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Building an app for winter sports. You can download the map for a ski resort, and use the map to see where individuals in your group are, and suggest meetups (summits) on the map, …

Add in some evolutionary strategies, and you have the recipe for a good sci-fi book: a fungus in Chernobyl rapidly outpaces its competitors due to its ability to absorb radiation. …

My mind immediately translated OKLCH into "Oklachroma".

This! Since our money is being inflated away, hard assets like precious metals, bitcoin, and real estate get bid up because those with cash bleed out purchasing power.

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Assuming our models of the universe are correct, and faster than light travel is impossible. There are very strong reasons to believe this, but perhaps we can cheat by stretching a…

Without having checked the study because I can't open the link on this machine: does it also take recycling of the metals into account? There's also cost in placement (which are ve…

My experiences with tiling window managers is that they struggle in judging a modal screen like a confirmation box or detachable/dockable mini-containers like the interface of cert…

Bitcoin mining is currently at 52% renewable. This is a very significant number, since most other industries aren't nearly that renewable. Are you going to go for a plastic or pape…

Another alternative to using an exchange is to actually spend the bitcoin on a good or service. There's quite a few places where you can use Bitcoin to buy things, like web hosting…

Expected time to first block confirmation is always 10 minutes. If the last block was found 10 minutes ago, then the expected time to the next block is still 10 minutes. It is alwa…

Is this not the same program that Jon Steward was astounded by due to its lack of effectiveness ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KK3SIAT48 )?

You can quite easily flash you Kindle with new firmware that is more forgiving and abled.

As always: there is nothing inherently wrong about either plastics or carbon fuels. The problem is in using it in incorrect situations. Plastics are perfect for transporting an pre…

I loved this dialogue in Monkey Island 2, where this is basically the first NPC you talk to, and the dialogue options get wordier and wordier to the point of overflowing all screen…

Large black holes do have significant accretion disks that do impact their visibility and can and will spew forth vast amounts of radiation. Anything caught in their event horizon …

"internet creationist" make you sound like God either chose you to be a content creator, or ordained the internet into being...

Darktable is an excellent lightroom replacement that does exactly what you need it to do for people that open it once every 5 months.

For the mouse pointer thing: you can shake your pointer left and right rapidly, and it will increase in size. It's quite handy to find the pointer.

I've had a similar experience where Dutch surnames were translated from English to Dutch by Excel for some reason. Since many Dutchman have a surname prefixed with the Dutch word "…

If there is a self-sufficient colony there, and it consists of people from a single nation, it will be targeted. Only a non-political, mixed-heritage colony of scientists and farme…

An antarctic base/colony would not solve a number of issues: 1. A meteor strike can be big enough to obliterate anything on what was once the surface. It can heat the entire globe …

The X account BitNorbert has livetweeted most what was said during the court proceedings. Wright babbled about how external systems that hosted his files had changed the metadata i…

Rightfully so. Wright has a grating personality, with an obnoxious air of superiority. He claims to have coded up bitcoin v0.1 while simultaneously being unable to explain to a jud…

I've recently been looking into the natron theory, which I also like. Instead of chiselling out big granite blocks and moving them long distances, you use a bucket of powder and a …