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Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?

Yes. The next step is to send a very human-like robot to impersonate you on a date, in wedding ceremony, during intimate times in the bedroom, etc., but we are not sure if your dat…

In terms of temperature rather than length of daylight, the peak of summer depends on geography (and latitude in particular). In where I live (Hong Kong), July and August are the h…

Not all men, but all men over 17 and under the age of 45. This still seems draconian, though.

I like this more than most modern designs.

I have longed for this feature. For me, it is useful in many scenarios, such as: * reading two distantly separated sections of a long article on two split tabs; * reading a researc…

The article is well written but its title is a click bait. Although the film portrays mathematicians in a negative way and the allegedly hard problem on the blackboard is actually …

> The muster roll for the garrison of Calais in 1357 shows not only the names of men-at-arms and archers but also the support roles needed: mason, locksmith, fletcher (a maker of a…

Do people these days call robbers ‘thieves’? When I read the title, I thought the article was about pickpockets.

A wild guess: perhaps it was the Russian authority, not the site owners, who blocked the traffic. Collective action is usually inefficient. If something suddenly happens in a large…

> Evidently, the missing feature of all e-readers is the addition of bellows. Nah. I'd say the missing feature of all e-readers is multiple screens bound as a pamphlet that allows …

> Math in its core has always been abstract. It’s the whole point. I don't think so. E.g. there may be some abstractions in numerical linear algebra, but the subject matter has alw…

Discussions of this sort can easily get chaotic, because people tend to conflate intuitiveness and concreteness. Sometimes the whole point of abstraction is to make a concept clear…

Somewhat tangential to the discussion: I have once read that Richard Feynman was opposed to the idea (originally due to Karl Popper) that falsifiability is central to physics, but …

Did the scientists deliberately break the bones of the rabbits to perform the tests? I understand that there has to be a necessary evil, and the rabbits here can at least recover f…

> a centuries-old tax loophole, abolished in April, that catered to the global rich. The nondomiciled—or non-dom status, as it is known—allowed foreigners living in the U.K. to pay…

No idea why this happened. Perhaps Math.Pow(x,y) was implemented as 2**(y*log2(x)) without writing special code to deal with the case where x is negative real and y is integer?

Many comments here point out the difficulties in replacing the digital infrastructure of a large organisation, but according to the ministry’s website, the ministry is only ten mon…

Thank you. I mistakenly thought the typewriter was used to type shorthands.

Very interesting article. I don’t understand, however, how shorthanders used typewriters for short-writing. The figure on p.168 (above fig. 9) is not explanative.

Then shouldn't $280 became $280\times 10^15 = $280000\times 10^12 = $280000tn dollars? Why $81tn ? Even if the currency is Brazil real, it should evaluate to about 48,000 trillion …

I don’t understand why one should define a month by partitioning the orbit into twelve equiangular sectors (relative to the centre of the orbit). Shouldn’t the orbit be partitioned…