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It's a continous, demoralizing nightmare called scrum in an administration oriented company.

This kind of age restriction is indeed pretty stupid, Andrew Wiles was too old for the Fields medal for example.

That shows the dominance of the financial market and the economic power over the structures of society. We find completely normal hundreds of billions be redirected to the owners o…

Whatever PPP-adjusted total GDP might indicate, I think the main idea is to create a graphic where China is ahead of the USA economically.

>Beef cattle use nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land but account for less than 2% of global calories and 5% of global protein consumed. Sure... We're going to create 5 more…

>Grass fed beef does not add to Climate change, as all bio-emissions are bound in a circle. Unlike typical mass production which is importing feed from far abroad, often burning a …

I think that patents should only be enforceable if there is a commercialy product or service using it in the interval of maybe 5 years since the patent was registered. People makin…

Explain this story better, please.

Go is played in a a bigger board though and has this kind of recursive nature where a subset of a go game is also a go game while chess is more ad-hoc.

>I don't know about your example, animal carcasses vary a bunch and it would have to be great at not leaving any meat wasted. Cutting meat in practice is an activity that's more co…

I think that at some point AI will enter the domain of repetitive physical jobs, like for example an experienced butcher will train an AI arm that eventually will learn to slice me…

>We are rapidly approaching an inflection point where the rules of capitalism don't work anymore. The road bifurcates there and I'm not sure that we are capable of getting the good…

>According to our best current model, no, the laser beam will never stop passing by matter, of approximately the same average density as the matter we can see. I didn't understand …

As I understand it, before the big bang the whole observable universe was contained in a small sphere and then it started to expand metrically. Is this interpretation correct? Anot…

I used to live in a subtropical region when I was a child in the 90s and it's pretty remarkable how hot the winters are today over there. That experience alone taught me that no wa…

Well... Nobody is expecting to find a civilization under the ocean of Europa. Microbial life is already alien life.

Once I read somewhere that people overestimate the impact of new technologies in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. My interpretation is that right now we're on …

And the fentanyl epidemic is just a symptom, the underlying cause is something else. And of course it's much easier to talk about the chemical structure of molecules or about evil …

What I find it funny about this LLM euphoria is that people seem to have forgotten the theoretical limits of what turing machines can do. Program equivalence, for instance, hits th…

Your commentary is pretty childish. I pointed out a structural issue of the modern world and you came up with a pointless counterpoint about being born in an unfavourable condition…

There is something very wrong with the current dynamic of the world. Work is deeply devalued while capital has been reaping all the benefits of the increased productivity: if you d…

I already replied to this guy. I honestly think his concept of convenience is overrated. I know a lot of people who would rather drink from glass than plastic. Surprisingly this co…

I think you can speak for yourself. I prefer glass bottles to plastic ones and I always buy soda in glass bottles if they are available(and this means almost always since they are …

I arrived to the conclusion that this "risk-aversion" in child rearing is basically the result of smaller families. This may sound callous but I think parents are much more OK with…

Very nice. I live alone and often I'm baffled by the sheer amount of garbage that my urban lifestyle generates. I was not alive in the 80's but I was told that people used to use m…