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I suppose they sell ads with the promise that personalization does work.

...a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said. Surely it can be prevented by giving the CIA more power and money?!

"What we need is scientists who have backbone, who have an unwaivering unaltering desire to get to the truth at all costs. " Well, they also need to eat. So you'll have to pay them…

But the people saying it was like a flu, were vilified.

That's a relief! If they teach them to replicate themselves, many more people could be rescued.

In the morning to you too!

There seems to be more investigative work: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476

I always saw the hormones that regulate our emotions as primitive forms of memory, older than neurons. So an organism can remain in a certain state for a while. There is also the p…

Does anyone know how they manage to produce complex microstructures like that, RNA inside a lipid capsule, on such a large scale? Does these vaccines need an adjuvant to work, or i…

That was a great article! The last paragraph, however: "By the way, Knuth is interested in these algorithms mainly for the interesting mathematical problems (...) not because they’…

Here, in the Netherlands, towns get more similar. Mostly because all the shops are part of the same big chains, with the same cheap building style, and the same ways roads are upgr…

No, but most of them used to ride a bicycle at some point in their lives, and know of the dangers that cars pose to them. Also Dutchman here.

Indeed. People tend to forget that the Middle Ages lasted for a thousand years. When all the conflicts are put together it seems there were only murderous barbarians out there tryi…

I think the skull and bones will be a good symbol for millions of years, unless evolution takes a really weird turn.

This reminded me of the famous lecture by Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... Basically you have to trust t…

This is the book i give as a present to the most geeky of my friends.

I also like the idea, but isn't it already tried with the transputer computer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer And since programming is still mostly just chaining actions …

It seems to me that being part of the CSM gives players a huge advantage in a game where economics are so important.

It wouldn't surprise me if RS-232 will still be around long after USB falls out of use. Does anyone know the reasons why USB was not made backward compatible with RS-232? It would …

Thanks! This AND trick is great. Actually makes me want to go back to assembly-level programming.

He allowed himself to have other women, he didn't allow her to have other man.

There were mentions of open, public humiliations with sexual suggestions. You don't have to accept that talk in a meeting that you attend even when it is completely consensual.

Chivalry has nothing to do with gender roles, or holding doors for pretty women. The way I have learned it is about doing the right thing while avoiding reward or recognition.