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Have you been to Burning Man or various Burner regional events that take place all over the world?

I wonder if this is the etymology of the lovely speakeasy "Bourbon and Branch" in SF?

> they've been slashing their prices And yet still have margins of >20%, dramatically higher than any other manufacturer. > and they make cars which catch fire At a rate roughly 10…

Artemis 2 is scheduled to send a crew around the moon in 2024 and Artemis 3 is scheduled to land a crew in 2025. SLS has already launched its test flight. Starship HLS (the lander)…

There is a simple wetware solution, which is that she learns to say your name before saying something she wants you to know.

Douglas Adams on horoscopes: > In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just…

There are an infinite number of real numbers, and yet "blue" is not a real number. A set can be infinite and yet not contain all things.

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines-ii/... It's confirmed.

Because most people like it and it improves metrics. From the discussion on sticky header [0], > Our preliminary results show that an overwhelming majority of test participants rep…

Just give them as much money as you want and don't worry about the tax consequences, since there is no gift tax. I am assuming you are in Canada.

I tried several times to play chess against it. It made reasonable if poor moves for the first 10 moves of the game. It also gave plausible-sounding if entirely incorrect explanati…

This is completely believable. I spent about 5 minutes with it and got very similar results up to the vocab generation part: https://imgur.com/a/WreEknh

Yes, it is indeed how IVF works. You inject fertility drugs using a giant needle. It sucks.

The following FEN is a mate in 4 for black with only 4 black pawns on the board :) 8/3p4/7k/8/8/4pp2/P3p3/4K3 w - - 0 51

I can also make my eyes go parallel, and it's fun to be able to stare into both of someone's eyes at the same time :)

Have you ever worked with education software? I have. It's awful. Until 2011, my local school district was using a DOS-based attendance and grading system. No GUI. In 2011 they swi…

My dad and ex-wife were both teachers. My dad was up at 6 and at school for 7am. Worked 7am-3pm (8 hours). He did marking for an hour or two most evenings, and a solid chunk on the…

ippon nihon sanbon yonhon gohon roppon

Japanese is worse. You count "1 thing", "2 thing", "3 thing", except the word for "thing" changes depending on the shape of the thing you are counting. So thin flat things like pap…

> As far as GDP, Ethereum spawned an entire new industry with tons of companies paying actual salaries to people (in fiat, if I might add), all of whom bought lattes and cars and h…

"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"

There is an excellent (very) short story by Ted Chiang called "What's expected of us" that I think you'll like. https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

No, he had $500k in stolen crypto. This was 2012.

No, it was going 14,240km/hr according to the video, which is about 4km/sec. Not near escape velocity.

> In hibernating bears and newborn humans, the turbines generate heat, which is stored in fat. More commonly, though, each turn of the wheel assembles a molecule of adenosine triph…