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I am still worried about privacy, and it seems like the design of PeerTube is no longer flexible enough to consider making the desired improvements. In particular, it sounds like p…

It's kind of the point, in two ways. First, the constant usage of the Bible to justify political discourse is both a staple of the USA and also painfully stupid. It doesn't matter …

Hypocritical, not ironic. You mean to highlight that the USA does not treat other sovereign states like the USA expects to be treated. There is no ironic contrast between the USA f…

I really like how the current top two comment threads need to be glued together in order to get a coherent understanding of the timeline of this work.

As another algebraist (category theory and computational complexity), this makes a lot of sense. Euler's identity is capricious and Euclidean to me, and far from the most beautiful…

Oh look, it's the gateway-drug argument [0] all over again. The short version is that, for those other drugs that the grandparent listed in their comment, they are already schedule…

Indeed, one would hope that the author knows enough category theory to know that choices of syntax are arbitrary and that choices of semantics are forced; any Turing-complete langu…

Swift may have borrowed it from E, where the half-open variant is `1..!5`, read "from 1 up to, but not including, 5". It is extremely useful for 1-to-n sorts of counting tasks.

By your own numbers, this could translate to a 30-second AES key exfiltration in the cloud. This isn't a non-issue, even if you personally aren't affected.

Thanks for mentioning that not everybody responds well to Ritalin. I was medicated with it while in grade school, and it was not pleasant; the school nurse would check my mouth to …

The norms haven't changed, but society is more atomized and thus the norms can't exert the pressure that they once did.

I would choose to starve, too. But I'd probably kill a few slavers before I went. Why not, right?

Put up a public Web page with your friend's location. Every time they do anything, update the page. After a day, show them the page, and explain what you've done. See if it gets th…

It's easy to make unethical technical decisions when you don't have to bear the cost, either. And yet, we expect better from people.

Presumably the garbage will stop getting posted as soon as HR departments stop writing it.

Right. We should all be using OpenTheory [0]. [0] http://www.gilith.com/opentheory/

This pagoda and rock are nigh-unbelievable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaiktiyo_Pagoda I am amazed that, despite all the traffic and building, the rock has not moved.

Presumably the grandparent is thinking of organisms like Pando [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

Ah, and that explains the neutron star skepticism [0] too. [0] https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/neutron-nonse...

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The Sea Peoples were real, and so was the Bronze Age collapse. There's no need to speculate about Atlantis when we know that there was a very real epidemic of Mediterranean civiliz…

Foucault would politely disagree; he used "schizophrenic" (literally, "a mind split into pieces") to describe the way that (post)modern society uses symbols and signs to point at c…

What I find interesting is the implicit assumption that the underlying function being learned is differentiable or continuous to begin with. That's not always the case; for example…

You're entirely correct. As an Oregonian, there's really only one reason that I enjoy this law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjhhkuvTq9g (If you're not able to watch videos righ…