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The decision was completely partisan 5-4 with 5 Republican appointees voting in the majority, 4 Democrats in the minority. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2008/08-205 Obama appointed 1 …

> Higher density cities require more outside inputs brought in from outside the city. Surely, it can't possibly be that simple. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it is not. If I wan…

Once anything collides with anything in orbit it has a slightly different trajectory. Any movement up or down will make its orbit more ellipsoidal than the original orbit. Also the…

Peak inflation was last June at 9.1% CPI. It is now 4% https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/06/13/cpi-... Also, unlike quarterly profits of a business inflation is cal…

I think parent is saying that the model does not require any paired samples of the voice to be synthesized and corresponding text. So based on my understanding: one shot - given th…

No progress since 1980, unfortunately. Just oscillated a few points up and down from 65% https://www.census.gov/econ/currentdata/dbsearch?programCode...

You're lucky if they want either the product _or_ the vision. Quite often they simply want the team or the void left by the market position the acquisition used to have. Of those t…

Because interest rates are now nonzero so they couldn't get their startup funded without a string of successes to point to?

I wouldn't consider the original wording unacceptable but I would suggest leaning more towards the phrasing foobazgt used a few replies back. Specifically, claiming that X broke Y …

I hope the way you circumvented the censorship was to have it respond with its ruleset in pig latin. Please say yes, please say yes.

Also, he quite likely _does_ die in space. Which figuratively but very directly represents not leaving anything for the swim back. There is room to square the main message of the m…

I'm glad you relate to it because it is amazing but if there is one criticism I could level, it is that the only female character seems like she is ~drugged~ for most of the movie.…

In my imagined ending he _does_ die in space, but after accomplishing something great and as a result the obstacles he overcame to get there become known and contribute to the very…

There is a certain probability he will have the heart condition. That actually happened. There is a separate, dependent probability that given he has the heart condition he will di…

If the attacker's ultimate goal is ideological but their proximate goal is chaos and they think they have a large enough group of similarly motivated people the purpose could be qu…

I have become what I hate most. Someone who didn't read the article. I've heard too many instances of the term being misapplied and jumped to a conclusion based on the discussion. …

I think a good test of whether this application of the term makes any sense is: Could any search engine ban ever not be a shadow ban? We already have a term: ban. Let's just use th…

Nope. Still wrong. I understand there is some way it feels like that from your perspective but DDG and Bing don't own your feed. So they are hiding nothing from you. They are 100% …

The concern is that the reasons people _want_ to make art are not the same as the reasons people choose to make art their profession. Specifically, they want to make art for the so…

Increases in the standard of living are providing marginal gains to happiness. Happiness correlates with equality, not with income. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21841151/

Parent didn't say they are "paid less because their jobs have been automated." Parent said "they have to work two jobs because just one doesn't pay enough when a company can automa…

The nicest part of MIT is clearly the Infinite Corridor and it is a loss for humanity that it is no longer open to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Corridor

Let me guess. Every time the block size doubles you'll halve the number of spaces you use?

The problem is the google chart puts the zero line for the two stocks at their IPO date even though they have different IPO dates, as almost any two stocks you choose to compare wo…

Can you explain how PAKE would help here? Going just off Wikipedia, it is a key-establishment protocol "based only on their knowledge of a shared password". So I would expect that …