SamBorick

The article specifically says:

Originally writing in 1692-3, Daniel Defoe noted that the firemen were “very active and diligent” in helping to put out fires, “whether in houses insured or not insured”.[33] Insurance companies’ instructions to their firemen were clear – they were to attend and help extinguish “all” fires. [34], [35]

What specific issue with this do you have? Do you disagree with the content of “Of Assurances”, in An Essay upon Projects? Or the Union Fire Office Board Minutes?

Or did you just not read the article?

...Friends?

Probably internet friends if you have niche interests. But yeah, you're not going to get high quality discussions on arbitrary topics from strangers.

I think there's an axiomatic difference here.

I don't believe any large service is more stable in the long term than a small one. To put it morbidly, all will be dust eventually. At least mastodon has account migration baked in.

Additionally, why would I want all my content to last forever? If I want something to last forever I'll carve it on a rock, not toot it.

Pretty much everything else you listed is a positive.

I don't have access to this article so I'm not 100% sure, but at a guess they mean "many nations have made public claims that they plan to target reaching net-zero by around <some date>"

To my knowledge, carbon emissions are still increasing every year, and increasing in their rate of increase every year. I would love to be wrong.

This site doesn't include pandemic data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

This is the inciting incident for the author of the Mars Trilogy's recent book "The Ministry for the Future".

I highly recommend it if this stuff scares you, and you need a little climate hope.

I think this is exactly the opposite of the takeaway. If the underlying concept isn't simple, don't pretend it's simple with a simple name.

A large constraint on Spirit and Opportunity was keeping the panels clear, that's why they lasted so long.

From what I remember, during martian winter they had to take the grade and the prevailing wind direction into account to keep the dust and fines off.

Currently the InSight lander is going into hibernation because the solar panels haven't really gotten cleaned in 3 years: https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-mars-insight-lander-limits-op...

Ah yes, preventing unemployed people from starving is bad, we should pay them less.

Here's a radical concept: wages are too low. People aren't applying to your job because you're not offering enough money. Pay people more.

You claim to believe in a free market, then complain when nobody wants to work for you for starvation wages.

Factorio is fascinating because it also simulates critical issues in productions: bugs will come and eat your beautiful factory.

I also I threw together some thoughts about factorio and programming a few months ago:

https://dev.to/samborick/what-factorio-taught-me-about-work-...

For a similar experience on the web I highly recommend https://everytimezone.com/

Ah yes. Innovation Zones. Innovate local government by removing *checks notes* democracy.

Counterpoint: No.

Use the vaccine to protect the people who are actually in danger. If a billionaire gets covid they can get the super special sci-fi insta-cure that every other person in power gets.

The solution to a public health communications issue is not 'get influencers on board' it's to amplify the science communicators who are already doing it, and public policy.

When I read "Friendly Federated Learning Framework", my immediate thought was something where people could gather and organize their personal knowledge, and have the ability to simply reference work that others have already done.

It's the internet.

Gonna go against the grain here: I use proprietary software!

I dump all my random thoughts into my todoist inbox. Every couple of days I sift through and take action, or categorize as needed between notion notes and todoist projects.

I used to feel this way. Paradoxically, I've found that completely ignoring income/clicks resolves this problem. Here's what happened to me:

1. Try and make 'the optimal thing'. Something easy to create, and so lucrative that I won't have to make anything else again

2. flail like the author describes

3. decide that no amount of money is worth feeling this way (or otherwise burnout via your method of choice)

4. make nothing for a while (~6 months for me)

5. start missing some aspects of what you used to do

6. gradually start making those things again, with the goal being to make those things.

Hopefully step 7 is profit, time will tell. If it's not, I'm ok with that too :)

were you inspired by The Internet Comment Shredder [1]? Your setup is very similar! Very fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNlp6AtTOE

I recommend the scott manly video another commenter linked to for a more full explanation, but:

The sample container that's currently jammed open is on the end of a long arm, while the sample return capsule is mounted on the body of the spacecraft. The only way to measure mass in free-fall is to spin the entire craft and measure where the center of rotation is compered to before the sample capture. The difference is then used to calculate the sample mass.

With the sample at the end of a long arm, the spacecraft doesn't have to rotate very fast to get a large enough difference in rotation to measure the sample. If the sample is in the return capsule, the moment is so much smaller that it's probably below the sensitivity of the instruments they were planning to use.

My objection to this is that I'm really bad at anticipating where interesting or useful information will come from. Many times I've been watching or reading something and find a offhand that is really useful to some part of my life.

If I only read the stuff I suspect of being useful before I start, there's less of a chance to be surprised by useful information.

Is that efficient? Bot really. It's enjoyable though.

My takeaway from this is to always try for the thing that is just out of reach.

Doing what's comfortable isn't going to lead to growth. At the same time, as others in this thread say, doing things that are radically out of reach is too likely to fail without a good foundation.

Learning is in the struggle, so find something that is a little harder than you think you can handle.

recently I've been using the zettelkasten method to accomplish exactly this. Small cards, hyperlinked together with whatever other concepts you associate it with. This resource was really helpful: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/

For me the biggest requirement is > 3. It must be fun to build

for me that requires a level of abstraction, I don't want to be monkeying with HTML if I don't have to, I just want to write the damn article. That's why I use Hugo, I feel like it hits a fantastic balance between speed for the user and ease of maintenance for me.