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That would obviously depend on how much you want to maintain your visa.

Developing technology to improve audio quality would be useless, but improving the vinyl manufacturing process to reduce cost and increase capacity would be worthwhile, as it could…

The pregnant man emoji exists mainly due to the flexibility of the zero-width joiner and systems implementing it, not any political reason.

That sounds incredibly unsafe.

E-bikes are quite close to what you are describing, and are already remarkably popular.

I don't think most people see car commuting as a luxury. It's very stressful.

This seems poorly argued. There's a lot of emphasis on technical minutiae, but the question is whether the way the model embeds and reproduces the features of the input images infr…

Oh, definitely. Just making the counterpoint.

That's worse. If companies are unable to adjust salaries to match increases in overall costs without fulfilling their primary purpose, then it suggests that the entire economic sys…

If 'Oumuamua is a probe, it appears that it would be a fairly simple one. To a sufficiently advanced civilisation, it would probably be relatively low-cost. If an alien civilisatio…

Swift only uses reference counting when working with objects; Structs are optimised using copy-on-write. There's currently work on implementing move and ownership semantics, simila…

I think this is probably two far to one side. It is true that naming something purely descriptively may lead to misconceptions as its function evolves, but a "cute" name doesn't do…

Every system has required most people to do work, but the character of work in the modern era is qualitatively different from the typical character of work throughout history.

I'm actually saying that I don't think having a debate about the nature of the Russian government on the internet would be a productive use of my time.

I think our analyses of the Russian state are based on such fundamentally different premises that we will never come to any meaningful agreement, and further discussion is pointles…

Speculation is inherent to geopolitical strategy.

Gone up in the short term, but likely to fall in the long-term.

Yes, but doing that by undermining nuclear is a poor strategic move. It would leave Russia with no fallback strategy in the case that Europe did cease fossil fuels imports, and wou…

At present, yes, but those revenues are threatened by climate change, while Rosatom's revenues are likely to expand for the same reason.

I find this dismissive. The majority of people who desire creative fulfilment can't do that as a primary occupation, but it's still a perfectly reasonable desire. Our society shoul…

Why would Russia promote anti-nuclear disinformation? The Russian state-owned entity Rosatom is a major exporter of nuclear technology, so doing that would be against Russia's inte…

Mastodon isn't a platform, it's a protocol, and all reputable instances block that sort of content.

I think contextual targeting is perfectly sufficient for most advertisers.

That population movement occurred during the early modern period through the Industrial Revolution, after the medieval period.