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Yup, Martin did a fantastic job with his book. Before you would have to go through hundreds of blog post and articles to piece all that distributed systems knowledge together. It's…

Designing Data‑Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

As in AI taking over the world? No, since AlphaGo is optimized to do just one thing.

Completely agree on the point that putting hard constraints like living in space is a good driver for reusability and sustainability - tech that can be put in use on Earth later. B…

> is anyone doing that? the relative market values/investment in tesla (solar/electric sustainability) vs spacex strongly suggests otherwise. where is your straw man? You're bendin…

Yes! I strongly agree and your definition of education if very close to what I had in mind. I also see Buddhist ideas as one of very few hopes of real change in the world. Yet, as …

Agree, yet it's not an either Mars or Earth question. Judging by priorities of corporations (making money, of course) it will certainly be both Mars and Earth.

Absolutely. One helps and complements the other quite nicely. Yet currently it feels the focus is very much shifted towards space travel. Sure, it's much more glamorous to fly thro…

Space exploration and protecting the environment are not mutually exclusive. In fact, like you mentioned, they complement each other nicely. What I'm pointing at is that space expl…

Good point. Still, chances of spreading it will be higher if we don't kill ourselves first or drown in our own garbage - that's where things are going so far sadly. I don't believe…

Good question. Perhaps. However, my point still remains that it will not stop the pollution on Earth - which will remain much cheaper to do.

I don't agree that these tendencies are what makes humanity great. First, you seem to think that humans are somehow special and above other species at who's expense "we became the …

So, polluting 2 worlds instead of one? Nobody will stop exploiting Earth even once new worlds become accessible.

Good to know that Bill Gates shares this viewpoint. It's not that space travel is wrong or doesn't have great potential. It's just that, in my view (and I guess it's also BG's judg…

I'm currently reading a fascinating book on world-class performance, "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waizkind, a chess and martial arts champion. It gives some really great insights …