We don't have energy "needs", we have energy "wants". People lived before the advent of electricity. As energy becomes cheaper and more plentiful, our "needs" don't become more fulfilled in any sense. We simply find ways to use more energy for more things.

Only because we define a radian so that there are precisely 2pi radians in a circle. While we're making up constants, let's have the pradian, of which there are exactly pi in a circle. Then this planet goes through exactly one pradian per day.

You mean to say "so as a *life and death* concern, it is somewhere in the middle". Also, the year isn't over yet....

Unless, of course, your religion is criminalized, in which case *you are a convicted criminal*. The problem with forced prison labor is that it creates incentive to incarcerate people. Incarceration should be a solution that "sucks, but these people can't be trusted out on their own, so what can you do?" not, "Oooooohhhhh goodie! Here come's another cash cow in chains!". There are other ways to teach prisoners labor skills. They can also be productive, but their product *should not make money for those in charge of incarcerating them*, because this creates perverse incentives.

Fortunately for us all, you've managed to prevent mass hysteria with your insightful /. comment. I had already packed up the wagon and hitched the oxen to get to Ceres before all the water there had been laid stake!

Kukuyo is just saying that they are familiar with such a thing in German-speaking regions, because, presumably, they have no experience with Mandarin-speaking regions. It is just anecdotal evidence that difficulty with statistical/mathematical language is not strictly an English-language phenomenon.

So you admit that police objections to being video surveilled is because they are doing things that would get them in trouble. Check and mate!

True, but there is a tragedy of the commons element here, whereby when some people move to the suburbs and use the road to commute into the city, those people who live in the city cannot use the roads because they are completely clogged. So in this situation there are some winners and some losers. The city dwellers are people, too.

Scientists publishing preliminary findings isn't the problem. Journalists re-publishing preliminary findings as "scientists find that definitely for sure [insert preliminary finding here]" are the problem. If anything, scientists *under*-publish their negative/low-power studies resulting in publication bias

I don't feel this way at all. I'm super low maintenance, and pretty much the only reason I work at all anymore these days is because I'm bored otherwise.

It's irrelevant. Editing Wikipedia is work. It's volunteer work, but it is work. Thus, Wikipedia is a place of work. A *privately owned* place of work. If a coworker at my place of work said to me "this is wrong and uncited trash and here's a link that shows how dumb and wrong the original wording is", they would soon find themselves in the HR department, having a talk with the HR manager. And if not, then I would be out the door, because I won't stand for being disrespected at my place of work. Nobody wants to be disrespected at their place of work. I don't, "these people" don't. Perhaps you do, but I in any case I would *never* disrespect you in such a way at your place of work, even if you seem to want to be so disrespected. "Don't disrespect people on Wikipedia" seems like a perfectly good rule to me.

This is the worst description of an Alcubierre Drive . It does not create a pocket where a spaceship operates outside of physics, even seemingly. Not even by the standards of the same theory positing the light-speed limit.

Google introduces hangouts video conferencing for the public for free, paywalls it, makes it free again. What's going to happen to it when the pandemic subsides? I'd rather not get invested in anything that will evaporate at a later date. And who knows, Zoom may implode later, or paywall their stuff, but with Google it's basically guaranteed.

Is this scenario Google leaving a market or is it Google locking them out of a market? I suppose the courts will decide.

Sounds to me as though they not only ordered states to raise the drinking age nationally to 21, but they had a fat stick to back up their threat. But that's before my time, so maybe there's something I'm missing.