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Disregarding the competing definitions of “science”, a significant value in mathematical work is “the journey”. The truth or falsehood of individual results are rarely as important…

There aren’t mass deaths in the US either (no deaths reported per the article). But there are definitely cases of listeriosis due to raw cheese in France. A recent outbreak was in …

I actually thought that the whole "mainland infiltrates HK police" conspiracy was just PRC-phobia (which is a real problem in HK when it becomes xenophobic, sadly) but there's actu…

Wasn't the Obama campaign tech effort more about coordinating organisers/canvassers/etc in a "data-driven" way, rather than the Cambridge Analytica "propaganda network" type? Clint…

Doesn't make him not a bad guy.

Would that not be against the interests of the US neoliberal elite, who in turn have enormous influence on the USG?

Would that completely backfire once everyone knows the selection process is random?

Surely someone else would have done it for them, and paid the $400? After all, you don't get wealthy by having your loved ones paying $71k when $400 would suffice.

I think a lot of that is just to advertise the car ("this the future, people!!"). For example, the article notes how large parts of the F 015 is made of "plastic that changes shape…

That's a really weird reading of michaelochurch's comment. Note the past tense -- he " wanted to find KP guilty". I'm pretty sure he was simply illustrating his initial reaction to…

I think he was downvoted because some people can't see further than his Michael Brown analogy.

Sorry, I was just quoting the last sentence in the article.

Indeed, the last sentence > One of the stranger points brought up in testimony was how Ms. Pao, before she was married, had dated a colleague for six months without ever realizing …

I think the Internet as it was originally designed would have had the opposite effect. I mostly browse the "old" Internet -- i.e. static pages and the like. And all I really see is…

Is there any reason why the submission title has "2008" in it? The article in question says it's from the June 1998 issue

Barely related, but I just thought I'd point out that the author writes, in my opinion, quite nice sci-fi too [1], ranging from short stories to a web serial. [1] http://qntm.org/f…

If you're referring to what Einstein referred to as the "finite, unbounded" universe, i.e. a spherical topology of the universe, measurements from the last decade and a half have s…

http://grammarist.com/usage/briton/ This link supports the opposite of davidgay's comment (sources within).

I think he/she means that normal exercise, or rather the typical amount of exercise that people do , is insufficient to burn the calories in a normal diet. So while the exercise yo…

I've been using it on 2 home machines, for the home partitions, one using a HDD and one SSD. Been at it for over 2 years now, and I don't think I've ever had any filesystem related…

Not exactly an "online course", but these notes (used for an undergrad course on games) I found quite readable: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/games/