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FYI: all your comments are [flagged][dead] I don't know why, because they all look fine to me...

You might be a victim of the Goomba Fallacy[0] where you're seeing two opposing opinions from two distinct groups of people, but since those are expressed on the same site, it seem…

They do have identical value. 500 shares of company A is worth 100% of the market cap of company A. 500 shares of company B is also worth 100% of the market cap of company B. So if…

> it seems we actually work more than our ancestors. Only if you count the hours worked for the local lord and forget about all other mandatory work like: - growing your own food -…

That reminds me of the "Strangler Fig" pattern where you replace a service by first sending the requests to both the old and new implementation so you can compare their outputs. Th…

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine "The Phillips Machine is an analogue computer which uses fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy."

How many of those languages can take an expression instead of a lambda? Func is lambda that can only be invoked. Expression > is an AST of a lambda that can be transformed by your …

> 1-(1-1/1,000,000)^(4×1,000,000) ≈ 98% > Pretty close to 1 account per day No, this means there is a 98% chance you get _at least_ 1 account. `1-1/1,000,000` is the probability yo…

Yeah @rlupi, America is far too poor to afford basic living conditions. /s But seriously, no US state is as poor as Italy, in GDP per capita terms (Mississippi 50K vs Italy 40K).

Heat dissipation becomes a _huge_ problem when you deploy a data center inside a perfect insulator, the vacuum of space. Currently about a third of the energy consumption of a data…

> SpaceX should create a simple 'catch' the rocket game. Play in browser style. Just for kicks and marketing. They did: https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/

If someone comes up with a new port that had 10% more throughput than USB, do you think that will be enough to make it a viable competitor, or do you think it won't be worth the ha…

I have trouble imagining how you'd get a credit card without a bank account.

Would you be willing to trust your child to the care of someone who is unwilling or incapable of finding work outside the jobs program? For any useful job you can think of, ask you…

> Imagine that our bitter ememies invented a superior logistics tool, known as the wheel. They also invented airplanes and the concept of blitzkrieg. Should we attribute their succ…

Weighted average prices up to €2.40: https://brandstofdata.nl/brandstof/benzine/2022

The difference is during a regular meeting, the skin is uncut. The skin is a major protection against diseases and the body has a bunch of mechanisms at its regular openings (nose,…

> increased employment at small businesses by only 2% > implying a cost of $377,000 per job saved The second doesn't follow from the first at all? The fact that employment increase…

> a lawyer will be able to answer it a fraction of an hour Except that they will probably won't know the answer immediately an need more time than that: https://twitter.com/Daniell…

There are other taxes than just income tax. There's also capital gains tax or even wealth tax. Especially the last one will target the wealthy.

If you're using LINQ on a list, it will not use Expressions, but a plain Func. So nothing will get parsed either way. The difference, as @sbelskie already mentioned, is that Where …

When I put two fingers at the same time on a message, the checkboxes immediately appear. If I'm even slightly off, the checkboxes never appear and instead I get to see the contents…

> Is complementing someone's hat really worth the potential anxiety? I still remember the compliments one of my jackets got me 1, 4 and 6 years ago. That probably helped making it …

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines Start reading from "There's a lot of confusion around the difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine." Most rel…

It looks like the iPhone is about 2-3 times thicker than a MacBook lid. I'm not sure they actually have the space to put iPhone equivalent hardware above the MacBook screen.