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I just can't imagine mining the moon being in any way shape or form easier than mining the earth. The list of workplace hazards would be impressive. I imagine we're talking surface mines to keep the logistics manageable, but then:

1. How do you get astrominers there and back safely and on a regular basis whilst still keeping costs down?

2. What would it cost to keep your astrominers well fed and rested in a comfortable environment (warm, enough water, entertainment, etc)

3. How much more in bonuses (danger of hazard, long way from home, etc) do you even have to pay an astrominer vs a terraminer?

4. Most mines have some form of processing on site, e.g. break down rocks and sift through shit. How do you get those massive machines up there on the cheap and service them frequently on the cheap? Do we even have the machines that can work in those conditions?

5. Gravity is weak on the moon, I can imagine rocks of considerable mass flying or tumbling about being an issue. Sifting doesn't work as it does on earth without normal gravity and abundant water.

6. etc. etc. etc.?

I mean I think it'd be cool if we could pull it off as a civilisation but I just can't imagine how out there in scope and complexity moon mining would be.

I think it boils down to the (intellectual) effort needed to synthesise your thoughts, which is a skill that leads to deeper understanding.

I'd say ChatGPT is a bit better as a tool than copying from a colleague, just because you still have to double check for correctness. However, does it rob students of that opportunity to think deeply and therefore learn? I'm not sure to what extent, but I'd imagine that there's an impact to _some_ extent.

ChatGPT is also going to get better, and will eventually be pretty accurate (or, at least as accurate as a student of a subject may be). My stance is that in school, you should be learning to think instead of memorising. If the goal is to memorise, however, then use ChatGPT isn't that harmful (you'll still fail for memorising the wrong information).

Overall I'd treat ChatGPT as a tool, and give students the facts: first gain a deep understanding of a subject so you can learn to verify, then use the tool later in life.

I'm also mindful of the fact that if an AI is not guaranteed to be correct, which is the case right now, then students now have an incentive to _understand_ the subject so they can verify, which might actually be a net good?

None of those are under the `n` category, though.

This system is used every time you need to access the bins (i.e. every other day), since the final location is not as accessible. Trash goes from your kitchen to the bins every other day. Collection happens monthly.

You're correct. Funny enough, this is also obscure knowledge even in e.g Spanish. We use the word salario (from latin salarium) which has the same meaning as in latin: words ending in -ario (lat: -arium) is used to denote association, like in templario (templar) or revolucionario (revolutionary). For some reason, however, nobody thinks of "salario" as something associated with salt (sal). I guess it's so strange in today's world that money would be used for the specific purpose of buying salt, that it simply doesn't click.

You can, but I'm not that anonymous (one can easily find my name by searching for my username, not that there's much interesting to find anyway). More importantly, I wouldn't try to damage a person's reputation if I wasn't ready to stand behind what I said and, if proven wrong myself, take some responsibility. I think a few negative things were said about his personality, which can be damaging. An anonymous internet comment is not the most credible source though.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Meta, don't know Carmack, etc.

Opens the door to bribing judges and corrupting the process.

Is it also downright stupid that people still use computers with 4 GB of RAM for browsing? Asking for a friend.

The second move is too early.

I've played and lost enough games against engines that I would say I've learnt some of the "best moves" (as suggested by the engine, when analysing why I lost) in almost every "usual" scenario for my "usual" openings all the way to maybe the fourth move. There are a lot of variations, but even past the fourth move I still remember some engine suggestions based on my own errors.

My german is not good but most (all?) graphs in the report seem to talk about executives or board members, but excluding CEOs (ohne CEOs). Does the title need an edit?

I'm not saying this is the case, but if Meta is pivoting towards a metaverse future, it would make sense to slim down on the facebook hires whilst keeping some hiring activity on the metaverse front.

My attitude is generally "Which one, pick one, this one, classic"

> we have discovered methods that allow anyone to enjoy this. This is great progress.

Just because we can produce (and consume) vast amounts of meant doesn't mean we must. Restraint is a virtue.

What gets me is that over a quarter of that (26% as of 2010 by USDA's estimates) is simply thrown away.

You might be reading too much into it (or not). As a person of color myself, I didn't find the comment as if designed to "gotcha" as much as to clarify from a place of some (imho understandable) frustration. I think nphatack's answer does a good job at clarifying by specifying the range in the Fitzpatrick scale.

In my case, being mixed race, I could fall anywhere between 2 and 4 depending on the time of the year and my tanning. The clarification is helpful. "Lion Pose" also evokes Black culture so I would assume the intention is to target mainly the Black community (of which I consider myself part of, anyway) whilst people of colour is a broader group so it's a valid question.

