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Is having an abusive family grown up a real lifelong challenge? Is having poor brain chemistry leading you to making decisions you don't "want" to make a real enough challenge? Is …

The 40% in a vacuum does not really complete the picture for me. Is it possible to get the same book at a lower price somewhere else? If it were the case why would there not be oth…

Sugar is not fundamentally toxic. This is a very poor conclusion to draw, and even more so when, as someone else suggested, expanding this to all carbs. Glucose is used in IV drips…

Can someone please guide me on how to check this leak to verify if my info was leaked?

But parent is not talking about calling out people for having social media accounts. He/She is talking about those having a social media account judging those not having one as par…

One amazing use of symbolic integration: https://github.com/johnbcoughlin/calctex Create latex equations in calc! :D

I have not looked at the underlying study, but that article definitely does a terrible job of being clear on the caveats of the study. E.g. this nugget was left for the last paragr…

You're very right. I am guilty of not being familiar with Middle-Eastern contributions to Science, although I am familiar with extensive mathematics contributions. I'll look throug…

Thanks for the sources. I'll be sure to go through them. I am quite familiar with how Western history tends to misrepresent contributions of the East. It is rather unfortunate, and…

This article really short-sells Sushruta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta The Sushruta-Samhita covers hernia surgery, C-sections, prostrate removal ... a huge range of topic…

FYI, typo: you wrote "insulation" instead of "insulin".

FYI, that is the wife/doctor's account you replied to.

I asked straightforward questions. I wasn't aggressive in what I said. I did call him out on his self-professed disappointment with the state of affairs which seems to be blaming t…

Is someone else supposed to work on solving the local issues while you personally reap the rewards of working in the tech domain? Is your work pushing against the status quo of any…

This is a big myth. Wealthy people are not going to just get up and leave America. Where do you think they would go?

And how many steps is your reasoning removed from "Taxation is thievery"?

If there are large spreadsheets documenting this, I would be interested in seeing some sources on this. Could you please provide some?

Says who? If history is any proof, I highly doubt this will happen.

I am running Emacs on macOS, and it only takes 43 MB barebones, and my regular setup takes about 81 MB. Both opening the same org-mode file. Point being that it really depends on w…

>>What makes you say that? I don't think this is true. >the same thing that probably made you say this : >>I can't imagine greybeards programming in rust. Guilty. I clearly had a b…

Guilty. I clearly had a blind spot there.

> I should also add that Elisp is an absolutely terrible programming language when compared to more modern alternatives. This is a commonly seen complaint, and I do not completely …

magit is just superb. You are bound to love it! And the developer is extremely responsive too!

> I guess most of the core emacs devs are greybeards who started programming in the 80s or earlier, so what happens when they grow too old? Who will replace them? What makes you sa…

Is revenue per employee some sort of standard measure in the industry?