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Very American mindset to assume the only problem one could have with an entire population owning guns is mass shootings. Regular old shootings outway mass shooting deaths by a long way.

I find the amount that this worldview extends in your country to lead to very dire consequences. For example, the personal freedom to own guns. There are tradeoffs in both systems.

We're building ourselves out of a job in real time.

I completely disagree. The article can be viewed as analysing the effects of globalisation, the growing homogeneity of spaces that starts at AirBnB and cafes and spreads. Something is lost if you visit a new country and the layout is exactly the same as where you live. If I visit Hong Kong and I see a London tube type rail map, I'm going to be disappointed. There is a tradeoff in not immediately knowing how to use the trains or immediately knowing how the postcode is layed out - but the gain is individuality. I lean towards keeping the individuality and not sucking out every drop of exploration into the unknown. Isn't that a big part of travelling?

God, I'd donate away that lot too...

They mention in the article that the passengers oxygen would already have run out - apparently they would have all been dead or unconscious.

Remnote is my go to note taking app as a current undergrad.

Cool graphics, I do not believe this will ever be built.

This is slightly parasitic behaviour, but it is certainly a cool project.

Thanks for the great links! The articles a bit hammy, but the paper is fantastic - papers in evolutionary training always make evolution in biology more understandable (in my own mind anyway).

Experiencing something repeatedly and feeling the need to keep doing it sounds an awful lot like a habit. I think the idea that you've developed some absolute control through consciousness is the final stage of a habit. You go from forcing yourself to go to running practise weekly, to internalising that you are a runner and nothing could stop you from going.