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If you only need the first line you can invoke units with --terse.

  $ units --terse 2.4kWh megajoules
  8.64

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is technically a dinosaur film.

Thread winner.

Let's go home.


Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

I mean, Project Gutenberg and libraries exist and the literature industry hasn't died yet.

The problem with democracy: people on average have average intelligence and you don't solve difficult problems with average intelligence. That being said, it's still better than anything else we've tried.

Right - I'm also hand-waving a bit here and lumping democratic republics in with "true democracies" for the sake of simplicity, but you're absolutely correct.

Selling anything at a loss should never be allowed because it's inherently anti-competitive. A big established company can sell at a loss far longer than a small newcomer.

I'm gonna predict biotech. Implanted chips that let you interact with LLMs directly with your brain. Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor. Fully hands-free videoconferencing on the go. As with blockchain and current LLMs, not something I fancy spending any time with, but people will call it the next step towards some kind of tech utopia.

>Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor

You've been able to do that relatively cheaply for at least a decade. Nobody really does because the market for even minor surgeries that can essentially be replaced by having a pocket is pretty small.

Implanted neural interfaces have a lot of technical challenges that I think make them extremely unlikely as purely elective procedures in anything like the immediate future. AR glasses are way more plausible.


Sharks only eat like once or twice a week and are very shy creatures, so not much to worry about. You're more likely to be killed by a coconut.

It was a joke about a silly movie premise

That comment might also have been a joke, ironically and intentionally missing the point that perhaps there aren’t that many sharks in the Seine.

Or coconuts.

One could be carried there

Not by a Swallow

It could grip it by the husk

So could a shark

But is it worse than Triple Triad with random, elemental, same, plus, combo, and wall?

Definitely not.

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