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Hi Ben, after yet another (3rd I think? could be 4th) round of binge-watching all your videos, I was wondering if you made any progress with "Wire EDM" that you mention in one of y…

We used to call them 'Russian lawyers'

Sorry, but your reply sounds like "just stop being poor". Procrastination is serious problem and anything that helps someone deal with it should not be dismissed. Edit: Procrastina…

There is a reason why those hopelessly addicted to it call it Cracktorio :)

I can imagine that sooner or later reply to threats like this would be a Tomahawk or two.

That's exactly how Google ads worked in the very beginning. Text only, all in one place, it was great! If we could somehow return that type of ads, I'd consider disabling adblocker…

It's also important to distinguish between 'knowing' and 'understanding'. If someone tells me how to says Good morning in, let's say, Mongolian, I 'know' how to greet people, but d…

This is still happening? It used to be very annoying decade or so ago, but I thought it was already solved/fixed/improved. Are there really no option to make a domain registration …

But parent post is arguing that to become a doctor you need to memorize ungodly amount of things, which is absolutely true. And about that wall of reference material .. yeah, it's …

By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'…

Sure, because it worked so well in every country that tried it...

Beautifully written. Now all you need is to open store on Etsy with some crystals and similar junk :) On serious note: I wonder if there is a generator somewhere for this kind of B…

yeah...right... ;)

Great way to make the life of your kids absolute hell at school. I feel sorry for them, being isolated from other kids because your parents are crazy is horrible.

get ready for (random weird maneuver) all system nominal boooom looks like we have a slight issue in the (weird peice of hardware bolted to the capsule), oh well, we have to make a…

Wait, you are using shortcuts instead of bookmarks or just keeping the tabs opened and that is the reason to use Chrome? That's one of the most unique reasons for keeping using cer…

Sorry, I meant it differently. What I was trying to say was that we (mankind) respond best to disasters = sudden catastrophic events, but really bad to frog-boiling ones. It would …

re Python: "...All actual work is done by C libraries though, you could just as easily use BASIC instead"

One of the greatest features of mankind is the response to disasters. When situation gets really bad, we are capable of achieving incredible things that would normally be impossibl…

Isn't Brave just attempt to copy Google? It's Chromium based, with their own ad system ... why choose lesser evil?

Translated: I can't afford X so it's OK to steal it, because corporations are evil for being for-profit. Got it. re UBI: you don't have to wait to see how 'well' would UBI work in …

The only thing that keeps me using Chrome from time time is the in-place translation feature. If anything comparable was added to Firefox (which I mainly use), I would be more than…

I'm honestly surprised that you are able feel any effect from such a dose. Based on what i've heard from my friend's uncle's guardener's grandmother's neighbour, this could very mu…

The moment MS surrendered to Google and adopted Chromium was the last momment when using Edge made even slightest sense. Why choose lesser evil?

No. Since you mentioned 2000s, you know how revolutionary and welcomed were Google ads at that time. Text based ads all in specific positions? Give me more! It was so much better t…