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This is a very US-centric view. In most of the world, poor people (who are delivery drivers) don't own cars.

Something to note is that resistive and (much more commonly) gas heating is prone to warping cookware, which isn't an issue with those types of heat. However, once warped they heat unevenly over …

Yes, I completely agree. The author should have applied it to his "odds of success vs extent to which you consider second order and subsequent consecuences" graph and saved everybody the tim…

Induction is great, but an electric kettle costs like 10 bucks while changing your stove is a huge investment that includes replacing all your pots and pans, plus if you were using gas before now your…

That's good to know. I haven't worked professionaly with Python for a couple of years now, and back then we were maintaining a Python 2 system.

There's also the much faster cPickle. It may just be fast enough for your needs. If it isn't, then you start exploring other options.

I found about this fairly recently. You seem knowledgeable about the topic. Can I ask you how did the community react to this/what do they think of this episode today? Because having full control…

Classic is the one that didn't rollback transactions after the DAO scam right?

The Fiat 500 is just that. I've driven one in Europe, but sadly not available where I live.

Do you have a link to a full copy?

All cars are getting meaner, it's not just fault of the Chinese market. These big trucks are sold mostly in the US and they still have these ever-growing grills.

My point is that the same could be said about phlogistons back in the day. There were a lot of completely different advances in the understanding of physics and chemistry needed to explain combustion …

Isn't that question why they felt the need to add "dark matter" to the equation? "Our mass estimation must be wrong, therefore there's all this mass we're not seeing"…

I don't think MOND proponents say the theory is complete, just that alternative gravitation theories is the direction that should be taken for research instead of funding futile dark matter detec…

This article has introduced me to "Modified Newtonian dynamics", which is a field of study I didn't know existed. The premise is pretty obvious now: Newton was pretty cool and all, but …

Dark matter has always smelled of phlogistons to me. It's this mystery substance that solves all of our problems, and doesn't make any predictions. I have no idea what a more accurate explan…

Walking and biking are much more "eco friendly" than saving some fuel on a car ride, yet google maps has no idea where the bike lanes are half the time.

>Possible that some artists pay to be extra prominent. So it's paid-for advertising?

At that point, why not just have a static blog hosted on an AWS bucket?

If actually using it has this huge friction, how do you manage to use it every day? I always have a hard time creating habits out things that are hard to "start" doing every time.

Truly inspiring.

xkcd has a quick heuristic of why this is probably a bad idea: https://xkcd.com/1924/

Wow that last bit sounds like the start of a SF novel about robot uprising. Thanks for sharing your story!

Not so sure. On a technical level at least, everything that I have read from him has been very concise and pragmatic. His programming advice is always to be as simple as possible because simple is fas…

I should have made it clearer -- by "actually" I mean "in a net negative way". Otherwise it's useless. It's not clear at all from the article, or from any other of these …

As far as I know, the human brain is just a "social game reasoning" optimizer, that we try (and fail) to use to do actual logical reasoning. The zillion cognitive biases we have are the clue…

Also, there's something about translated jokes. Not just in the sense of language, but also in the sense of culture. If somebody right now tried to translate a modern English joke to Thai, but on…

Well, I tried my best. Another commenter summed it up better without using the term "anthropomorphizing" at all, but it came out a bit more condescending than necessary.

>Who cares if you're a global jet setter generating hundreds of tons of co2, if you're properly sequestering them "Sequestering" carbon is, right now, complete science fiction. …

I don't think it's possible. "Knowing" and "understanding" are inherently human experiences. The most reasonable thing to do would be to invent new terms and relegate the…