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If you can afford to live within jackhammer distance of a metro, you can afford earplugs

It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to develop a "Further Than Fish" replacement

People got very mad at this, but it seems preferable. Movies/TV shows that you "like a lot" versus movies that you "just like" are both movies that you'd watch, and watching is what you're buying.

It seems like the biggest problem is the retreat from nuclear, not the focus on solar.

You can look them up though? It's not difficult?

It sounds like something from the last book of the Three Body Problem trilogy

Are you made that they didn't leave open the possibility that she was Australian, a Kiwi or an Afrikaner?

It's entirely built around linking between different parts of the sequence. In theory, you land on one page and can go to any number of pages. It has a set order (by that which the text was published), but is equally valid to read it in different orders.

The order of the text is determined by the lack of awareness of the reader and what they're trying to pursue.

The first words are "A study published this week sheds"....

Except for its the author's study. "My study" is more appropriate.

Yudkowsky's Sequences on Less Wrong (Rationality A-Z is the bookform) has a good claim on being a true future-book as webpage.

Definitely more lonely, given that what finished them off was the same Power that still courses through most of the developed world.

The point of a job should be to improve the world. The point of a career is to be able to do more impactful jobs by increasing skill and understanding.

Personality and job fit are only important as far as they allow you to do the job better.

The answer is to use Microsoft apps on an Apple machine (or Linux if you're that kind of person)

Conservation of Angular momentum collapses shapely sort of things into a disk

Why do you say this?

I thought this was going to be an essential part of this article, but it seems like IEO (Instagram Engine Optimization) is actually technically boring and scammy, whereas automated IEO- while still scammy- is technically interesting!

Bad infrastructure causes people to ask "what am I even paying taxes for?"

The actual answer is "An insurance company with an army"

We're talking about scientists, not computer scientists. As surely as business managers and industrial engineers don't need to know the best programming practices to be good SQL monkeys, surely scientists- neuroscientists at that- don't need to know general programming practices.

There's got to be a specific set!

What would a good resource for good scripting practices?

Yeah. Going to a bookstore has the same feeling as going clothes shopping with respect to online shopping: it feels good to look at lots of product and to feel the pages in your hand. You can't tell if something will spark joy over Amazon.

I get that you're trying to tell a morality tale in order to determine who the bad guy is, but there wasn't "a bad guy" causing the last recession. "Retail banks were on the front lines making the liar lones".... and millions of creditless idiots were buying houses they couldn't afford.

You don't need the ball when the chain wraps around the whole world.

So, you make a bunch of good points. But consider- some people (most people) can't ever get a "cash back" credit card because of their bad credit. How does that play into your framework?

Why do you think "Fraud cost is negligible"?

Yes, and ultimately Goldman Sachs is a bank and will be held accountable for anything that happens. This is a GS product that Apple gets a significant cut of.

Why does the pension have to exist? Why don't they just get a 401k and get off the books.

Politicians don't push for renewables because it doesn't get them any points with their constituencies. You can point to energy lobbyists as a reason for this, but it isn't necessary to do so. You can just ask the average citizen- "how much do you care?" and the answer is low to not at all (ignore the polls, look at their actual actions and behaviors).

You either have to build more efficient buildings or retrofit existing buildings. Most home/office energy expenditure is on heating/cooling/fridging/hot showers. Only 10% is based on lighting [1].

The best way to tackle cooling/heating is by improving insulation, but unfortunately, there is little ability/reason to. Those that would get the most utility out of it are poor and therefore cannot afford it. Those who can afford it are rich, and therefore don't care about a few dollars lost to heating/cooling the outside air. Even if the rich do care, it often isn't worth the emotional/mental hassle of having massive construction done to your abode.

[1]https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/

Visiting a bank for a 50 seems like a waste of £7

No, it should be clear that however they're calculating wealth is obviously wrong. Augustus Caesar has the wealth of $4.6 trillion? There is simply no way that is true.

I honestly don't get it. What of these robots are functional? There is a "Toys" heading but... they all look like toys? Every single one?