Screwing with one of the longtime favorites of the hacker ecosystem is not going to turn out well for the Fluckers.

Some people have to learn about the Streisand Effect the hard way.

The beans in my pantry aren't cooked, genius. I never said anything about them being canned. Got any other bad assumptions or defective math for us?

Great, let's give our AI agents a retrovirus.

I remember her well!

Beans approximately double to triple in weight when you cook them. For your black beans, it takes about 195g of dried beans to produce a pound (454g) of cooked beans.

Using the numbers you supplied, your beans come out to 1.38 calories/gram, uncooked. 1.38 X 195 = 269 calories/pound, cooked. I hope I don't have to explain the full arithmetic

Volume-wise, that's over a cup of beans, which is waaaay more than I would want to eat at a sitting.

You must be joking. Antidepressant use is so widespread in the Scandinavian paradise of Denmark that all the fish are on them too due to how much gets passed into wastewater via the bodies of medicated Danes.

https://news.ku.dk/all_news/20...

I saw a report that 13.5% of Canada is on antidepressants and 17% of Iceland too.

In the US, the CDC says about 47% of people reported using a prescription drug in the past 30 days (most recent data from right before Covid): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/t...

And since I know you're going to say "but I said cooked!", your figures are for uncooked pulses. I checked against some beans in my pantry.

I don't know about you, but I eat cooked beans. Nice try, though.

Legumes, when they are pulses (i.e. dried), are parts of plants you can eat, sure, but no one will think of navy beans as "vegetables". They get treated differently in a number of ways by nutritionists.

There is also a reason why we have terms that distinguish between "root vegetables" (carrots, beets) and "tubers" (potatoes, cassava). OP might have meant "plant based" since fruits (which are not vegetables, I hope we can agree) were probably intended, too, but I go by what people write.

Grain is a fruit, being the edible seeds of plants: corn, rice, wheat, quinoa, etc.

This is pretty easy to look up.

You'd starve: vegetables average around 100 calories a pound.

If you mean veg + tubers and grains, yeah enjoy your starchy diabetes-inducing diet. Oh, beans? Less than 300 calories a pound!

The human digestive tract isn't built for bovine grazing. We evolved with fire and meat as a key part of the fuel that powers these energy-intensive big brains:

https://www.amnh.org/explore/s...

You can use it as a living room gaming box; my wife uses it like that often. She uses it as a handheld when playing old arcade games on an emulator, but for more serious games she hooks up a big screen, keyboard and mouse in the living room.

Why do you think the Dutch authorities are now blocking the acquisition of Solvinity by some US based firm? Solvinity manages the servers for the national identity provider scheme (DigiD).
Personally I don't think the government should be using 3rd party clouds for anything remotely critical. They have the scale to make running their own infrastructure worthwhile financially, and the know-how to run it effectively.

Rassvet? It wasn't done "quietly", having been covered amply in the news.

After a bunch of delays, including unavailability of launch vehicles, they finally got 16 satellites off the ground in March. Only 884 to go for the far less ambitious constellation they're planning. I predict the budget will get eaten up by graft and waste before they hit a quarter of that.

Pragmatic? The decision was made at the very last minute despite the grave risks having been pointed out months ago. No action was taken. Now they unnecessarily blocked the takeover instead of taking actual pragmatic action. Such as: offering Solvinity to let the acquisition go through, if they are willing to end the contract for this service early, and sell the servers that are already living in a Dutch government-owned data center to a new partner willing to operate them.

"Competing with things in even higher orbits" is exactly what they are doing in this scenario. Round trip to a Starlink satellite with on-board AI compute is less than 100ms. Round trip with older satcom systems like BGAN to a base station is 700-1500ms. This in an environment where regular radio transmissions are highly unreliable, and putting the processor on board is not viable. As I said, it's a niche application, but a real one, and there may be others.