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Risk is important, but the value of something is a function of its opportunity cost. In other words, if you think a role is not worth the compensation, simply found your own compan…

Very cool. It gets the conclusion right, but it did confuse itself briefly after interpreting `256 * last_byte + second_to_last_byte` as big-endian. It's neat that it corrected the…

Heh, I did not expect to see this here. I helped create this project! I'm not sure if it still runs, but if anyone wants to try it out and it's not working, let me know.

I'd just like to point out that this line of inquiry is not some unanswered philosophical question. All of capitalism is focused on this question of ownership. Who owns the picture…

Well, tying the Ian Knot still requires you to do your starting knot in the correct orientation. Mixing it up will still result in the Granny Knot. From the other responses, it sou…

All observation is theory-laden; data cannot speak for itself.

Hah, totally agree. I assume the thinner atmosphere causes the dust to behave as if our view is much closer to the ground than it actually is.

I think you might be remembering this Mythbusters episode backwards; they determined that it wasn't cell phones causing ignition and was in fact static electricity.

Wow! What great timing. I've been working on CRDTs for the last couple years and realized the structure we're settling on is similar to ECS. Last week, I figured I'd dive into ECS …

Aha! I'm a huge fan of positional voice audio in video games. Mumble has a positional audio feature[0] that is relatively straightforward to integrate via mods. I built a mod[1] re…

Hah, "literally"