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Here are some crimes you can commit by speaking, where freedom of speech cannot be used as a defence: - assault / terror threats - extortion / blackmail - fraud - conspiracy / soli…

It is not "beyond obvious" that a cat cannot have copyright, given the lawsuit about a monkey holding copyright [1], and the way PETA tried to used that case as precedent to establ…

That was a false lead, where Claude was investigating the wrong event. There's a yellow note on the side of interaction #1 pointing it out, and it's made even more clear if you ful…

That reminds me of the handwriting recognition approach [1] used in old Palm Pilot devices. Even though the shapes it expected you to draw resembled the corresponding letters, you …

Those other routes aren't in Sydney, though. Regional bus route numbers sometimes overlap with Sydney route numbers.

I definitely don't find myself complaining about them as I much as did 10 years ago. Back then, one of my local bus stops in Newtown had "what is the point of this?" written in mar…

There isn't much there to liquidate that still has any worth. They didn't have significant holdings of any of the major assets. That's kind of the main reason they were insolvent.

A timestamp doesn't require TZ data because the timezone of the unix epoch is defined in UTC. To convert a timestamp into a meaningful datetime value, we need a timezone, otherwise…

I was familiar with the issue described, but it was useful to learn the shortcut of passing a timezone to `now()`, since I used to rely on `utcnow().replace()`, which was needlessl…

It's doubly curious that there hasn't been a recent resurgence. I'd expect that the WFH trend would be making it more practical and sustainable for many. During polyphasic experime…

There are so many clever ways to code honeypots using obscure peculiarities of Solidity and/or Etherscan that there's little hope of being sure that it isn't a scam just by looking…

The author of the article, Robert Miller, is a leading authority on MEV (Miner/Maximum Extractable Value). Those involved in MEV are quite a different bunch from most of the crypto…

That is a viable possibility, yes. You wouldn't need a "much larger fee" though, just 120% of the other transaction's fee would be enough to secure prioritisation over it.

My anecdotal experience was also that corporal punishment worked ... until I grew too old for it. Having spent my formative years being motivated by avoiding beatings, rather than …

Ritalin displays no significant activity on 5HT receptors, in contrast to dexamphetamine, which does have significant serotogenic effects. Yes, they are not related, but both are t…

That example can also be tackled with Python's little-known feature of calling the built-in `iter` with a second argument: > for line in iter(f.readline, ''): > ... # process line …

The notion that dietary cholesterol affects blood cholesterol is outdated, and is not supported by evidence (with some exceptions, e.g. for diabetics). Modern nutrition advisories …

That sentence was presented clearly as a quote from the MongoDB CEO, and followed immediately by "[t]hat’s a pretty feisty comment." I don't entirely disagree with your overall ass…

Yes, the stunt I pulled in college was dangerous, but adding a gallon or even two to a healthy adult's water consumption throughout the course of a day is not. Especially consideri…

Clothing isn't the only option to stay cooler in a warm environment. Drinking water is quite effective. Just plain tap water is cool enough, but if you want to drink smaller amount…

Yes, wash trading is bad. But crypto was created to escape regulation, which comes with the good and the bad. "Go back to fiat if you want regulation" is a common mindset, though t…

The issue is that CryptoCompare maps "POLY" to PolyBit, and not to Polymath, which is the generally accepted mapping (there is no authority to officially define such mappings). So …

Agree, which is why I said "near-equivalent". For example if your partner has a chronic illness, you can never say you felt their pain, but you can say you know what it's like to l…

I mean, don't you think they're trying to change the situation? And have been for decades? Armenia has great desire to change its standing in the global passport rankings. However,…