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I read this in Leonard Nimoy's voice, from narrating Civilization IV.

But quality is strongly associated with brand. Showing off the logo might be taboo, but everyone can tell the difference between an IKEA kitchen and a Funkiskök.

Gestation crates are up there among the most immoral things created by man.

More like, continue living in a sketchy neighbourhood because all the thieves go to the newer, more polished neighbourhoods anyway.

It is controversial to put into system letting people sell their bodies to make ends meet.

Pretty sure it should be kWh / 100 km

It is unintuitive to me why the rational numbers are dense in the reals, since rational numbers are countably infinite, as opposed to the reals. I think infinity is hard to grasp.

I don't think it explains "How" either, in this case.

So a proton can emit a positron. Does that mean that the positron is somehow "part" of the proton? Does it mean that their wave functions interact in some specific way? Is there an…

I am reading this as "it has to be this way, or the model does not hold", but it does not explain why. What causes it? Consistency of a model cannot be the ultimate reason, right?

Fun, but extremely unpleasant. The more stressed I get the more difficult it is to relax my eyes and see the pattern.

Are we? How? Because the curvature is flat?

This is probably politically incorrect, but there was always a path to end crime, just like there was and is a path to end slavery and collective punishment. That path is kindness:…

The IPA of chair also contains a t though: /t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/ I think it makes sense. To me there is a clear difference between chair and sheet, where chair starts with the sound of a t. S…

It's cheaper to raise kids since you would already have paid the cost in taxes if you didn't get kids. The important metric is the difference in cost of having kids vs not having k…

I think the relative isolation is one of the smallest challenges related to colonizing Mars.

Nicely done! Not sure I could tell this was not just another HN post if you didn't explicitly say so.

It's really quite amazing. Inspired by your example, I tried to make it create something which nobody could have thought about before: Write a deep poem about life, death, and the …

She was found not guilty of that. You can't say "equal crimes equal times" when the crimes are in fact not equal.

On a slightly related note, whenever I see a generated face with other faces in the background, and those faces are warped in strange ways, I get a very unpleasant sensation, like …

That's interesting - I have subtitles on at all times (I am Swedish, we never dub adult content so I have used subtitles for a very long time), but when I do watch children's movie…

I liked this because it uses a method to prove something which seems very disconnected from the initial problem.