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Is there a similar project for Masters of Orion?

why no radio frequency evidence of other stars

unless the radio beam is aimed directly at us, we may not be able to detect the radio communication of other civilizations.

this is such a large red-flag.. with layers of conflicts of interest

I tried it on gpt-4-turbo and it seems to give the right answer:

Let's calculate:494,547,645,908,151+7,640,745,309,351,279,642=7,641,239,856,997,187,793 494,547,645,908,151+7,640,745,309,351,279,642=7,641,239,856,997,187,793 Answer: 7,641,239,856,997,187,793

it's true.. the S&P 500 declined ~57% from Oct 2007 to Mar 2009

A crown on a fool's head does not make him a king.

it looks like we can now actually use brains as computers: https://corticallabs.com/

you may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy

Here the machine is using tin, which isn't suitable for fusion (no energy is released beyond iron).

I wonder if future historians will see a similar drop after widespread use of plastic

Happy New Year from the West coast!

I'm genuinely intrigued!

Any recommendations for tour companies? Do you have to bring your own tent? Any need for special masks/filters for volcanic gases?

I learned more from this wiki page than that pdf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges

Is fusion really that great? Decades of research and billions of dollars later it's still not commercially feasible.

Whereas solar power is cheaper than coal now. Also on the horizon is thorium reactors.

Real interest rates (nominal interest rate minus inflation rate) is still negative.

Is there no de-escalation mechanism? Maybe through the UN?

The vimeo link didn't work, took a while but found this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2AKpsBF-bvo

Given the warnings, it might get taken down soon.

Dyson Sphere Program is a similar type of game, with prettier graphics.

This seems fundamental, surprised elementary operations hasn't been made a part of every major language/framework.

When prices "skyrocket", it becomes profitable to use a lot more expensive means to produce (eg: using nuclear energy to grow rice indoors), this will quickly increase supply.

For microchips, it's likely the prices have not increased enough to kickstart this increase in supply.

According to standard economic theory, shortages only happen when pricing mechanisms fail. If prices rise, then demand would lower and shortage will be resolved (?)..

Raspberry Pies are out of stock? When did this happen? Sorry I haven't been paying much attention to this, is it related to the supply chain issues?

Nit: OneNDA, not OneDNA

I wonder why this isn't used to store power in a battery that's used for IoT devices?

During the height of the Cold War, the US required maps and textbooks to show only portions of the USSR and never show US and USSR next to each other.

Surprised to see that IPv6 still isn't the default/standard after all these years

It looks like morel mushrooms has been successfully farmed on a large scale in China for some time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEwOZwkl-Ao

Recently used MongoDB Atlas and it's way better than MySQL in a lot of areas.

Would this be useful on Mars?

This is an "unofficial implementation".