There are private islands not owned by any major nation.

The brain pleasure triggered by nicotine has biased your view of the socializing. If you slap a meth addict in the face just when their high is kicking in, they'll start to view slapping favorably. The mental associating is strong.

varied over time. I suspect that's a major culprit.

The world came so close to nuclear winter during the cold war on so many occasions that I believe we are living survivor bias.

the team turned to a process called annealing, where a material is heated for a specified period before slowly cooling. Although the process is not well understood, the idea is that heating can reduce defects in the material.

Why is it poorly understood? Sounds like a phenomenon itchin' to be studied.

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It's being split into two versions: HackPoint and LeakPoint.

Sharepoint is a piece of crap. Many groups in our org turned to email to "publish" internal info instead of use Sharepoint. Now our in-boxes are full of distracting crap. We had a self-rolled intranet CMS before Sharepoint, and it was fairly decent, but instead of improving it, they threw it out and replaced it with Sharepoint, which everybody hated.

I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

Seems a dumb bet, as if it had blown up the entire state or the world, nobody would be alive to pay up. Perhaps Fermi was just trolling.

By the way, we have similar decision coming up as to whether to bring Mars samples back to Earth. There's a non-zero chance they will have microbes we have no immunity for, and all parish. I realize we already have meteorites blasted off Mars, but they were heated both on the way up and down.

Marketers are used to that shit.

be big and controversial someday. They can't be banned because they can be arranged out of country.

Humans invent ever more ways to F up Earth.

David Ricardo's grave is now releasing methane.

Soviet era cubicles are made of solid steel. Small, but can handle a nuclear blast.

It's a status symbol for the rich and spoiled, investment value means shit to them.