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* the vocal majority, at any rate

From my outsider perspective I mostly agree, I've read a few papers that weren't available for free. But for the opposing perspective, consider that they index curated content and …

That would be anywhere between 9 to 90 $ per transaction at domestic rates, assuming 3 to 30 cent per kWh. JSYK

Indeed. I bet you have time and money. bazinga https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_(Burg) > Da er zu wenig Geld für den Bau der Burg hatte, bat Radbot seinen Bruder, Bischof Wer…

The term wage-slave doesn't appear to be in your lexicon. Child labor, too. Never mind slavery was officially abolished only half a century after the industrial evolution had start…

The thing with leafy greens is, they rot faster, they need to be reasonably fresh. I know because last week I had to clean up a brown puddle of ooze coming out of a stored grocery …

PS: of course you can't switch before the game maker reveals a box. But isn't that immaterial? In one of three cases, your first choice is correct. Therefore, in two of three cases…

I still doubt the Monty Hall problem (mentioned in the wiki-article). I understand the reasoning, summing the probability tree, but there are two ways to build the probability tree…

Self-Regulation

> The languages spoken by today's ... are not systematically and fundamentally different ... That is a meaningless statement, when there is no consensus on the fundamentals of lang…

if certain layers were rendered before the rest, knowing which is which could help optimization.

It's hard to abandon the old idea, when the new idea, I mean, it's there, everywhere and nowhere at the same time, if you don't look, isn't particularly convincing, and the retort …

Coloring is not the domain of typesetting, just as coloring, inking and, indeed, lettering in comics are different disciplines. On another note, typographic layout is often concern…

I'm still assuming that gold has intrinsic technical value, only not directly to everyone, obviously. In the same vain, I guess the blockchain must have some inherent value, it's d…

This is no surprise when you have people think like that about other humans. In what dimension do you measure hight of thought? I guess on the one hand this could be linked to the …

Different sources might use different time codes. Anyway, inflammation likely attacks all kinds of sensors and perhaps nerves directly, so the signal is noisy, and the high frequen…

Hate is a pretty strong word and kind of irrational. Textselection was probably not intended as reading aid, so don't be disappointed if it is abused to actually, you know, select …

Wikipedia is, by my estimate, to 90% about animals, places, historic places, historic animals, historic people, "notable" living people, and so on. How's that going to be relevant …

I guess some people around here are ... trigger happy.

so like, I can arm my front lawn with a nuke silo? Good to know. It's already forbidden to carry concealed, or even openly. Maybe literal bear arms, were meant? With lawyers and le…

Not even inductors or caps are in a basic circuit analysis course. But this quadriga of passive components was at least mentioned in the very beginning of the first ee semester, co…

indeed, in such a concept there is no room for causation between the smallest time steps. That's in line with basic human thinking, it is how it is . I mean, I settled on time bein…

Illusion is in reference to the phenomenology of mind, I guess, which in epistemological terms must precede a minding physics.

you cared enough to respond, syrrim

It's too much low quality data. If you yourself agree that you neither contribute nor can find valuable data, do Facebook a favor and leave. They probably have enough vacation and …