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In the 90s it was more common to find aspartame and artificial colors in candy (although those haven't disappeared), but less common to find polyglycerol polyricinoleate and simila…

It's really confusing when someone I don't like does something I do like.

For 99.9% of all possible goals it might be interested in accomplishing, more resources are better than less. If it has any interest in spreading all over the galaxy, that same int…

Is that the most effective backup plan that it could come up with? Because it would be pretty amazing if its thoroughly-considered backup strategy exactly aligned with our wishful …

I expect it would take them all, but Earth is by far the easiest for it to start with. I don't see why it would leave anything for us unless we'd successfully instilled it with an …

I think he just cuts a lot of takes together. It's his style.

Also speaking of trains, I can't zoom out and look at intercity train lines. I can only see highways. If I'm in Japan without a car, planning a sightseeing trip and wondering where…

I don't think any opinions should be criminal, but some deserve downvotes.

Saying the same thing for decades, when things progress over those decades along the general trend line that you were worried it would, is decent evidence of a prescient prediction…

Believe it or not, the book makes a much stronger argument than you do.

So are they right or wrong about the sigmoids?

> Japan would then have a whole bunch of non-interest-bearing US dollars They would not be holding the dollars long enough for the interest to matter. Those would instantly be trad…

Curious where you went! Europe? Japan? Singapore? I'm on a similar boat. There are a few areas in the US and Canada that aren't car dependent, but not many.

As someone who lacks a basic education in economics, what part of basic economics prohibits this nice-sounding outcome? It seems like what I'd expect from a combination of UBI and …

There is a class of problems where "when things get really bad" is also the point when it's too late to implement a solution. Driving off a cliff, for example. What would you do if…

Very interesting article. As seems to be the pattern with Studio Ghibli they found someone uniquely talented, who ascended to the top of their craft over the course of their career…

This is an absurd claim.

You could consider sitting in an exit row. The seats in front of that row are typically prohibited from reclining in order not to block the exit. Or you can sit behind a bulkhead.

At least it's not {{Cite bridge graffiti}} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quaternions

It's a pretty good idea, actually. But I wish they would do the easy response to rising summer temperatures first, by planting more shade trees.

There's a lot of great explanations here, but none that quite put it the way I'd think of it. If we had primary color wavelengths that could stimulate each cone independently, then…

I've heard of the radium girls a hundred times, but this is the first I've heard of the munitionettes.

If they really wanted to have an impact on data center construction, they'd sneakily spill some silicone oil in semiconductor fab cleanrooms.