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Have you ever spoken to a person from Spain?

In current times, there will be more people offended that some prefer to use "main" rather than "master", than people that will be offended if "master" is used

Freudian slop?

Rotations have determinant 1, but not all matrices of determinant 1 in the connected component of the identity are rotations

But is that the same thing? 300cpm says something about the risk to someone near the worker, not about what the worker has been exposed to

To more precisely represent the words of the person you're replying to, you should have said "memories" not "opinions".

I found this parody of an AI generated video, full of all typical errors in AI-generated art, very funny. Or was this how AI-generated video's looked a year ago? Great music too

The most important is that they capture enough light, for which the lenses must have a large diameter. 50mm is typical. Magnification around 10x is good. This is referred to as 10x…

According to the article, the other way around didn't happen: the legalization didn't decrease illegal gambling

That is not when an encryption algorithm is usually considered to be broken, it just means that a certain key length is not sufficient anymore. You can break 20 bit RSA with pen an…

You don't need to buy a place to live in the cities. In Amsterdam, 70 percent of the places are for rent and over 2/3 of those are in the social sector (almost 50% of the total), m…

It is ironic that you would speak of a country's values, especially in the context of the USA, where many people that consider each other Americans don't even accept each other's v…

I think this inverts cause and effect: they often were money lenders because they were excluded from more traditional jobs and/or land ownership

The 8x8 is just a choice made for jpeg, the DCT can be done for any m x n array (or m x n x k x ...). Here the full image is transformed

A real image not, but a digital image built up from pixels certainly is band limited. A sharp edge will require contributions from components across the whole spectrum that can be …

Another thing that was done in football, and could be done in chess as well to reduce the number of draws, was to grant 1 point for a draw, but 3 points for a win, up from 2 points…

> Chernobyl was entirely a product of design compromises due to cost savings, combined by a totalitarian system suppressing the known impact of those design decisions. This sounds …

> This is bunk, even if we forget that campaign donations aren't bribes Are you sure? A quick search seems to indicate that Boeing certainly makes campaign donations