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The set of training words for "anti-Europe" was weird though. "Belgian Congo atrocities" is just one way of referring to that period of history ("Congo Free State" might be a bette…

It reminds me of the time the band KLF burned £1 million in cash as a performance piece. They obviously regretted it afterwards.

I've always wondered why only Linux can do 'true' containers without VMs. Is there a good blog post or something I can read about the various technical hurdles?

Personally I think the strategy of starting with luxury cars and getting cheaper was a good one. The bigger profit margin of luxury cars could be fed back into R&D to make cheaper …

Which union are you talking about?

If you buy a machine to play the piano for you, you won't learn how to play the piano. You'll just become really good at using that machine.

That's not the case at all. People all around are constantly making art just for the sake of it. Most of it won't ever even be seen by other people. Removing the financial incentiv…

How did gay marriage revolutionise the market for involuntary marriage?

The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of Peter Jackson's LOTR movies released in 2001, made $887 million in its original theatrical run (on a $93 million budget). It would absolute…

I wonder which will come first - total government automation, AGI or full self-driving?

Because Hunter S Thompson is a talented writer, and an LLM is a statistical method for generating text that looks like other text. An LLM isn't going to ingest all of Hemingway and…

Then why bother making this site?

Does the Vision Pro support SteamVR or OpenXR or anything for games? Because if not then it's not really competing with the Quest 3. I only use my Quest 3 for games, and the Vision…

The purpose of the homomorphic encryption is that they can compare similar landmarks without seeing the unencrypted image data on the server side.

The guy who started a video conferencing app called Loom (2 years after Zoom came out) then miraculously sold it for almost a billion dollars has no business calling anyone an "NPC…

We have a similar issue in the UK. The government has refused to provide enough resources to process the backlog of asylum applications, so people are left in limbo being housed in…

I'm guessing Turkish residents probably use a VPN.

In the 00s there was a popular wine called "old git". It generally means someone grumpy and cantankerous, but in a playful way (otherwise you'd just call them a c***). So it makes …

They've been saying this for years, I'll believe it when I see it.

We've had four: May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.

Proprietary charging cables lead to more e-waste, which is a public externality as well.

I broadly agree with you, but all of those things are generally done inside the home, and I don't think anywhere legislates that you can't have a knife at home.

Tell that to PostgreSQL

My guess is it's also down to the proliferation of cross-platform UX toolkits that allow for A/B testing of every single component. Making a cool UX thing that requires native OS f…