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The theories are incompatible at all energy levels, it's simply that those are two examples where we can't use them to accurately predict outcomes. Another not-extreme-at-all examp…

Basic Adjective 1. forming an essential foundation or starting point; fundamental. Your answers to those questions are either deliberately over-simplifying to avoid the question, o…

An argument between ‘basic’ and ‘fundamental’ is a semantic one, and bordering on pointless. QED works quite well in most cases, but only if you don’t look too closely, and only if…

You might argue that what kept Elizabeth Holmes out of trouble was her public persona as well. Neither case has the aroma of justice as far as I'm concerned.

>relentlessly adjusted and overfitted and still appears very inadequate to fit all the evidence Welcome to physics. The Copenhagen Interpretation is the most concise and robustly t…

I agree with this 100%. In order to benefit from agile, your codebase and pipelines absolutely NEED to be built in such a way that they can easily accept and ship lots of small cha…

How do you know where the requests came from without IP addresses? Do you log ASN or something?

Why not use Spreedly then? Way cheaper, and removes a lot of the headaches from the make-it-yourself approach.

That’s grade school arithmetic. We’re not talking about people who aren’t intelligent enough to do arithmetic, we’re talking about people who don’t have the correct mindset and mot…

People aren’t property any more, we all have equal protection under the law, we have mostly reliable social welfare programs, and private charitable programs are bigger than they’v…

I don’t disagree with most of that. The loan shark maths is just one (rather contrived) example of how a person can break out of a particular poverty trap. It’s harder to break out…

The revision to what mean? The pre-British empire mean? Because pre-British empire wasn’t exactly a prosperous period.

At 200% you still come out ahead after your first packet of diapers. As somebody who grew up in abject poverty, and who lived in poverty for the first portion of their adult life, …

I don't know if the numbers in the comment you're referring to are correct, but let's assume they're close enough and do the math. If I pay $5 every other day for 10 diapers, then …

No I don’t, because that never happened. I do remember millions of soviet citizens dying from famine though, and millions more dying from state sponsored killing. I don’t remember …

Absolutely, nothing has brought a greater level of prosperity and equality to the world than free market capitalism. This is simply an empirical fact. Just like it is an empirical …

But why is propaganda your preferred option over traditional content moderation? I doubt many people would considering it controversial to censor calls to violence. However when yo…

I don't support any of the propaganda that Facebook pushes. This also doesn't have anything to do with ads. The issues is that when these mega-platforms decide that they are going …

>How trivial would it be to make sure this leader in the article who 'never met a Muslim', was forced to scroll through a feed with positive messages about Muslims and religious to…

They're not really comparable when you look at the numbers. Facebook had 500 million active users, a steadily growing user base (1 billion was projected within a year at the time o…

I hope it does. Snap was clearly overvalued to an absurd level. If things like this don’t make investors more discerning, then you’ve got the workings of a bubble on your hands.

That's how I got my current job. I was working as a consultant for a company, and we all mutually decided that I should come in and fill a rather high ranking permanent role there.…

My customers trust me with millions of pieces of their confidential data, and billions of dollars of their money. I'm not going to start abusing that trust by hiring felons, for a …

I own an F-Pace, and it's all for the luxury, not the coolness. Riding in it and driving it is simply a luxury experience. I'd consider buying one of these, except it's quite ugly …