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"Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" -- Voltaire, allegedly.

Since the late 80s, Sweden has a system where on the first day when you're off work due to illness, you're not paid ("karensdag"). I started working just before this system was put…

the project is licensed under the EPL > 5. No Warranty > EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED ON …

This is Søren, not Emil.

Maybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope

Past results is no guarantee of future performance.

The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.

Dubai's brand (before the war) was "you're welcome to come here to make money, but criticize the government and you're out". I'm sure there's a ton of young influencers who don't k…

Finally someone taking AGI x-risk seriously. cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-c...

GNU has its own documentation format called 'info'.

> (... less common section numbers) One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read …

The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.

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> The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It c…

There's also the possibility that we, as consumers, demand that the political system solves this issue with robust privacy legilsation that prohibits any entity from tracking our p…

Argh the liberal admixture of different units (mpg, kg, L, hr) in the first table really brings home that this is a UK piece.

Would Teller have had to mail Hoover though? Or just let the concerned people know that Feynman was unsuitable.

The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner. I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.

I have read a lot of Asimov. That's why I said there's better stuff out there. Even his contempories were better - Bester and Simak run rings around him.

Or don't. There's so much more better SF out there.

And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.

They also, in many camps, used the inmates as slave labor.

(2024) Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513

Did my own research, and the Swedish police has decided not to continue with the complaint: https://omni.se/assanges-anmalan-mot-nobelstiftelsen-laggs-n... from 2025-12-19 Machine …