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> with all the google bits removed well, except for the fact that it's still a chromium browser and google really sets the general agenda for all chromium browsers.

I think you are confusing several matters. If I understand your comment right, you are saying that the opiod crisis shows that people do choose drugs if they can and if there was u…

> Why did everyone assume it would be the same on average? This seems weird to me. (see edit below; but i leave this up; it might be interesting, also) you mean that even for small…

This is really cool. I am working in a related area and I think most of us have assumed that on average, the information rate is 'about the same' for the languages across the world…

when self-citation is OK and when it is not OK should be part of one's academic training/phd training. PLOS gives reasonable citation guidelines, and in this context their Rule 5 i…

"Some" will condemn this ban by appealing to freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is not absolute. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, as per the Guardian: "I am an unswerving advocate of f…

> Every media article I've read cites her team-credit emphasis. But that is the problem, actually. Simple question: Is Prof Bouman the team leader that held all this together? In a…

ah, okay, it works now. I wondered about a broken captcha being the joke after seeing their about page: http://n-gate.com/about/

for me, it's stuck on the security check - or is this the joke?

1) is different in quality. possibly 2), too, but I don't know enought about it. in CH, search engines are state-censored for political reasons - mainly to keep in power a semi-dic…

1) What really bothered me personally about GPT2 is that they made it look sciency by putting out a paper that looks like other scientific papers -- but then they undermine a key a…

The analogy breaks down, though - in Google's disfavour and in OP's favour. OP knew that she had something valuable. But she also thought of it as a free good (libre, not gratis). …

Actually, OP's figures are pretty much backed up by the figures you get when googling this question. Chances to die of a car crash/ any kind of vehicle crash is about 1 in 100 acco…

the new macbook air starts at €1349 (ca $1500) in Belgium and you really want the one for €1599 (ca $1800). for the same money, you get other laptops that are really nice with a co…

Sorry to hear that OP had such a bad experience. I guess as so often, it really depends on which team / division you are interacting with. I was interviewing for Amazon a while bac…

> At that time, Google co-founder Sergey Brin made clear that he was strongly opposed to the censorship. Brin had spent part of his childhood in the Soviet Union, and said that he …

Remember when you got a piece of technology that felt like magic? Like 'this is what the future feels like'? I had that feeling again when I first used Nano. A friend of mine and m…

Belgium can be equally excruciating. a friend of mine moved from india to belgium. after living here for more than a year, his parents wanted to visit him. the parents have a house…

it's certainly far from trivial to remove the search bar at the top of the home screen. i tried once, it broke android, and i had to reset the entire OS. but, tbf, the entire proce…

another example of tried overreach: a branch of the federal police, "staatsschutz", raided the posteo office in 2013 and claimed to have a warrant to seize _everything_. posteo imm…

from my own experience, this is the exception, though. even in CS, if you pick some of the more theoretical problems or a not-so-hot area, you might not get funding - (almost) no m…

i cannot see how the US has no/fewer/lower tariffs than their trading partners. here are some numbers for US-EU trade: https://www.statista.com/statistics/547412/average-eu-and-us.…

i don't know whether the gatekeeping is even a necessary component. speaking wrt academia now, even in fields where there is a decent gender balance, sexual harassment seems to be …

What's missing in this win-win equation is Google's image. It's another instance of Google getting lots of negative press, where they are portrayed as the bad guys. So whatever the…

maybe it's narrow minded, but for me, investing is all about giving a company mid- to longterm support so that they can expand their business. shorting is none of that. it doesn't …