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In the long term, they're pretty much the most important missions possible - even absent disasters, Earth only has so many resources, so designing and testing the technology for ex…

> You can't opt out of competition any more than you can opt out of gravity. Perhaps not as an individual, but I wonder about as a society - I don't know how we would get to this p…

> "Water is blue because it mirrors the sky." Seeing that people believe this was quite unexpected, at first - it's such an obvious phenomenon looking down into any slightly deep b…

Personally, I much prefer the manual ones, where I can trivially tweak the settings without having to think about it or look away from the road. But that's in part because I usuall…

This demonstrates the amazing savings of crowdsourcing appeals. It only took 2-3 hours for Apple to assess the PR cost of banning the app and decide it's not worth the income incre…

Throw enough nukes around and Europa might start to look a pleasant alternative.

And that's in the best case . In reality, consumers don't get anywhere near a local maximum, as they are neither well-informed nor entirely rational.

Well, IIRC no BD-10 ever actually went supersonic.

Or the rest of Y2020, for that matter.

You can do some of that with uBO (see "hard" blocking mode), but my understanding is that uMatrix gives you more granular control. I need to learn more about using uMatrix to confi…

`datetime.fromisoformat()`, as of 3.7 :D Though `dateutil` is still recommended for most cases.

You can also disable JS via uBlock Origin by default, and enable it on a site-by-site basis.

IIRC you can mitigate this by lowering network.http.redirection-limit

$5m by 1985, with another $3.5m earmarked [1]. Accounting generously for inflation, that's $25m today [2]. It would be interesting to know what the price would look like if they tr…

It's very much not an ideal solution, but uBlock Origin lets you block large media elements (and reenable them temporarily or on a site-by-site basis), which might help.

Less than you would expect for Powell's, since they have an excellent online store for their books.

It's not really hyperbolic - quote from the article: > "We still don't know," he says. "I'm still kind of baffled." Science doesn't yet know which motive mechanism these use (they …

Disable Javascript and the modal goes away. As does most tracking and other irritations. I strongly recommend doing so for most news sites.

Seems to be okay on Firefox on my S5 (though it takes a minute to load), in case you want to view it.

I'll have to try that out, somehow I'd not considered that.

Disabling Javascript by default avoids most of this, though it breaks some sites.

> Do you really want to pay substantially more for heating/cool, gas, and almost every good? Until carbon taxes become ubiquitous, this seems like the only viable option to combat …

Solar watt-hours are not converted to BTUs at a rate > 1, however, the device effectively uses each watt-hour multiple times, as some of the energy is recovered after each cycle. N…