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Most of this comment is not true. Static stretching does increase flexibility over time - it’s not the most efficient tool for it, but it’s certainly effective. Presumably the Coch…

They are significant problems which experts have spent months or years studying. I heard a mathematician say that resolving non-sofic groups and Connes's rigidity would be career-d…

Sourcegraph is the closest external thing I've found to Google's internal web tool for viewing code.

But that’s not what’s happening here - the model here is that every piece has a uniform probability of being selected next, in which case every possible subsequence appears in the …

Interesting - I use git checkout constantly, whenever I have a file in another branch or commit that I want to drag into this one wholesale.

There are a number of things that make code hard to reason about for humans, and combinatorial complexity is just one of them. Another one is, say, size of working memory, or havin…

> People from Sydney who move to London come to hate it, once the novelty wears off, just as they would with New York Just sharing a different perspective, I'm from Sydney and have…

I knew someone who missed out on a gold medal at the International Olympiad of Informatics because his sort comparator didn’t have a total order.

In this arrangement you don’t yet own the deferred compensation when you leave the company. It does not belong to you. Instead your contract with the company might say “we will set…

What a bizarre take. Who do you work with? The majority of people I’ve worked with of all ages at various companies default to all-lowercase in casual communication, including some…

Emojis are a more granular and expressive form of the more traditional lol, rofl, haha, :), :(. They’re a useful side channel for expressing tone.

As other commenters have said, this could be burnout. In my personal experience, improving from burnout requires two things: an extended break from anything mentally demanding (pre…

The article doesn't say that it's no worse than a cold. In fact, all signs show that it can be worse than a common cold. This is a non-sequitur.

Any name can contain a space. For example "Ana Maria" is a common first name which contains a space. On official documents, generally a name will be separated into a given name and…

It is observable in the aggregate statistics. x% of people voted for so-and-so candidate.

If an investor wants returns that are orthogonal to the market or that avoid exposure to specific factors, then ETFs aren't really an option. This is why pension funds etc. will ha…

The results sound a lot like the techno that Wishmountain (aka Matthew Herbert) was making with household objects a few years back Wishmountain - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

As another commenter mentioned, your description of type #2 clubs in London misses the mark completely, and I suspect you aren't actually aware that type #2 clubs as described actu…

Slimelight is truly special. There was a period of a few months where I'd go almost every Saturday night. That dancefloor is really something special at 5 or 6am, like being on ano…

Where in the UK are you? In London the type 2 clubs (Fabric, Village Underground, Oval Space, Pickle Factory, Corsica Studios, The Cause, Egg, E1, etc.) only open their doors aroun…

I feel like there are at least two very distinct notions of "nightclub" (not counting gay clubs), and in online discussions people generally talk past each other without realising …

> Shorts are still up 120% percent This doesn't mean that the original funds didn't exit the positions. It's likely that there are many new participants who are taking short positi…

The standard Google employee contract contains this restriction. It's easier for them to institute a blanket ban on open source contributions (including in one's spare time) and th…

Not the previous poster, and not a maths expert by any means, but for example there are parallels between the rank-nullity theorem in linear algebra, the orbit stabiliser theorem i…