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There was a time, maybe 15 years ago?, when a journalist "on the ground" of something happening would post it to Twitter within seconds of it happening; and it'd be picked up by ma…

Twitter is indeed the greatest communication techonlogy if you do not count the telegraph, the telephone, the television, radio, almost every single aspect of the internet, etc. It…

Maybe a naive take, but if there's one team in a large corporation that does not bend to "the CEO(-to-be) wants it", that is the Legal team. Particularly when the ask is a lawsuit …

So I got it yesterday, and the toddler loves it. He's not quite there yet with controlling even the mouse movement, but I could already see some progress in his familiarity with it…

Yes, I know, but I substituted that one in daily usage for just shouting "SERENITY NOW" at maximum volume.

> Grant me the serenity to accept the bad code i shouldn't fix, the courage to change the code I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Well, It's really early in the morning …

It's hard to believe how spot-on this is to what I've been looking for. I thought about coding something almost exactly like this, for the exact same reasons as the author describe…

The blog post is clearly human written. One minor signal in the title is nothing and should not, I think, offend anyone to the point it seems to have offended you. Besides, I refus…

I believe it is possible for us - all - to adapt regarding the cultural impacts, changes to Art, and decoupling of practice from creation (for things like music, drawings, movies, …

Please explain explicitly what you are implying, because I don't get it Who are the 1/3 of the population that does not reason by analogy?

This is "only" a crisis in the sense that our current economies break down if the influx of new consumers slows down. We'll adapt. Won't be painless, but it is not catastrophic, at…

> While I was in Brazil, some thugs with pistols came into a bar where I was. They forced people to send a Pix payment to a specific account, and their money was gone. Sorry, don't…

> Lula has been historically hostile to the US for ideological reasons. Care to elaborate and give examples?

>With pix, they are monitoring 100% of transactions now. First, I don't think they are. Second, good - they should have an _algorithm_ checking every transaction. MasterCard and VI…

Sorry that you wasted time but - it was wasted time! "Salary portability" is ensured in Brazil by the Banco Centra, at least since 2006. Employees can receive salary in any bank ac…

A guild. Control who learns the trade.

Addendum: limit it to ~300 growthLimit to... manage expectations And the preset doesn't matter - I thought it was a initial config that applies to any rule; it is a preset of the p…

My quick investigation indicates that rule 2183 with a zero flipProb and the "fancy tentacles" is the most consistently able to generate penis-like images

8690 with a high flipProb, "stable explosion" preset, is like a fuse - be patient and it 'explodes'. Very fun! (Edit: apparently the fuse can 'die off' but the thing still eventual…

> In Europe, people hold cash at negative interest rates because they have so few new ideas and so little innovation to invest in. Where exactly do you think the money will go? BRI…

Agreed, but cuts are confusing even considering the paradigm, though. Especially considering the paradigm, actually! They are necessary in practice, though. But boy do a cut here a…

> The future of electrification is at risk because the market chose to bet on TSLA It really isn't. BYD is progressively becoming ubiquitous here (large South America city)

Maybe they did this to keep the contract with a symbolic value; or to avoid the headlines that Tesla 'cancelled' the contract? A '99% write down' is such an uncommon term that many…

Not that I agree with the post you are replying to - I think having announcements in a few of the best-known languages is very reasonable to deal with tourists - but the fair expre…

All I can think of reading this is how many versions - and how enriched with genius local detail - of the Illiad, Gilgamesh, etc there must have been when they were strictly oral t…