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There is a correlation with average waist size here...

See, now it's recursive! Remember recursion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102528

Reminds me of when Oppenheimer released, a bunch of people criticized it for not actually featuring any Japanese characters, instead being relegated to mere dream-shadows that Oppe…

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I'm less ambitious and I just want a 1 cm blackhole for display purposes, cool thing to show off to my guests. Imagine my disappointment at finding out that I'm gonna need about 10…

If you're not careful sooner than later you will have just one black hole or, worse, no black hole! In the latter case your neighbor down the street might end up with one. --- Remi…

I thought you were making a reference to Six Sigma and their distinguished Black Belts. Like, who knows what they call themselves today? My apologies to the beautiful people of Rec…

> The name isn't really that much of a problem. I know you are explaining in earnest but the way you ended and formatted it is sooo (un?)intentionally funny. Like, of all the stunt…

There is no opposition in this round because it is a total farce initiated by Farage. It takes two to tango and no one else (other than Count Binface) is dancing Farage's Doofus Da…

Lol. Four-ish years ago I stopped cheaping out on house-brand pasta and bought Barilla. It was immediately a very obvious step-up in quality I can no longer keep cheaping out on. T…

Non, du verstehst es falsch, mon amigo. According to EU standards (of which the Brits are no longer a part of) sugar bags (empty) should weigh exactly a pound each to withstand all…

That depends. Is the spaghetti made of pure Italian semolina or some bastardized all-purpose flour-based dough? Also, the cut thickness matters as well as how much you salted the w…

> It's totally plausible to me that this kind of nudge will save a lot of lives. Probable especially if it gets drunk drivers off the road but I, for one, would be deeply uncomfort…

I have but only to cache data used by cron/bg jobs. We still had Redis for an actual platform system cache. The thing is that Redis cache was created and managed by some framework …

As I don't want to repeat myself, with emphasis added: > No Silver Bullet, No Free Lunch, and all that. If your problem domain really warrants something outside of relational stora…

I can no longer edit my comment above so I'm just leaving this here, picking you arbitrarily out of the handful that addressed my filesystem suggestion: I am being sarcastic to sho…

I'll do you one better: do you really need Postgres and all these extensions when you already have a filesystem? > only after pushing Postgres to its limits, documenting why it was…

This analogy is disingenuous because by comparing the human brain to the machine, it ignores _scale_. Scale is absolutely important in copyright law. As a matter of fact, copyright…

IANAL (plus a whole suite of other caveats) but torrent-baiting works in Germany along these lines. ISPs and trigger-happy law firms don't send you a C&D for downloading a torrent,…

> What's next is more AI spam-slop. I already noticed this on youtube. I hope not but your observation on YouTube is spot-on. It's really frustrating. I've managed to keep good hyg…

My problem with AI is the sheer variance of its stupid-smart spectrum. While it's true that human intelligence is not deterministic or predictable, the inconsistency exists in a mu…

Out of curiosity which markets exactly do you see with a positive AI outlook? Also, I think you are downplaying the "anglophone" social media backlash too much for a couple reasons…

Yeah I think if we are looking at it through that lens, the problem is in the term _intelligence_ in itself. Psychology and biology could not even pinpoint what exactly makes for _…

Fair enough. Mobile and social became ubiquitous and are now table stakes. But my problem with VR and blockchain---even allowing for the fact/assumption that they are still relevan…

> I guess it is a sign we are re-evaluating what makes humans special. Always has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect Tangentially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%…