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field: A particular field is a particular subject of study or type of activity. So the authors are using 'field' to mean area of study which has standard usage in English I think s…

Was halfway through an almost identical reply when you posted this haha (also enjoyed Sapiens!). I think the level of absorption is as high if not higher than reading but I have be…

Makes you question our free will...

Yeah absolutely. I don't agree with his 'examples', but I'll defend to the death his right to use them in the same breath. It seems absurd to claim a handful of humans to have free…

As I understand it there's pretty firm evidence that both Jesus and Buddha existed and arguably they both had some pretty cool ideas...

I'm no fan of May and this is probably giving her too much credit (and oversimplifying) but is it possible she's nailing this? Her "Brexit means brexit" and "No deal is better than…

But let's say the 48% that voted to remain in the EU had grown to say 55% that didn't like the sound of the Brexit deal being hashed out and would prefer the status quo. Would it b…

I think the analogy may still be useful/interesting. It's just that with financial debt you have borrowed money, with technical debt you have borrowed time. Financial debt reduces …

Reminds me of Pratchett's Octarine. And seems reasonable to assume that impossible colours are only visible to wizards and cats.

"ISP's hate him!"

Not OP but this guardian article mentions some figures supporting that from UK, compiled by Press Association based on on ONS data. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/wo…

How hard would it be to create a gun that produced this new knightship and is that something the community would be interested in doing? I could imagine it being trivially easy or …

Relevant xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/989/ )

> reasonably diverse backgrounds and worldviews Definitely agree with the rest of your comment. Not sure about this bit though, I love the HN community but I think we're a pretty h…