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I assume you are from the US with little knowledge of history. Neander (ever wondered where the Neanderthals got their name from) was German. Early anthropologists were German or F…

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Funny comment. You should tell this the Austrian chancellor.

You should add conglomerates. In Austria, the grocery market is effectively dominated by 3 companies. They rarely compete directly, i.e., by having stores next to each other.

But don't expect them to check whether the Chromebooks are still useful after an update. E.g., the original Lenovo duet turned into an oversized paperweight after one of their late…

I assume they dropped it because they couldn't monetize it, i.e. spam you with personalized ads and the like. Probably the same reason why RSS News feeds were dropped.

I don't think you got the last sentence right. I once noticed that people who are used to quickly read tons of texts often don't get the meaning of more winded sentences right. (I …

Get yourself an old-fashioned web-space, setup a nextcloud instance ... profit.

Of course it could be a scientific to estimate the probability that ...

They knead before they sit down. If you lived in grass land with the gras being higher than you, you'd probably knew why.

My comment doesn't have anything to do with AI per se but with the hybris and inhumanity of people in the AI bubble.

Love, respect, and humility have a small chance to save the world. AI? I don't know. I have my doubts it will improve human interaction.

There are several devices like that. But I guess most people use their phones + bt keyboard.

While "In the Penal Colony" actually is really funny and readable, I don't think much humor could have been lost.

I don't think you use the word autistic in any meaningful way.

They still don't manage to sell their devices world-wide. Even in Europe. Clicking on the above link I see only their useless nest devices.

That would be a horse, which is seemingly used in some other countries.

But in many countries, it isn't a knight.

IIRC lisp was already called "functional" in the 1980s. It was in contrast to purely procedural languages. I cannot comment on the 1970s.

Parquet is cool. What isn't so cool is that, e g., partitioning isn't supported on all platforms out of the box. Hence, reading a set of files created in one language may require e…

Calvino was a member of oulipo. Other than Vonnegut (whom I admire too), he had a concept of literature as art. You should take him serious.

I don't think this is not how evolution works. Octopuses are most likely as dumb (or, by maritime standards, clever) as they were millions of years ago.

Sure but why should they get (somewhat) smart then? Or are you proposing only the smartass octupuses survive?

I doubt this is how nature works - with the exception of octopuses, it seems. In most environments, you probably get eaten or starve to death before you have time to figure it all …

I don't follow. Why should they develop a high intelligence if the don't have a chance to learn from others? Usually, these others are your parents.