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“Some people become depressed at the scale of the universe, because it makes them feel insignificant. Other people are relieved to feel insignificant, which is even worse. But, in …

There is no "nation from which the items were taken".

This conclusion does not follow from the article.

> We're already inundated with mediocre programmers, many of whom have CS degrees, which is precisely why the industry looks at job experience more than credentials How does lookin…

"The assumption is that people can acquire knowledge as if it’s a substance they can pour into their minds. I call it the Water in a Cup method" In German-speaking countries, there…

I think your statement "Once you have plasma breakeven you have a self-sustaining heater basically" is false. According to Wikipedia [1] - if I interpret it correctly - the fusion …

No, there is only "knowing that communist central planning always ends up in shortages". See here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970544 for an example that illustrates the …

"and make the latter catastrophically worse" Wrong: https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality#global...

You're in for a 'treat' https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)...

Of course it is. That is why, had the pilot survived, he/she would have faced criminal charges.

So, how much percent in pension payments for teachers would the German taxpayer save if the state required, say, one year less teacher education?

I like this quote from the "Where We Have Failed" paper: "We are very uncritical of systems created by the large Internet vendors to that solve application-specific problems, which…

This sounds a lot like the "We do everything with XML now"-phase that the Java world has gone through.

Note also that the blueberry test group (WBB) had a higher score in the practice test already (cf. Table 1). In other words: they were probably better before the consumption of the…

Note that the chart in the linked comic begins in the middle of the last ice age. It ends one or two degree celsius above the mean temperature of the previous 500 years (or so). Th…

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What do you mean by 'allowed'? Why should it not be allowed?

If licensing was required for computer-related goods and services we would likely neither have Linux today nor a cheap plastic router to run it on.

Export is not the metric you are looking for. Germany exports lots of solar and wind engery during storms or on hot summer days because it cannot use it. The prices for this energy…

How is Fizzbuzz a trick question?

"What’s going on here? Why is Postgres wasting its time, continuing to search even though it’s already found the data we’re looking for?" Because Postgres has not already found wha…

I think you are confusing things. The problem is not to compute S=10^(3 * 10^10). In fact, we have already computed it. The problem that you originally discussed was waiting (at mo…

It is not "relatively easy" to solve. It is exponentially hard. For example, 16 GB RAM means you have about 10^(3*10^10) possible states. That is a 1 followed by 30 million zeroes.…

Those who cannot differentiate between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at adulthood are doomed to draw misleading cartoons.