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My minivan seats seven. It has the footprint as a toyota camry. It’s only marginally heavier than a camry. Can you please explain to me again why you need a lincoln navigator or th…

Sarcasm aside, most shoes are pretty bad for your feet.

Apple has a runtime system that looks a lot like smalltalk. Everything at that layer is dynamic. They needed a language that could seamlessly interact with that system.

Im not sure if I feel seen or accused. :)

There are wonderful parallels with Wilhelm II of Germany. It just takes one idiot at the top with no understanding of his own failings to undermine decades of careful diplomacy and…

The person you were responding to said that cyan feels like a completely different color to them, neither green nor blue. I had the same reaction when it gave me a color that I imm…

In recent years we’ve learned that humpbacks are generalist feeders with a wide variety of feeding strategies adapted to different kinds of prey.

I think damalig falls cleanly into the prolog family.

So they reinvented speadsheets?

And yet people struggle to get Elon Musk out of their feeds on Twitter.

Im not sure where your sense of history is coming from. One of the US‘s founding events was a boycott of British goods for political reasons.

You seem to be lacking in imagination.

I think the point is that the story’s universe is populated by intelligent life forms that did not evolve from any lineage of meat. Hence the reference at the end to the hydrogen c…

A v1 was 30 feet long with a 20 foot wing span, and had no evasive capabilities.

As far as I know just the USA, and yes, even black doctors.

As an aside, it is a well established fact that doctors, as a whole, take the the pain of black people much less seriously than the pain of non-black people.

The problem might be that our brains charge per token, which makes reviewing hard. :)

Isn’t the entire point of a cryptographically secure hash that you can’t derive the original information?

Palantir’s entire business model is a GDPR violation, isn’t it?

Thank you for articulating this so succinctly.

Really? Wind and solar are cheaper. Electric cars and motorcycles are more fun to drive. Fossil fuels are profitable for a small group of powerful people, and they spend vast amoun…

This is the way. You have to have some amount of flexibility in your plans.

The person you’re replying to is saying that in the several years the technological means to impersonate people at scale has become widely available, and because of this financial …

As a US citizen, I have to say that you are completely mistaken. The US is a privacy hellscape.