a large piece of modern / abstract art works just as well, without it needing to be a blank wall

> consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

not when money is involved

> The development of science on Earth was spurred fundamentally by observations of the regularities of the stars and planets.

perhaps on Venus, it would be spurred on by the creatures there trying to understand why a gaseous swirl goes in a certain direction, or why a vortex does what it does for as long as it has to

they may be better at fluids and flow than we are :) worth sending a message in a bottle at least

Yeah I think even if we didn't have the stars, there's plenty of other natural phenomena to spark science. Sparks being one of them. But pretty much any field other than astronomy could be a starting point. Meteorology is certainly a possibility

robot ping pong league

It would be a good benchmark for humanoid robots

> I find it very tedious to move blocks around manually, especially if I already know the solution and I'm just making it happen

thinking about how calvin's dad would explain every video game is either sokoban, or chess

you're not the one with stuff to reconcile

simply ask the people on the vested side: "why do you want rents to stay high?" and stand back

A house next door to me sat vacant for 4 years here in Vancouver. The owner couldn't sell at the asking price. The owner never lived in the house himself ever. He couldn't lower the price because then he would be losing money (selling it for less than what he bought it for).

Over that 4 year period, immigration to Canada dropped dramatically.

It just recently sold for slightly lower than the asking price (but slightly more than what the owner had bought it for 4 years prior). It was sold to a new immigrant to Canada. At least the new owner is actually living in it.

Why would developers want to build so much supply that the price drops?

playing dead might work for some species, but idk if i want humanity's "finest hour" to be spent pretending to not be worth taking over

exactly, and as a result you ended up paying 2-3x more for all those tools than if other businesses were allowed to compete normally

Eh?

I didn't address that specifically, but the prices were OK. They were within a sensible range of what local shops were charging for the same/similar widgets.

Sometimes Amazon was a bit more expensive (and they brought it over today). Sometimes, it was even a bit cheaper (and they still brought it over today).

The price was fine. It certainly wasn't 2x or 3x. It was always an OK price.

(Remember: Over and over again, I kept checking local stores. I didn't make that part of the story up. I didn't make any other part up, either.)

correct, amazon's policies made it impossible for local stores to offer a deal, making sure you pay the 2-3x inflated sum no matter where you go, instead of what the real cost would be if fair competition were allowed

I'm not sure if your point is that Amazon's price is too high (as you previously stated), or if your point is that Amazon's price is too low (as you've now stated).

But I am sure that I cannot accept both of these things being true at the same time.

What are you on about?

> Your genome is the most private data you will ever have. You probably shouldn’t let it leave your house.

im probably going to publish mine

you can already grab it by following me for a day and picking up a stray hair?

I actually have the question of the most useful way of doing this.

I paid $300 for x30 WGS from Sequencing and would love for researchers to be able to chuck my genome in their datasets

like the bunkers :)