It can also be confusing (and for some frustrating, but I don't find it so myself) because "people of colour", especially in the USA, generally means anything that's not a 1 on that scale (e.g. some latinos or mediterraneans), so the ambiguity can easily be avoided by using darker skin vs fairer skin, which also has no political or ideological connotations, generally.

Personally I think this is a great brand and one I hope also makes it across the pond to Europe. We need more, not fewer, beauty and skincare products aimed at treating darker skins.

A lot of their work is speculative (e.g. it's not clear that the layers of linen were glued, but they went with the assumption). It's interesting that they did not consider one of the most likely combinations: linen layers sewn onto leather. This would be more flexible (glue makes linen quite stiff) and more sweat resistant.

Got you -- :high_five:

Although my 2¢: it was a good joke until the second paragraph. That killed it for me – if I'm fed the explanation there's no more fun in "getting" it.

Most americans also don't take 40 flights per year on average.

Better for the intended purpose

To be fair, I've only lived in the UK for just over a decade. That being said, I do remember BNP and the EDL. Whilst there's an intersection between EDL/BNP and present-day Brexit (i.e. Conservative party) supporters, I wouldn't say the government represents the views held by the former. In fact, groups like the BNP advocated for compulsory deportation of non-whites (during Tyndall) and later pivoted to a modern version of politely asking us to leave[1]. Whilst Windrush was comparable, I don't think it is to the scale of what a BNP majority would've ever looked like. Regarding the GFA, I'm obviously lacking context and perspective, but I see it more as an oversight and bad leadership than an intentional break away from it, but with the current government I never know what to think.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/20/bnp-members... "...firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home".

It was a talking point during the Scottish independence referendum (pre-Brexit referendum).

It might be regional or very US/UK specific. In many parts of the world nationalism is also associated with left wing separatist movements. For example, in Spain we have ETA[1], and in Turkey the PKK[2].

I've never specifically associated it with neither left nor right because in my country we have both right and left wing nationalist movements. Yes, far right nationalism is often fascism, nazism, jingoism, etc. but this isn't the only type of nationalism, and we don't use nationalism as a synonym for nazism/fascism, except when speaking specifically in the context of right wing nationalist groups.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party

How often do you think the entire government of a state should change? Some would argue every 4-5 years makes it impossible to have politicians with long term thinking. Why not have elections once every generation?

Nationalism in the context of SNP (and as a concept in general) simply refers to the desire/belief that the state and nation should be synonymous. The problem is that not everyone's interpretation of national identity is the same, so the in the end all you get is populism used to push a belief. The answer to the question "What is Scotland, anyway?" is not as clear as politicians would like it to be.

> new faces with far right credentials

I'm not sure what your definition of far right is but that statement is quite far from the truth.

Smaller is desireable (leaner government, and fairer representation). Poorer is a matter of opinion -- Scotland has a healthy economy.

Scotland can be independent _and_ be in the same economic market (ignoring UK and Spain willing to veto Scotland reentering EU out of spite / own political motives).

I'm nearing 40 and I've seen a bit of both. By far the best teams I've worked in had a healthy mixture of experienced developers and younger ones, although I'd say the main catalyst was a mentoring mentality where everyone, young and old, was encouraged to share their experiences (especially the bad ones) in an attempt to brainstorm/crowdsource an improvement to the status quo.

I've also seen the opposite of what you'd expect: a young startup with a very young team that functioned on outdated practices and tools. My first contact with their codebase was a shock to the system – a mishmash of competing coding styles and conventions, barely any of them a best practice, much of it not very idiomatic, an alarming lack of consistency. The choice of tools, libraries and frameworks was (by startup standards) definitely not best in class, and where good choices had been made, the joy was short lived by realisation that they were on old versions, or not using their tooling properly.

But, anecdotes aside, there's a point that generally gets overlooked. Best practices and good developer experience are the result of intentional choices, often in retrospect. The only way to come up with best practices or to improve DX is through experience -- especially poor experiences. I mean, who would've thought that experience was an asset.

"By 2050, deployment of engineered removals at large scale, between 75 and 81 MtCO2 per year"

Looks legit?

Remote, distributed, asynchronous - they're not all synonymous. Remote is simply that, far apart, so I think it's fair to say that if a company primarily employs people who work from wherever they may be, then I'm fine with them wearing the "remote" badge. There is absolutely nothing in the word "remote" that implies synchronicity or otherwise, everything else is just a matter of opinion, or taste, or what's practical and works.