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Judging by the current state of DALL-E, the generated software will look good at first impression, but have lots of weird bugs when examined closely. So yeah, not much different to…

They should give the Covid variants relatable human names too

The bias of this mathematician and the rest of the Royal Society working group regarding vaccination is irrelevant to the subject of these papers, which analyse how and why misinfo…

Feudalism is about the localisation of military and legal aspects of government. Libertarianism is about trying to restrict the power of government. Slavery requires a strong centr…

According to the article, the video in question "featured clips of Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers.", so the primates label could just as well ap…

It is anti-Marxist, in that Marxism requires that the whole proletarian class of a society unite, whereas wokism pretty much guarantees that society will be shattered into thousand…

They are a believer in defaults

Maybe people will learn to no longer believe partisan information sources, and organisations whose reputation is based solely on the veracity of their content will predominate.

406, mate

Capitalism's basic meaning is that the means of production are owned by private parties. Putting them under government ownership instead doesn't seem like the solution to anything,…

This would presumably include any pointer dereferences where the compiler cannot prove that the pointer is always non null.

Rogan was interviewing Michael Osterholm, who seems to be of good reputation.

The Gloranthan take is that the Elves - Aldryami - are more-or-less human-shaped plants, making them rather weirder in a lot of ways than their high-IQ-long-lived-humanoid equivale…

Nothing is sharable between Common Lisp and Scheme, either, but Scheme is generally considered a Lisp.

Fine as long as you call the backspace character BS and the tab character HT.

I don't think shedding ones britches has anything to do with Brexit, honestly, but if it helps you feel free, go right ahead.

Make their own trade agreements? Hold their government accountable without having a circle of the government and the EU blaming each other?

Imagine the chaos if she did take over and made a decision on Brexit one way or the other, though. Better to let the politicians take the heat.

What are some good websites for discussing technical aspects of blockchain?

The US first amendment is against Congress abridging the press as well as freedom of speech. In addition, Milton's 1644 Areopagitica is meant to be an inspiration for the first ame…