mik1998

Avoiding everything that is a drag is almost an axiom for most young people in the modern world... any sort of discomfort is obviously wrong and something to avoid. It's almost a sin to suggest someone should do something that might bring them temporary discomfort even if it's good long term.

Not exactly. The input to produce commodities is labour-power (the potential to perform labour). Education or study is the process of producing the commodity of labour-power, the potential labour of a mathematician who can do some sort of specific work.

That's an absurdly selfish position. You're taking a stance that not existing is superior to living in the future, all the while living in the world yourself. Might as well advocate for nuclear genocide.

Let's cut out the middleman of grass here and just directly eat dirt and sunlight.

"strict vegan diet" AKA supporting industrial byproducts made into ultraprocessed food made on the other side of the globe rather than consuming vegetables, fish & meat produced locally and ecologically.

This article seems unusually misrepresenting of the theory of humours, which was prevalent in medieval Europe, at least in the catholic parts. This theory stated that no food was explicitly bad or good; rather, you should eat food that is suitable for your temperament. In that sense, they did not believe any food is necessarily (at least in terms of the humours) unhealthy; rather, it may be unsuitable or suitable for your temperament and the balance of humours within you. The hesistance of wet was mostly of its association with diseases; but it was recommended to cholerics, whose temperament needed to be balanced with it. In a sense, it sometimes produces better results (by chance) than modern dietary practices which often held up some types of (seemingly innocent food; like animal fats) to be categorically unhealthy.

The cache gets evicted between the times the old commits are revisited.

New and interesting mathematics is done by inventing new definitions and fields, not just combining old theorems to prove new ones.

There are a lot of teenagers stealing bikes and other stuff for fun. It's common, and in many circles very "cool". Doesn't have to be inherent, really.

There is a large amount of people who go around stealing bikes for fun and some cash; and often "street cred" or something akin to that.

Vast majority of adults consume alcohol in moderation, so clearly it is possible. It's really not that addictive if you don't have some physical or psychological predisposition to alcoholism.

USA deaths: mean estimate for obesity-attributable death was 324 940 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10546692/ USA deaths: About 178,000 (about 5% of all) yearly deaths from excessive alcohol occurred in 2020 and 2021 in the United States https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to...

It's not bad in moderation. Sugar is much more addictive and harmful than alcohol, and it's also fine in moderation.

No one relies on bike theft to "survive".

They don't "naturally" lean left. It's not a wild animal. They lean left because every other corpo makes them.

All models are political. The rest of them are just sufficiently woke for you.

This was fine when N = 28. Now it's life of the author plus 95 so there is almost no possibility of anything released in your lifetime to be a part of the public domain before you die.

There's nothing intolerable about pickled vegetables. I eat them all the time

Every language is ambiguous. There's a gap between language (description) and reality. No formal logic can bridge this.

You would use it if it was useful or convenient

The fact that webdevs believe it is shit UI is a big indicator that it is quite good.

Batteries simply raise the price of power up by 10x if not more. Not a viable solution.

Ukraine is far poorer than Russia.

I think it is worthwhile to explore cryptography that is not based on the discrete logarithm problem. Currently, we're keeping all eggs in one conjectured basket. Even if quantum computing will never be viable, there is a non-zero chance that the discrete logarithm problem will be solved in some other way.

No one sells scans of older books, which are often sparsely available in obscure (often private) libraries.

Libgen is a civilizational project that should be endorsed, not prosecuted. I hope one day people will look at it and think how stupid we were today to shun the largest collection of literary works in human history.

There has never been one.

So, what do we do with actual people who have a very similar voice to some "more famous" person? It's quite silly when voices are far away from being unique to a person.

All I can read from this article is "the end of mathematics is on the horizon". Hopefully nothing he says actually materializes.

It used to be pretty bad on old intel processors but nowadays it should be faster than an L1 fetch.