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I've never considered the conversation and reasoning to be more than transient. If you want to carry forward a session, you must produce a context artifact. IMO this is like wantin…

Because the stereotypical California hippie loves pistachios (e.g. dubai chocolate) despite the virtue signaling about protecting the environment.

Which is a bit of a shame, given the terrible health effects of alcohol.

The irony is that Emacs-like bindings are far more widespread (readline support by default, and most GUIs support Alt+arrow, alt+backspace)

The training material is used to "develop intelligence" not as reference material. As an analogy, students learn a bunch of things during school, become more intelligent, but do no…

Required philosophical reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

> anything truly important will be distributed by mainstream media First of all this is just blatantly not true (e.g. MSM ignoring politically inconvenient news). Second of all wha…

It's basically WRPG vs JRPG. I think it's safe to say based on historical game performance/sales that most people prefer the "railroaded" story format of JRPG than WRPG role playin…

I don't suppose the age ended with a particular tower falling down?

> GitHub takes git and basically turns it back into subversion and co. Instead of all that anarchic "no repo is king" long haired hippie nonsense, you want central control 8) I do …

They are absolutely not the same. e.g. the Cornell method is for learning. > Do you mean the idea that hand movements of writing help retention? It's not just that, but also mental…

These discussions always conflate the different types of "notes". Broadly, there are two very different kind of notes. First, there are notes whose purpose is to be easy to find wh…

Semi-tangential, but this is why free markets are much more efficient than armchair experts. Armchair experts won't correctly estimate all of these incidental costs nor the value o…

It's not possible for us to work together and fix it, since most of the problem is coming from China, like with most pollution in general. Unless you're proposing something like nu…

Mainstream media effectively lets you control the people. Being able to control how people vote is worth a lot of money.

> which is why it's considered a very good idea to let women There's some revisionism going on here. Women did not want to vote. It was the feminism/communism movement that brought…

Is it not a bad thing in the general case? People who produce net positive value for society subsidize the unsustainable reproduction of those who are a net drain. It is a very ste…

Human boundaries are technical boundaries. If you're building for humans, then human limitations are part of the technical requirements. e.g., there's a reason that fancy buildings…

Let's not kid ourselves, this is 100% due to mainstream media bias. Well, maybe not 100%, let's say 90%

I came in here wondering why a config database is in London. It's quite unfortunate to name your conference after a much more popular, or at least widely used software (try searchi…

The vast majority of "gamers" play on a phone. Would you consider something like Neverness to Everness to be "very basic"? Times have changed

Fun fact, air conditioning was invented for lowering humidity in warehouses, hence why it is called air conditioning and not air cooling.

Your compiler can't prove null doesn't exist if you have unsafe, and you end up being better off having tested in the first place. And how do you know your compiler is even functio…

Who decides what is morally wrong? If everyone decided to not follow or enforce laws based on their own morals, society would be in absolute chaos. You can't have a functioning soc…

Where are these people? Do you mean "many people" as in a few hundred, representing 0.000% of the billions that use email world-wide?