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You can easily fit 8 full sheets of plywood (4ftx8ft) in a 2020 Honda Odyssey, with the seats still in the car. And you don't have to worry about them getting wet on the drive back…

The problem with Galileo is that he did not yet have good enough evidence to assert what he was asserting (even though what he was asserting turned out to be true).

The point of the Chinese room is to show you that the guy who has memorized the standard responses to various questions in Chinese does not in fact know Chinese. He's mindlessly pa…

All living things have souls. For most Ur-Platonists (which includes nearly all orthodox Christians, Muslims, Jews, and pagan Greek and Roman philosophers/theologians until the Enl…

> An example of a programming language with true Boolean logic is APL, where the logical truth values are the numbers "1" and "0" (which is very handy in expressing conditional ope…

If Malaysia can't obtain 30% of its fuel because of the Hormuz closure, they don't just reduce their consumption of fuel by 30%, but make up for most of the deficit by buying it fo…

When trying to obtain evidence, investigators or regular officers will make frequent recourse to lies and intimidation to get you to admit to things that you may or may not have do…

This is the most apt answer I've read thus far.

Perhaps there is a stronger causal relationship between attractiveness in males and intelligence/academic performance than in women.

> One of the biggest repairability wins: fully modular, individually replaceable Thunderbolt ports. I think I'm going to cry...happy tears. :')

Except, as a rule, Jews, Muslims, and some Hindus.

In Germany, the state intentionally put children in the custody of pedophiles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-exp... I have absolutely no faith in German …

Tidings and good cheer to all.

I only ever see him on HN. He's smart, kind, and talks about interesting things. Are you sure what you're feeling isn't envy?

The cost of services will only decrease if labor inputs decrease in that particular sector more rapidly than the cost of labor increases (due to increased productivity).

Feel free to leave the West Yorkshire police department a message: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/form/leave-an-officer-a-...

Without load balancing, AI datacenters are very swingy (which is bad).

The skin of cucurbits is usually fairly high in cucurbitacins (usually much higher than the flesh).

I'm not sure if this helps or hurts your point, but the IQ bump is only for Ashkenazi Jews, and not the Mizrahim, Sephardim, Temanim, Beta Israel, etc. So it's actually more remark…

I usually use emacs-nox when running inside of a terminal. Not sure on how it's related exactly to emacs -nw. I do know it's a separate binary, so infer from that what you will.

There are dozens of us running it outside of a terminal. Dozens!

Because in the first world it is reasonable to believe that the tap water in major metropolitan areas is potable.

I agree. There was (and still is) a trend in technical writing that began in the 2010s to be overly pedestrian and informal (and in many cases explicitly vulgar). The same impulse …

I bought that specific model because they're a step up from the E-series (which is actually good now), but not as expensive as the X or T series. I'm very familiar with Thinkpads (…

I guess I'm just lucky because none of the 8 laptops I've bought used off ebay in the last 13 years have failed yet.