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If you, like AI, have been trained on real literature -- perhaps including em-dashes, as real books do -- then you might register as AI. but if u talk like this boss i had, then ob…

I think my sense of the word "seduce" predates male "pick up artists". My intention is to speak from the cultural mainstream. Consider also uses like, "do not be seduced by fascism…

IMO "seduce" has the negative connotation that you are somehow manipulating a "target", whereas "charisma" is more positive; it means your behavior attracts positive attention -- t…

Two of those (Italy and Japan) have more conservative gender dynamics than the US does. (Reasonable ones though. We're not talking about Saudi Arabia.) I think a lot of the appeal …

Fantastic article. And their "light touch" approach seems very correct. Now -- What counts as a cult? One sufficient condition, in my opinion, would be ritualized sexual abuse, esp…

Oof! Thank you for the correction. I should have checked the publication date. I thought it was from the late '50s; I was wrong. (By contrast, turns out 1984 -- which is always pai…

I think he was inspired by Valium and other benzos. They put people into a docile, low-anxiety state, and they were popular around the time the book was written. That's also more-o…

Realistically, the compiler is building a DAG called SSA; and then the CPU builds a DAG to do out of order execution, so at a fine grain -- the basic block -- it seems to me that t…

When I have been in NYC recently, it's seemed remarkably quiet to me. In particular, I don't see many cars. (Only the subway is loud. But that doesn't stress me out, because I don'…

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Pales in comparison to Soviet science ;-): > the power comes from pistons that are filled with a fuel-air mixture, and fired by compression when the user puts his or her full body …

1. Yes re. first paragraph. There are many examples from the nuclear program. 2. No re. second paragraph(?). How many of the recent high profile "leaks" have been driven by money? …

Wait til you hear about Phi Beta Kappa. Sometimes they even have pizza parties. Probably.

Isn't this solved with salt?

I don't get it. This guy had bugs in his Pascal code, and he thinks moving to C is going to make his life easier? I mean, that's one way to see fewer errors: If a tree writes off t…

This isn't new. It goes back thousands of years.

Chinese civil engineers, and engineering orgs, are good because they get a lot of practice. In the West, and especially in the US, individuals and orgs don't get practice, so when …

I used to do stuff like this (ok, not half as smart), but stopped around 2013 or so, as the distinction between "implementation defined" behavior (ok) and "undefined" behavior (not…

Oh, don't get me wrong, during the day it's the most comfortable way to travel. But the ability to lie flat, even in fare classes that aren't too fancy, like they have in India, co…

Amtrak would benefit from a coach-class sleeper, like they have in India or in Eastern Europe. They just need coach benches that convert to beds. If, for a reasonable price, you co…

This might be the right attitude for a max function written in JavaScript, where the calling code has some control over the inputs. It's the wrong attitude for a JSON parser writte…

I too was so surprised by that Banks quote that I still wonder if maybe he was lying or being deliberately provocative. (I wouldn't call The Culture "leftist" exactly, as it seems …