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This is why I grit my teeth whenever I hear a politician say something like "the science is settled". Anyone who understands the scientific method knows to say "the science is settled, except if <some specific thing> happens".

> It can in principle print itself out of any problem.

Except inflation, as we are learning.

The sparrows in my yard have been exploiting and oppressing the wrens for years.

> #1 leading cause of bankruptcies in the US

This isn't true. A certain well-known politician made this claim, but it turns out she counted everyone who had medical debt when they declared personal bankruptcy as a "bankruptcy caused by medical debt." If someone gambled away their home and incidentally had an unpaid doctor's bill, it's a stretch to call that a medical bankruptcy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/06/why-eli...

"Behind every great fortune is a great crime." - Balzac. Was there ever an industry that this quote described more accurately than tech?

Perhaps I'm jaded, but I'm always a bit skeptical when Alphabet touts privacy as a feature of one of their products.

Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.

Or the known knowns which I just ignored.

There are known unknowns, but worse are the unknown unknowns.

Remember that HR works to promote the best interests of the company, which may not be the same as your best interests.

Is this unique to Tesla, or does basically every other large corporation with a media relations department do this too?

Every mutual fund prospectus I read tells me that past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

The three sets Wikipedia admins, HOA board members, and Karens have an intersection with a large cardinality.

According to the Toronto Sun, they are also banning ZTE.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/canada-to-announce-ban-...

My favorite scene is the one where the Cray supercomputer inexplicably had the Windows 3.1 GUI.

Threads like this are why I come to HN.

Is anyone else's OCD triggered by the x-axis on that chart?

I think the "woke" people watch TV too. The problem is that there are not nearly as many of them as social media makes it appear that there are.

You get a low-battery notice when there are only a few hours of charge left. For me, there's always been enough time to finish up my work and let it charge overnight.

In the original MIPS-32 instruction set, some fields in the instruction are unused in certain instructions. (The shift field in R-format instructions is an example.) I had a student who did a project to take real MIPS machine language programs and store textual data in them by repurposing these unused fields.

This sounds more luxurious than my last flight from ORD to RDU.

This is extraordinarily brave, given what usually happens to people who possess illegal content in NK. I think I'll stick to criticizing politically unpopular people on Twitter.

Mao and Stalin might disagree.

The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than 1% of Twitter. It sure sounds like their interests are not well-aligned with those of the company owners.

Not to mention the stunning number of people with college degrees who don't think loans should be paid back.

It's always the algorithm with you, isn't it Alan Turing?

The bias of the Wapo seems pretty obvious to a lot of people.

Musk might feel that the monocular political views of the SV C-suite class is bad for his adopted country.

What kind of car do you drive?

Academia (in the U.S. at least) is one of the last vestiges of the old master / apprentice system.