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why stop at 7?

maybe for some of the same reasons that discussion of computer science likes to quote Knuth? or big-O notation? The political theories/philosophies developed by the founding father…

I'm less sure that there is an endgame. Seems more likely to me that it is being run as a reality TV show where the idea is to maintain a high level of viewer engagement. And no-on…

huh. Can your theory explain then the difference between San Francisco/Bay area and the rest of the United States? Perhaps it is California's generous tax policies compared to say …

and to be blunt, I learned similar things building analog synths, before the dawn of LLMs. Like you, I don't like watching videos. However, the web also has text, the same text use…

> took thousands of years to accept brain as the seat of thought because “heart beat faster when excited, means heart is source of excitement” So what you are saying is that beings…

JAS 39 Gripen can land on roads. Might have been a better choice.

> there is a massive influence operation that seeks to destroy knowledge, science, and technology in the United States Agreed. Started with big tobacco by discrediting the connecti…

My wife is diabetic, which means she is at higher risk from covid. My parents are old. I have a duty to my family to protect them, and if that means wearing a mask to reduce my ris…

how does this compare to the depreciation cost of their datacenters?

inflation was double-digits in the 70s. and the S&P was flat at 1.6% for the decade despite some pretty amazing technical innovations pocket calculator and microcomputer (Altair 88…

octopuses learn by observing other octopuses See for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwJXvlTWDw or if you prefer, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9…

Which doesn't take away from your main point. A liturgically oriented church does build community.

> in "medieval" times people also went to church a lot where someone lectured you from a book, The idea of church as "someone lecturing you from a book" describes only a few christ…

sounds like you dodged a bullet. You qualified for the interview, but did they qualify for you?

I guess you never worked at Stripe.