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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 French law to want to distinguish real child abuse from imaginary. One can give arguments why the latter is also bad, but this is not an automatic judgment, should not depend on the laws of a particular country and I, for one, am deeply shocked that some could think it's the same crime of the same severity.

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.

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 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.

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?

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 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.

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 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

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.

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 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).

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.