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You have no idea. Stop it.

This is exactly right. I find John Oliver entertaining, but I'm acutely aware that he gets eyeballs by stoking outrage. And the few times he touched on subjects I know something ab…

Sure, but - by definition - half the population is below average social status. At least here in the US, those people are still partnering up.

> housing (which is a requisite status symbol for dating or marriage I get that culture is hard to change, but it still seems easier than changing the economics. There are men and …

If you spend time in neighborhood groups like nextdoor and local facebook groups, you find plenty of support for Flock. I'd even go so far as to say a majority. This doesn't have t…

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Someone bounced from "let's dump 40 vats at once" to "we can't allow even a slow leak". No, I don't think we're seeing rigorous scientific competence.

Orders of magnitude more fish die offshore of this village every day. I'm skeptical of scientists who think there's no middle ground between dumping it all at once, and treating it…

I am shocked to learn there is no dog in a hot dog. Calling my lawyer...

I-prefixing interfaces is a practice from Microsoft's COM, and to this day still isn't part of Java culture, despite the efforts of subversive dotnet renegades.

This is genuinely funny. I have to admire the chutzpah.

This is specifically Spring culture, not Java culture in general. I don't tend to see this outside of Spring. Maybe back in the J2EE days, but that community seems to be more or le…

People with a handful of hours towards a private pilot's license have no (zero, zip, nada) expertise or insight when it comes to the design and manufacture of commercial airliners.…

> what other possible explanation is there for someone putting a PIN visible on their phone that wipes it while crossing a border? Two obvious answers: 1. It's for the general case…

The most recent started service in 2014. They may in fact be obsolete but not because they are old by soviet standards.

> As someone who has 31 hours towards their single-engine ppl cert, FFS, have some self-awareness! This is the Dunning-Kruger Effect in practice.

Bullshit. Last time I flew internationally, only two of the eight seats had window access. Interior isle seats cost as much as window seats in airlines that charge for position. Pe…

> There's a reason all modern silo based (and submarine) ICBMs are solids. Believe it or not, here in 2026, this is incorrect! Those crazy Russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R…

1.5M civilians already live in Bahrain. This usage makes the term "war zone" meaningless.

Taiwan has been self governing for longer than almost everyone that lives there has been alive. It's also a vibrant democracy. If you care about democracy and human rights, it's mo…

> 640K ought to be enough for anybody. The question is really whether 640k is enough to last you until your next hardware upgrade.

OP's take seems to be unfairly critical. I wasn't at the MIT or Georgia Tech lectures (Gene Ray spoke once at each) but it sounds like the audience was pretty respectful, all thing…

You seem to be banging on a stereotype. Yudkowsky doesn't speak for everyone (not even everyone on lesswrong) and AI safety/paranoia is an incredibly polarizing issue. There's a lo…

People can and will use LLMs to curate the training data for the next generation. I expect they already do.

Is this mobile app only? I don't see "time management" on the website.