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I would say two other big factors are easier access to junk food, as well as more people adopting a sedentary lifestyle. To the second point, a lot of people from my culture still …

>Any video that is 9 to 11 minutes long, I automatically skip because that's the sweetspot length for maximizing ad revenue. I think that may be outdated? 10 minutes was the sweet …

It's a pleasant tangy taste that's pretty nice if you grew up eating it. Chocolate from other places sometimes feels like it's missing something...

I'm in Gen Z and I think I got it. The Tootsie pop commercial with the owl used to play all the time on Canadian TV.

I think this website is the main place keeping the term "pwned" alive haha. It's pretty much died out among Gen Z

I feel like changes in culture are a bigger factor than economic reasons. Around the world it's normally the poorer, not richer, countries that have more kids on average, so I don'…

I also wonder what widely accepted mathematical conjectures were later proven to be wrong (for example, a hypothetical answer would be if it was proved that P = NP, since most comp…

For CS, CMU has a similar reputation to MIT and CalTech, even though it doesn't have as much name-brand recognition among the general public.

"Guns aren't lawful", after reading that line I thought she might be British, but it looks like she's American. Were gun laws stricter back then or something?

Bit of an aside, but I wonder if the rise of LLMs will lead to new programming languages being much slower to be adopted. Like you said, you might have given up on F# without ChatG…

As a recent university graduate, yes you're exactly right. I know plenty of people who'd skip class in order to grind Leetcode or job interview prep or whatever. It did make it so …