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Re:PSA: Always use a separate domain for user content on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:15PM (#45540610)
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.com' and 'substack.com'. Both weren't there.

Maybe I'm mistaken, it's not a bug and these suffixes shouldn't be included, but I can't think of the reason why.

Let's call it Polyphemus and its interesting moon Pandora.
Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal on Monday April 28, 2025 @07:41AM (#43820190)
Reading this thread from Russia feels surreal.
Re:Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer on Monday January 15, 2024 @11:30AM (#39002653)
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 pure mathematical sense, the rich cannot own more than 100% of economy, so at some moment this system breaks, and one can only hope that it doesn't break violently.

Piketty somehow wrote a 1000 page book about that, and a slightly controversial one, but an idea is very simple and, I think, hard to argue against.

Re:Signs that it's time to leave a company on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:34AM (#38951379)
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 mathematically unsustainable. It must come to an end at some point, and that point is near.

Is it simply time to retire?

Re:Ozone hole goes large again on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:00AM (#37954554)
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.
Re:Ozone hole goes large again on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:39AM (#37953666)
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 and Northern Ireland, and it all would be about 5% population of China. An idea that someone or something could govern such a huge amount of people directly and controlling all aspects of life and economy looks absurd to me.
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 that autism and exotically expressed drawing abilities are correlated, too. But this is too complicated a tangle to draw simple conclusions.
Re:The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking [pdf] on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:40AM (#33606363)
Is there a second paper about showering?
Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:59AM (#33507529)
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 likely to die in a car crash

> and 73 percent more likely to sustain serious injuries

for children?

Ummmm

planet = [ name := 'World' nick := 'Earth' ]

'Hello, ' + (planet :: {WAT})

Output: 10585168

Re:The coming tsunami of fakery on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:45AM (#32595330)
> 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 meaning and connotations as words from two different languages can be. FWIK the emotional coloring is completely invented by the author. The fact that they do such thing in the very first paragraph makes them a very unreliable narrator.

Re:Absurd Trolley Problems on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:23AM (#31998196)
Ok, this is clearly crowdsourcing a dataset for AI alignment right right?
Re:They're made out of meat (1991) on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:01AM (#31966252)
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 travelling information allows one to easily solve NP-complete problems (it's an even more powerful mode of computation, actually) [2]

Any new physics that allows for FTL must be very weird, even in a logical sense.

[1]: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/52249/how-does-f... [2]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec19.html

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 cramped apartments in gray concrete buildings to elegant mansions. I wonder, which of this is worth 16 times annual income.

Mercedes, Porsche and Lambo aren't startups though. They aren't even normally described as "innovative" (which is kinda weird).
Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:24AM (#31083557)
> 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/market-activity/stocks/yndx

The company's employees are almost universally opposed to the war, but opinions about exactly how it should be stopped are, indeed, conflicted.