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It's kinda sad, with all the time an money spent on VR, HL:Alyx remains the only truly great VR game.

Nope, it was just a QA town hall at the old Ottawa office. I think everyone was pretty confused by the remark.

I remember one town hall where he was asked "If you had to start over again, what sort of company would you start?" and his answer was "I wouldn't, all the good ideas are already taken."

Ok, but let's take this to the logical conclusion that at some point there will be models which displace a large segment of the workforce. How does capitalism even function then?

My worry is what happens once large segments of the population become unemployable.

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I actually just asked a question on the physics stack exchange that is semi relevant to this. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/810429/functiona...

In my question I was asking about a hypothetical time-evolution operator that includes an analog of a light cone that you could think of as a context window. If you had a quantum state that was evolved through time by this operator then I think you could think of the speed of light being a byproduct of the width of the context window of some operator that progresses the quantum state forward by some time interval.

Note I am very much hobbyist-tier with physics so I could also be way off base and this could all be nonsense.

I've been thinking about his a bit lately. If time is non-continuous then could you model the time evolution of the universe as some operator recursively applied to the quantum state of the universe? If each application of the operator progresses the state of the universe by a single planck-time could we even observe a difference between that and a universe where time is continuous?

Absolutely man!! I've been trying to tell my neighbor this for ages. I keep taking shits on his lawn and he's getting all upset about it saying that it's ruining his lawn. I tell him I value questioning like a skeptic, something like a Socratic dialog. Kind of unfair to call me deluded just because he and many others have reached a conclusion long ago.

There is also a massive consideration on the type of ammo being used. Hollow point vs steel core is gonna have very different effects.

Then what? What happens when nobody is employable?

Alternate take: Regulation should be turned up to 11 and AI should be nationalized so that the benefits go to society instead of a handful of billionaires

At this point they should just write a grid cell rendering process so you can play eve entirely in excel

According to police, the company’s cybersecurity staff found a document on Castro’s laptop titled ‘OfficeSpace project’, which outlined Castro’s scheme to ‘cleanup evidence’ by manipulating audit logs and disabling alarm logging.

Wow sounds like a real genius. I wonder if he also wore a shirt saying I AM STEALING FROM YOU to work?

If anyone wants a mini AMA I went to Waterloo and have personally been into the tunnels (and was never caught!)

My kids are likely to spend the majority of their lives living a world where energy is clean, cheap, and available to everyone.

Unless you're in your early teens and don't plan on having kids until you're in your 30's this proba

MBS plays Factorio confirmed?

It's a shame every endeavour needs to fit into a capitalism-shaped hole. There are many things that people agree are beneficial but won't be profitable.

Yep, smartest guy I knew in my physics program dropped out of his masters when he realized he would earn more in a year at a MAGMA than he would over half a decade begging for grants.

Don't worry, the Tories will just cut taxes on the rich again and that will fix everything /s

I think as of today the most efficient approach is pumped storage hydropower. However that is severely limited by geography

That's a really interesting idea. I think it would be fun to see how well it would work in practice.

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Isn't the correct answer here that you could never be travelling at the speed of light to begin with?

My dude, I used to work for Environment Canada. Climate change is real and people are causing it. I have quite literally worked with the raw data coming in from multiple sources. It paints a comprehensive picture of excess CO2 and Methane release into the atmosphere and overall less heat from the sun being radiated back into space as a result.

Also, "communist prognosticators" really? Grow up.

I challenge you to find a single peer-reviewed paper that states excess CO2 is not a contributing factor for anthropomorphic climate change.

Are you sure that quote isn't referring to the length dilation that occurs in a gravity well? Space is non-Euclidean so you can have a sphere with a radius larger than the circumference would allow.

I remember the very moment in my first year of phys undergrad when it clicked for me that what I was learning in my ODE, lin-alg, and classical mechanics were all related. It was like this 'holy shit it all makes sense' moment.

Honest question. Are these laws being put forward by groups who only want a plausible excuse to violate people's privacy, or is it misguided people who genuinely care about stoping child exploitation and don't care about the profound effects of privacy?

I'm guessing the answer is 'both' but I was hoping someone might have insight if it leans one way or the other.

Easily ELB. You would be horrified to realize that a decent chunk of the internets traffic is routed across load balancers that are pretty much just held together with the prod-eng equivalent of chewing gum and baling wire.