About Elm: "I like everything about it - compiler error messages, type system soundness, The Elm Architecture, pure functions, immutability, performance, etc." <3
Out of curiosity "This was not expected to occur that early on in the solar system, and it means we need to change some of the ways we think about that time." Why did the rock have to come from a volcano within our solar system. With the age of the rock, couldn't it have came from out of our solar system?
I wonder what happens to society in a theoretical scenario where the foundation of why we build societies change. I understand this is way over simplifying it, but one of the basic premises of building a society is to control a finite resource. [We are going to control this water, this farmable land, oil field, etc.] I wonder what would happen to society if we were able to make more and more of the universe useable, if 3d printing became so efficient we were able to make our own goods, or other scenarios that would make it so we no longer needed to rely on a society in a classic sense to accumulate a "limited" resource. Would it fundamentally change how we govern ourselves or would we just change what metrics we use to define the rich/not rich?
The Windup Girl is pretty new and is good as well. Although it touches on more environmental/corporate standpoints, but they all relate to each other anyways.
There is a push in California right now to clean up the whole distinction between a contract worker and an employee. This is geared toward the California legislature as much as it is other competition.