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There's definitely nothing that makes a published paper automagically correct. But the papers you mention were probably shown to be wrong by further published research, not with bl…

The Christian version of Monkey Island insult sword fighting?

If you watch the news coverage for any kind of elections in the US, you would assume they are not determined by votes, but instead they are fundraising competitions: The one that r…

Isn't trying to discount published research with a glorified blog post the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action?

Yes, the ending was kind of lame. Worse, it has been done before, again by Ron Gilbert. It is practically a rehash of the Monkey Island 2 ending, which got us nowhere in the long r…

May I ask how did you try to publish, and if you have done this before? Tier 1 is HARD. Universiy labs (where publishing is their bread and butter) and have multi-year streaks of T…

This just doesn't make sense. EU regulations are already making progress in improving online privacy: (a) No cookie banner required for functionally necessary cookies, (b) there ne…

I think that's only the excuse the car makers use for being lazy and not taking design risks. Because homogeneity also extends to the interiors (which are not affected by regulatio…

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> almost nothing is truly organic anymore, or at least you can’t tell if it is, and I suppose that’s what you’re getting at Yes, but over time, even pre-Internet generations have l…

Culture has been rapidly regressing to a mean long before AI. See e.g. modern cars. Until the mid 00s, you could tell different brands apart from far away. And you could perhaps al…

God forbid an individual makes a profit from shorting. What would be left for hedge funds then? /s

I agree that the positive effects of Social Media is understated, and probably on purpose. Social Media allowed ordinary people to challenge on a global scale the oficially-sanctio…

Win the war, lose the empire.

I think they can already sink any US ship that comes in range if they want to. And the US knows it too. But for different reasons, it's in neither's interest to go there.

Personal rule: Whatever you are asking (question or action), make it easy to spot. Place it either at the start or the end of its paragraph. Never ask >1 things in a paragraph, to …

> My boss taught me this. And it shows. If you are not the boss, you can't just write something and expect the recipient to figure it out.

Governments have failed to patch much more important loopholes that directly affect them. E.g. loopholes for corporate tax avoidance. I doubt they will put any effort at all for fi…

> I have no problem with Sony not offering DRM free versions of games that I can still download and play with the store. But if that goes away -> you must give me a path to local o…

This. Having survived dozens of mediterranean village summers without A/C, I am genuinely puzzled how it came to be considered a necessity. Is it "modern" construction methods that…

It is heavy handed on the wrong side. How about heavy-handed regulation of the Social Media platforms? Not content regulation, but operations regulation. I'm pretty sure bots and a…

If you're not white enough, it's a hack. You can get around this problem by attracting some VC funding and building your HQ in Silicon Valley. /s

I think this is all theatrics to avoid EU regulation. Subscriptions for Meta products have already been a thing in the EU for several months. It went a bit like this: - EU mandates…

Wow! The inclusion of Lua bindings seems like a major step forward. This should make modding much more accessible.