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On the movie Dolemite by Eddy Murphy, they go over the fact that black people absorb light and white people reflect, and how that changes the motion picture shooting process totall…

Actually history shows that despotism or power in one single figure is a concept that waned with the increasing complexity of the world. One single despot could govern easily over …

With this [0] I find i read 2 pages and I fall asleep consistently and really with a will to sleep. My mind wanders into far away lands and empires and says, "I take it from here".…

Yeah, this goes back to the blind spot we technical people have: Solve people/social issues with technological enforcement.

The whole Petraeus affair[1] is a wiki 'telenovela'. The only things missing are references to Corintian leather. I will share gossip tomorrow, even if old news. [1] https://en.wik…

Running requires resting for me, and I often do not have time to rest longer with the kids. Meals still need to be prepared, and kids need to be minded. Kids have a strict time to …

For me personally, I never was so sick in my life as when my children were between starting nursery school and 3. It was not just respiratory diseases: It was also the time in my l…

That part hurt a bit, but i think it highlights the point of the author: do you want something extremely distasteful(even in words) but real or you would rather go for forced harmo…

Why bother with such details? Class warfare is right, and details are details. /sarcasm For example mixed income housing is really nice for “us” that have been in generational pove…

Matt Levine wrote that flouting the rules could be fine if there were market alternatives (he said otherwise it would be a market failure). I am pretty sure there would be market a…

As some commenters pointed out, this is basically slowly adding a real RGB led panel behind the LCD, or an OLED with extra steps. I could not see prices but I would expect this to …

> we rapidly moving to territory where you would need literally all your income from government, or else you would not survive. Yes, I share the sentiment of dread don’t get me wro…

If AI or any of the means of production are too concentrated, societies around the globe have found a solution: tax or nationalise. Even taxing might be enough to tilt the scale in…

I had the exact experience yesterday. I have a performance problem and went down the path of optimising part of a pipeline that when benchmarked was not the bottleneck, even if it …

People explore what tickles them. Others try to rationalise what they like, even when the reason is flimsy. It’s ok :) It really releases the stress slightly to call bugs, buggas a…

The US does not set out to capture civilians, while the hamas does. It matters. All the rest of the comment makes no sense in light of that. Also you omitted the part where I said …

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How can someone talk about a trivial experience of exploring food while acknowledging that they had bodies thrown into their yards? In both countries in Europe I lived I have never…

Which is ironic because PR is definitely alien to git. There is no such git concept as a PR, nor git pr command. Coming from a pure git workflow in mailing lists where branches, an…

> Self-control is, ironically, not usually within one’s self control. Problem solved. Next!

This is true for Kalshi but not for Polymarket. Also Kalshi voided the bet and it got sued. By the way prediction markets are commodity securities where Matt Levine mentioned it sh…

> I'm gonna claim that is based on nothing but vibes Made me laugh. Indeed opinions seem to carry more weight if they are a vibe :D

> if they've actually invented a new form of intelligence that can rival or surpass billions of years of evolution? Human creations have surpassed billions of years of evolution at…

Yes! The losses were due to independence loss to Spain. In a sense the loss of sovereignty to Spain destroyed the Portuguese empire. Spain joined the Portuguese and Spanish armada …

As someone who had a company in Portugal I do not understand what you meant about requiring an employee to have limited liability company. You may be referring to the need for one …