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The Science article here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh0665

It's not the simulator, it's the simulator-assisted researcher who refuted the theorem ;-) The paper is here: https://zenodo.org/records/20189708 I venture a wild guess that the so…

Your definition of an expat matches undocumented immigrants from Latin America to the US perfectly, and yet somehow the word is never used in that context.

How come a person living abroad is an expat only if they are white and an immigrant if they are not? I would expect better from the NYT... How about "undocumented Mexican expats" f…

Click-bait alert! It's not "federal data breach" (it's UnitedHealth, not gov't), and it happened 2 years ago. This fits the pattern of other "news" articles from the same site, see…

A fine for faking a license plate, may be? ÁÀÂÀÄ are not in the Danish alphabet.

I am sure if she could pull the wool of JP Morgan's eyes, she could convince Scientist-1 that it was legit. "I want to expense it under Marketing not R&D, which would let us pay yo…

No, not for international students. Stanford (I haven't checked others) is very explicit about having a limited number of scholarship for international students: https://financiala…

> I wish I'd put $1,000 into bitcoins then; I'd be a billionaire. I thought bitcoin was a Ponzi scheme. These are not mutually exclusive statements. Actually, this is how Ponzi sch…

Do I think it's the best use of taxpayers' dollars (ie, mine) to screen for objectionable content on social media? No. Do I trust the government to police opinions? No, especially …

> in Australia where individuals are expected to fund their own retirement, I'm looking at the official statistics, and this is not what they say: The government pension is the mai…

Please change the title to "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)".

> That reads like ww2 german propaganda. What did you expect. People in moscow to starve also? "Lashings of caviar"? Give me a break. For better or worse, anecdotes of the caviar d…

It's not about front-running investments _in_ passive index funds, it's about front-running investments _by_ passive index funds, which, of course, ultimately comes out of the inve…

_Workshop_ is definitely a verb, as in "workshopping a play". Its meaning in performance arts is different from office use, but they are not too far apart.

Easy! It won't work and it would make things worse.

I recommend Frank McSherry's real-time log of working through AoC 2023 using a SQL dialect:: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2024... The most powerful primi…

The paper is here: http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful... As its author noted, the paper has done fine ciation- and impact-wise.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing it! I think the portfolio argument is an unnecessary detour though. There's a two-line proof by induction. 1. The payoff in the base case of (0,1) or …

> Oh yeah, and that anecdote you told about tectonic plates screams survivorship bias; that's the problem with anecdotes. Very good point. For every tectonic plates theory or helio…

The only problem with this business model is that once you factored one number, you kill your market - people will stop using pre-quantum crypto. (The obvious retort is that NSA wo…

Is having a stable, democratically elected government a requirement for permitting a nation to keep its heritage? What about having Starbucks on every corner - is this necessary or…

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