Class traitor is still too generous imo, I honestly think he’s pushing Linux so there’s less future dependency on Microsoft

Single player campaign requires an online connection, has no pause, and kicks you if you’re idle

Orbiting is pretty straightforward, so is transferring to a moon or something. Planets are tougher because both are moving instead of one orbiting the other. You need to speed up to go somewhere and you need to slow down to stop there. That’s about the gist.

Not for young kids, there’s blood and violence and language and so on

It’s important to me that apple users put their thousand dollar phones in brightly colored, fragile crochet bags and go into crowded areas with them

Humans learn from their mistakes all tge time but porky benefits from workers suffering

It’s not Linux, it’s having to go through a bunch of corporate login SAAS bullshit before you’re able to access your timesheet and punch in.

Every time I ran into that guy he did some mall ninja shit, got rocked in seconds and then cutscenes interrupted me so he could smug around a little longer

Guy who sells cars believes everyone should buy a car

If the Big Bounce happens faster than 10^100 years then there will still be black holes, and things falling into a black hole (such as the entire cosmos) would extend its lifespan.

Also, if the universe does eventually Bounce, new black holes will have opportunity to form. Hawking radiation only really starts to come into play when not even photons are hitting black holes any more.

There’s some wild stuff going on in astronomy. This particular hypothesis was made using baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) data. The idea is that the early universe was hot and dense, and random fluctuations would make certain areas more or less dense, like ripples in a pond. Then when the universe rapidly expanded, all those oscillations and over/under densities were frozen as they were, and we can look at the cosmic microwave background and the structure of the modern universe to see how those original changes in density evolved into modern galaxies and voids. This gives us a measuring stick for distance that’s completely independent of using the light of distant events. And BAO and standard candles like 1a supernovas basically agree with each other completely on the expansion rate, and only with higher precision modern instruments have we detected that the methods disagree on the rate of expansion. This paper is trying to square that circle by critically analyzing the validity of the data we measure.

For me the big question is “what about black holes” in a Big Bounce scenario.

We don’t know if space is a material made of anything, but we treat space as a 4-dimensional coordinate set in our math. We know space is expanding because when we look at things far away, 100% of them are moving away from us, and the farther away they are, the faster they’re moving. Some clever people did the math and established that the only reasonable cause for that is space itself expanding, so things that are further away move away faster because there’s more space between us to expand.

If I’m sitting still and you’re sitting still and then an earthquake splits the earth and moves us further apart, you could say that you didn’t budge but I moved twice as fast away from you, because reference frames are weird like that.

Galaxies tend to have random velocity, but the underlying space itself is expanding, which makes everything in space start to move away from everything else. Further away objects have more space between them and us and so appear to move faster. The classic analogy is to mark two dots on an uninflated balloon and then inflate it. The points didn’t move across the balloon’s surface, but they’re now farther apart because the balloon itself is bigger.

The stock fell 25% because estimates for some indicators were 1% higher then what actually happened

I imagine the interactions that make it sputter are harder to get going in zero g, but also it’s not a true grill, it’s a convection oven. Probably has a filter in the air circulation. Still a crazy feat.

At the current rate of capital investment, 2027 is when literally no more money exists to be invested

We can all be well aware that the line is going up due to finance fuckery, including the investors, but that doesn’t matter so long as the line keeps going up. Alan Greenspan warned of the dotcom bubble’s irrational exuberance. If you bought into the bubble on that day, you’d still have come out ahead if you sold at the crash’s lowest low. The investors don’t care that it’s a bubble, they know it’s a bubble. They only care about their net worth going up. If they get 4% from the bonds market and 4.1% from detonating the global economy, you know exactly what their plan is.

Anyways, the real deadline is somewhere in 2027 when the money runs out. You can shuffle paper deals around all you want but at the end of the day someone needs to pay cash for GPUs and data centers, and AI can’t do it. Too expensive, massively negative profit margins. Every real dollar spent is thrown into the money pit and burned. In 2027, there will be no more liquidity left to invest in any sector, anywhere. No bank investments, no private equity, no venture capital. All spent on AI

Hey you gotta get those deal breakers out early, otherwise you’re wasting time