Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 26-07-2016

andrewducker

Interesting Links for 26-07-2016

Jul 26, 2016 12:00

Transistors will stop shrinking in 2021, but Moore’s law will live on (tags: Technology thefuture ) UK suspended payments from £3bn EU development fund days after Brexit vote (tags: uk europe money ) You can take dogs on the NYC Subway so long as they're in a bag. There is no limit on the size of the bag (tags: dogs transport funny newyork ) ( Read more... )

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nancylebov July 26 2016, 13:45:27 UTC

A premise for a space opera-- Moore's Law continues until chips are extremely powerful, but chip fabs are so expensive that there's only one per spiral arm. The speed of light still holds, so it's a very long supply chain. Expect pirates.

Dogs on the subway: I hope to see wheeled carriers so that small owners can still bring large dogs.

andrewducker July 26 2016, 13:51:37 UTC

I like that idea a lot!

(Well, both of them, but the space opera one is cool.)

cartesiandaemon July 26 2016, 14:25:03 UTC

I was imagining a bag with legs for a large dog to walk in :)

I guess also, the dogs that are sitting in tote bags, even if they're bigger than the dogs people EXPECTED in tote bags, are being fairly well-behaved and not causing a problem, so hopefully it's all ok for the moment...

nancylebov July 27 2016, 03:06:59 UTC

I was also imagining a walkable bag, but that would be so that the dog and owner could use steps at stations that don't have elevators or escalators.

sashajwolf July 26 2016, 14:03:29 UTC

Oh gods, the comments on that Western Culture article.

(The article itself is an odd mixture of thought-provoking and infuriating that I don't have the time or the spoons to try to disentangle right now, but I like having my thoughts provoked, so thank you for sharing it.)

andrewducker July 26 2016, 14:25:43 UTC

That's mostly what I like that site for - the though provoking is usually interesting enough to make up for the infuriating.

I left this as a comment: 1) The captives who preferred Native American living to Western living weren’t choosing something over “Universal Culture” - because the colonists weren’t living in that culture. If anythign they had deliberately rejected the forward-moving Western European culture so that they could continue in their religious lifestyle in a new place ( ... )

sashajwolf July 26 2016, 14:52:15 UTC

Ah, I didn't get far enough down the comments to see this - too many MRA types. I agree with all of that, and thank you for managing more coherence than I could.

danieldwilliam July 26 2016, 16:16:52 UTC

I thought the piece on Western / Universal culture was thought provoking ( ... )

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