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Not a surprise to see pi in there really, since we're averaging over "surfaces" of circles/spheres. In general (spoiler), it does generalize to arbitrary dimensions. We get a ratio…

Such an experience could be described as the replacement of one ideology with another, rather than an increase in personality trait openness.

The key "says lawyer" portion of the headline is missing in the title.

The title instantly identifies it as belonging to the genre of vacuous contrarian hot-takes. Without having read it in its entirety either, I would guess that if does make a good p…

This requires owning both repositories. The user puts a measure of "trust" in the owner whose repository he had starred already, so this seems more like a violation of that trust r…

>nobody stands to profit from rationally curtailing copyright Except, of course, nearly everybody.

I've noticed a lot of hair-splitting in these comments over whether this was a failure of peer review, whether to call the papers, considered as specimens of scholarship in their a…

>The point of peer review is to stop bad research, not fake research I would submit that "fake research" is, in fact, bad research.

Can you specify an appropriate forum in which he could have presented his findings to the public without upsetting anyone?

Title is misleading. Really it means to say that the oldest still active torrent is 15 years old.

Someone mentioned tonsils below, but in the past, we also had bloodletting, trepanation, and various other unnecessary excisions. Foreskin may one day join the list (who knows, tho…

You're implying that there's some ulterior-motive Embrace, Extend, Extinguish plan underlying this? Is there anything, however, in what they announced they will do that will have a…

The original IPFS whitepaper mentions Filecoin, so that is one possible incentive, but there are many other ways to incentivize people to keep files available. Constituting a super…

Could you explain why you think that Cloudflare's recent effort constitutes an attack on IPFS? That is, wouldn't the pinning of a large number of files, hosted on a fast CDN, be a …

>Amazon has no literary opinion This is not exactly true. Amazon has removed books from its publishing platform based on their content, and even makes pseudo-literary judgements by…

I'm not sure what point to take from this, other than to be reminded of the imprecision and conceptual vagueness of the terminology he uses ("order", "balance", etc.)

When was the last time you replaced an iPhone because a metal bracket snapped or something like that? Hard to really keep them accountable on this because of the large lead times i…

how much for?

By "The Romantic Generation", I was thinking more of Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Mendelssohn, all of whom were nearly exact contemporaries (b.1809-1811), and who consciously broke…

> Which is very close to how I feel about Haydn. Glossed over that part when I first read the comment! It was Haydn who essentially created "The Classical Style", which is perhaps …

The wind quintets were written on commission, for public consumption, rather than being "written for the drawer", as many of the works in this recording series were. Nonetheless, t…

Didn't mention explicitly Beethoven's influence on Reicha, but I'd say the sonata movement he played at the end of the video (Grande Sonata in C Major) is inhabiting the same sonic…

Glad that he's finally getting some of recognition that he has been unfairly denied for centuries. There is extraordinary intelligence and personality behind his music. It's almost…

Definitely the influence worked in both directions. Some comments by Ilić on that topic can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xC3UDeTYo