX design, product design, and so…

...displaying a great example of why the free market is not the best way to handle healthcare and medical research. The availability of treatment has everything to do with profit, …

Presumably though, employees also got paid a very, very healthy salary while working there too, so it's far from a complete loss...

> and all the investors are chumps who believe whatever management puts in the big font at the top of the press release Chumps, no. Humans, yes.