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Diaspora by Greg Egan is a good book related to some of the themes I see in the comments, such as the whether an advanced civilization would even want to expand.

I also switched to controld after a period of unreliability from from NextDNS. NextDNS is a little easier and a little faster, and perhaps better for auditing a network, but contro…

Descent holds a special place for me, as it was the first game I ever saw played on a PC (I watched my dad play when I was five, ~30 years ago). I recently was able to reminisce by…

Yes, from the original creators of Descent: https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/

I'd recommend "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt as some pre-work. It's about the psychological foundations of morality and ethics which factor into the formation of religions …

> the uniform ultimate backdrop we have when looking in any direction Is the CMB exactly uniform in every direction? Or is this early light slightly more redshifted when we look up…

I've driven past Oso many times in the last few years—it's a solemn drive. It's also a tiny reminder of the planet's ability to shrug its shoulders and wipe out civilizations.

We recently had a maddening experience with Airbnb. We booked a long-term rental (~3 months) while our home got worked on, costing $10k+ USD (so Airbnb made a couple thousand bucks…

Question for the crowd: I read HN often but rarely comment, so I'm curious what I did wrong in my comment to merit the downvotes. I was initially excited to see someone asking a qu…

I mostly found the book enlightening because it was a calm, rational voice amidst the constant stream of the-world-is-ending-by-fire/water/drought/heat/cold news that my tech bubbl…

Annual GDP of a country != the current sum total net worth of its population. Deleting the poorest half of the US population would destroy the annual GDP, which is built on the lab…

An enlightening book I read on this topic is "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" by Bjorn Lomborg. The book expl…

I'm glad I saw this, it looks like an excellent resource. However, I can't help but feel a bit of despair while looking at it. There is so much stuff to do / know about, that it's …

Looks like the future of the Internet as imagined by Vernor Vinge's book "Rainbows End" (set in 2025, written in 2006) just got a lot closer.

I recently finished The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest, which explore the concept of aliens using their super advanced technology to mess with the results of Earth's partic…

Couldn't agree more.

Can y'all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well for you during the WFH/pandemic period? My folks miss the natural in-person interactions that occur in the office, an…

Our app went from 3.5 MB to 2.3 MB when we switched to Ivy. Our app is ~73k lines of code (not sure what "size" that makes it) and uses Angular Material heavily. It's a corp app th…

Noise cancelling headphones, my most valuable earthly possession (I have 3 small children).

I'm interested to know how that's working out for folks.

Have you watched https://www.youtube.com/c/Rizpol ?

I've been listening to Volbeat almost non-stop since I first heard them a few weeks ago.

I get sleep paralysis all the time, and have experienced everything described in this thread. One thing for me though is that as the paralysis starts to wane, I get a feeling of eu…