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Meanwhile, on this side of the Pacific, the Trump administration is waging a war against the renewable energy industry... because, um... well, presumably, at the behest of oil and …

It's one thing to have a backdoor so your engineer can unfreeze someone's phone or fix their smart lights. These are motor vehicles carrying people inside of them on highways.

I think various parties have managed to frame political discourse in America as an us vs. them, ingroup vs. outgroup, purely partisan sport. All that matters to people is that thei…

I have to assume they meant Visual Studio licenses, but whoever penned the tweet didn't know there was a difference between VSCode and Visual Studio. I mean, the names and logos do…

I'm generally optimistic for the potential benefits of chatbots to people who are lonely or depressed. But I wouldn't want to just hand over the burden of society's mental health t…

Doesn't Google do that thing where if your team becomes redundant, they don't lay you off, they give you some time to find another team if you choose to transfer?

That almost sounds like a made-up joke, but I guess it's a free government-subsidized pizza dinner.

I received this email yesterday, which I found amusing in a sad way. Hello, Thank you for booking time with me to discuss your background and opportunities at Microsoft. Unfortunat…

It doesn't matter if someone thinks Cantor "breaks the rules", or the square root of -1 "doesn't exist." The (majority of) mathematicians who take those as true have created a weal…

It tricks people into (temporarily) thinking that it is real. For a brief moment, your brain has to work out that it's too absurd to be real.

The Onion actually recently submitted a hilarious satirical amicus brief to the Supreme Court for the case Novak v. City of Parma [1] that made a splash in legal Twitter, for a cas…

I've noticed that one article which was marked for deletion on Wikipedia is marked as "hooray survived deletionism" on deletionpedia, but only got changed to a redirect after a lot…

Imagine if a polarizing figure, who you and many other people strongly dislike and whose vision for your company is openly controversial, were going to take over your company in th…

The problem would be that you probably wouldn't want to exclude the page from the results in case people expect to find it. Did the page get ranked above other more relevant pages …

It does work. In the past when I mentioned it, someone provided an apparent counterexample, a search with a term in quotes that wasn't found on the page. When I reported it to the …

This is true, a universal oracle would probably lead to some chaos in the world's computer science departments. I wonder how many mathematicians would switch over to help formalize…

>Why is there no value in that? Because it's uninteresting. The point of pure math is not to be "useful", it's to be interesting. The Collatz Conjecture is (as yet) a completely us…

They've verified that the Collatz conjecture holds for all numbers up to ~2^68, but that's precisely 0% of all the numbers that need to be checked. But more importantly, the goal o…

Your comment is not a gotcha. She'd clearly prefer that stock trading not be frozen at all. Freezing purchases but not sales is a gift to short sellers because retail investors can…

When I google "white wine and beer new orleans" I get this blog post as the top result: http://psycho-gourmet.blogspot.com/2014/06/boozing-with-brod... which suggests that besides …

User behavior has changed. Look what happened when a similar law was passed in Spain. Google News pulled out and people stopped visiting Spanish news sites, they didn't flock back …

This is going to be a fascinating PR war. Apple was probably caught by surprise with how immediately public Epic was willing to take this. But besides the fun of that wonderful dra…

The real-life goal is closer to "HR picks 7 blue, 6 red, 2 white instead of 10 blue, 5 red, 0 white".

To be more specific, they're being screwed because the department is now unable to add new (8hr) positions. Class size pressure will increase because the price of instructors has g…

Here's my high level summary, as a former instructor. 1. Berkeley offered tuition remission as a benefit to grad student instructors essentially as a stipend/subsidy of living. 2. …