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> Shouldn't entirely new life develop all the time on earth? The fact that it doesn't is a pretty simple solution to the Fermi Paradox.

I would say it's almost never appropriate unless you're directly quoting source texts. If you are talking about a historical event from Egypt in 500 BCE, you would say "this happen…

> At least in this article the author explicitly explains the notation at the very start They explain one particular aspect of the notation but never define the variables used. Wha…

No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.

> The vast majority of processors are optimized for floats now and some operations (e.g. division) are actually faster. This seems backwards. Hardware is optimized for floats becau…

Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.

Backdoors are often (almost always?) designed to look like incompetence so that there's plausible deniability.

> Any time I try to use the site while logged out I immediately hit all sorts of rate limits and spam prevention measures. When this started happening to me I realized that I can't…

Discounted doesn't necessarily mean at a loss. It could just mean a smaller profit margin than normal.

It's active voice. Intransitive verbs cannot be put in the passive.

> "$1m in stocks" is a thing that is having appreciation done to it. How? "appreciate" in this sense is not a transitive verb. There cannot be an agent. In any case, I don't think …

It's not "we should live in the same environment we evolved in to be happy", it's "the things that make us happy are a product of the environment we evolved in, and we should take …

I hate that this discussion is about OpenAI vs. Anthropic and not OpenAI+Anthropic vs. Google. Google put up so little of a fight against the DoW for their use of Gemini that we di…

You are conflating obnoxiousness with directness.

> GPU-friendly? Scalable? Energy-efficient? Reliable? User-friendly? Maintainable? Nobody uses "performant" to refer to any of those. It usually means either high throughput, or so…

> Widespread vulnerabilities discovered This is a good thing

> Copyright © 1997 the Nordstjernen project Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan s…

> You can use your imagination to come up with many reasons these result in more chargebacks than normal purchases. No I can't. Can you elaborate?

Where is the source code?

Corruption does not necessarily mean a politician receiving a kickback. It can be a lot more indirect and subversive.

Something similar is the lost wallet test: https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ijboze/study_of_civic_h... source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712 https://web.a…

Secure boot doesn't provide security, just control for device manufacturers. Physical access always means the device is pwned. You can install a keylogger or something similar.

> for productive national conversation (and some digital services) at scale to happen online identities need to be verified That is the exact opposite of what you need. Loss of ano…

The wording was just an attempt to illustrate the point. There are cases where you can rephrase a sentence with "zero" to get basically the same meaning, but the important thing is…

Also not the same. You can't say "the number of apples is no", but you can with "zero".