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Have you taken a look at MITs SPARC reactor? I’m always skeptical of comments that only reference ITER, since it’s very old news at this point, and there have been a plethora of in…

Have you heard of MITs SPARC reactor? It’s way more interesting than ITER. It is 3x smaller, with Q greater than 10 (compared to ITERs ~10). It’s also slated to be finished -before…

They are trying to point out that women also code instead of going with the colloquial understanding that it would be ten people’s jobs.

As someone who lived next to a busy road for about 10 years, I’ve always wondered why people do this, so thanks for the perspective. The apartment was about 10 feet away, with no i…

It’s funny too, since some of those kids may eventually realize that they were brought here without their consent, and that they don’t actually like working and paying bills. You, …

Some types of tornado proof homes are not the big square concrete type, like shown in the sibling comment article, but dome homes made out of concrete. The obvious issues are that …

This sounds like you might be able to gain something from the “Do chairs exist?” video by vsauce.[1] Basically, he goes through the different philosophical reasonings of the past a…

Cars already use larger slower lithography sizes, which are more resilient to temperature changes, but also can be lower margin profit, since they take up more space on a standard …

I had those same problems until I started using the Factorio calculator[1]. It took some time for it to be developed, and I only just found out about it earlier this year. So I und…

To reference the top comment right now… I’d imagine if you are looking at the metric at all, you’ve already lost. This, coming from someone who’s mother was walking 10-20k steps pe…

Someone above mentioned: git commit --amend --allow-empty

This is absolutely fantastic work. I’ve been tinkering with Unity’s hex grid trying to automate some top down level building under this alternate grid system. It has some interesti…

Check your original comment. You did not qualify that only “profound secular beliefs” are religious in nature. Rather, you speak in general saying “secular beliefs are religious.” …

I agree with the parent, you’re argument almost appears disingenuous to the point of looking like a troll or bait. This perspective is substituting any belief with a religious beli…

Maybe this is a hot take, but maybe if a job doesn’t make a living wage, then it’s a job that shouldn’t even be offered? If someone can’t make it on a cashier job then the public s…

Imagine Apple wanting their cut from Google, because I used the chrome app to buy something off of Amazon.

I discovered the technique he’s talking about on my own back in maybe 2016. He has some extra fluffy language around it that makes it seem more than it is. It’s really just falling…

There was a post on here a few weeks ago that discussed code as the translation between the desire for a particular behavior from the person coding, and the machine instruction tha…

Aren't you falling into the same trap that the post explains? That there are nuances around when types are useful and not useful? An indie game developer might spend a lot of time …

The other interpretation of this thought experiment (and maybe what you alluded to) is the idea that humans, and all living things with a nervous system, are really just "meat comp…

You're right, it's not a very good argument. It's just like someone saying that not having children is selfish. Both aren't very good arguments. It would be better to use some othe…

I'm still quite a fairly active user on reddit going on a decade now. If they started implementing this on a wide scale then I'd like to think I'd stop using it completely. I've go…

"It's the product not the people" Sorry, but social networks are made of people, without the people you don't have a product. He's trying to say that because important people creat…

There is a Princeton study that shows that the laws passed at the federal level have a 0% correlation to the public opinion unless they've donated at least $10k to a campaign. This…