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In some branches of engineering (traditional engineering, not software), there are sometimes too few symbols in the Latin and Greek alphabets, so they have to rely heavily on subsc…

If the use of greek letters is a major hurdle to learning maths, I'm guessing that the learner has misunderstood something fundamental about symbols in maths. It shouldn't make any…

> Have been wondering if these consumer protection things also extend to software side. For example is a mobile phone or Internet router considered broken, if the software contains…

I, for one, am perfectly happy not giving money to companies enforcing DRM. If only 1/10 to 1/5 of the population cared (which will never happen), I'm sure we would see a major cha…

From https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv057 We found no significant adverse effects of CR [calorie restriction] on a broad range of quality of life variables including mood, self-re…

> This makes no sense. Nothing happens "automatically", someone wrote the code for that to happen, in this case, Facebook. The website you are visiting has to deploy Facebook's cod…

Having an OS that arbitrarily denies applications access to files would drive me mad very quickly. I'm guessing that seemingly unpredictable behaviour would annoy the average user …

I find using brand names for drugs less-than useful in international contexts. Brand names differ between countries, generic names don't (except paracetamol/acetaminophen).

If dreams only were the result of some cleanup process (i.e. just arbitrary neurons firing), I imagine they would be a lot less coherent and all events would be (stochastically) in…

Livestreamer is discontinued. I suggest people try https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink

> The part of history that he emphasized to me, was that in spite of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killing tens of millions of people, communism was still much bet…

They are trying to achieve complete control over the code it runs. Which is in some ways the opposite of Apple's approach to security.

>Essentially, male users were more likely to rate television shows with a female-heavy audience lower than female users would rate male-centric television lower. If you look at the…

Part of the reason why people are afraid of flying is because you are locked inside an aluminium container flying 10km above ground. Sitting in a self-driving car is psychologicall…

There are a couple advantages to the EU system that I can think of: * Workers can (in theory) move around the EU depending on the demand for them in the different regions. * Lower …

> Wouldn't that be better than accepting blue-collar workers from Eastern Europe? Are you ‘bigoted’ because I think a PhD from India would be better for the economy than a blue-col…

Do you know if (m)any of your coworkers also quit?