I tried a PC port of Dark Souls but I couldn't get past the horrible controls. Do you play on PC or console? If you like action RPGs you might want to try Path of Exile.

I completely agree with you, but unfortunately they're in so deep now they can't just suddenly reallocate massive amounts of military spending with huge repercussions. I believe the transition would have to slow and gradual to accommodate the job loss and retraining of those employed by the military. Another fun thing to think about it what effects it would have on global politics if the US withdrew military presence around the world.

Now that you pointed it out, it does seem like the recent talks have been less technical and more about human interests. Maybe this is because TED is gaining popularity and appealing to the lowest common denominator. But to call it a meme-hosting website seems a bit extreme.

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Different strains have different effects. Some just make me want to build a city in SimCity, create something in Blender, or I just get random ideas that I have to sketch up before I forget them. And then on the other hand there's strains that just make me a zombie.

No offense, but I've never heard of that theory before, do you have a source?

Population control and stabilization seems to be a reoccurring theme of your posts. Did you know this is already happening across the world? People are having fewer children because of advances in medicine and science, among other reasons. It seems to me that following your view could actually increase population as child mortality increases, people would have more children fearing some would die of sickness or infection.

Or we could have 2 separate classes, one for doping and one for the way is now. I'm kinda curious on how far they can push the human body.

I wonder what that would be like from the astronauts point of view, as they experience the shifting of the frequency of light.

I tried to post this and it looks you beat me to it. I wonder what it feels like to touch it? Would it be like typing on a squishy keyboard? There wouldn't be any mechanical feedback like a normal keyboard that's for sure. It might have other uses though, like simulating textures for games.

Watch how all the circlejerkers gather into their own small group off to the side of the main group. I agree with the search request, I want to be able to search my username and see where I am on the map.

High res: 1 and 2. Now imagine the largest ever caught 6 times bigger.

There's a really great documentary on absolute zero here. It's from 2009 so it doesn't include any of this "negative absolute temperature" stuff, but it's still relevant.

It's a great thing for humanity, but it's the transition that's the hard part. New jobs are being created all the time, stuff we wouldn't have imagined 10 or even 5 years ago. But these are highly specialized jobs that require years of training. When people get laid off because their old jobs become obsolete, it's expensive and takes a lot of time to go back to school and learn a new skill. Some skills are obsolete shortly after graduating or before they even graduate. I went to college 7 years ago and everything they taught me is useless now.

That was great, good job guys. I find space fascinating because it's just so unimaginably huge, there's hundreds of billions of stars and planets calling to be explored. I kinda wish I was born 100 or 1000 years in the future so I could be a part of it. I'm 27, but I'm doubtful I'll be able to explore space in my lifetime.

This took me a while to adjust to. At first I wasn't sure what I could open in a new tab and what I couldn't. Now I just open posts in new tabs and everything else (tags, users, etc) I just click on normally to get the pop-up.

Where is Hubski located anyway? It's always in the future for me.

How about E-democracy? It's a digital form of direct democracy, simple with today's technology. You could vote on your smart phone. It would increase vote turnout too.

But what if your senses could be perfectly reproduced within the digital environment? Imagine if you couldn't tell the difference between real life and the digital simulation.

Halifax, NS, Canada.

Good talk, I agree with everything he said. The amazing part is where he said our lower/middle class incomes would be $45,000/year higher if the wasn't for the rich rigging the economy for the last 30 years. Is there a source for that number?

Hans Rosling

I realize that you can "follow" a hashtag, which is a feature I like and am currently utilizing, but I feel as if that could be easily abused. Somebody could just make an outrageous title, like "Apple stock tumbles, company goes bankrupt" and link it to some NSFW/NSFL content.

The hashtag, eg, #Technology could be a "blanket" of sorts for subhubs. So #technology could include places like /h/Technologynews, /h/programming, /h/buildapc, /h/linux, /h/android, etc. When you decided to go to the #technology link, it would show intermixed posts from all of those subhubs.

Halifax, NS>Boston, MA>Newark, NJ>New Delhi, India. I missed my connection in Newark and had to stay the night in a hotel, but I could see the NYC skyline from my window so I didn't mind at all. On the way back it was New Delhi, India>Brussels, Belgium>Montreal, QC>Halifax, NS. First time flying by myself too, it was fun.

I like the wheel too, but as someone viewing posts that already have a full wheel there's little reason to click on the wheel. Does it do anything?

The author is only allowed to add one tag, the followers add the rest. See here. I'm not sure I agree with it, I think the author should be able to add at least 2 or 3 tags per post.

What you're describing is stage 5 of the demographic transition model, where reproduction rates decline as the standard of living increases. There's actually some evidence of a stage 6, where reproduction rates start to increase again in some advanced countries (but not Japan).

Me too. But I don't really know what I'm doing on here yet.