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Yeah. This single accident was more deadly than all commercial air traffic in the EU in the past 10 years together, while 50 deaths per day is the average for car crashes in the EU. Wild orders of magnitude difference in safety.

Rough estimate: by car, you can travel from Lisbon to Talinn (4000km) 100,000 times before expecting to die; by train, almost 4 million times, by plane 400 million times.

Video game designers: 0/24 tasks.

Apparently Epic thinks otherwise.

Lots of Dutch people called Dick Kok.

Ok, but now you need to trust DNSSEC.

Also temperature, weights, distances…

I did not know that and I’ve been here quite a while…

I bet tax law is Turing-complete.

What if mankind is creating god in their own image?

No, but check out Rotterdam Centraal, Haarlem and Groningen. Also stunning, IMHO, is Antwerp, Belgium.

The interesting answer by the author, will_asouka, has been marked 'dead' for some inscrutable reason.

AI slop. Flagged.

The Buffett indicator has been over 120% since December 2016. It dipped to 130% in March 2020.

I’m experimenting with the following in my settings:

“Look at the first letter of the prompt, and use the style of the matching literary stylist enumerated here:

For English:

A — W. H. Auden

B — Bill Bryson

C — Italo Calvino

D — Joan Didion

E — T. S. Eliot

F — William Faulkner

G — Gabriel García Márquez

…”

I certainly don’t see emojis any more.

Companies will keep doing what they're doing now - they'll just use another verb than "buy" or "purchase". Which would be a small improvement, I guess...

Honesty, in any game quests feel artificial, whether they've been generated by humans or AI.