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They will also want to beam back the response straight back into your brain one day.

I don’t think users (as in the general population) have a good track record of being judicious with how they share data. In the past with social media etc it was consistently the o…

Surprised so few are pushing back against some of the claims in this article. Eg that the entire surface of the earth gets replaced in a million years by tectonics. Many of the lar…

Banks don’t do this because of profit. They do it because of decades of laws pushing in this direction. Anti-money laundering, know your customer, digitalised currency, abandoning …

Not trying to be a cynic, but I think you’ve got a bit of a rosy view of what happened and what is happening. Concerning past wars: yes there were enormous protests. Just like toda…

I’m not from the US and not trying to defend the US actions, but on Iraq and Gaza, much of Europe takes the same position and goes along with it (and even directly joined the wars …

> Germany is the reason why the whole mess exists in the first place. I think this is the most unfair thing about it; Germany might be the reason, but it’s not Germans paying the c…

If someone is willing to fund you with a 100y bond, and it gives you extra cash to move even a bit faster, it sounds like a pretty good deal. One thing I don’t get though, if super…

Do people really hate JavaScript, or do they just hate the design choices and results that it seems to be correlated with? At the end of the day I’m using SaaS tools that are appar…

When I show my ID at the cash register I assume the person working there doesn’t instantaneously memorize all my details and then write down when exactly I was at the shop, along w…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom But the main point isn’t whether afghanistan is Greek; it’s not of course. The main point is that it’s funny to hear an America…

I don’t mind the overall point of your argument, but it’s funny to see a claim that Americans have more reason to use Greco-Roman architecture than a Middle Eastern country. Classi…

Python can work from the shell, if you don’t have external dependencies. But once you have external dependencies, with incompatible potential versions, I just don’t see how you cou…

The “raw” and unedited photo can be just as or even more unrealistic than the edited one though. Photographs can drop a lot of the perspective, feeling and colour you experience wh…

I noticed this a lot when taking pictures in the mountains. I used to have a high resolution phone camera from a cheaper phone and then later switched to an iPhone. The latter prod…

I didn’t really understand the writer’s comments with exceptions and I don’t code in C++. Their main complaint about exceptions seems to be that you can’t handle all of them and th…