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Alternative news: "Treasure hunters seize 27k artifacts looted by a single French official".

Why do chip makers need subsidies?

Are there any artists that are considered a must for someone new to the field of art? What path did you follow to develop a personal (individual) artistic style? Learning philosoph…

answer: downvotes

What is the difference between linguistic virus and RNA virus?

The author has experienced switching perspectives, therefore concludes that what has remained unchanged is reality. But it is possible to switch realities (timelines) as well, thou…

Neither addiction, perfectionism nor being an idiot is OK. The word OK has an opposite meaning. A different matter is whether it is possible to be without addiction, perfectionism …

Being understood is impossible (an illusion). There is nothing to understand. Following social conventions is possible. But life is not (necessarily) about following social convent…

I'd agree with Dijkstra, provided that he wrote about individual human beings, rather than computers. It is humans that are characterized by radical novelty, not computers, which c…

"Many Chinese prioritise long work days over leisure time or sleep – even though they know it’s unhealthy. What’s driving this behaviour?" Some typos in the summary, fixed.

There is a lack / something is missing.

How the "How the self-esteem craze took over America" craze took over HN. "Number Six: Where am I? Number Two (not identified as yet): In the village. Six: What do you want? Two: I…

My idea is, that the type of IT knowledge is often of a particular trivia quiz kind. You may "learn" the next trivia quiz, but you'll not be necessarily any more wiser after 20 yea…

Sure, for example one time I was proficient in DOS low level programming, not a very useful skill now. Also, typically, when a language or technology gets any good, it already beco…

Friends? Overthinking - relative to standard set by who?

1. Start by following someone's else advice, about how to think for yourself. That should work. Because why not? 2. In case it did not work out, for whatever reasons, became an aut…

Well, there is a gap in your answer, you speak about line, holes and points (domain of geometry, very well), but then you introduce numbers somehow. Also, I'd be more interested in…

Why are there irrational numbers? Why so many, why so different? Are rationals not enough?

The older I am, the more experience I have, the harder i find landing a job. 10+ years of experience, multiple companies. Also, not that many techs/skills from earlier years are ap…

Blogging for X "Learn to grow your blog as an X without an existing audience". I guess this is an ultimate blog. A fixpoint of blogs. Possibly a quine would be something analogical…

I agree. Or lacanian psychoanalysts, pure structure, no (imaginary) meaning (like maths, or functional programming, no side effects), which I like. Book of Kohelet / Ecclesiastes s…

"metalanguage does not exist"

I guess capitalist state is an oxymoron. Either you have capitalism or a state. "What Is Capitalism? Capitalism is an economic system in which private individuals or businesses own…

After a while, you may discover, that (also) you create the news.

I like stories like that (experienced this myself). Building complex system, because it scratches an itch, and not using it after completion. So what happened witch the itch, where…