This is what bugs me every time I have to use Chrome. I know why Chrome does it, it has every incentive to put people through search at every opportunity. There is no way to put results from the history on top.

But you can do that in Firefox.

So, essentially that's how it works in the game Elite: Dangerous where you load and unload the passengers in cabins which are measured in tons. They can even be stolen mid-flight by anyone with a hatch breaker drone. Unfortunately, you cannot jettison them in the void of space.

Then there are the Imperial slaves which are considered cargo and not passengers, but it's a different story...

That's an odd connection to make. The depiction of passengers in Elite Dangerous is limited to some numbers on a UI screen.

I couldn't resist reading this in Patrick Bateman's voice!

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's book-case.

Mind making some disclosure? Your account is 0 days old, and has made 3 comments. All in the same thread and promoting the same app.

Just noticed this post making the rounds in Hacker News. I've worked with these tools for tens of years so figured I'd chime in, although I haven't commented here before. Lately I've been super happy with the Proxygen app and wanted to add it to the discussion because I really want to see that app thrive. Included the URL as the names are easy to confuse.

"I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME."

The word is forever etched in my mind together with this quote.

XCOM (2012) is super convenient with a gamepad, I finished both new games (with Long War mod on top) with a 360 controller.

Give it a try, its control scheme is designed very well.

There was a neighbor to the east about a thousand years ago. Ever since, there are a lot of Tatar and Mongolian words in Russian.

Wormhole devices in movies keep puzzling me for quite some time - why does a significant number of them look like rings rotating around each other? Contact is one example, another is Event Horizon. The Terminator also had a similar looking time machine.

I've often thought about this.

Currently, our sole way of manipulating spacetime is by cramming a heck of a lot of matter in one spot, which is to say that we don't really do much of it. Any way short of crushing down mountainsful of matter into a thimble would necessarily be more complex, with more moving parts. I can only think that rotation would come into play, and if one dimension is good, three would have to be better if you want to shred spacetime.

I don't think it's doable but in the sense that you want something to visually convey it, it may as well be the equivalent of lightning to stand in for electricity.

Pretty sure it mostly stems from initial illustrations for The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

Not sure if there's some pseudo-physical explanation, but I've imagined it has something to do with visualizing the three dimensions that are manipulated.

Interestingly both Event Horizon and Contact (movie) are from 1997...

I suspect the reason is as simple as it looks cool and dramatic on screen.

Ah, yes, the infamous Rip Van Winkle effect.

I consider time dilation to be an inherently literary format, and Forever War is where the idea is turned up to eleven. There's also a short comic adaptation if you like.

> A sample of 167 emerging adults (ages 18-24; 71.3% female) with iPhones participated in the study.

BYU University is a Mormon university. I assume students there have a rather healthy sleep routine in general.