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As others have said, these were uninformed guesses which LLMs seem still to be willing to hand out deliberately. If you provide more information (your schemas, the distribution of …

Wasn't that acquisition announced in December 2025 and closed in March 2026? Hard to imagine it created a sudden spike in the share price only in late May.

Flat compared to 2 months ago. Chart looks like a pump-and-dump. 50% up and back. Is there any precedence in history for a swing like this over a two month period for the IBM stock…

It's the continuation of a process that is going on for 25-30 years. As others have noted, Germany's industrial base is eroding due to high energy costs and Chinese competition. It…

Why would it need to be safe for "hundreds of thousands of years" in the first place? Do we not think we would find some other use of nuclear waste within the next decades/centurie…

Can anyone explain how search revenue is still _growing_ in the age of LLMs?

Doom was released end of '93. In 1992 most of us were in the 286 -> 386 upgrade wave and a 486-33 was easily at $2.5k+ ($5.5k in today's terms). The 486 DX2 66 was a good choice ev…

There surely must be some BBS backup tapes somewhere that at least contain some of the boards?

Has anyone captured a Fidonet forum archive anywhere or is this form of human communication forever lost?

Problem is: this list gets shorter every year, without any new additions in the recent decades (!)

What would the appropriate strategy have been after realizing China had decided to squeeze foreign cars out of the market? The "obsolete business model" still sells many cars world…

They are on par or better than their Chinese counterparts but they are a hard sell being 30-50% more expensive.

It's 24 months at the moment, which is way too long. A buffer period for companies to allow for necessary adjustments should be one quarter, max two.

How can manufacturers fight EV adoption? If an EV is a superior offering it will find its market. Germans are free to buy Teslas, BYDs or domestiv EVs. There are reasons why the EV…

There must be more to it. German automakers did belong to the top 10 (for some periods even top 5) R&D spenders world-wide. It seems they just did not spend it wisely. Similarly, t…

I see where Simon is coming from with these patterns but I wonder where large software companies stand regarding their agentic engineering practices? Is Google creating in-house co…

This is going on for decades and I wonder what the actual business model for the EU economy is in the future. With all factories soon gone, will Europe rely on agriculture, tourism…

If news sites opt out of being archived by the Internet Archive, are their archives available anywhere or just lost? Will there be no way to access the headlines of a certain day o…

Not sure what you're talking about. The last "forward facing" government was about 50y ago, the last one at least driving meaningful reforms almost 25y ago. To me it seems the more…

Like London? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvctCbVEvwQ

Wasn't all this early TV experimentation based on Nipkow disks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk )?

Why "abundant cheap energy is a key requirement to survive in today's globalized markets" has not made it into the EU leaderships' mindset is beyond comprehension.

What are some of the niche search engines build on Google's index affected by this?

Yes, what I think happens is the following: User A's price ceiling is $10, User B's $12. When both reveal their max price early, the item will go to $10.50 ($0.50 increment over A'…