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I would love to learn why some people can self-motivate to exercise while others would need coercive interventions. Such as to build cities in a way that some exercise is inevitabl…

Most teens are probably right.

To rule out Alzheimers when you wonder whether your recent episodes of forgetfulness have an underlying medical cause. That aside, some moderately effective drugs have recently bee…

I completely agree. The WebAssembly multi-threading programming model with its reliance on the web worker API is a pain to deal with. Google’s Native Client had native threading su…

I would love to see usage metrics on that. Probably well below 1% of all browsing sessions, quite possibly even less than 0.1%. Nobody asked to this. Interpreting websites for its …

AI data centres can perhaps harvest some of the waste heat back as electricity.

We just did the opposite and ripped up our solar hot water system. We have a metal roof and a salt water pool. Problem is that these systems can and do leak. Salt water on a metal …

Why has basic product management gone out of the window in this new era of AI enablement? Like on the most basic level: who ever asked for this, where is product-market fit for thi…

Seems like a low price to pay for eliminating the risk to have your production facilities overrun by Chinese invaders.

I have been wondering how culturally conservative societies would use future medical interventions that could shape people’s sexuality. Not necessarily the government requiring exp…

Most do not have the cognitive abilities for these kinds of philosophical debates.

No. Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add. We should not let compassion for these people obstruct some ba…

To be fair, even outside of this sexual misconduct the CTO of SAP has not actually earned a high salary. Do you hear anyone talking about SAP when it comes to technological innovat…

You would not want to. After a high-profile scandal like that, there are too many people in the know. Not all of whom may be sympathetic to you for taking down a top executive. You…

No, it is supply and demand. And a good deal of culture sprinkled on top. Americans are much more prepared to accept obscenely high salaries for exceptional talent. In Germany by c…

SAP has had its fair share of bad executives. Mostly incompetent people, but occasionally also flawed characters. Their problem is that Europe has no IT industry that is equally ma…

Bad leaver clauses are difficult to enforce. What this person has done may not be an undisputed breach of company policy. More like what observers would consider subjectively uneth…

At the end of the day, legislators need to weigh the consequences of regulation like the GDPR. Has it really helped people retain control over their personal data? I doubt it. Sure…

The hallmarks of EU funded R&D projects.

They should — like scrapping bureaucracy and regulation that is hostile to innovation and costly for businesses. The AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the …

Looks like the typical EU wannabe competition to US Big Tech to me. Like Europe’s Google competitor, Europe’s cloud service, Europe’s operating system and so on. Like these project…

The uncomfortable truth is that pretty much any business can cut staff by 20% without impacting overall performance. Provided that you manage to weed out the tail end of the perfor…

So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels. In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro …

One would think that they avoid the embarrassment of releasing another device before their AI features are even available. But no.

Typical leftist nonsense. I want to see the travellers living in The Hague who let themselves be harassed into forgoing their holidays. Just a suggestion: perhaps a city council sh…