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even though the constant is tiny, this breaks the long held assumption that nlogn is the minimal possible bound, so further research seemed unfruitful. this discovery will now trigger more research in this area, and probably more optimal algorithms will be discovered.

Like matrix multiplication, the common assumption was that it cannot be improved past n^3. Then Strassen broke the barrier (with a more significant constant) which caused intensive research - and now we are around n^2.3..2.4.

He has single digit percentage of the company but double digits percentage of voting stock. My understanding is that he and Brin are holding together barely above 50% of the latter and understandably do not want to lose the control.

> nobody

[citation needed]. Project Pacer might be controversial and uneconomical, but still interesting.

Or use a bunch of fonts shuffling letters. So the text on the page and ASCII text under it do not match

Otoh, how do LLM read PDFs? Text is likely to be shuffled anyway from my experience. Do they not (simply) OCR? But then the white font trick won't work.

My pixel fold 9 got 3 hardware failures (battery, speaker and folding sensor) and was warranty replaced for a fold 10. While it was being replaced I was using a non foldable phone and was totally missing the folding experience (large screen and multitasking for some personal use cases), so I am team foldables for now. otoh I do not get the idea behind the flip phones

2 bit 160x144px ought to be enough for anything

That's an option in Google maps

The year is 2026. Surely the orbits of all the satellites are known well enough, and optics are modelled well enough for telescopes to know which few pixels to ignore at any given moment?

ACs are uncommon, yet red tape is plentiful.

> new Integer(10) == new Long(10) // compiler error, used to false

wait, really? I thought introducing _such_ incompatibility was not allowed

Looks like those in favor of small government should not vote - to apply evolutionary pressure instead of rewarding unacceptable behavior

wiktionary is better for this usecase since it tends to have a richer coverage of various meanings

> There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school.

Objection. For a hypothetical actor wanting to set the world economy on fire there might be a benefit of enraging the enemy to lower the risk of early deescalation.

the 2009 collision was well documented and there are interesting reports online

e.g. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100002023/downloads/20...

which has a chart of apogee/perigee of debris. There seem to be examples of debris with _perigee_ above the collision altitude but the vast majority stayed beyond.

fresh water

thats in a scenario with soldiers pushing into no mans land under permanent drone control. Israel demonstrates much lower stats when enemy hides underground. I would imagine having no boots on the ground will lower the numbers further.

> The dwindling stock of unused true Polaroid film is getting absurdly expensive as a result. what's the point? ain't all of this stock expired, with photos ending up just blobs or being gamble at best? (even for film stored in freezers)

How do goldbacks fit into this? They contain gold (up to 3 grams, a non-trivial amount), they are accepted by a (small) number of businesses, and they are supposed to be reused for further transactions.

But why is silver with export restrictions (Shanghai) trading above silver without said restrictions?

Yes but no. The looks are also important. They want 80-99% to stroke their ego and nice pictures to claim legitimacy. The latter seemingly being useful both internally and externally.

Are there mechanisms in place that will prevent them from delaying this decision until, say, 2029?

Ah, it is all Mercator's fault

Time traveler here. Eventually there would be DPI blackboxes. You do not have to be 100% successful there, blocking 99% and playing cat and mouse with the remaining 1% might be enough.

IIUC the critical use is by military units, so a process to list all the serial numbers shall be quite straightforward

A government may introduce a list of identifiers of devices allowed to operate in their territory. With relatively frequent verification to prevent the use of captured devices.

> They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless.

One may collect/archive now (when the data is, well, "available"), and publish later, when copyright expires and the material will likely be harder to obtain.

the attitude of at least checking the code before running it, I suppose? Or is the curl | sudo bash approach more preferred nowadays?

So you are saying there would be a limited resource becoming exponentialy more expensive over time? I guess there might occur a demand for such a resource? And mayhaps in that case the holders might decide to exchange it for some other assets they desire?

(ofc thats not the 100% correct description of bitcoin which depreciated against most other assets ytd but the idea still stands)

What would be the best way to grow some small towns into new metro areas?

Check "valcambi combibar". Its a gold plate pre-divided into 1g pieces you can break away (like a chocolate bar).

1g is ~100 of money today, which would be enough for a weekly supply of groceries for a person in HCOL areas.