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Okay, so updated: > Perhaps nuclear advocates haven't considered [that if we can slow down climate change then we'll have to make some steady societal changes over the next few tho…

You're anti-old-nuclear. It's like being anti-old-aeroplanes, which isn't an interesting position. The article is about depoyment of new plants. You've replied to a bunch of differ…

> Earth's cyclical climate will kill us anyway Why? The reason climate change is dangerous is not because it'll get too hot or cold for us, but because the temperature is changing …

It's worse than that though, because, for example, nuclear power is significantly safer than other technologies currently in use[1][2], and as another example, immigrants (includin…

You're getting downvoted, but I understand the sentiment. It's amazing to me that people talk about nuclear power as if it's something that we'd ideally be able to avoid outright. …

I'm not experienced on this stuff either, but it seems like Serverless (the org/framework) is designed for architecting whole sites/apps, whereas faast.js is focussed on hhandling …

"Everything" isn't offensive, no. But some things are, to some people, and sometimes for good reasons. We should try to be a bit more careful in our talking and thinking, I think.

I'm interested in this too. The dev would probably have a good answer since they previously made a pure JS sand game too: https://github.com/MaxBittker/dust

I'm not so sure about that. Certain species pf crows and parrots have long been understood (even by non-scientists) to have general/abstract reasoning abilities. And people who act…

I'm no historian, but my best guess it that it's just correlation and that the main underlying cause of "civility" is wealth. When your citizens are struggling to survive, they (at…

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He's now apparently inspiring pro-segregation arguments in Saudi Arabia: https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/10053027139854008... His followers have absorbed some pretty ter…

I had to do a double-take. Satoshi and Peterson in the same sentence? One is famous for kickstarting decentralised currencies/markets/etc., and the other is famous for... Lobsters?…

https://i.imgur.com/EksA6Rw.png Woo! +1 to the comment about larger levels. Though I'm only getting about 20fps on my laptop as is. Multi-core? GPU? Awesome little game, in any cas…

I'd definitely lean towards agreeing with you there. And on top of that, I live on the west coast of Australia, and there are people living fine from Albany (at the bottom) to Broo…

> but one student reports that she learned much more from traditional classes. You can't argue with that. She got more from a 4 year computer science education than the 6 week boot…