It depends on who gets to define "meaningful". There are a lot of things that I think are meaningful that you probably don't. And while many would say that STEM automatically qualifies, I don't think that really holds…
For the most part, shooting wars avoid taking out leadership. You need somebody capable of surrendering, and with clear authority to order the troops to cease fire. That said, the US has already broken that with Iran,…
People routinely spend many hours indoors, with CO2 levels several times the overall global CO2. I'd expect that effect to swamp the fraction of a percent that global CO2 levels rise. Rising CO2 isn't going to be great…
The thermodynamic arrow of time is very old news. I'm having a hard time figuring out what's new here.
That sounds like a horrific idea. Polymarket isn't a stock or commodities market. There is no underlying value to it. It's zero-sum: the only money coming in comes from the other players. (Minus their overhead.) It's…
Because we like property.
According to my contact at Nike: several years. (She cautioned me against buying too many pairs at once.) Foams break down. As with food "best by" dates, you can get away with rather a lot more than they recommend. But…
Nobody has ever asked me that. I'm having a hard time imagining how that conversation goes. Anybody interested in it would just find out. I wonder if you were telegraphing it, which caused them to ask. I'm reasonably…
> There are US parties that support open borders, DEI/wokeism, There really aren't. Nobody supports "open borders". That's just a Fox News lie. People do support diversity, equity, and inclusion, but Fox News' version…
I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who believes that America has a healthy democracy. Even those most recently elected continually claim that democracy is under threat.
The $10 gauge is of dubious accuracy. Especially if I bought it at a convenience store that happens to sell gas.
Not quite sure what you're suggesting here; perhaps it's satire? If P!=NP then it is arbitrarily smaller, for the same reason that e^x > Cx^N for any constants C and N, as long as x grows big enough.
I had noted a few weeks ago that Hacker News used a font without serifs, causing confusion. I'm not sure when they changed that, but there are now serifs on the capital I and lower case "l". This headline is much less…
Headline is a bit over-dramatic, given that it's already 9 years late. "A decade late" means that it will finally be certified next year. The news, such as it is, is that it might actually get certified next year.
That article was written in January 2017. I think that even the article writer would be shocked by how bad the reality of it actually is.
They do show it folding shirts, which I'd think are harder than blankets. Is your doubt caused by blankets being bigger than shirts? (I didn't see it folding a button-up shirt, only tee-shirts. That's an extra degree of…
Why? Corporations already owe the government part of their earnings, via taxation. What does the government need, or want, with actual ownership of the company? They can't sell it; the government isn't any good at…
It's a common enough expression. It has an entry in Wiktionary (sense 2): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_a_lot_of_work A random example from 1991: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Object_oriented_Program... Of…
I don't really believe that egg prices could have made that big a difference. It was an easy thing for media reports to grab onto, but overall inflation was just not that high. I don't see people getting that bent out…
I think you're making a mistake in assuming that they're stupid. Maybe they like that other people are suffering because they wouldn't make the least conceivable effort to help them. Maybe their goal is to make the…
A whole story about how they screwed up. Kudos, for real.
In what sense do they not understand it? What could we teach them that they don't already know?
Constitutional amendments that can actually be passed:
Well, here's Gizmodo's source, the local newspaper that did the original reporting: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/another-ice-threat-vis...
We don't really amend the Constitution every ten years. We got 10 all at once, immediately after the Constitution was written. They were amendments only because there was debate about whether including them would…
It depends on who gets to define "meaningful". There are a lot of things that I think are meaningful that you probably don't. And while many would say that STEM automatically qualifies, I don't think that really holds…
For the most part, shooting wars avoid taking out leadership. You need somebody capable of surrendering, and with clear authority to order the troops to cease fire. That said, the US has already broken that with Iran,…
People routinely spend many hours indoors, with CO2 levels several times the overall global CO2. I'd expect that effect to swamp the fraction of a percent that global CO2 levels rise. Rising CO2 isn't going to be great…
The thermodynamic arrow of time is very old news. I'm having a hard time figuring out what's new here.
That sounds like a horrific idea. Polymarket isn't a stock or commodities market. There is no underlying value to it. It's zero-sum: the only money coming in comes from the other players. (Minus their overhead.) It's…
Because we like property.
According to my contact at Nike: several years. (She cautioned me against buying too many pairs at once.) Foams break down. As with food "best by" dates, you can get away with rather a lot more than they recommend. But…
Nobody has ever asked me that. I'm having a hard time imagining how that conversation goes. Anybody interested in it would just find out. I wonder if you were telegraphing it, which caused them to ask. I'm reasonably…
> There are US parties that support open borders, DEI/wokeism, There really aren't. Nobody supports "open borders". That's just a Fox News lie. People do support diversity, equity, and inclusion, but Fox News' version…
I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who believes that America has a healthy democracy. Even those most recently elected continually claim that democracy is under threat.
The $10 gauge is of dubious accuracy. Especially if I bought it at a convenience store that happens to sell gas.
Not quite sure what you're suggesting here; perhaps it's satire? If P!=NP then it is arbitrarily smaller, for the same reason that e^x > Cx^N for any constants C and N, as long as x grows big enough.
I had noted a few weeks ago that Hacker News used a font without serifs, causing confusion. I'm not sure when they changed that, but there are now serifs on the capital I and lower case "l". This headline is much less…
Headline is a bit over-dramatic, given that it's already 9 years late. "A decade late" means that it will finally be certified next year. The news, such as it is, is that it might actually get certified next year.
That article was written in January 2017. I think that even the article writer would be shocked by how bad the reality of it actually is.
They do show it folding shirts, which I'd think are harder than blankets. Is your doubt caused by blankets being bigger than shirts? (I didn't see it folding a button-up shirt, only tee-shirts. That's an extra degree of…
Why? Corporations already owe the government part of their earnings, via taxation. What does the government need, or want, with actual ownership of the company? They can't sell it; the government isn't any good at…
It's a common enough expression. It has an entry in Wiktionary (sense 2): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_a_lot_of_work A random example from 1991: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Object_oriented_Program... Of…
I don't really believe that egg prices could have made that big a difference. It was an easy thing for media reports to grab onto, but overall inflation was just not that high. I don't see people getting that bent out…
I think you're making a mistake in assuming that they're stupid. Maybe they like that other people are suffering because they wouldn't make the least conceivable effort to help them. Maybe their goal is to make the…
A whole story about how they screwed up. Kudos, for real.
In what sense do they not understand it? What could we teach them that they don't already know?
Constitutional amendments that can actually be passed:
Well, here's Gizmodo's source, the local newspaper that did the original reporting: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/another-ice-threat-vis...
We don't really amend the Constitution every ten years. We got 10 all at once, immediately after the Constitution was written. They were amendments only because there was debate about whether including them would…