S_Daedalus

I think that locked doors and sealed envelopes are symbolic, and have been for far longer than we've been alive.

I think it's also just useful to learn for the way it makes you stop and examine the world around you, your own decisions, in a new and more analytical light. Besides, if you're into physics, it's the only way; you can't visualize a 10-sphere.

We got his supposed "mean spirit" before a single damned point relating to the headline has come up... not a good sign I agree.

I thought I was unable to learn math, until I learned it outside of a school. One book like Prime Obsession was worth more to me than every moment of high school math. It's unbelievable to me that anyone can learn something devoid of context. I think there's a similar problem in how second languages are taught in schools as well.

There is a strange, hardcore of people who love No Man's Sky. I don't mean people who like it, I mean people who (literally) brag about buying multiple copies and playing hundreds of hours. Those people do not like the reception the game has gotten, and have failed to integrate the reasons for that reception well with their own extreme enjoyment.

I don't think that opening with an insult is in the spirit of what this site is about, do you?

Why would embracing one destroy the other? I think a combination of gestural interface, subvocalization voice recognition, and AR could be the big winner in our lifetimes. The text won't be bound to a screen, you don't give anything up, you just gain.

When you need to get into serious writing or bulk data entry, maybe it would be a keyboard.

I think it just means you have a bit of empathy, and awareness of how other people might view you. Many, if not most people seem to lack those qualities in general, never mind in relation to their phones.

On the topic, something which reads your subvocalizations is really needed, and could even increase the speed!

Unfortunately New York isn't the only place pricing people out of a home.

By the way, About 2% of Americans live in New York City alone. At least 1% are not having a great time with rent that outstrips their potential earnings.

I feel like the author of this piece doesn't have a grip on the reality of 90% of Americans, or more.

I can't imagine charging people $60 for a game that wasn't finished, that goes just as much for the makers of NMS as any other game.

As for beauty, very much eye of the beholder I guess.

While true, that isn't even tangentially related to what's happening in this case.

Hey now, that isn't nice. This is much better than that turkey.

This is true for so many issues, including water usage, greenhouse gasses, and broader forms of pollution.

If they're legalized, then "Pirate" is not the word for it. Maybe "Privateer", if you feel the need to aim for pathos rather than logos.

There are less painful and ridiculous ways to kill yourself.

Being unaware of a risk, isn't bravery, but there's a word for it.

That's a fantasy which we are about to run headlong into, as a species, in part thanks to people who won't face the grim reality and be responsible. This, "Tech will save us!" attitude among the a vast number of people who remain utterly ignorant of the reality of how that might happen, is literally going to kill us all if we're not careful.

At the very least, it seems like an interesting approach, but I can't be the only person thinking of the Dilbert comic strip at this moment.

Even worse, it's just written off as a cost of doing business.

Are you really claiming that an $80M settlement is a "screwing" for Monsanto? I'd call it a "Blip".

I'm curious what about that you think was snark, or if you're just offended by the phrase.

Are you really claiming that a $22M loss is a "screwing" for Monsanto?

The state is never going to learn to forgive insults against itself; you have to legislate a state of affairs which constrains them.

Abstract rights have a terrible history of implementation. See, "Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Rights are nice ideas which are only as meaningful as they are enforced by people with power.

...You do know that was the joke he was making, right?

Estonia is not all e-voting and forward-thinking, unfortunately.

But I'm still a paranoid lunatic because I don't want to smear my picture all over the web and give my every scrap of data away for the dubious benefits of Facebook or Twitter...

I think that might be one of those seemingly straightforward questions that's actually very nuanced, because I suspect that the combined masses of the two stars will have a lot to say about the outcome. For a couple of Solar mass stars, I would expect... a big explosion. I can't imagine it really happening though, except in a one-in-a-<insert -illion of choice> "head-on" collision. In that case, whether it blew apart and re-settled into a star, or a nebula, or... just blew apart, would be a function of mass and momentum.

In the case of slowly decaying orbits, one star usually ends up stripping most of the atmosphere from its partner, before the core eventually passes its Roche limit, breaks apart, and is accreted. In that case you get a series of Novas (not to be confused with supernovas), and a somewhat larger star when all is finally said and done. Lots of debris, occasionally very bright.

It's hard to imagine a situation in which two stars "merge" without a slow process of cannibalization. Compact collapsed bodies like white dwarves, neutron stars and the rest definitely do merge, but they're so much denser than a "living" star.

I can't imagine that the concentration of matter ejected, which diffuses impressively, would have been so concentrated so far away. Supernovae shockwaves are thought to be a candidate for touching of the process of dust cloud collapse and stellar formation, but an old star is usually a really dense core and a very wispy atmosphere, relatively speaking.

Maybe a shockwave could set off a nova event, or the addition of matter could trigger a collapse, but I'm not sure how it could jumpstart nuclear fusion again.