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I agree that evidence would be nice, but let's not pretend TikTok is simply a 'speech platform' for 'The People'. It is an app on your mobile phone collecting data about you and ma…

Yet Einstein said something like "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough". So maybe Feynman didn't understand it "well enough"

True, I agree 100%, and that's why I chose to say 'irrelevant' to imply that there was nothing useful about it inherently for those cases. Most of the time, at least in coding, the…

It is kind of an argument against over planning though, because if your plan that you spent considerable time creating becomes irrelevant, you wasted a lot of time

I think you could make it work for negative numbers. You would just shade the negative area differently to show it. For example, if you subtract 1000 sq ft from 100 sq ft, geometri…

In the first image on the left, you can see the large square has length and width of a, which would have an area of a*a, or a^2. There is then a little square inside with length an…

Because people don't commute around the city? Or come into contact with other people who do? Also, you're assuming that the 'initial' cases were actually the first cases. You don't…

Clearly, which is what I was showing. A poor design decision imo

There have been many breaking changes throughout python 3.x releases: - standard library modules removed - zip error handling behaves differently - changes to collections module - …

Similar to the journal idea, I keep a notebook by my bed where I can write down any thoughts or concerns I think of that needs attention the next day. This lets my mind relax so th…

I find it strange that people are so upset about the absence of an opinion piece from this newspaper. What is the reason? Either you want to be told what to think, or you want ever…

A fidget spinner illustrates this for me--bear with me. When I spin it and it just stays at rest in my hand, it spins fast. But when I quickly move my hand carrying the spinner, yo…

Look into Bleem. It was sued, but it won. Though the legal costs did hurt the company， it reaffirmed that emulators are legal and you can sell them. In fact, there currently are ni…

It still says nothing about an individual. That's why you get to vote.

Additionally, we all make decisions collectively in society even though many of them do not affect us personally. I'd argue old people do have interests in many decisions, but perh…

Decisions affect your children, and their children, and the future of mankind. I don't buy that argument that old people don't have skin in the game

Because you get to vote, so explain why it needs to be a rule

I don't. Are you talking about 'sponsored shortcuts'? You can turn those off in the settings. It's on the first page you see when you hit the settings button in the top right

Unix would like a word (file) with you :)

Yes, I just saw this. Looks like the 'questions' did come from her and her legal team after all

> You do know the whole modus operandi of AI companies is "screw laws, take it all we'll see what happens" right ? That they actively lobby to not respect IP laws because they coul…

Possibly, but that is not what their statement suggests to me, unless those 'questions' came from her/her legal team. I suppose they could also be worried about future legal action…

> We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them. Why? They take it for granted that t…

How old are you? Usually this introduces a lot of bias in what your idea of a reasonable age is :)