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Hahaha, I need to go watch Hackers right now!

This just sounds like ad-hominem to me. How is this relevant to the truth of the statements in the parent comment?

Reminds me of a famous prayer... I think it's basically the same idea. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wis…

He probably means a table of standard ranks and salaries.

I think I got the conversation wrong... But it's definitely revealed at some point. My memory has gotten fuzzy! Definitely time to give it another play through.

Yeah it's Daedalus. I Googled it and I'm factually correct but I must have the conversations mixed up in my head... It might be one of the human characters who tells the player abo…

This reminds me of a detail from the plot of the original Deus Ex. Part way through the game, there is an optional dialogue with a benevolent AI. If you question it enough, it reve…

I wonder if you can get insurance against insurance companies not paying out?

> However, saying that renewables are the cause of this is the same as saying that nuclear is the cause of Chernobyl. Nuclear plants don't inherently melt down if they are properly…

The renewables were definitely a factor in the SA blackout. https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Electricity/NEM/Market... Failure of a meshed power system cannot be attributed to…

> I'm writing from Canada. Mother and/or father can share up to 35 weeks of paid leave under the national insurance program. This maxes out at, I think, approx $500 per week. It's …

> How can you say this with a straight face?! It's a fact that (some) women need to stay off work (bed-ridden before birth, in hospital after birth). It's also a fact that men don'…

I don't understand the message of this article. > "This was a unique event, a moment that unveils a completely unexpected image of the power balance between inquisitors and the com…

There is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_function I understand this is what actuaries spend their days tabulating. (I am an engineer not an actuary but in the past I been i…

I don't think you're arguing against education, but it kind of sounds like you are, which explains the downvotes. I think your general point is correct though. We should be careful…

It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison anyway. In general, nuclear lends itself to providing reliable baseload power, whereas storage is most economic when used for peaking…

> Why would we? Asking motor vehicle drivers to "share the road" with bicycle riders is asinine, destined to fail, and uniquely American. Don't worry it's not uniquely American: ht…

If I understand correctly- the pacifism of article 9 is broadly popular and part of their national identity now. It is an inspiring idea to give up weapons, even if it hasn't worke…

Are you suggesting humanity will create real life furries? I guess it's the sort of thing you can count on someone doing the moment it's possible...

"I left stringsAsFactors=True and survived to tell the tale!"

Wow, $25.7 billion total employee compensation / 50,000 employees is $514,000 per employee. Err, that's not all in one year, right?

Funding research into search is good but the other options are impractical. If 4 is doable, it would take many years and involve many lawyers and potentially wind up achieving noth…

The point of mathematical models is to be predictive. But I wouldn't call prediction "the whole point of science". That's reducing science to a means-to-an-end. I think science is …

> The elephant in the room is that humanities have zero predictive power. An absolute statement. Do you really think it's true? Are you really saying you can gain no predictive pow…