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Good to know there's a definite measure for that. I for one liked it.

I sometimes wonder if there's an evolutionary purpose to our conscious self not being able to control some subconscious and physical processes.

Not 200, like 10. Someone added a false one, and it found its way to serious websites. German source: https://bildblog.de/5704/wie-ich-freiherr-von-guttenberg-zu-...

Fortunately, they'll never happen. How are you supposed to get your connecting regional train if it doesn't stop at the same station? And it's often a huge advantage of rail that y…

A still from Jacques Tati's film "Playtime" (1967): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SS76YifzgN0/TBqlmteuTTI/AAAAAAAABY...

Probably true, but I suppose it's some sort of cognitive bias rather than a conscious thought out of greed or similar motives.

https://www.filmingo.de/ Watched Nostalghia yesterday :)

A restaurant or company could use its own scanner app to save the data, but I assume this would be illegal

I once wrote a brainfuck interpreter in Haskell which executes even incomplete programs as far as possible. It was really easy thanks to streaming ByteStrings and lazyness in gener…

I'm somehow afraid of a world in which huge amounts of energy can be wasted without having a bad conscience. Probably it would lead to some new problems.

Would a transparent HTTPS proxy be able to intercept traffic (once you install the certificate on the phone), or are the certificates pinned?

How are rootkits possible in Fuchsia? IIUC, drivers run in user space, don't they?

FWIW Celsius and Kelvin have the same scale, they're just shifted.

What if the world is just a dream? Then an individual person's consciousness has a massive influence on the weather. And there would be new arguments for the existence of God.

- Is the lamp still on while blinking? - Is the sun still shining during a nap? - Is the fridge's light still on while it's closed? - Does God exist? Some fundamental questions, bu…

I always thought that's what Fuchsia is about?

All formulas and statements are expressed in first-order logic. It has no such phrase as "pick". But picking (in the axiom of choice) means: Finding a function that maps every set …

Merkel grew up in a country where you could be "banned" for anything. I'm not surprised that she doesn't like the idea of private companies deciding according to their own (not dem…

Bad handwriting causes data loss since 5000 years probably. Whether it's an AI or a human reading it, handwriting is sometimes impossible to decipher. To avoid data loss, don't use…

They should extend the Shakespeare language to make all his plays compile. Computers would be the first entities to fully understand King Lear.

> I suspect a part of the left dislike is also around the progressive anti-billionaire/anti-capitalist sentiment, it makes Elon an easy “enemy”. He IS an easy enemy in this regard,…

I'm living in Europe, and the situation seems better over here. While going by car is cheaper and faster in most cases, train is not much worse. At least Biden seems to be a suppor…

We were never talking about costs, we were talking about how visionary Elon Musk is. However, while it's great if money is saved, again: is it really the achievement of Elon Musk, …

Those rockets impress me, but Elon Musk did not construct them. The NASA (and also the soviet union) managed to do equally great things without someone like him in past. > Tesla ca…

I'm always very sceptical when electronics and chips are used as a solution to problems that nobody had. Reliability seems to suffer most of all. When I hear from my parents how lo…