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This comment is a part of the chain that starts with a very judgemental comment and is an answer to a response challenging that starting one. You don't need legal knowledge of the …

For something that you think is a de-facto standard, public suffix list seems kinda raw to me for now. I checked it for two popular public suffixes that came to mind: 'livejournal.…

Let's call it Polyphemus and its interesting moon Pandora.

Reading this thread from Russia feels surreal.

I think this is just an "r>g" rule made famous by Piketty. When r (return on investment) is bigger than g (overall economy's growth), the rich get richer. It's unsustainable in a p…

What happens when everything stops growing, though? For decades our industry growed faster than almost any other industry and definitely faster than the economy as a whole. It's ma…

I was born in the USSR, so, with all due respect, I think I know more about the internal mechanics of undemocratic states than a person who watched YouTube.

Any sufficiently big country is very anarchic in that sense. US and India are made of literal states. Russia resembles a medieval feudal structure. UK is England, Scotland, Wales a…

It seems that aphantasia is much more common among programmers. It must have something to do with the fact that autism and mathematical ability is correlated, or the third fact tha…

Is there a second paper about showering?

Now I wonder what about children? Do they have different dummies for different ages and different car seat sizes? If not, what's the equivalent of > women are 17 percent more likel…

Ummmm planet = [ name := 'World' nick := 'Earth' ] 'Hello, ' + (planet :: {WAT}) Output: 10585168

> The word robot derives from the Slavonic word robota, > roughly translating to servitude, forced labor, or drudgery. Robota simply means "work". These two words are as similar in…

Ok, this is clearly crowdsourcing a dataset for AI alignment right right?

The problem is, faster than light travel violates causality in some reference frames [1]. This is a big problem. Forget grandpa-killing travellers; even several bits of time travel…

What does an average home in Prague look like? Is it an apartment or a detached house, how many bedrooms? In Eastern European countries, the quality of housing varies greatly, from…

Mercedes, Porsche and Lambo aren't startups though. They aren't even normally described as "innovative" (which is kinda weird).

> Yandex is a huge beneficiary from the war This is not true. On the contrary, Yandex's business has suffered greatly. You can see it for yourself here https://www.nasdaq.com/marke…