I dont get it. projects that don't involve work? projects without need?
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- I will read geological surveys and find fossils.
- I will teach myself Physics and see what happens.
leisure/schole != lack of projects
(my project, like mikewarot's, is to greenfield Informatics as if we hadn't incurred the path-dependent legacy of [pragmatically driven by miniscule machines of the time] decisions made in the 1960s; unlike his I'm making a totally different likely-wrong set of other decisions :-)
EDIT: hnthrowaway0328, finding fossils (in the right strata) is nearly trivial. Challenge: find some Ediacaran fauna!
Challenge 2: if you haven't already, work through the Feynman Lectures: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
(that'd be ~8 startups/doctorate programs, so the goods are odd even if the odds are not good)
* to get SAK's long jumps in fitness space
Case study here of phoneboothknifefight elevated to a streetside assassination attempt? Positively Getting holyroman here…
You may be familiar with the following characters :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135916
CH should be optimally hilly for the Odding in the next 3 decades :)
(More frank/brian herbert refs TK)
As with W40K, I guess I have a "gentleman's knowledge" of the Herbertiverse?
And on the optimal hills: at least we haven't been notified to clear out wine and skis and stock up yet — I was impressed by how efficiently my wife laid up 2 weeks' rations in the "cave" when the italian tourists first brought us Covid, and she asked, what, don't americans learn how to stock their shelter in elementary school too?
Nothing deep required .
Just the general ecodoomer vibe, plus awareness of the intended message behind the Golden Path/the Weirding Way
a) we gave our army the task to procure PPE, as they are the sole national entity which is both in the habit of buying things for millions of people at once, and could negotiate a cash&carry discount in china by sending cargo planes and logistics people to pick them up.
b) a local company bought a chinese mask-making machine with some public support for the gamble; that turned out to have been an out-of-the-money option, but had we needed the capacity, I'm sure that equipment would have been even more thoroughly reverse-engineered than it had been by the time of installation.
c) in between all of this, a few too "enterprising" people were charged for buying up N95 stocks and attempting to scalp them online.
Oh, and there was also a bit of a shortage of morals, as a few people tried to take advantage of various public support programs for enterprises; as far as I can tell although money was helicoptered pretty quickly to where it was needed, the forensic accountants were only a year or two behind to ferret out those marginal cases when it had gone places where it had not actually been needed. (like with no-personnel stores, this is one of the times where a high trust society pays off)
(I was once watching the semifinals of the women's epée nat'l championships, and a former Olympian told me that "B always does the right thing, and that's why she won't win: A knows how to do the wrong thing at the right moment, and that's why she's a champion")
wrt to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42216196 : my impression of non-human violence is that they are better than we at avoiding violence when the power balance is clear; it's mostly with young animals or moments where the status quo threatens to have been merely a stasis quo that application of violence becomes necessary. (compare Cherryh, Foreigner)
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic02W1bWeFU
Shorter Herbert? https://read.gov/aesop/048.html