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"Artificial intelligence systems, regardless of their sophistication, cannot be named as inventors or joint inventors on a patent application as they are not natural persons. ... T…

Carl Sagan's reflection on the Pale Blue Dot( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ) image seem relevant: "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any p…

> And Mojang itself is adding fuel to the fire by... You mean Microsoft.

I don't know of a name for this but I would rephrase what you are getting at: The state uses private entities to get around the constitution while those same private entities use t…

I wonder how long it takes for the basalt glass to begin to crystalize? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devitrification#Devitrificatio...

> The people we now call “chronically homeless” were once simply low-income tenants, housed by the private market in cheap rooms rather than by public programs. Once that market wa…

Regurgitation ≠ learning Regurgitation involves short term memory and micmicking. It does not build new neural connections. Learning involves longer term memory, synthesis of new p…

> Yet social-media personalities regularly do a 180° turn on some issue ... and still keep their following and ability to monetize it. And they asserted that they were totally righ…

Yes. It's a nasty parasite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris_procyonis Raccoons while cute, smart, interesting, etc., should not be considered as pets as long as this pa…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

Too bad there are no technologies that would allow the citizenry to communicate nearly instantaneously and cast their votes in a pseudo-anonymous manner.

I get about 4cm wide at 50cm distance.

Nope. I will continue to have a DL card so I can choose to leave my phone at home. When we are required to have our IDs on our person at all times I can at least not be tracked eve…

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A few non-Amazon links for you: https://www.alibris.com/Think-Weirder-Volume-1-The-Years-Bes... https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/think-weirde...

Or just get a secret tropical island.

I first tried nettle soup in Bulgaria. So delicious. FYI you can replace spinach with nettle in almost any recipe and vise versa.

The M-PESA transaction fees are high. M-PESA helps fight poverty through the ingenious application of a thousand paper cuts.

Content aside, I find it sad that "journalists" don't even bother tagging their opinion articles with "Opinion" or "Editorial" any more.

All security is merely a fantasy of mortal people.

Had to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

I am assuming the 7.7 billion gallons(29b liters) a year is all surface water. It better be. It would be hideously irresponsible to use any ground water for cooling their data cent…