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Haha, I just heard JG Ballard referenced in a recent podcast episode [1]. My first thought was if he was related to Geoffrey Ballard [2]. [1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/epi…

I’m reading and so far enjoying “A Brief History of Timekeeping” by Chad Orzel. Not to discount Harrison’s achievements, but there are other interesting navigational approaches - u…

Even better, 4D Golf was released a couple weeks ago [1] [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147950/4D_Golf/

Depends on the definition of efficiency since a lot of it comes down to who or what is deciding to > pass the savings back to the parts of society doing more interesting things But…

Here's a super neat Strange Loop talk about implementing and animating SICM: https://youtu.be/Jv2JgzAl5yU?si=_dHboDt-MKXon2-c

And I don't think American citizens living in other countries are protected by the second amendment...

I think the message is useful for people who receive or want to give recommendations. The reason I often pick up something is that it was rated highly on some online review, or tha…

His arguments definitely don't have the same academic rigor as someone in their own field, but I felt like everything was pretty defensible. Ox-drawn plows are at least 4000 years …

I wonder if that's how we got the pronunciation for Chevrolet as well (: . In Korean it's 현대. Theㅕmakes a yuh sound with a short y, and projecting one writing system onto another c…

I don't know if it would have been that high, but the whole (initial) idea of "flatten the curve" was exactly that. Saturated systems stop working as expected. When hospitals reach…

Anxiety, sure, but it's not a new trend and I don't think we're any more stupid than we were before. https://xkcd.com/1227/

I would think the weight would play a much greater role than the material. The Sea Witch would have to be pretty light, since a witch weighs the same as a duck.

Definitely. I'd like to better understand the extent to which environment is a factor. The author mentions that too: > Give a group of passionate people complete ownership over des…

For context, Tyler Cowen, the person quoted, would like to be an "information trillionaire". He consumes a lot of information and gives good interviews with people who specialize i…

It seems that tunesmith has stumbled upon the paradox paradox.

Yep, for foreign policy as well [1]. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/henry-kissinger-is-worried-abou...

Concrete is made up of both cement (the CONtinuous part) and aggregate/stone (the disCRETE part), so cement vs concrete is kind of like broth vs soup, and concrete and stone like s…

My theory is that he misinterpreted https://xkcd.com/1138/

For the record, the ones that I noticed a few weeks ago on the English site were "human hair wigs" and "dildo". Could be that they don't blacklist at all, or that they have a fun t…

Guess that makes you a visionary too

Nice, I hadn't heard of that [1]! I'm pretty indifferent towards owning a Blockchained micro-share of a publicly listed company, but I'd be very interested if reddit were to end up…

I think they do mean inventory, just not sitting around in a forgotten storage room. To try other computer analogies, it might be increasing the queue size or using a capacitor.

But the trade-offs are already affected by policy. Do people want oil policies that make driving cheap? Do people want subsidized corn leading to cheap sugary foods? It's worth que…