We should start with a sustainable colony _on_ earth as a proof of concept. :-)

Nah, not needed. Let's just go straight to Mars. Real men test in production. /s

I think the question is "why do sites put up cookie banners when the only option is Accept?" Gdpr requires an option to opt out, so who are they try to appease here? I sometimes think they do it because people have come expect them.

This looks really promising, thank you! I have been using chemicals for things like this but it is not good at multiple conditions so your approach will teally help me. Btw, there is no link to the repo on the docs psge, st least on my phone. I want to star your repo.

Thank you! Repo is located here: https://github.com/DLR-Institute-of-Future-Fuels/gaspype

So true. I once saw a gardener removing weeds from a moss patch with tweezers. Very meticulous.

Oooooh so that's how to deal with the grass sprouts in my Irish Moss.

You'd get my vote! These boulevard signs are totally out of control. They are technically against bylaws in my town, but nobody enforces it. Two anecdotes about how insane these are:

1. I saw one last week advertising a halloween party, so it's been in the ground for over 6 months. It is on a sidewalk near the university and is passed by about 1000 people per day, and in 6+ months not ONE SINGLE PERSON said "Oh, I should talk this down".

2. I once saw a city employee get off their riding lawn mower to move one of these signs out of their way, cut the grass, then get off the mower again to put the sign back!

And echoing the GPs comment, what really gets me about these is that we all have our lives diminished so that one person or company can earn a little extra...maybe. Or in other words, 1000's of people are subjected to this and perhaps 1 person might bite?

I'll close with my favorite interpretation of advertising: Advertisers essentially steal your sense of self-satisfaction so they can sell it back to you.

> It is on a sidewalk near the university and is passed by about 1000 people per day, and in 6+ months not ONE SINGLE PERSON said "Oh, I should talk this down".

Weren't you one of those people? Why didn't you do it?

>I once saw a city employee get off their riding lawn mower to move one of these signs out of their way, cut the grass, then get off the mower again to put the sign back!

Why wouldn't they? It's not their job to remove the sign and dispose of it. By leaving it in place, taking up space, eventually enough of these signs will pile up and cause such a problem that the powers-that-be will be forced to deal with the situation.

There is nothing to indicate that the comment was from China, where the is a separate power. In this case, the powers-that-be are the very same people who didn't do anything about it.

Easy solution: just don't change your name! Our boys have my last name and our girls (if we'd had any) would have had my wife's last name. We didn't have girls so I don't have data on how that would've worked but seems line a no-brainer to me.

Having read about Japanese marriages, I assume that women are often thinking something like like: "There's no way I'm going to have the kind of marriage that involves changing my name. Another kind of marriage maybe BUT NOT THAT KIND."

If my assumption is wrong and they're instead thinking "I'd quite like that kind of marriage in general, but I'm not going to change my name", then there's an easy fix, as you suggest.

By law, married partners must share the same last name in Japan. It is rare, but possible for the man to change his name.

This is important for the official family register.

So not changing a name is literally not an option.

And in Japan, the land of paperwork, changing your name is a whole lot of paperwork and headaches.

It's cute that everyone seems to think this about their own jobs.

I don't think I'll ever be up-to-date with all the progress in AI or trends in VC, but relying on his own expertise where he says the best VC's only identify 2 out of 10 of the really good opportunities, I would estimate that once somebody gets AI to do better than that, there may be some impact.

Some professions are going to be easier to replace than a Radiologist, others not so much.

That's why I've done science like art since way before 1980.

AI was comin' fast back then and I wanted to be resilient :)

Yes, about half is skimmed off the top by the university, called 'overhead'. This is used to fund everything, from research-essential things like paying for heat and maintaining buildings, to less obvious but still research-essential things like IP lawyers to deal with contracts and campus security. However, SOME of the overhead will end up supporting things that are 'contentious' like DEI enforcement or whatever.

This is a very important comment. And to flip the perspective, name recognition in our given fields is not just a vanity metric for getting more funding. It is earned by publishing quality work. I can trust people I know who do things correctly.

Im reading Sapiens at the moment and one statement really got my attention: human society is a marvel, but individually we are embarrassingly similar to Chimps. This mental model really helps put put so much behavior into context, like resource hogging and the hoarding instinct, despite obvious surplus of everything everywhere at all times.

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Not Society and its Discontents (1930), it's been going on as long as we have written records of anything spanning the history of civilization.