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I mean, they might live a whole other cultural and social experience, but right now the world’s ultra-wealthy are already planning on living out the rest of their years in underground bunker complexes. I really don’t see how that’s a better existence for them and their kids than making 3% less profit and giving just the tiniest shit about the planet.

I feel like that would be, and already is to some extent, both temporary and relative. Windblown microplastics don’t really care if they end up in affluent areas.

I legit don’t get stuff like this. Don’t these mfs have kids? Don’t their kids live on this same planet? Why do you want to make sure your kids get to choke on toxic dust?

Non-linear equations have entered the chat.

Chaos and non-linear dynamics were treated as a toy or curiosity for a pretty long time, probably in no small part due to the complexity involved. It’s almost certainly no accident that the first serious explorations of it after Poincare happen after the advent of computers.

So, one place where non-linear dynamics ended up having applications was in medicine. As I recall it from James Gleick’s book Chaos, inspired by recent discussion of Chaotic behavior in non-linear systems, medical doctors came up with the idea of electrical defibrillation- a way to reset the heart to a ground state and silence chaotic activity in lethal dysrhythmias that prevented the heart from functioning correctly.

Fractals also inspired some file compression algorithms, as I recall, and they also provide a useful means of estimating the perimeters of irregular shapes.

Also, there’s always work being done on turbulence, especially in the field of nuclear fusion as plasma turbulence seems to have a non-trivial impact on how efficiently a reactor can fuse plasma.

I’d like to read up on this if you have sources

The mod engine is supposed to be an eye-watering 700gb. Holy fuck. I’d considered trying my hand at some mods, but, uh… that might have to wait for me to pop another drive in my machine first.

I’m glad they shipped when they did, messy as it was. They really needed to just get something out the door, before it ended up permanently stuck in development hell.

I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same

Okay, this is too goddamn good. Amazing work on this.

I normally like their stuff, but this one’s a miss for me on a bunch of different levels

I don’t see a reliable statistical difference myself. For my part, I’ve got ADHD that causes shit to simply stop existing the moment it’s sat down, and that ends up causing a lot of clutter

stealing refug.ee, as one myself