You need a bed presence sensor? I mean, I guess you’d want to be notified if suddenly your bed was not present, but I can’t imagine that it happens that often.

And that’s why I don’t work in software development!

Sure, but the type of people looking to use federated selling platforms are unlikely to want to use something like Stripe

What makes you so sure of that? I’m pretty sure they know and plan to exploit it themselves.

Fun fact, “awful” comes from “awe-ful”, that is, something that fills you with awe. Not necessarily something good or bad, just really big. In older books you see it used in that sense, referring to something like a loud noise, explosion, or a religious experience like the appearance of an angel.

Ideas are cheap. This is the third post like this I’ve seen in two weeks. Build it.

Even without the Boeing capsule they could have all gotten home in an emergency. It wouldn’t have been pleasant (I think the plan was to basically strap the people without seats to a padded bulkhead), but it’d be better than the alternative.

Gee Linus you think you could’ve fucking said something before it got to this point?

Only difference between that and a burger is a burger is usually on a roll, not slices of bread. (And a burger is always hot, but then so are some sandwiches.)

Yup: “when a consumer thinks the universe will right a corporate wrong, that person tends not to harbor negative feelings toward the corporation and probably will refrain from consumer activism like boycotts”.

These people believe that everything will be handled by other people, not through their own actions. These people are misinformed.

Day one? A hamburger is a sandwich.

It’s probably not big enough to shatter the moon, but enough to at least alter its orbit. I’m not enough of an astrophysicist to say how much. I haven’t looked up the forces involved, so I can’t even give a ballpark estimate.

I don’t know about them, but I’ve been attending protests and getting more locally involved. I live in a very blue state so haranguing my local reps won’t do much since they’re already on the same page.

How do you send a browser notification if the browser is closed?

Maybe since it’s mostly just the northeast Atlantic now, it should be NEATO.

Probably because of the “defense” part, when they’re the aggressor.

Well we’d lose the tides, which would devastate ocean life. We’d lose moonlight, which would devastate nocturnal animals. The axial tilt would change, so seasons would become more even, devastating plants that rely on seasonal cycles, or become more extreme, devastating everything.

The book Seveneves explores this scenario, but is mostly about how humanity moves to space to survive.

Really? Mine doesn’t care about that.

He represents the American people.

Even trolls, Nazis and other actively malicious people?