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A few kilobytes of text is not a resource that needed saving.

Mostly that's because devs want to drive people to the app, where they can track you a lot better, so they make their mobile sites shitty on purpose. Plenty of mobile apps are just…

Absolutely agree that it was politics, not science, but it wasn't really anti-science either. In a nutshell, his theory was fine on its own; he was punished for insulting the Pope.…

It wasn't his theory, it was that he presented it in the form of a dialogue with a character who was an obvious stand-in for the Pope, and then made that character sound like a com…

This reminds me, some years ago as Google was expanding its translation service, someone tried translating text into and out of an obscure African language (don't recall which) and…

Human bodies are scarce because you can't pay most people to live there. They're not mutually exclusive.

When a generally smart person makes a humiliating million-dollar mistake, then you can trust that person, more than any of their coworkers, to never make that specific mistake agai…

But they didn't have to, and a bit of thoughtful consideration would have (and presumably did) make that clear. This is less of a "caught driving drunk" situation and more a "caugh…

> Since this wooden rod travels several miles in a 6 second time frame - traveling more than 500M/s on average - don't we have to assume it accumulates? The basic assumption here i…

Finding fun and unexpected rules interactions is certainly D&D. Finding obviously broken and unintended interactions that make no sense in-universe, purely as intellectual sport, i…

Wasn't it also something to do with supplying government contracts, which require all behavior to be documented?

Some "significant effects" are a lot bigger and more broadly negative than others. You know this.

Whatever your feelings on the current US administration, no reasonable person could deny that it's having significant effects worldwide.

I want to know why the organ features an image of a man in the instant that his hat falls off his head.

Yearly flu vaccines have been a thing for decades. If that's what OP thinks, I'm not sure they actually know what a vaccine is.

I'm excited to hear why you put "vaccine" in scare quotes.

If you do something with your car that ends up with it skidding on its side, that's a crash by any possible definition.

Is a landing barge not "purposefully engineered to be flat"?

I believe it was what we call a joke.

I am obsessively pedantic about grammar and spelling, in code and in English. I have a firm personal preference about how to spell "cancelled"--I like two Ls. The only reason I'd e…

> Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping? Most of us job-hop because we have to, not because we w…

I can't get past the second paragraph, where he introduces "Chiang's Law." I click through for the definition: > This law can be stated compactly as: science fiction is about stran…

No one said they were.

Reminds me of a few years ago, when a bunch of people were breathlessly claiming that blockchain was the future of videogames, because it would let you transfer items from one game…

There are games like Deep Rock Galactic that have really good support multiplayer for multiplayer mods; it tells you what you're getting into in the server browser, and IIRC even s…