Possible yes, practical no. Effectively you would need to build a new sub-continant to have an appreciable impact on sea level. That said, you don’t need to dredge from the low point in the ocean, all that matters is displacing solid material from below sea level to above sea level, so the best option would be to find a shallow sea with an existing archipelago of islands and build up from there making it a deep sea with the islands connected as a continent. Alternately you could go after reefs, despite the collateral damage, with the great barrier reef being the obvious choice, essentially pump up dredged sand from the surrounding ocean bed onto the reef to make new land, the reef has the advantage of being very shallow and stabilized with lots of surface area, so good for making lots of land if you don’t mind being the architect of an ecological apocalypse of unprecedented proportions.

Not if it was deposited on bedrock, or even if it wasn’t if it was done in a way that works with the currents. There are many examples of artificial islands being built successfully.

Hmmm, looking at Lojban in a bit more detail it sounds like the consensus is that the conative load of having to construct perfect logical specificity makes it suboptimal as a secondary intermediary language. If people are learning it as a second language it will be very hard to pick up.

This seems like a pretty solid option. I feel like this type of algorithmic language construction could be ripe for a big push forward, both in terms of constructing new languages and benchmarking them for use.

Person Singular Plural

1st me nus

And you lost me. Irregular pluralization at the very core of the language does not smack of a the ideal neutral language, whether it is shared by Germanic and Romance languages or not.

Startpage is still decent

Cool, is it good?

Who can lead us to cooperative ownership of datacenter and internet hard infrastructure? Who will organize the collective digital workforce? Who will assemble the fund?

Bernie Madoff had the largest fall from $65 billion estimated at peak to $17 billion at time of arrest then dying in prison.

Changpeng Zhao of Binance will be the richest person in the US, and probably ever, to do time in prison after conviction, but his wealth won’t be impacted and it is only a few months, so hardly much Finding Out involved.

Sam Bankman-Fried is potentially an even bigger Find Out than Madoff, because unlike Madoff who maintained a large estate even after going to jail, SBF has gone from around $24 billion to $15.5 Billion at time of arrest, to now close to zero on paper as almost all his wealth was tied up in FTX and crypto and it was “all” siezed as part of his conviction and the FTX winddown. Now that said, he probably has a lot of crypto stashed in cold wallets somewhere that have appreciated substantially since his arrest, so it is hard to know how much he would be worth if he ever got access to them, but as I understand it he is basically banned from using computers and facing over 100 years on his sentence, so he better be putting in a lot of good behavior of he ever hopes to see any of that secret stash again.

Sidewalk construction.

Commercial carpet installation.

Toilet paper.

King’s Reign has been fun, deck builder Roguelike where you play soldier cards and they combo while marching left to right along a board with three lanes.

Yes, it very much depends on the definition of Homo sapiens.

There is a strict genetic definition in which a set of defining genes constrain the species, in which case there was likely a first human, but there is every possibility that their first descendents didn’t meet that definition and it took a few generations of back and forthing and natural selection for a consistent line of humans to exist.

On the other hand you could define the species based on social behavior, in which case the “first human” only arose in context of at least one other member of the species, and “Adam and Eve” or “Annie and Eve” or “Adam and Steve” scenario.

Then you go to what most agricultrually minded people think of as a “species”, which is fetile interbreeding. In that case it seems like there never really was a separation between Homo sapiens and Homo erectus and Neanderthals, as there is now broadly accepted evidence of interbreeding long past the “differentiation” of the species, though social and territorial differences seem to have kept them from re-merging into a unified population.

Leather moccasons it is then.

I haven’t actually issued it over to my ereader yet, but I have a Boox so I will probably just use the Kiwix android app

Have you actually smelted and alloyed useable steel from ores before? That’s a choice skill to have practical experience with at a small scale.

This is a good reminder, I need to upload my Kiwix backup to my eReader. I keep a Wikipedia essentials download, survival and medical encyclopedias, and a bunch of “from the ground up” engineering resources backed up offline.

Well maybe that one hole in his breastplate is bigger, but I stand by it that cannon cock shot is canon.

On top of that, is the largest single scar on his Vescar armor, even looking like an actual crater. Someone didn’t just shoot him on the dick, they scored a cock shot with a canon and he walked away.

The best inventions do progress with backwards compatibility

MPE and MIDI 2.0 would like a word zir