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This makes intuitive sense to me, but isn't the issue that relativity states that time is intrinsically coupled with space? Ones experience of time relative to another's is directl…

What is that "something" that is happening all at once? In my naive understanding of cosmological theories is they seem to end in probabilities (e.g., eternal inflation) that emerg…

> Infinity, is still unfathomable but at least it is easier to fit Maths and Physics around. Arguably Maths requires this same discontinuity due to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. …

The United States has a substantial advantage in that the dollar is considered the world's reserve currency. This is in large part due to the "petrodollar" as the vast majority of …

What differs this scenario from individual neurons firing together in order to make the human mind? Can you keep taking that line of thinking down to the subatomic properties of th…

Reading through the article's comments there's one from "LegalBeagle" that criticizes the man's lawyer for using the wrong argument in the lawsuit, and instead should've filed the …

To be fair, they tried to go after AT&T to kill the Time Warner deal (because they own CNN), but the judge basically threw out the case.

maybe you shouldn't have waited until the absolute last minute to do this or it wouldn't have been replaced.

meh. ultimately this is OSS. the maintainer was negligent. if you're not a good OSS maintainer, you don't deserve to maintain control. it's not reasonable to be indefinitely patien…

It was probably the expansion of financial instruments like Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) [0] along with shadow banking mortgage companies (like Country Wide [1]) that sim…

> Whilst IBM research might be able to pull it off, it'll never get to market because there is nobody capable of making good products at IBM anymore. As an ex-IBMer this is so true…

The thing to understand about shorting is that your losses have no upper bounds. You short a stock at $100 and it goes up to $1,000, you now OWE $900. Here's [0] a story of a guy g…

I worked with a recruiter once and the way she treated me like an object to sling around to make her commission turned me off to the entire recruiting industry. I refuse to work wi…

Regulatory burdens like not using customer's deposit's as a their personal piggy bank? There's good reason for exchanges to be well regulated.

Looks great! Do you know what, if any, performance impact this has?

There's been a brain drain [0] going on at the NSA, so it wouldn't surprise me if they missed it. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-n...

Of course I do. I consider myself liberal.

And I live here and it's clear you're extremely ignorant on what the culture is actually like in the Raleigh-Durham region.

RTP doesn't sit within Raleigh. Addresses that sit within the park (like GSK, or IBM) are within the cities of Durham, maybe some in Morrisville, and some simply "Research Triangle…

Your comment is ignorant of both the past and future trajectories of the voting populations for both Texas and North Carolina. NC has only become "far right" since 2010. Prior to t…

There really has been some prejudiced undertones in this thread that belittle the southeast.

Yep, I spent over $3k on my MacBook pro and I had the exact same experience. Keys stopped working consistently, brought it into the Apple Store and they cleaned it out, only to hav…

Yes, but remember cabinet members are called secretaries — it's right in their titles (e.g., Secretary of State). The President's Chief of Staff has enormous power.

If by "overly complicated" you really mean, "ambitious but nebulous and we need it now" then I 100% agree. Nothing is more stressful than basically being put into the position wher…