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This guy is accurate to a degree which I didn't think was even possible before seeing it. Here he is guessing locations based on just grass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOCR73U…

A research team led by Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis at Pomona College, found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Tw…

Norway has a "tender" system (not sure if that is the right word) where the public entity create a list of requirements and firms bid on getting the contract. Doing some research i…

Norway has recently changed our health software to Epic and it has been a huge failure. Pretty much everyone using it seem to be very unhappy. One of the many complains is that it …

I actually think it might. My experience is that the people who pay to get their replies to the top do it either because they have something to sell, or because they agree with Elo…

One thing he has done is push the paid replies to the top of every tweet. So now every tweet is full of low quality replies at the top and you have to scroll to find the higher qua…

His family origins? You mean being the son of a politician who was staunchly against the vietnam war? To the point that he was honoured by the Vietnamese post war? https://vietnamn…

Its a result of a lot of trial and error and finding better way of doing things. I dont think anyone likes it, but its byproduct of moving fast and of requirements changing. Person…

I am a self taught programmer who first learned python and then learned Haskell. A lot of concepts in python were difficult when I was new and the same is true for Haskell. I found…

It often makes me very mad that so much gatekeeping has been sown into programming circles through the invention of pointlessly-obfuscated terminology for everything. Programmers a…

So you would say the same for programming in general then? Should programmers not use the word "function" because that word is foreign to non-programmers and might push them away?

Like how hydroxychloroquine was suppressed in mainstream channels? Like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine also had some initial positive studies, but when large scale studies were don…

> Better though would be to make it in Brazil's interest to protect the Amazon. We all benefit from it being intact, so we should all chip in to create an economic incentive for th…

One adjacent example of this is the case of Sirous Asgari, the Iranian scientist who refused to spy on Iran for America. What happened to him is really a disgrace and something one…

So you are actually saying that the reason that Taleb has "destroyed his credibility" is that he shared a stage with Craig Wright, it has nothing to do with anything he has said?

And so what? I haven't watched his talk, but by the summary of it it seems like his talk was consistent with his previous statements. Did Snowden destroy his credibility when he "s…

As someone using Evernote for ~10 years, it has been terrible for me recently too. I have been getting a "Sorry, we’re having some trouble loading Evernote Web." error about 80% of…

I dont use TikTok, but its pretty clear to me there are some unique creations coming from it. Its absolutely not only about "lip syncing over existing songs". Here are some great e…

Please explain how the wikipedia page says the opposite of what I wrote. Here I will spell it out verbatim from the article: - By 1916, the Ford Motor Company had accumulated a cap…

Because people equate capitalism with America, and "fuck everyone, get money" is literally required by law there. In 1919 Henry Ford was sued by minority share holders because he w…

Sure, almost any system can be exploited so at some point we just have to compare the advantages with the disadvantages. I am not aware of any abuse of this system. Everyone knows …

Everyone have pretty much unlimited access in practice so I dont see that the press have any special advantage. The press have guidelines that they should only publish the tax of p…

Arbitrary businesses cannot access it no. However the press can gain special access for a small fee. This means that when the lists are published there are always a lot of news art…

Everyone have access but you have to log in with your ID and the ones you check can see that you checked them. You can check 500 people each month. Your scenario seems pretty far f…

You know what else happens all the time? People getting triggered by trans or gay issues being in any way connected to things they like. Unless you can show that she has any histor…