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> The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ‘90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. I find this deeply troubling. So the seeds w…

Protons are non-perturbative, indeed, but this does not mean that there are no virtual particles exchanged inside a proton. It seems like your comment implies that, sorry if I misu…

Part of these renewables are the so-called "biomass", which leads to pretty substantial CO2 emissions. So basically they replaced a CO2-neutral energy source, with another which is…

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Still, cheating at chess is not murdering someone!

Nuclear wastes are incredibly small, the whole energy you would need in your life would fill a soda can of wastes, if only nuclear was used. Geological repositories are an excellen…

Please, please, please stop with the waste management taking point! There are super-safe and rather cheap ways of treating and storing nuclear waste! It’s essentially a scaremonger…

> researchers invented a fundamentally new kind of problem that a quantum computer should be able to solve exponentially faster Telling of the status of the field.

It’s very cool, but every update of mac OS resets it! After a while I didn’t bother to reactivate it… Is there a permanent solution, that does not involve cron scripts or other hac…

Why does every company need to try to take over the world? They make toy bricks, they actually make the freaking best toy bricks ever… Just stick to that! I know I might be exceedi…

You look forward to mozzarella? That’s a very good thing to do, probably best food ever! :)

You’ll have my mozzarella from my dead hands!

Are you joking? You can easily find a very long list of conservative/right wing personalities banned from Twitter.

The problem is that the alternative is way worse… You have to create some authority that decides what constitutes a nasty opinion and what doesn’t. And the moral of the history is:…

I sincerely hope you are joking. People can discuss things that are not law. One can point out, for instance, that Twitter is not a free speech platform, and this is bad for many r…

Yes, you are mixing up two different ideas. Free speech is a very well defined concept, as done by literally hundreds of political science scholars. The fact that the US Constituti…

Elon’s flight records are public, but the account aggregated them and made them available to the public in a different form. A better example would be: a Twitter account reports yo…

Your are mixing up the first amendment with the broader idea of free speech. The 1A (roughly speaking) limits the scope of the Government as not too limit free speech. Twitter, as …

Free speech does not mean that private and personal data can be made public. Posting your bank account statement on Twitter is not free speech.

Reminds me of Mikutap: https://aidn.jp/mikutap/

I suggest "What Is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Mathematics%3F

I cannot see any difference besides the icons in the Dock looking like those of iPhone apps.

I love Mato Jelic's channel.

> Unironically chess is an e-sport and this recent explosion is because Hikaru, Botez, Hess et al. have woken up to that idea and embraced it. Let me also mention Mato Jelic. His v…

I remember when DirectX was a huge obstacle to porting games to Linux. This feels like a great, great victory for Linux to me!