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At modern population densities, basic infrastructure breaking on down on a large scale can kill millions in a matter of weeks. The largest threat isn't bombs falling on our heads, …

I don't even need to read that to know they're re-inventing PowerShell now. Edit: I read it. Yep. We have text interfaces refined by humans for decades and there's an endless sea o…

Of course there can be - likely with a gentleman's understanding that neither would use them, and each side careful to not back the other into a corner where they'd have nothing le…

If they can exhaust all their firepower in a couple weeks fighting Iran, China would have no reason to feel threatened in the first place. The reality is that fighting China would …

Good catch. We almost forgot to inject skin color into this conversation. Only once people cannot discuss any topic at all anymore without mentioning or thinking about skin color, …

At 4 bit it easily fits in 32GB. That's what most people use.

That's LIVE data that will change hour to hour. When I opened it the list looked very different. I provided you a map showing historical data collected over a year.

That's a real time map that will change by the hour. What I see now is probably not what you saw when you opened it.

> let's not ignore the local effects: air quality in Germany is pretty bad, perhaps the worst in Europe What... you know you could've looked this up pretty easily before posting? h…

Many people reading this are going to stop at the first sentence without realizing you're paraphrasing a position you apparently don't agree with.

The more "typical" use for a feature like this is drawing tablets and touch screens. You don't necessarily want a touch/drawing tablet input to move your actual "main" mouse cursor…

Isn't saving it kind of the point?

This sounds like the gun debate in a different dress. Something being dangerous doesn't make it inherently harmful. If I threw you into a lion cage, you would be a lot safer with a…

> Malthusianism Weren't these more about "human population planning"? > the idea of planning your family is relatively modern The term "family planning" is. The general concept is …

> And if the latest Zig version is no longer available, how were at least 2 forks based on it submitted to HN? Where did I ever claim this? I said they don't even have the Zig buil…

IMHO it's not the same car, even if its engine initially was a 1:1 rebuild using other alloys. But you're right I overstated and made myself look dumb (by a lot really - this is no…

> This seems self-contradictory. It's not. Passing an existing test suite just moves the optimistic lower bound to incidental compatibility, it doesn't move it to intentional - "re…

> It took TypeScript a year to go from announcing tsgo to releasing TypeScript 7.0. These are not comparable at all. The bun "rewrite" really is more of a translation of a software…

"Thought is language" is a folk intuition that has been proven wrong over and over. People with severe global or agrammatic aphasia still can score higher on intelligence tasks tha…

Birth control is older than the Bible[1], it just wasn't as effective. Humanity as a whole was very aware how babies come to be. Ways to have fun without coitus aren't a recent inv…

One reason our ancestors had plenty of children is that children were a large net-benefit to them. Many modern societies are structured in a way that makes children an economic neg…

Most omnivores and carnivores won't touch humans with a ten foot pole either. But that's because they're either too smart to try or we have altered their genetic makeup by culling …

It's language and speech patterns that seem designed to trick readers into believing that claims are correct, even when the claims aren't based on anything and are possibly wrong. …

They don't exactly say. I was extrapolating from some sessions usage (my figure was per month, so weeks times ~4).