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What you see here is a common argumentative tactic by climate change deniers: "Scientists have been hysterical about global cooling in the past and that has not happened. Therefore…

I don't understand why this is a problem specifically with bitcoin. Is this not a problem with any other currency? I mean I appreciate the sentiment but how does it even matter in …

The purpose of all the jargon that Scrum introduces is to avoid naming collisions with prior terminology. You probably have a good idea of what a product manager should be doing bu…

Did aristocrats in the middle ages ascribe their position in society to their individual actions or to their being born into aristocracy?

Your cousins are misrepresenting the situation in Europe at least with respect to Germany. People in Germany do not generally make binding decisions on their specific career path u…

Generally, the rationale of term limits seems to be to prevent a dictatorial or monarchistic system from emerging. However, consider the rise of the National Socialists in Germany:…

Yes, but if everyone speaks to you whenever they need to, you might be interrupted in your work very frequently which can be stressful. If only people could communicate all of thes…

Breaking News: Twitter is free to not boost his tweets for any reason of their choice or no reason at all in exactly the same way that Fox news is free to only cover things from a …

>The recipient of a public scholarship is morally justified only so long as he regards it as restitution and opposes all forms of welfare statism. Those who advocate public scholar…

So now after 3 layers of us trying to coax you into giving us a little bit more concrete detail on your argument, you link an article in German which a lot of people here cannot re…

So, basically you believe that people are gaming the system but you have no examples of how this happens or which companies might be doing this?

In (1) you assume that people buy green energy mainly or to a large extent to reduce the emissions they personally suffer from. Have you considered that a big reason for many peopl…

For me, this looks MUCH more like Haskell than Python and I think that this is symptomatic of an erroneous claim that some functional programming proponents seem to constantly make…

And in this way you end up with 0 regulations, which I assume we are supposed to consider a feature, not a bug?

Source?

If anybody wants an example of how programming languages can be designed with an emphasis on empirical evidence over mathematical proof, take a look at https://quorumlanguage.com/

Sometimes getting input from lobbyists can actually be an all-around helpful thing to do. Think about things like industry norms such as the default sizes of shipping containers. P…

Tip for people who want to compile LaTeX from the command line: latexmk is basically a build tool for latex, which can also do things like incremental compilation and listen for ch…

>I don’t know why either. When I found out that the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg is kind of the center of this global hacker-encryption culture, I was surprised. >There is a stro…

>It's hard (if not impossible) to pick a single attribute of 'Lisp' that's shared by all the languages that are part of the Lisp family of languages. homoiconicity

"Bild" is basically Germany's Fox News. The author has worked for the NSA in the past and seems to somehow glorify their unconstitutional mass surveillance crimes. The same guy has…

I would like to raise the issue of nature vs. nurture in this context: Does Myers-Briggs really identify stable characteristics of someone's current personality or merely the way i…

According to your logic, sophistication implies better predictive power. You completely ignore the fact that someone could devise a very elaborate system for judging e.g. fitness f…

> Even when behavior is mostly learned rather than hard-coded, the ability to learn itself must be hard-coded. Such code occupies hundreds of megabytes of data. Consider the first …

Or we could keep the factories, accept unemployment as a result of technical progress, realize that the total amount of goods created has not diminished at all and stop tieing the …