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You may want to check out David Brin's work, he covers the implications of this idea extensively in The Transparent Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society I…

It's actually partly built, still in beta testing (has some bugs) but here's a nice example: https://live.orcasound.net/bouts/bout_031YiYO7OqPbPhcmP3mQeb Requirements are pretty fl…

DAS has really been taking off in the marine bioacoustics world! https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/deep-listening/ https://depts.washington.edu/uwb/revolutionizing-marine-cons... …

I've been working on a citizen science version of this, we have 7 hydrophones deployed that anyone can listen to live: https://live.orcasound.net/ These hydrophones are a bit more …

I recently read the story of the Magic Link: https://commoncog.com/c/cases/general-magic/ > When General Magic finally shipped in 1994 — under the threat of Apple’s Newton — they h…

> There are tons of things that we decide to ignore to go on with our lives Absolutely, we all need to filter the overwhelming amount of information we're faced with. The part that…

Such a notable carpet it even has its own wiki article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_International_Airport...

Link to game: https://mashpoe.github.io/1D-Game/

Orcasound | https://github.com/orcasound/ | https://www.orcasound.net/ We're building open source tools to listen underwater, focused on monitoring endangered orcas (killer whales)…

SUV is a poor term, nowadays it's largely used to refer to crossovers/CUVs, which have unibody car chassis and are really just station wagons with some extra clearance. The nomencl…

I like Obsidian too, but the one thing it really can't do that Notion does well is collaboration. And surprisingly I haven't seen any good plugins that solve this problem (to be fa…

> recreating something like the Sunbeam T-20 I got a vintage Sunbeam toaster recently, and in the process I found this guy who restores vintage Sunbeam toasters for almost $300! ht…

Very true, unfortunately this means that for many modern products it only makes sense to buy the cheapest because then at least you know exactly what you're getting (low quality), …

> You get many of the same environmental benefits (lake area no longer flooded, fish can traverse the base of the dam) Besides the fact that the lake area will still be partially f…

ScienceClic on youtube has some really great videos, the first half of the string theory video [1] does a good job framing the conflict at a high level, string theory being one att…

I've had the same question and I don't have the answer, but what you're asking about might be referred to as the cosmological principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_p…

NASA did get to the moon in under a decade though. I definitely suspect there was a heightened sense of urgency when they were working on that. Sub-orbital to lunar in 10 years is …

My interpretation is that it's very intentionally heavily based off of Fight Club in season 1, but that's just the setup. Now it's what happens after Fight Club. If it were a rip o…