Uhuhreally

with a high voice for "zero"

"Wealth is a fluid thing" is quite a euphemism for "tax evasion"

interestingly lithium's medicinal properties depend on its isotope

expected to read an article about someone 3d-printing their own glasses, was disappointed

It says damage resembling chemical burns. And why not ? did lungs evolve in an environment with propylene glycol ? no.

yes because programming is exactly like manufacturing cars on an assembly line or playing rugby.

imagine that you're so smart that next time you have a great idea for a new technology you simulate in your mind how the world would be affected by that technology and, seeing that overall it would add to the misery of the world, you decide instead to say "fuck it" and continue playing around in the sea

all I can think about now is the total surface area of plastic in the world rubbing against something and being ground into microplastic dust

nope

Imagine you could store the hydrogen (protons) in a convenient, safe form called a "battery"

could you (and the parent if possible) comment on the role the canton system plays in direct democracy ?

because he has been awarded by the putative meritocratic competition a vast sum of money for his mediocre operating system

now let me ask this: is Gates smarter and harder working in proportion to his wealth than Knuth ?

"extraordinary things"

DOS was shit and so was Windows. Microsoft has always somehow made money in spite of the poor quality of their products. The only exception I can think of is their mouse.

are there any social media platforms that don't have metrics like follower counts, karma etc ?

this applies to many other instances of systems being adopted and appearing to succeed even though what's really behind the success is something else, but because we don't have the control we associate the system with the success, like how when it's reported that a successful person eats chocolate or wears red; they were successful and they happened to wear red and it was only coincidence. Humans are always looking for causes and will associate spurious things together by default. I bet you if Agile were removed from all teams tomorrow they'd still deliver.

he downplayed the severity of it with his wording, which is tacitly arguing in favour of it

my god the fragility of people who expect their free speech to be consequence-free

Bollocks. Like Ricky Gervais said the other day actually you can say anything you like. People might not agree with you and that's fine.

"harem"

The point of an IQ test is to measure IQ, or "Intelligence Quotient", or how intelligent someone is, except what it really measures is how good people are at doing IQ tests.

Nobody agrees what Intelligence is, and people with a high IQ are not always clever.