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I'd say destroy your $8b and take it out of the money supply, making everyone else's money slightly more valuable. No overhead. Except it wouldn't evenly distribute the value and m…

https://www.brianlikespostgres.com/rds-aurora-release-dates.... I gathered release dates a few weeks ago because I was curious. There aren't that many data points, but 150 days mig…

If this is the time to offer our personal chiptune favorites, Loonie - Biohazard really does it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiMHDHwsEQA

Serious question. Which parts of it aren't true for you? Have you found that making extra effort to be interested in the other person's ideas / topics / interests, listening carefu…

The secret to being a good conversationalist is to have the other person do most of the talking, and everyone's favorite thing to talk about is themselves. Being, and therefore app…

Definitely! I have a beard. A surgical mask fits only lightly over it, floating a half inch away from my face. That's better than nothing I suppose, but it really is only filtering…

And if you need to relax, there's also the Bong Recreation Area in Wisconsin

Your description reminds me of billiards. You have to think several turns ahead, in a chess sort of way. But your "best" move may be a low probability move, so you have to weigh th…

The audacity of the plan itself. The dark patterns. The doubling-down-admit-no-wrong-non-apology defense of it all by the person in charge. It all feels like quite the specimen - s…

+1. Be sure to add \x auto and \timing to your ~/.psqlrc file to make the experience even better!

Users of YouTube are familiar with how watching a single video on a new topic can result in the recommendation engine suddenly pouring tons of other related videos into the "Recomm…

I tried this the other day and ran into the same issue. Couldn't figure out a way to set it to covid.

Thank you. You're correct, I've wondered why this isn't mentioned more often, and maybe that's why. However even after realizing that, I personally still consider a design patent a…

If it were any other company I'd get depressed and say it's another victim of the tragedy of software patents. But Apple deserves every post-Creative Labs patent victory ruled agai…

Definitely agree. Just like how a lion or a chimpanzee wouldn't make a convincing zoo for another lion or chimp, a human could figure out they're in a zoo made by another human. Bu…

I'm not sure where the corresponding boundary would be exactly, since we do seem to be on the verge of exploring other planets, but you could say that we also understand where it i…

Does a lion born in a zoo understand it's being held captive by (in comparison) super intelligent humans? When it's tranquilized, does it know this isn't a normal thing for a lion?…

Between the Nest cam recording light becoming "always on" and this, it's like they've been brainstorming ways to be "pro-privacy" with the caveat that it can't affect the data they…

I don't know if the strength of an LED is enough to move the craft significantly, but if it is you'd need to point it at anything _but_ the ship itself, otherwise the two forces wo…

Sure it'll be nice to make easy money off the interest on deposits. And it'll be nice to make money on the analytics that can be run on all the worlds' transactions. Great. But the…

Thanks, that's a perspective I never got. Shows how lucky I've been at the places I've worked. (Or perhaps, how underpaid I was at the time!) I should also mention that before thes…

What if you went to your manager, or whoever you feel is the right person, asked if you could speak one on one, and said... "I really love working at this company. The work is inte…

If you want to learn as fast as possible, I think it does. For me, my computer science program in college was finally a place to get answers and move on when I did encounter that o…

Django's ORM doesn't select *, but it will select every column unless you tell it otherwise.