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Lithuania is about 16 million acres, so that would be about 0.4% which is a lot but doesn’t seem too far out of the ordinary. There are 50,000 and 60,000 acre tracts owned by separ…

From what I've read there's a lot of credit attributed to the manager of the first KFC in Japan (who eventually became CEO of KFC Japan), and they started a "Kentucky for Christmas…

Arguably this started decades ago when they successfully established the KFC Party Barrel as a traditional Christmas meal in Japan.

I wondered why they would create so many unnecessary blocks. I had interpreted a "census block" to be an arbitrary unit, but it seems to have originally designated actual city bloc…

That’s true, though I suspect in that case it would be a known object with ample evidence (a la Rendezvous With Rama) or undetected. It’s definitely possible to imagine a scenario …

I’m not familiar with the book, but 1) I don’t think the analogy of ambling around our backyards holds for space travel. Space is vast and largely empty, it would be astronomically…

I don't think these are dumb questions at all They're not, but they're also somewhat orthogonal to "UFO culture." You're describing a philosophical/sociopolitical discussion that i…

I’ve been intrigued by Artificial Life for a while; I feel like it’s the way forward for GAI. I think the ML approach leaves out a lot of what is required to develop interesting in…

Yeah that makes sense. I guess I figured they could have processed the spoken audio, not that the actors would have actually talked like that. I was just fooled by the fact that th…

It did work in English though. Maybe not as well, but I do remember noticing in the original Animal Crossing that there was some correlation between the sounds and the text. Even i…

Agreed. CSS is a more of an artistic design task than a programming one. You have to have the mindset of a sculptor, meticulously chipping away, fiddling with tiny bits as the figu…

I can't remember the last time I opened a native email or word processing application on desktop. I much prefer the web experience. What makes it the wrong tool? What's the point o…

I like to think in terms of "cycles" in a similar manner, except that there are multiple overlapping cycles of different periods (some closer to weekly/monthly), all summed togethe…

The second richest person in the world should arguably be held to an even higher standard, also for the benefit of the public. I say this as a huge fan of Elon's companies. But dud…

It really feels like there should be a well-funded startup attempting to tackle this problem by now. A central service where you can easily manage many subscriptions, with integrat…

> There's a perverse irony in the way your responses here exude condescension while ostensibly trying educate and inform about the sort of things that people respond to. That's a f…

> Wrong. It seems clear you all like making assumptions and treating them as unshakeable truth. Can you explain, then, why 1) your original post was devoid of any such language, an…

You could add that "I'm asking because the process of typing an off-topic comment on a forum and waiting for replies strikes me as an inefficient way to get an answer to this quest…

This is exactly like a new, or student driver. While I agree with your overall point, this is not true. AIs often fail in very inhuman ways. Their "thought process" and learning ca…

It comes off as condescending. Generally, being incredulous of the way someone thinks isn't a respectful way to engage with them (I'm sure most of us are guilty of it at times, but…

Mark Rebillet is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRpUr5iQPIY

I think of programming as most similar to writing. This may be more true of userland application development than things that are more purely mathematical or low-level. But even th…

I also inferred that sentiment from the title. "Strapped" paints the startup as a struggling underdog, "poaches" paints Apple as a big bully, "NP" paints the court as indifferent t…

Are you insulted by any business that has video cameras? Metal detectors? Security personnel? Are there any measures of protecting one's business from theft that you find acceptabl…