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I'm having a hard time believing (a) that you think Wave failed because of the tech stack, and also (b) that you think when a product launch fails, all products that conceptualize …

Is there going to be a no-true-scotsman if I ask about the last time the US had a budget surplus (4 in a row iirc)?

For readers from outside the Buddhist context, it's worth noting that the above comment is written from an entirely Mahāyāna perspective. For example, it isn't true that "every Bud…

You cited a dead link. What I posted is the Internet Archive record of what was originally at that link.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000506214514/http://www.telepo...

It's not really misspellings, it's reanalysis, and it's not at all particular to English.

Your reference, NextDNS's discussion of their approach and how it differs from others, is from 2019 and no longer correctly represents how pihole works. Pihole has handled this sin…

I have in mind things like this [1]. I no longer have my undergraduate text or notes but I recall going through a similar exercise. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0610121.pdf

Have you ever actually looked at the Schrödinger equation? [1] It's pretty simple. If you've had freshman physics, you can learn enough to derive it in a matter of days or at most …

I rarely bother to address this argument: > open source software is only free if your time and expertise are free but since you seem to actually be trying to discuss this in a thou…

You have: 1500 mA * hours * 3.7 V You want: watt * hours * 5.55 / 0.18018018

miniKanren is great. Here[1]'s Will Byrd on the difference between it and Prolog. [1] http://minikanren.org/minikanren-and-prolog.html

You seemingly make a strong, baseless, and unscientific ontological claim, saying that we have one set of mathematical formalisms in our theoretical model that are "really real" an…

>Copyright holder could give someone else authorisation to sue on their behalf, e.g., through a license. They can't assign the bare right to sue. To have standing the plaintiff wil…

Not the person to whom you were speaking but their description reminds me of Scott Aaronson's work e.g. https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html which has been discussed …

Thank you, I love this citation so much. > Charles Babbage recognized the performance penalty imposed by ripple-carry and developed mechanisms for anticipating carriage in his comp…

It's not at all unusual for loanwords to get different meanings when they are adopted. Wikipedia gives this lovely example: The English word Viking became Japanese バイキング (baikingu)…

Marking things up 43% generally impacts sales.

https://forvo.com/word/coq/#fr

Noun being (countable and uncountable, plural beings) A living creature.

Apparently nothing to do with the Rete algorithm (fwiw). [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

Do you think there's a difference between "Ashoka warred with Kalinga" (contemporary and/or near-contemporary evidence survives) and "Ashoka built 84,000 stupas" (for the sake of t…

> Can I Lose My Trademark Rights If I Don’t Sue Infringers? > > The short answer is “No,” a trademark owner does not have to sue every single infringer, and the failure to do so in…

C-h ? will show you help on help, among them: C-h a - apropos C-h k - detailed docs on the command run by key sequence C-h m - docs on current minor modes and major mode C-h w - wh…

That is by no means an apt metaphor. Mathematicians are in the business of creating new mathematics, not in studying the "language" in which mathematics happens to be written. Of c…