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If such fake universities exist, why aren't these resources being spent to identity and shutter them instead? If they don't, why manufacture this elaborate heist instead of deporti…

It costs 100s of millions of dollars to animate and market a feature Pixar film. It would be very penny-wise/pound-foolish to try to skimp on voice-acting. Animated films will be t…

Chicago citizens were on average murdered .0002 times in the last year

34 months to pass, jesus. No wonder ridesharing is eating taxis' lunch.

Agreed. They would only lose a fraction of the 0.5% anyway, since they would just run other ads in their place. This is all about Facebook controlling the political process.

Definitely. Adding an extra grade I'm sure would require at least a couple hours of technical work and haunt subsystems and stats analysts for decades to come. Not worth it.

The latest no-OOP imperative language with any kind of market share is C. So everything that's terrible about C: unsafe manual memory, portability issues, tooling, no generics or o…

I have read that a study is very unlikely to replicate if p is juuust under 0.05, but very likely to replicate if just over 0.05. The first is a good sign of p hacking, while the s…

It appears textually first but the evaluation order is the same as the classic ?: ternary. ```[][0] if False else 'foo'``` will not raise an IndexError.