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He's right. I'm done here. Good bye.

> Perhaps the other 90% work for the government. What a poisonous attitude.

Typo. *in the realm of chemistry

I guess when you said "conservation of matter" I interpreted that as meaning "conservation of mass", seeing as we're talking about weight loss.

No, this isn't true. There's no conservation of matter anywhere. If you take 2 hydrogen atoms and weight them, then bond them together in a hydrogen molecule and weight that, the m…

This is the correct answer. There's no such thing as conservation of mass, mass and energy are convertible into each other. But in the real of chemistry that conversion happens on …

Can you spell how exactly this law makes it harder for a competitor to come up? Because if you don't, you'll sound like you're just parroting the generic (and generically false) ol…

Would you like to discuss what makes a syncthetic good or bad?

> Airline standards are the direct consequences of vote with your wallet. No matter what some claim, 99.999% of people will buy the cheapest ticket possible. For the airline indust…

Just link the goddamn article https://marker.medium.com/2509bd3f25d0

> because what's the point anyway? Same point as soccer: some people like it.

I'd never heard of this newsletter, but it's really really high quality. Thanks to OP.

I'll bet you $100 there won't.

Actually not a bad analogy, thank you.

> I'm generally very sympathetic to anti-trust measures, but this strikes me as a situation where DuckDuckGo needs to stand on its own two feet. If your position is that privacy is…

Often we don't know the "practical" benefits that will come out of some specific line of investigation. But some people find it interesting to think about. I guess better than spen…

> e.g. what mounting a filesystem means Funny. I've been using Linux for 10 (?) years and I still don't know what mounting means. I just know it's something that needs to happen in…

I think that person lives in a Qt bubble.

Qt bindings are a "basic thing" for a language? Why?

Innovation doesn't matter. Making money matters. Innovation is a means to an end, not the end itself. If you can shortcut it, it's irrelevant.

> This is a good feature! Sometimes, you want to use `if` `else` based on type information, say if your function is very large and the different behavior based off of type is only …

I keep saying that Julia is the future. No more tinkering with Cython and other hacks.

You believe that person X raped person Y because a lot of people are raped? Get outta here.

Huh, so it's not just me. I always wondered.