Like any arms race with a significant edge granted to the winner, you're not going to convince players not to play.

No, I didn't, but I'm going to look for it now.

I've been looking for a Canadian publisher, but it's tough to beat Amazon's reach, easy of publishing, and royalty rates.

I wouldn't mind seeing a 'you have to live in it to own it' rule. Imagine if apartment building owners had to live in one of the units... they might have themselves a nice penthouse, but they'd be plenty motivated to ensure the entire building was well kept. Corporations wouldn't be able to own multiple properties, because a corporation is incorporeal.

E-books are often linked to Print On Demand services, so if readers want a physical copy they can get one.

What this really means is no impulse purchases from bookstore shelves, because there won't be a 'display model' there to see while browsing.

A suborbital trip or even a full-blown ride to LEO just isn't worth it when there is a much, much less expensive, safer, and more comfortable option that will give you an experience where you can't tell the difference from actually being in space.

You can get the experience without riding rocket, without freefall making you nauseous, and without having to go through the dangers of reentry and splashdown.

You can ride in a pressurized gondola lifted by a huge high altitude balloon. You will feel 1g of gravity for the entire trip, and you will go high enough to see the curvature of space and to your eyes you will appear to be above the atmosphere. No, you will not technically be in space, but your eyes won't care. Everything that is noticeably different about the experience will be an improvement over actually going to space.

I guarantee you there's a forum on Reddit where life extension nuts are talking about safe dosages for humans, and another for people who love to take random drugs asking if you can get high by taking too much.

These drugs are already in human bodies.

>Not sure where you are

Canada. Rather than following Europe, we get a lot of pressure from the US to treat people like they're disposable just like they do.

It varies by province, but typically we start with two weeks and get three after a few years. Four is far less common and I don't think it's mandated by labour law anywhere. And while most employers give you vacation right away, by law in most areas you have to finish your first year before they have to let you take it. It's treated like withheld pay: 2% = 1 week.

Individuals will never know, but if we track it collectively we'll get statistical proof within a decade or so.

However, metabolically I believe humans are closer to pigs than to dogs - we ought to be funding pig farmers to set the occasional pig aside for longevity testing rather than bacon production.

Yep. Having children needs to have less effect on your life, which means providing a better life to EVERYONE.

Japan has the potential productivity to do that, they do not have the cultural will. Then again, nobody else seems to either, it's just Japan's among the worst at it.

I bet if work meant 35 hour weeks and 4 weeks a year vacation, and children meant a year of paid family leave (for both parents) followed by free before & after care while the parents work, and free sports programs for older children, you'd see birth rates go up. Personally, I'd restrict the paid family leave to married couples aged 20-30 to maximize the odds of healthy children in a stable environment, but that might not be worth the political trouble.

The problem is that if you're a decent parent, children these days are a major financial and time drain. You are sacrificing decades of your prime years. If the state needs children to prevent economic collapse, then society's going to have to come to terms with countering that to the point the babies start being made again.

When electronic tracking came about, Neilson found out those diaries were not at all accurate.

These days, ad placement is measured in clicks that lead to buys, and advertisers want info that's fairly specific to justify ad pricing.

Fundamentally, this is about advertisers wanting the most bang for their buck and media providers wanting the most bucks even if they have to deceive to do it.

If it does, at least it'll be optional and fractured.

> I do not think that indoor farming would really be that hard

You'd be wrong about that. Growing indoors means water where buildings weren't engineered to handle it just to start.

After that not-so-minor issue you have to start worrying about being cost competitive. Your produce has to match or beat something trucked in from a traditional outdoor farm. That means high density growing because urban real estate costs more than rural acreage, which means worrying about the height of your plants so you can have multiple shelves of them growing simultaneously. It means finding efficient harvesting techniques for tight spaces.

There are plenty of other considerations, too. The answer will ultimately be technology, not abandoned buildings, and it's nowhere near 'there' yet.

Tom got some pretty bad writing and typically bad productions budgets to go with it, but so much quality expansion of the Doctor Who universe.

If you ask me where NuWho went wrong, I'll be comparing to the Baker run for sure.

While that's a good point, I only deal in spherical cows when discussing theoreticals.

Hills vary based on route, it introduces too many variables and eventually you're talking about what might as well be an infinite number of possible answers (though you could limit to best, worst, and average case).

It's actually an interesting question and I don't know why you felt the need to post as AC to ask it.

With rockets trying to reach orbit, there's something called the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation. As you want to lift more mass you need exponentially more rocket and more fuel because you have to take the entire journey's worth of rocket with you (though rocket stages reduce this problem to make launching from Earth practical up to a certain mass). You have to lift all the new rocket and fuel and THAT needs more rocket too. At some point you're adding rocket and your performance gets worse, not better.

The same would apply to a long distance EV that couldn't recharge. The further you go, the more battery you need, and the more battery you have the more charge you need to move it. Eventually you'd have a vehicle too heavy to even get started rolling. In more practical terms, if you were trying to carry a coast-to-coast load across Canada or the US, if it's possible at all, I'd bet your effective cargo capacity would make it useless anyway.

It'd still be fascinating to see someone do the math and graph the results.