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Well yeah, it's big numbers! These sims (at least the ones I did) can never be compared to earth, because they make assumptions that start from maybe billions of years of simulated…

Really interesting topic. For about 5 years, I spent much of my hobby time writing a-life sims and messing with them. I wanted an "aquarium" that looked interesting that I could ha…

I get convergent evolution, but among large (let's say 10g+) organisms, I'm not aware of convergent evolution resulting in compatible species (with fertile offsping) that would not…

Haha yes please! I thought you were talking about literal taxonomic trees.

Sorry, as stated above I misunderstood "There is no such thing as a tree." to mean that OP though taxonomic trees were fundamentally broken in some way, I misunderstood OP! That sa…

Yeah I definitely did not get the reference, I thought OP literally meant that taxonomic trees in general are useless and/or don't exist!

I definitely understand that the majority of taxonomies are problematic for the reasons you cited. When OP said "no such thing as a tree", I thought OP meant a taxonomic tree, not …

> All taxonomies are broken, full stop. Your categories are gonna be completely wrong and everybody’s going to argue over every single thing. There is no such thing as a tree. Is t…

Why not both? The modern dismantling of antitrust regulation and enforcement is a significant driver of both. It's gotten way worse now than ever, to the point where private equity…

As a middle-aged long-time smoker who quit smoking immediately upon buying a vape several years ago, and having quite a number of friends who did the same thing, I'll point out a n…

This is a game I made so my friends and I could do something over Zoom on Saturday nights during the lockdown. It's best with Discord or Zoom for chat, but it can also be played so…

This is a really cool idea, love it. Could be done with lots of other things - books, snack food, restaurant gift certificates!

For my movie recommender project, I wanted to support Letterboxd but they didn't respond to any of my emails (they have a closed API). So for now I only support Trakt. If anyone kn…

Awesome! I did a similar thing as my quarantine side project! It's https://couchmoney.tv Quite a few years ago, I wrote a boardgame recommendation engine for reddit (/r/boardgamere…