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In Australia, if a company fails to nominate a speeding fine for a company car - either refusing or not maintaining records - then the fine is multiplied compared to that for an in…

An N100 minipc or second-hand Dell Optiplex doesn't cost too much more than a rasp-Pi ($100-200), has a lot more power, and will only pull about 10W idle. My optiplex shows as 8.19…

If voters are split 60-40 on an issue, that doesn't mean that the odds are 60-40. You should instead be asking, what are the odds that that X voters could change their vote.

But is it still piracy if you compress them and serve only a likeness of the original?

Better off watching CGP Grey's video "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use" which has more discussion of the topic, more simulations, and puts forward better methods that …

I really appreciated this joke. For the non-Australians, we don't really say parmigiana either, it's parmi or parma and there's a lot of playful debate over the naming.

If I were the hacker, I'd edit maxwellhill to have email address ghislainemaxwell@gmail.com just for the shitstorm it'd create, context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=298380…

I'll ask the dumb question - he'd already taken his money out, what financial advantage is he meant to have then gained by encouraging others to do the same?

Yep, and if they're willing to limit deposits, they're liable to limit withdrawals too.

What if sleep is the best cognitive exercise?

To be fair, Valve were sued into enacting their return policy by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), and no longer offer flash sales because of it. Linux suppo…

No, dota has a paid subscription ($5 p/m) which gates gameplay features, many of which would be really useful for newer players - ingame coaching, item suggestions, hero pick sugge…

You mean the company that pioneered: Microtransactions, real money loot-boxes, gambling, NFT marketplace, battlepasses doesn't milk it's users? Dota used to have $35 "arcanas", a h…

It's not profound to say that sustained (infinite) growth is unsustainable, but it is of interest when it's within a conceivable timeframe. It's not worth reading however, because …

What is an ant to man, and what is man to a god; what's the difference between an AGI and an (AIG) AI God? The more someone believes in the dangers of ai-alignment, the less faith …

Oh whoops, good pickup; I'd like to say I tried to simplify it for the explanation and brevity, but I completely overloooked that 1xn = n.

Since Peter is given the product of the two numbers, he should instantly know the pair if both numbers are prime, but since he doesn't it rules out pairs like (7x11) = 77 and (2x53…

Reminds me of this problem: Two numbers are chosen randomly, both are positive integers smaller than 100. Sandy is told the sum of the numbers, while Peter is told the product of t…

You're not adjusting for inflation (cash + increases in electricity costs), ambitiously assuming an equivalent 10% return on other investments, or re-investing the amount saved per…

Read Agner Fog's optimisation manuals. https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

Twitter is for robots.

1) There was a hypothesis (reddit comment, not medical) that a degree of myocarditis might be due to people not resting for the few days after vaccination - especially young men an…