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What's more mental you talk to any Germans about deprecating their Nuclear power stations they will bang on about their plan for renewables and then you read these sorts of headlin…

>All metaphors break at some point. The map is never the terrain. All software to an extent is a model map of some real world phenomena. The limitations of which can actually be ad…

It won't happen. I was against Brexit, but now that it's happened it's better that the UK stays on the outside. The mood in the EU is that after Hungary, we don't need Eurosceptic …

It's not about length though. It's the dick to floor figure. One of the many gems from Silicon Valley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hUV9yhqgY This thread is just life imitatin…

The fact that it's hidden means it doesn't get commited by accident in most git repos unless explicitly added or configured that way.

https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy... The US has slid below Hungary in democracy, Hungary was also straight sliding towards dictatorship. Hungary did a 18…

>No other carbon terrestrial species can run for such long distances Certain birds can fly much further and faster using less energy. It's not running but they are terrestrial and …

Just like jq there will be some lad along to tell us that "I don't like the syntax and find it confusing" not realising that's the exact superpower it presents is it's terseness is…

TIL. It's easy to confuse because archive.is uses several domains like archive.ph and archive.today so you can see how easy it is to think they are related.

Thankyou! Didn't realise archive.is is back up. I have been using: https://periscope.corsfix.com/

Anyone have a mirror, the site seems to be down?

>They must be regularly cleaned People keep reiterating this probably because Trump keeps reiterating but it just sounds ridiculous. How do you clean forests? The debris is part of…

https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-in... I thought this article from Jane Street makes a nice complimentary pairing.

I'll never understand how people think a personal anecdote contradicts a more general point attained by evaluating collected data that would include those anecdotes. e.g. The claim…

Into and Beyond the Spiderverse are flawless movies.

Consoles mostly died with the PlayStation 3. Consoles (At least Sony and Microsoft's offering) have become repackaged PCs for a while now this will be especially apparent with the …

Even Horizon is a Warhammer 40k film that has nothing to do with Warhammer 40k.

I would imagine this is the exact problem they are trying to stop: Civil servant accused of leaking Govt information to foreign intelligence service in Ireland https://www.rte.ie/n…

That E1M1 song is iconic. That will be played 00s of years from now, it will stand the test of time.

The solution is obvious: Remove commuting by encouraging remote work, incentivise dumb phone use or penalise smart phone use, create affordable property prices and secure future pe…

Apparently that greeting is to discourage shoplifting not to put you at ease. Retail theft is becoming a huge problem, police generally won't respond to it so many of those who do …

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30 days ago. No joke. https://www.intercom.com/blog/today-intercom-becomes-fin/

$3.6 billion (€3.1 billion), making it one of the biggest ever deals for an Irish-founded tech firm.