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I am living in Germany and have noticed a weird kind of startup niche that I have not witnessed elsewhere. Usually found in some notable student city, this startup has 3 to 4 techn…

Being required to write a paper in LaTeX, is the least elitist requirement of any profession that I can think of.

Maybe the disconnect here is that they are talking about "innovation" but not necessarily profitable innovation. There's also something to be said about the kind of innovation that…

The idea that casual sex serves as some sort of formative process sounds ridiculous. In my mind, sex serves an important role in pair bonding, and casual sex would then inhibit the…

It's probably psychology. For example, myself quite frugal, I would probably not pay explicitly to remove ads. But if you raised my internet subscription by $1.50/month, with the s…

Yeah well, deep learning is still very far from general artificial intelligence. It just gives you that impression because it's essentially a very advanced parroting system. The ch…

Since when do you first get people to buy and use your device and only later tell them how the device could become useful in some form or another? It's a joke that they are trying …

Obviously they want to make everyone wear their monitoring cameras though. They could have created and marketed a device only for people who need it, and nobody would have complain…

> In explaining possible use cases of facial recognition, Bosworth said that Facebook’s smart glasses may help someone recognize someone at a dinner party What a fucking joke. Ther…

I do not think that solves the question. What is the reasoning behind the assumption that GDP/capita in the UK should be equal to that of the US? And why should it not be equal to …

I want to know what logic he is using to determine how wealthy countries should be, relative to others.

Well as somebody who has written research software, I don't agree that research software is a "tangled mess". A couple of points, 1. often when I read read software written by prof…

But the people shouting about the FED debasing their currency are not poor unbanked people in 3rd world countries so I don't see how your comment is relevant.

But why are people so concerned about this whole currency depreciation thing? Only idiots keep their money under the mattress. Anyone with sense has their money invested in assets.…

Poor people in poor countries are way more likely to have an Android phone than a Windows PC, or a PC at all for that matter.

I totally agree with you. The irony is that a lot of people throw away good furniture made from real wood to buy IKEA particle board. As a result of which I can acquire good solid …

The same chemical formaldehyde is responsible for the off-gassing from cheap furniture. That smell of chipboard (also called particleboard) that all the new cheap furniture is made…

> I think bitcoin is useful and important enough to be worth several large tech companies. My thought experiment to verify this is simple: Tomorrow bitcoin disappears. What happens…

Yes bread is served first. But I always thought bread was to be consumed with the rest of the courses. I think the butter thing came later. People got impatient waiting so they sta…

But if you try to google if there is any conclusive research that sugar is bad you will find that actually there isn't. For example this is a good review.[1] And a more scholarly r…

Why not simply "racists"? They are racists. They are literally trying to reorganize society based on a race theory. They only difference is that it is a different race theory, but …

> Less guns in the world is better for everyone. If the defenseless had guns they would be able to protect themselves. I am not sure if that would result in more peace or more war,…

No, it has nothing to do with that. It's policy driven. The Dutch realized they can get in on what the UK was getting if they swallowed their pride and started speaking more Englis…

I don't quite remember from the original white paper if it was pushed as a feature or just a property of the system. But later proponents certainty try to say it is some revolution…