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 Discussion on answer by Fallenspacero…

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coppereyecat
Apr 17, 2024 05:31
@Fallenspacerock you're used to leather and other materials suitable to keep warm existing. But imagine you're an early human living in a climate where you don't need such things, and you don't already kill animals for food. Would you think, "I need to start killing animals to use their fur to keep warm so I can go further north"? Or would you think "I guess it just gets too cold up there, we'll keep living down here". MAYBE the first would happen, but it takes a long tradition of that to figure out the process of tanning leather. It isn't direct from animal, to clothing that doesn't rot.
coppereyecat
Apr 17, 2024 05:31
@Syndic but would they figure out leather if they weren't killing and harvesting animals for other purposes?
 

 Discussion on question by Citizen and…

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coppereyecat
Mar 7, 2024 10:41
People slandering you over expressing the culture you have been raised in have a political and/or religious axe to grind, and are not operating in good faith, but rather out of an emotional knee jerk reaction. As to the questions you are answering, these are in debate in general, and you should make your own decision as to what you believe is moral or ethical about these matters, not be swayed by emotional outbursts on social media.
 

 Discussion on question by GeneralOcto…

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coppereyecat
Jan 5, 2024 01:31
@GeneralOctopusNL if by "take him apart" you mean "take him aside", as in, away from the group, I would definitely suggest editing that phrasing. In colloquial english, to "take someone apart" means to attack them in a devastating way, which in this context would be assumed to be a verbal attack. I don't think that's actually what you mean, but that's definitely how it reads.
 

 Discussion on question by LordMalecit…

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coppereyecat
Oct 4, 2023 12:15
Sea cucumbers do something similar as well as I recall.
 

 Discussion on question by Asish: Mana…

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coppereyecat
Sep 23, 2023 23:31
@Fattie I work for a small (<50 employee) consultancy and we had recent layoffs too, so I guess it just depends. (Maybe too much of our consultancy is for bigger, bloated companies whose budgets have just been cut....)
coppereyecat
Sep 23, 2023 23:31
@Fattie have you missed the big layoffs happening in tech? The economy is not great right now and that extends to programmers. I know people who have been laid off for months who have tons of marketable skills.
 

 Discussion on question by Edwardo: Wh…

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coppereyecat
Jun 15, 2023 12:43
I often use unit tests to validate my own assumptions about what code is doing, including or especially new code I am writing. I'm not always correct. I also use them to have greater confidence that a refactor didn't change behavior, especially in unfamiliar parts of the codebase.
 

 Discussion on question by Barmar: Is …

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coppereyecat
Apr 27, 2023 23:03
Regarding pronunciation, enunciate is the correct word, not annunciate ;)
 

 Discussion on question by lollo259: W…

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coppereyecat
Apr 2, 2023 02:24
Keep in mind that swift growth has other costs as well, such as lifespan and durability. Look at great danes vs terriers for example.
 

 Discussion on question by Vogon Poet:…

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coppereyecat
Feb 23, 2022 17:38
But are they trying to set stuff on fire or trying not to set stuff on fire, and how much control over their fire do they have?
 

 Discussion on question by Vogon Poet:…

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coppereyecat
Feb 18, 2022 16:32
Not immediately, but if you have your best minds working on it, eventually you will make progress. If nothing else, make some assumptions and build some prototypes and see what happens. Of course it will take time and work.
coppereyecat
Feb 18, 2022 16:32
@VogonPoet Daniel B's answer explains a few possible constants that could be used. You're making this more difficult than it is.
coppereyecat
Feb 18, 2022 16:32
@VogonPoet the point is that whatever their personal units of measurement are, the speed of light in a vacuum is the same here or there, so we could convert from there.
 

 Discussion on question by Tom: Maroon…

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coppereyecat
Feb 9, 2022 16:37
If the trucker is flying a route with cargo, sooner or later, someone WILL come looking for them. Someone shipping cargo, and someone expecting to receive it, aren't going to just throw it in the hold of a ship and forget it exists and not want to find out what happened when it doesn't show up.
 

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coppereyecat
Dec 27, 2021 20:53
Analysis tag hit some sweet numbers.
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Dec 27, 2021 20:53
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 Discussion on question by Lemming: Wo…

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user109299
Dec 3, 2021 04:28
If you choose to leave cold = rises and heat = sinks, be aware this is pretty counterintuitive and the opposite of the way most things work. That might give you some clue as to how to produce your material, though. (Typically, heat causes things to expand and become less dense, thus hot air rises, hot water, etc)
 

 Discussion on answer by Nosajimiki: D…

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user109299
Nov 13, 2021 03:31
If it's too expensive to open more bakeries, you won't do it. Capitalism would work fine. If wheat costs more to grow than soybeans, but people want to eat wheat, they'd have to pay more for it; if they can't, you can't keep opening more bakeries, because you won't have paying customers. Higher demand and lower availability = higher prices, that's all. If enough people on your colony really want more of your baked goods, and have the money to pay for it, then your expensive overhaul becomes possible. If they can't pay enough for it, they just won't have the baked goods.
 

 Discussion on answer by Join JBH on C…

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user109299
Nov 5, 2021 03:27
@mkinson Your free energy example is effectively a post scarcity society. Whether or not such a thing is possible, or the outcomes thereof, is basically irrelevant: OP clearly specified they are NOT asking about a post-scarcity society.
 

 Discussion on question by North Warri…

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user109299
Nov 4, 2021 17:12
@EarlGrey I couldn't find a study or anything listing an actual percentage or "1 in x" chance of issues like that, but they seem to be pretty rare, and there are a lot of other more dangerous things people do with a much higher risk. Yes, it's possible, but seems to be not very likely. Everything in life is a risk. It's not worth getting anxiety over it.