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Worker cooperatives are fully compatible with capitalism. Only mentioning it because sometimes this idea gets unfairly maligned due to some mistaken association with socialism or e…

to be fair, in the pharoahs quest for immortality after death, if they could have put their pyramid burial tombs in space to avoid decay/ruin for longer they would have. I wouldn't…

It's not about the "Access to resources. A sense of adventure. Learning." Since you are right. All of these things are available on Earth for far cheaper, with better ROI and with …

> By soul I mean "the part of you that is an observer" This is a nice notion, but it's not how the existing literature (going back very long) generally uses the term "soul." Conven…

Also that the "spiritual world" (i.e. religion) in America has been colonized by money, consumption and commodities as well, which has drained all the spirituality from it. Religio…

The Slate truck might be the only one to have less digital tracking just due to how they are skipping so many electronic bells and whistles to keep costs in the $20k range.

Though demand for heating should be falling simultaneously, no? I wonder what the net CO2 tradeoff is there. At least historically with burning fuels to create heat, that likely co…

WhatsApp, famously launched and served millions of users with a small team using Elixir. Seems to me that speaks to the language's production capability, or enterprise capability, …

The term for the parent comment's concept is anti-fragile

The over simplification here is that not all plants are equal and not all soils and/or climes can support all plants. So for soils or climes that can only really grow "weeds" that …

Interesting, I was thinking of them for another use as well: dumping surplus photovoltaic/wind collected energy into space as a thermostat of sorts to help control global average t…

If it's meant to transfer momentum to a lightsail, then there is no requirement that the power must be delivered to a single point on the electrical grid. Several of these lasers i…

It's not the fact that there is food stuck in your teeth that causes cavities, it's what pH results from the bacteria metabolizing that food. Bacteria breaking down carbs produces …

Echoing most of the comments here: Love your product! This feedback in the article isn't even a setback, just a learning opportunity that Supabase users know will only make it bett…

The term ballooning is so qualitative and subjective that it is essentially a Barnum statement. How would you determine if the number for the debt is too high? And why? And how wou…

Probably going to sound crazy, but we could start running water pipes in front of the walls and under the ceilings and mounting the LED's directly on the pipes for cooling. Creativ…

> Does the government require banks to buy long-term treasuries? Yes, there are a number of banks that have "Primary Dealer" [1] status which confers to them some benefits, but als…

At large timescales, the migrations most likely occurred in a way that followed Fick's diffusion patterns [1]. Some human groups inevitably even migrated backwards into Russia at t…

Funny, seeing with two eyes is needed for depth perception. Pretty sure that was a really subtle joke from the user above you :)

Why is nobody questioning the analysts methods and models? Are they using DSGE economics models? I'm sure there's plenty of angles of criticism for their tools if one digs a bit.

1. Interest on reserves increases the rate of growth of commercial bank reserve balances held at the Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IORB 2. How Do Primary Dealers Make Mon…

Orienteering implies there's already a cartographer who made a map for you.

PASETO tokens are superior to JWT in just about every important way, it's weird how they are so obscure and have not caught on. [1] https://paseto.io/

I've always suspected that mosquito venom does something along these lines, where the venom hijacks or overwhelms some pain nerves and makes them emit pleasure sensations instead s…

did a large collision during the era of the dinosaurs also form Saturn's rings then? If so what residual evidence of that collision do we know about?