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> look at the Rwanda: It is absolutely possible to have a genocide made by democracies, Rwanda has never been a democracy. Habyarimana was "elected" with 99% of the votes ffs. > an…

The detailed terms of the bet include this: > A 301 redirect from www.longbets.org/601 to a different URL containing that text would also fulfill those conditions. I assume this wo…

What's your point? You'd rather have a democratically elected but corrupt leader than an appointed but honest one?

Normal rules do not apply because these companies are worth billions and powerful people don’t want them to fail. It’s neither specific to AI nor a new phenomenon.

Sure. We can't even agree on a good definition for "consciousness", we certainly don't know _how_ it works. I don't think there's a lot of debate around that specific point. I'll t…

Ok, I only skimmed the paper but it seems like all of the "non-local phenomena" in support of their theory are basically psychic powers. Not exactly strong evidence.

Mostly by looking at packets TTL. It gets decreased by 1 by the hotspot’s NAT so if the value is something like 63 or 127 (instead of 64 or 128 which are the defaults for most plat…

Is that what really happens though? EU countries usually don't immediately punish violations unless they're particularly egregious. You're more likely to get a warning and a grace …

Urban Dictionary might be a better place for recent internet slang: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracked

I'm not the person you're replying to, but here's my take: even though the two look conceptually similar, Unix programs are just a lot simpler. All programs run on the same machine…

This was a very enjoyable read. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool and fun project! Thanks for sharing.

The Q5 Pro is a 96% layout, but Keychron also has quite a few 100% layouts: https://www.keychron.com/collections/all-keyboards?sort_by=m...

Stripe does use Ruby, but not Rails.

Apple's ad business is fairly limited in scope (I think they only sell ads in the App Store and the News app) so user data is not as valuable for them as it is for Google and Faceb…

Presumably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Sherpa

There are definitely some parkings where you can only pay with a smartphone. The worst is when they force you to download a shitty app. Super fun when the parking does not have goo…

I'm not sure I understand how your analogy is relevant to the discussion, but you should know that the current consensus is that the pyramids were build by paid laborers, not slave…

But HAL didn't act "on a whim"! The reason it killed the crew is not because it went rogue, but rather because it was following its instructions to keep the true purpose of the mis…

I'm working on a fairly recent Rails 7 code base. We initially started using Stimulus, but are now considering switching to React for a few reasons: - if you're looking to hire fro…

The binary for Microsoft Paint is called mspaint.exe, and there is no "paint" alias AFAICT -- typing "paint" in the run prompt results in "Windows cannot find 'paint'". You could c…

I strongly doubt airlines can change flight plans after everyone has boarded.

Out of curiosity I tried a few of the services on this list. They all follow the same textbook dark pattern, with fake progress bars, making the process of looking up someone artif…

I recently replaced Powertoys Run with ueli: https://ueli.app/ Basically the same thing, but Powertoys Run was always slowish while ueli is very snappy. It also integrates with Eve…

> The universe is the same in 3D. This would mean the universe has positive curvature. Experimental evidence points towards the universe being flat (zero curvature), though there i…