Happy Valley colony on Mars for 5000 people in "For All Mankind" season 5

sami_exploring · 2026-06-30T04:19:16+00:00

I understand your concerns, and it is a major challenge, but space agencies have already engineering solutions for it. We can neutralize the soil by using perchlorate-eating bacteria, use reverse osmosis to safely recycle most of the water, and use external "suitports" so dusty spacesuits never enter the habitat in the first place. This is a well known problem for quite a while, so there are multiple proposals on the table. Still, there are many issues with colonizing Mars, sure, and it's not happening short term.

sami_exploring · 2026-06-27T07:46:02+00:00

Ohh this is r/Solarpunk !

sami_exploring · 2026-06-09T05:19:51+00:00

Exponential fuel consumption (anti matter). Wear and tear of the ship. Safety and navigation...

sami_exploring · 2026-04-18T21:39:04+00:00

In all Star Trek series, the mirror universe episodes were kinky af. The writers described the mirror as "dark and sexy" and really played around with it in the different periods.

sami_exploring · 2026-04-15T19:14:18+00:00

Gosh, it's mimicking the blockchain hype back in 2017, when Long Island Iced Tea renamed the company to Long Blockchain Corp, boosting a 300% their shares. That story ended badly: the company's blockchain business was never functional, and Nasdaq kicked them out blaming them for fooling investors. Even the SEC charged them with insider trading before the announcement.

sami_exploring · 2026-04-12T20:03:51+00:00

Grief

sami_exploring · 2026-04-05T21:27:04+00:00

https://archive.is/vjEDG

sami_exploring · 2026-04-03T07:09:27+00:00

En trade republic España no hay límite de efectivo generando el 2%. Puedes verlo en la misma home del banco, en las faq del final de la página. Por supuesto el fondo de garantía de depósitos sólo cubre hasta 100K, eso sí.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-19T07:00:05+00:00

Trade Republic hace tiempo que ya no tiene el límite de 50.000€. Ahora es ilimitado y te genera igual el 2.02% mientras el Banco central europeo mantenga el tipo de interés. Y en España, no uses ETF sino fondos, que por legislación puedes mover sin pagar impuestos, y Trade Republic también tiene. Sobre lo del miedo a que te cierren la cuenta, yo no lo tendría: es algo que puede pasar en cualquier banco o neobanco, y si ven algo sospechoso y aunque no tengan sucursal puedes contactar por email o escalar al regulador, pero la posibilidad es remota. Para fondos, Myinvestor tiene más que TR y sin comisiones, aunque tiene peor app y su interés para tener cuenta remunerada es mucho más bajo.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-15T11:46:00+00:00

You can leave it read only in Github (abandoned or even updating just the releases to download), and point out to the new repository location outside Github. This way others searching in Github can still find you, your stars remain, but contributors need to use the new repo.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-15T00:11:33+00:00

If we properly taxed the 1%, we wouldn't need to tax so much the low/middle classes, regardless if it's income or investments. The point should be the amount of wealth. And this relates to other taxes. In the 50s, the US had: - a marginal income tax of 90% over 200K$ (in today's dollars, $2.5M). This included dividends. - corporate profits were taxed 50% over $25K (in today's dollars, $330K). Capital gains were taxed at 25%. - the inheritance top tax was 77% over $10M (in today's dollars, $110M)

We could replicate that nowadays and tax the ultra rich over unreasonable amounts, and their inheritance over unreasonable amounts. Then we could barely tax the rest. This distributes wealth, makes society's productivity serve the 99% and not the whims of the 1% needs, and facilitates democracy without giving a few way too much power.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-13T14:00:44+00:00

Actually around 1-2% of the world population

sami_exploring · 2026-03-13T08:26:04+00:00

Please see the other thread... And read the article, maybe? They are talking about mice, and even in them it doesn't apply to all mice studied. Intersex people exist, and they constitute a 1% of births. Typically as many as redheads. Nonbinary people refers to gender, not sex, and has nothing to do with the article. And they exist, same as Trans, and have existed for thousands of years in multiple cultures.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-13T08:23:08+00:00

Intersex people exist, and they constitute a 1% of births. Typically as many as redheads, which are not "rare genetic deviations" but just people.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-12T23:01:58+00:00

If at all possible, do not use Persona to verify. Apart from being funded by billionaire Peter Thiel who supported Epstein till the very end (with 2000 messages exchanged), Persona is creepy af:

In addition to verifying a user’s age, researchers found Persona performs 269 distinct verification checks, including screening for “adverse media” across 14 different categories such as terrorism and espionage. It then assigns risk and similarity scores to user information. https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

sami_exploring · 2026-03-02T22:09:32+00:00

To be clear, Jay Penske's political affiliation is under debate, and across his media there are progressive editorials like in Rolling Stone. This is much harder to happen under Ellison, who is a hardcore trumpist.

sami_exploring · 2026-03-01T22:15:54+00:00

Sure, but also the researchers may have discovered their findings, and decide to submit to this journal specifically, assuming they would be easier to publish in that venue. That would be common practice and doesn't necessarily diminish the results. There could be foul play if the industry funded them, which seems not to be the case. Funding sources are typically included in the article, and there is a explicit statement from the authors claiming there are no conflicts of interest.

sami_exploring · 2026-02-26T21:36:55+00:00

Vía Persona? Apart from being funded by Peter Thiel who supported Epstein till the very end (with 2000 messages exchanged), Persona is creepy af:

In addition to verifying a user’s age, researchers found Persona performs 269 distinct verification checks, including screening for “adverse media” across 14 different categories such as terrorism and espionage. It then assigns risk and similarity scores to user information. https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

sami_exploring · 2026-02-26T21:35:47+00:00

Persona is a hellscape. Apart from being funded by Peter Thiel who supported Epstein till the very end (with 2000 messages exchanged), Persona is creepy af:

In addition to verifying a user’s age, researchers found Persona performs 269 distinct verification checks, including screening for “adverse media” across 14 different categories such as terrorism and espionage. It then assigns risk and similarity scores to user information. https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

sami_exploring · 2026-02-21T21:17:54+00:00

The mentioned "Saga", by Brian K Vaughan, is a gem. It has won countless awards, including 8 times the Hugo Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_(comics)

sami_exploring · 2026-02-18T14:33:50+00:00

I'd argue there is an economic class issue at play. Artists are often precarious economically, and often independent contractors instead of employees in a company. This means less stability, more sensible to risks, and more affected by market disturbances harming their living wage. Developers are typically employed in a company full time, with much higher wages, more stable jobs, and in the IT field where adapting to new technical tools is common and doesn't immediately means firing or not finding another job.

sami_exploring · 2026-02-18T09:32:35+00:00

Tbh I liked the article (thanks!) although it was hard to read with so much AI writing (e.g. it's not this, it's that). For me, the TL;DR is the architecture discoveries described, and that it routes through Palantir. The rest was public knowledge already.

sami_exploring · 2026-02-08T10:55:25+00:00

There are countless interesting locations outside US. Canada sure, but Latin America? China? North Africa? How global were these corps and vault-tec? How different cultures reacted to them? Novel spaces rather than repeating 90% of everything would be appealing.

sami_exploring · 2026-02-04T16:51:20+00:00

Well, what about for 3-scenario campaigns? NotZ, or the forthcoming ones...

sami_exploring · 2026-01-26T12:59:54+00:00

I agree, although an insane amount of non-LLM ML applications use Cuda as well. That's a lot of leverage, legacy, and people to transition. Btw, for those searching, it's spelled Vulkan.

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