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a non-peer-reviewed preprint with an high schooler as the first author is the best citation you can come up with?

at this point I'm just confused whether you are talking about north korea or the us

And who is the kingmaker behind those three? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo Look him up and his connections to Opus Dei.

> trying to stay cool FTFY

I'm pretty sure no Marxist considers Piketty a fellow Marxist, he's much closer to social democracy and Keynes. Piketty advocates for market economy and a global capital tax, Marxi…

500 TB/25 GB = 20.000 if some have more than one layer it could fewer but that's the order of magnitude

Sweden is one of the countries with the lowest salary inequality in the world. In Eastern Europe 100k a year puts you at what 10x minimum wage? I think that would be considered a p…

I'm curious: I do cycle in jeans and a t-shirt while in the city. Up to 45 minutes I'm perfectly fine, but if I'm on the saddle for over one hour I really start to miss the chamois…

> 'war' > anytime a person in power feels like assassinating a leader or taking out a dissident I don't really see much of a difference nowadays

Right, it says exclusive rights, which does not translate to "we siphon everything and you get a tiny percentage of our profits", it means I can choose to say no to all of this. To…

> What have Governments ever created except for laws that stifle innovation/progress every single time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ In all seriousness without the g…

Why settle on some private agreement between creators and ai companies where a tiny percentage is shared, let's just tax the hell out of AI companies and redistribute.

The 'long' code for checking apples is shorter, but it's missing the external for loop. So I guess you could say it's not (ahem) an apples to apples comparison.

I do wonder if throwing a similar amount of computational power behind old school rule based algorithms like the ones in Mathematica's FullSimplify would have yielded similar resul…

add some error correcting codes and you have invented some sort of qr code

To be fair it is January, so your crispy water has to be grown in a heated greenhouse.

I would really like to know some stats about the Voronoi cells, like average size, largest and smallest...

At some point a few years ago I didn't want to get a mac with the crappy keyboard so I bought a Thinkpad, I think it was a t480s or something of that era. The speakers were so bad …

There was an interesting plot I saw somewhere reversing the old thing about Halloween being the deadliest day for kids by dividing the number of dead kids by the number of kids on …

And ricotta, how can you forget ricotta!

The problem lies squarely in the fact that some fundamental thing is getting contracted out to some company.

Usually the medical part of it all is strictly worse in the private sector (at least in my country) because the public system has a pretty strict competitive exam to get in, wherea…

I've always wondered what the market rate for parking would be if you allowed for things other than parking like restaurant tables, a shed, a tiny skyscraper...

> just be paid on the individual side by capital gains When you are rich enough you can just borrow using your wealth as collateral and never incur in capital gains.

Of course, for example me, the person you are replying to. I am an LLM vegan.