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True if you look at the cities, but it misses the bigger picture. There was also a trend of people moving into the surrounding suburbs and smaller towns, and commuting to the inner…

The US is the largest country with english speakers, but it does not have the majority of speakers [1] (just India plus Pakistan have as many). So your assumption would be wrong, e…

WebClient predates pattern matching.

I've had many people try my VR headset and people experiencing motion sickness is pretty common. However you can easily train yourself to delay the onset substantially, or even com…

Xiaomi also has working home assistant integration. I have mine set up to start vacuuming when everyone leaves the apartment.

Of course those suburbanites love their hard won individualism, the point is, that this kind of life is built on externalities that make it unsustainable for the majority of people…

Because it's not 10 000x harder to manage SpaceX than Joe's Plumbing. Sure the compensation should reflect in some way the effort and difficulty. But these earning ratios between t…

Yeah I don't think you need to spend so much when these second hand T-series get you 95% of the way there for less.

I couldn't finish the book, it just had too much unexplained fictional techno-jargon to be able to enjoy for me. I know thats the style of immersion he was going for, but it didn't…

He didn't do it to 'fix a disequilibrium', he ruthlessly exploited an opportunity for personal gain at the expense of an entire country. You can argue about the positive long term …

Yes, if you convinced a lot of people to transact in cans of beans, you would be undermining the control of the government. Just look at countries that don't have a (viable) curren…

Would be pretty easy to do in this eastern EU country. We have laws that require stations to separate ads from content, so there is always a short animation announcing the start an…

All of it matters, as a lot of what you find enjoyable about music is learned. Today's music might sound dissonant to someone a few hundred ago. Eg. a particular interval the _trit…

You should watch this: https://youtu.be/BH-jVncTJbg Great explanation of how the modern set evolved from military marches up to the Beatles.