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“This partnership is a historic first for a major professional sports league, and will allow fans around the world to watch all MLS, Leagues Cup,1 and select MLS NEXT Pro and MLS N…

This may be true for lower-tier and middle-of-the-pack graduate programs but at the higher end, if anything, the opposite is true. There's an arms race among the candidates to get …

That’s of course a fair point. But there are key differences. Twitter is used as a key communication channel for politicians, public officials, business executives, journalists, ac…

> Most people wouldn't or they would charge for access and increase their RoI. Search isn't really valuable to Google, they make most of their money in ads. They make money from ad…

You’re absolutely right about Google but, I think, it’s not necessarily true for Twitter. Their social graph is so important that it wouldn’t make sense for any one person to go to…

What kind of logic is this? Plenty of companies and services which people would pay a lot for choose to be ad-supported. Google, Bing, and other search engines are ad-supported but…

Note that the OP is asking about college-level math, not cutting-edge papers. Textbooks routinely have a list of symbols and their definitions. But, from my experience, notation is…

I wasn’t alive then but I imagine it’s similar to what the iPhone announcement was for me. Scrolling + rubber band effect, pinch to zoom, or just using your fingers to control a de…

I had very good experience with The Economist but, despite that, I'm still hesitant to re-subscribe because I just don't want to bother e-mailing them if I want to suspend or cance…

I had a great experience with Audible. I switched from Audible UK to Audible US but forgot to cancel the former. After six months I noticed I had 6 credits I didn't want. I sent on…

Few people are criticizing the show from deviating from books per se. It isn’t good on its own merits. Of course they had to make some changes and flesh out some characters to adap…

But if you want your show to be a success you have to take chances. If they make just another derivative show they can’t be surprised by the poor reception. (Besides I’m not sure I…

Exactly. There’s a lot of wishful thinking that the show is criticized because it deviates from the books. No, the show simply isn’t good. It suffers from the Netflix Disease. High…

OSM doesn't seem to have public transportation data which makes it useless unless you exclusively use a car.

> I mourn that the default aspiration for getting a PhD isn't staying in academia and advancing science. It almost certainly is for the vast majority of grad students. There are ju…

> it communicates extra information very cheaply and in-band with the code for people who are intimately familiar with the mathematics involved. I think it's just the opposite. Peo…

Anyone who has even basic fluency with these algorithms has ~never worked with code that uses these symbols and will likely find them distracting in this context. I've seen plenty …

I disagree. Virtually no one who worked even a little with these algorithms has used math symbols in their code. For better or for worse it messes up people's pattern recognition.

In a vacuum real math symbols look better but they're virtually never used in practice and they mess up people's pattern recognition. It's uncanny valley but for code.

> It sucks when you need to buy / move furniture though. But isn't that an extremely rare event? Maybe you move more than anyone I've ever known but I don't see how something so mi…

But that strategy is probably impossible in a market where the cost to entry is fairly low. Suppose Uber drives out literally all cab companies out of the market in some city and r…

I don’t think I buy this reasoning. Operating a taxi doesn’t require a huge capital expense. So even if we accept your premise, once Uber raises prices way above what they used to …

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them. At least compared to every other generation.