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around here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

Yeah, thanks for this run of the mill communist bullshit that doesn't have anything to do with what I said. "Oh yeah, pay for work is EXPLOITATION guys, guys, guys, the only ETHICA…

You are entitled to your view but I think it is a little unempathetic to be unable or unwilling to put yourself in the shoes of entrepreneurs when the topic is how attractive a pla…

You might enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3W2v7LN-88 I, Pencil by Leonard E Read

There was no conceivable version of a road system where that behavior would ever be okay. However, it's not only conceivable but, apparently standard practice in systems programmin…

What do they (we?) have to say that you'll believe that we just don't like the puzzle for the non-intelligence related reason we stated?

It's not clear at all and you can read comments here to find that out. I don't know the game designer especially but what I actually think is that the system (ie org+people) that p…

you have to connect the fork with the goal and then use the curves to connect the rest. https://io.google/2024/puzzle/share/0b110/

No, I don't think it wouldn't seem like that to any reasonable person. What makes you say otherwise?

One unstated rule is that you have to use all pieces. Number three can already be solved with two pieces and that also doesn't count. I strongly dislike this kind of puzzle.

The presentation is nice but the content of the puzzle put me off. I think if you suggest a physical puzzle by presenting it as a rolling ball then you should honor correct physica…

It makes sense that the engines would be heavy and they are heavy on the launch vehicle. I am not sure how the ratios come out there but I'd still expect the fuel to, by far, take …

I could easily be wrong and I am very open to learning as what I wrote is just my intuition developed from playing KSP. The Apollo's "lunar module descent engine" weighs a mere 180…

Some "insights" from this mediocre KSP player: a) for launch you want your rocket to be slender and tall. For a stable landing you want your vehicle to be broad and flat. b) The en…

I don't understand the word "we" in your comment. Obviously, some specific people do the actual work of caring for disabled people. Most people don't do that work. The point of "Zi…

This was a real test. They have done this 192 times. It failed two times. The last two times. So it's not that this is inherently impossible, it's just that they can't do it anymor…

well it's very easy for them to say that, right? Because they'll never have to prove this in detail to anyone that could hold them accountable because SECRETS and COMPLICATED TECHN…

I don't understand your motivation to type this many words in order to make, what amounts to, generic excuses (1) for people that take a huge chunk of your paycheck in order to bal…

> The Ministry of Defence said the "nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective". The test that we did to show that it would work, didn't work but that doesn't mean that i…

I am erring on the side of durability because I'm not really into new gimmicks but it's a daunting proposition to buy the "good stuff". A low stakes example is my Miele dishwasher …

> proto-humancentric thinking I think that it's actually your perspective, which I think is essentially a sci-fi perspective, is deeply human biased. You think space is cool becaus…

So the starting point of this conversation is the Fermi paradox. Your line of reasoning has a very long line of necessary assumption. I only show that how they might not be warrant…

> See how fast technology is developing, and especially the decreases in the cost of rocket launches. The past century of rapid progress is anomalous in human history. We made do w…

If the universe is Einsteinian, I don't think "colonizing" the stars is a thing that makes sense. We might do it once because we are sentimental like that but maybe that's owed to …

> But you still have to explain the observation that the night sky is empty of signs of life. It's really not that hard to explain. The last time I looked into this it was the case…