If you can afford to live within jackhammer distance of a metro, you can afford earplugs

you ever tried convincing a scared crying 3 year old to put in an earplug?

Screen time for children? This is hacker news -the collective groupthink will eat you alive for that suggestion /s

OK, have them listen to Mozart or whatever bourgeois parents these days think will turn their kids into geniuses :)

Won't some body think of the children?!

Wearing earplugs regularly isn't a solution, it's a sound bite and you know it. Just say you think peace doesn't actually matter.

Evolution wasted its time making fish move around, vision, reproduction, gills and so on.

The replacement just has to taste very similar, not hurt animals, be reasonably priced, sustainable to produce and healthy or neutral for health.

Also, the meat substitutes that currently exist are all based on plants, which also went through all those years of evolution – they’re not chemically synthesized from the ground up. And they seem set to be supplanted in the future by meat grown artificially from real animal cells, which will make the whole point moot.

Food science isn't a linear process based on the evolutionary complexity of the organisms we eat.

Arguably cows have been impacted by as much evolution as any organism. It's not as though cows spontaneously generated 100M years ago - there were hundreds of millions of years leading up to cows becoming what we recognize today.

I don't think those numbers have any relationship to taste, but if you insist - life first appeared on earth 3.5 billion years ago, so the majority of that will be the exact same, it should take a minor modification to get to fish.

It doesn't have to be better than fish in every way. Just in the ways that consumers care about.

People got very mad at this, but it seems preferable. Movies/TV shows that you "like a lot" versus movies that you "just like" are both movies that you'd watch, and watching is what you're buying.

It seems like the biggest problem is the retreat from nuclear, not the focus on solar.

Or the fact that the sun doesn't shine that much in Germany? Look at a world solar potential energy map. They are throwing money down the drain.

A combination of shutting down nuclear to just import from France's nukes down the road and use solar where they don't get much sun I would guess.

Where?

It sounds like something from the last book of the Three Body Problem trilogy

Second book, aptly called “The Dark Forest”

Are you made that they didn't leave open the possibility that she was Australian, a Kiwi or an Afrikaner?

The first words are "A study published this week sheds"....

Except for its the author's study. "My study" is more appropriate.

Yudkowsky's Sequences on Less Wrong (Rationality A-Z is the bookform) has a good claim on being a true future-book as webpage.

In what way?

It's entirely built around linking between different parts of the sequence. In theory, you land on one page and can go to any number of pages. It has a set order (by that which the text was published), but is equally valid to read it in different orders.

The order of the text is determined by the lack of awareness of the reader and what they're trying to pursue.

Definitely more lonely, given that what finished them off was the same Power that still courses through most of the developed world.