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Here in Denmark there is no block list, but you have to explicitly opt-in to receiving telemarketing calls. By default, it's illegal to call you. I never opt-in to anything. If I d…

Why does Doug Burgum need to underscore the fact that the RWE investment is 'voluntary'?

Why use LLMs at all if you're doing this?

1984 is not inspirational, it's cautionary. The main character has already lost from the first page of the book.

If they believe it's OK to cane the kids, why limit it to boys? Girls can also be extremely nasty to each other

Didn't the Dunedin study also find that childhood self-control and delayed gratification correlated with adult life outcomes? https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/files/1571970023782.p…

Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stoc…

I'll get some downvotes for this but PhD vs master's degree difference is mostly work experience, an element of workload hazing and snobbery. Somebody with a masters degree and 5 y…

Remember to factor in all the trees that will need to be cut down in order to provide the wood. Of course, over time we can increase the amount of industrial forest, but that will …

To someone that knows nothing about car SW architecture, that is surprising to me, I would have expected a number of control loops for things like fuel injection, ABS brake control…

There is a low-stress driving environment in Italy? Where's that? Milan is the only place I have ever been where reversing on the high way is a reasonable solution to missing an of…

Lost techniques are the field of experimental archaeology.

The main problem with development of new antibiotics is not that it requires groundbreaking new science to be invented, but that there is no business case for it. Or at least the b…

My preferred solution to this logic problem: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html

To me that panoramic view is scary, not magnificent. It's a monoculture desert. There is no life there, other than the very carefully cultivated one organism.

Believe me the farmers have been doing their best to buck this.

I don't understand how a tiny country like Israel has become so important in global politics. By population Rwanda is ~30% larger than Israel.

China has a lot of interest in the war not ending one way or the other. Their peer competitors are spending resources on it and a potentially problematic regional competitor is bec…

It that really a precedent we would want to set? It sounds like it would be bad for global trade that state actors could arbitrarily seize privately owned property.

Cure cancer? Solve this climate change thing?

I don't know anything about the author and their situation, but in my experience the first time you realize that your life is not going to be as you expected in major ways can be q…

Are you absolutely sure there is no Arrakis involved in the choosing of that acronym?

LLMs don't have anything to gain, but the people publishing their output do. I find it entirely appropriate to call LLMs "bullshit generators" rather than "hallucination generators…

Whichever is cheaper. My gut feeling says pallet, but I have no idea.

Aligning the EPAL pallet and the 30' container is another great candidate that is just not going to happen.