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I wonder how this will fly in an European Court with GDPR.

I could not agree more... with you. On top of that, good luck onboarding new recruits or people that move departments.... Cute names are just like abbreviations, they are jargon an…

No I'm not. I just stopped watching tv, limiting smartphone time and make sure I always have a book with me.

I love the feeling of an actual book in my hands. So during the daytime I read paperbooks. During the evenings/nights I read on my ereader as this requires less light so i dont wak…

How did you like the Wheel of Time? The size of the saga scares me a bit...

The biography of Roosevelt is indeed very nice. I finished the first volume and looking forward to the other two.

This year I've put myself to the challenge to read at least one book per week which I primarily could complete by reading in the middle of the night while holding our sleeping baby…

The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you've read in 2022? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books wo…

Richard Dawkins, enter even more impressive credentials here, also wrote a book "The God Delusion" in which he - as part of the overal story that there is no god - spends some page…

Exactly... Now you could argue there is an even more complex civilization running simulations of the simulation-running civilization. But you are creating this ever increasing comp…

And this has been going on for ages and we simply are universe X in time. Alternative hypothesis the OP seems to refer to is the one of Lee Smolin in which a black hole from a prev…

The simulation theory is not very satisfying. It might answer some of the questions we have but leaves a much bigger one: who/what/how made this simulation?

Not sure what you use to watch, but VLC has the option to delay the timing of subs. And from someone who is used to watch with subs for his entire life, you get used to it and won'…

ASML and Intel are two completely different companies. ASML makes lithography machines which is one of the many steps in producing a chip. ASML machines are used by all chip manufa…

As many have mentioned: books! I do like to add the Economist. It's my way of keeping up to date with current affairs

Did you consider Russell's A history of western philosophy or The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbroner? I'm considering to read one of the two, would like to hear how they would comp…

If you like to read a bit of history on cellular automata I can highly recommend Neumann his biography [0]. Primarily about Neumann his life, so naturally quite broad, but a very i…

And the power to delta

Well, that tech is still being used heavily for a lot of chips. Companies like NXP still have fabs of 90s tech running smoothly. Only the high-end chips need new tech. Also, equipm…

I completely agree. I try to position 'not taking a decision' as a decision option itself. Often it clarifies how poor that choice is or whether you are micro-optimizing alternativ…