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I was also surprised when I first saw a huge Roman fresco in person. It seems that the medieval times were indeed the dark times. I get the historical reasons and all that but it's…

The latest craze for 2021 kids is "pop it" game. We are just too old to be amazed by that. Do you think these kids will prefer living in 2050, working in a cubicle, facing midlife …

You were a kid, everything seems magical then. As we get older the magic disappears. Happens to every generation. See for example how many people are nostalgic of (objectively wors…

What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse? Interestingly, it seems that the "smart" people are now falling for it (washington post, hn, cert…

In which case would you use the whole table?

They don't? One is a row in table (R^n) (order matters) and the other is a set of points (R^nxd). If you consider the whole table, any dataSET is like point clouds.

"There are two types of quotable quotes, those that deal in absolutes, and those that divide people into two groups."

So what was Austria's loophole?

It's better but not great. Not everyone can afford tesla. Western goverments and big companies are to blame for lack of incentives and infrastructure. People buy what makes the mos…

But all of those are still true. I would argue that public transport should replace cars for commute which is most of the "non-niche" usage. Public transport can't get you anywhere…

"I can't remember the date to fill out this form. Can you help me, but give me the least informative part first?"

Is there some resource that compares all the vaccines, an article or a blog post? I would guess that a vast majority of people don't have time/knowledge to look into official repor…

Another sad day for internet communities. Big guys always win. If you want freedom to express, self host (let's see how long until this is forbiden).

What is the most common way of transmision? I assume not random policemen but relatives and friends. Try doing distancing there.

The amount of unknown and disagreement after all this time and money spent is a big failure of science. Laymen have a unique peak into how science works day to day, which might be …

Follow up: given the answer is yes, how to solve it? Allow under performing students in?

In the current shape this can definitely be used on social media. But I would ask someone about their life, where they live etc. GPT-3 will fail that, the next model might succeed.…

I made an argument to challenge the parent comment's argument. It is obvious that nor physics nor population size led to advancements alone. There are many confounders. What I want…

Well educated people who can work on this problem are not minorities, i.e. they have access to education, higher social status, better starting point. While their color of skin mig…

Where does it come from?

The question of spending money is the question of politics, and there is a finite budget. I would argue the reason for all of these inventions is the increasing number of educated …

Also generations of students stuck in this hole because the supervisors that have paid positions stick to string theory deadend -- a feedback loop.

You can find many east european movies on youtube. Try doing the same for Adam Sandler's netflix movie. You could even watch Memories of Murder on youtube just until Parasite won a…

> iron media curtains You mean like itunes, hbo, netflix catalogues in countries outside US? It's just that there is no interest in seeing these movies.

You can clone any expensive yogurt for small price and control the ingredients fully.