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You need to read up about XY 5-ARD (the condition Caster Semenya has and Khelif surely has). Being XY with active SRY means you're male. Khelif has admitted having the SRY gene (in…

Not that I've seen (I've read a lot of chess books, and a lot of Go books). Go is a bigger game - you can't teach it in the way you can chess. The problem of deciding what the bigg…

Absolutely agree about Open. It's without a doubt the very best tennis auto biography ( written with an NYT writer) I've ever seen, and I've seen a ton of them. (Jack Kramer's The …

"the fact that I can get better interest on US dollars by depositing stablecoins on some defi platform".. There was this guy called Madoff. He was able to get better interest than …

"the basic testing infrastructure is more-or-less world class as far as I can tell" No, it isn't. There's a significant backlog on providing tests and significant backlog on analys…

Not quite accurate. It's not "basically identical". The "moonshot" proposal is that you'd be able to walk up to, say, a cinema entrance and get a PCR test right there which would i…

There's absolutely no evidence that the NYT intended to publish Carlson's home address. You only need to think for a moment to realise it's completely not what it does - what do yo…

The NBER paper that you point to in a subsequent comment doesn't have any detail on the popularity of social media; we explicitly can't make any determination on whether social med…

You need to cite your good authority because I know WGA screenwriters and it is definitely not anything like 30%. On a $10m film (tiny) that would be $3m. On a $100m film (pretty b…

Hello, article author here. You wrote: "There's lot of focus in this article on failure. I enjoy Apple bashing as much as the next guy, but one has to assume in the same 20 years A…

If the Galaxy Tabs are considered "mid-range", who's making the high-end ones, and what are they? I thought Samsung was meant to be the contender here.

Android users can get adblockers by sideloading, and Chrome users on iOS are a tiny minority. The reason why the mobile web version is less sucky on your battery life is because it…

"Last time I used it, it still didn't have a media library and dumped tens of thousands of songs into a flat list." In the "Advanced" tab, which I'd expect any self-respecting HN d…

You install WhatsApp, like a billion other people.

"I attribute that mostly to the quality of Google Maps severely degrading in recent years." Seriously? I can't see how that would happen unless you're living somewhere prone to dra…

Apologies if this sounds rude, because that's not the intent. How can you be sure that people whose screens you've replaced don't then get an "error 53" when they later come to do …

Possibly you're stretching for Hanlon's Razor, except you've got the wrong end of it. Hanlon's is the one that says "never assign to malice what can be assigned to stupidity". This…

I see (and get) lots of apps which are free, with limitations so that you can decide whether to buy the in-app purchase - which is effectively "the app". And I see full-featured ad…

"Android dominate iOS by a huge margin, and I think it is ahead even in the high end segment." Every piece of data I've seen on this - for phones >$400, which is generally reckoned…

"This is why people have to ask "do you serve coke or pepsi?" at restaurants." OT, but this is why news anchors have to say "the obesity rate in the US has risen to its highest lev…

The fact that you disagree with someone doesn't per se make them wrong.

Ooops, left out the link to Gartner. It's this: http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/windows-10-does-no...

The figure given came from Google's Amit Singhal in October 2015.

"The author needs to clarify what portion of total revenue Google derives from ads, and then to break those ads out by service (Youtube, Gmail, Sponsored search), platform (desktop…