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Of course, nobody really gets paid for days off, anywhere, ever. Salaries are prorated, people are paid for the days they actually work.

Should have kept the original title.

"Most research during the past two decades hinted that human evolution has largely slowed or changed so subtly that existing tools couldn’t detect it; evidence seemed to suggest th…

I imagine "one" is usually spelled out in titles.

The symmetry is restored if you say you're playing a two game match and the winner is the one that survives longer as the hares. But the game seems simple enough that I imagine it …

Okay, but you not only have the question of why they did it when they did it, but also why they didn't in the previous 1700 years. We haven't been to Mars yet because the technolog…

Wait, are you saying they can't be solved by a Turing machine, but they can be solved some other way? If so, how?

OP claimed relativistic effects explain why mercury is liquid at room temperature. That may be part of the story, but it isn't the whole thing, since other heavy elements are not l…

They don't. LEOs will routinely conduct searches without any warrant or probable cause and if they find anything and the defense tries to have it thrown out, the LEO will say the s…

I get the same error, and chrome fails also.

The idea that the stock market has been shrinking in any meaningful sense is kind of silly. Market cap means something, but the number of shares in a company by itself is meaningle…

Yes! I originally read the headline as "a turkey" because of the lack of a capital T. They can call themselves what they want, but it unreasonable of the Turks to expect English sp…

Ok so I think I understand your insight: the number of 64 bit numbers you can get from multiplying two 32 bit numbers is the number of distinct results. I guess it follows that, of…

It stands to reason that owning must be cheaper than renting an equivalent place over the long term, unless the guy renting to you made a poor investment. But you're usually not co…

Is the title a reference to "Men Who Stare at Goats"? If so, I think few people got it.

Yeah, given the nominal precision it's surprising how far off some of the numbers are. A .38 is the same diameter as a .357.

Obviously a torus is the size of a doughnut.

I thought it would be a team-up between two. Presumably the elf would help fight turtles and donkey kong, since what good is a plumber in a world without plumbing?

So the reason it takes a human and an elephant about the same amount of time to poop is, the ratio of our poop lengths is about the same as the ratio of our poop velocity? That sou…

Had to wade through a lot of text to find out that apparently Zuckerberg and OP both apparently think the internet is something you access through phones.

Not sure how that's possible. Laws may have a lot of strict marriage laws, but in Republic there is no marriage, the state assigns you sex partners in a rigged lottery, and require…

Pretty sure he was asking about "Passengers".

If an integer is drawn from an n bit space, it has n bits of entropy. Yes it really is that simple.

Yes! They can choose to leave California!

True, but HSBC thinks you read the email, because somebody fetched the tracking pixel, right? The irony is that HSBC and others who use this kind of thing probably aren't in the le…