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Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?

I’m just hearing Charlie Brown teacher muah muah muah noises here, what did you say? Let’s just have no moderation at all then - HN for people who believe in the market of ideas (t…

Go wild, the NYT has platformed some inherently questionable people and that should be questioned (let’s start with all the alt-right people they platformed over 2014-2017 making t…

No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking t…

Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far righ…

The hard truth is that farming/homesteading is difficult, dangerous work which is even more difficult if you’re doing it cut off from a community. You have to be doing it for your …

Aye, I used to live somewhere like that as well. It’s still ridiculous when outside is 40C and inside is 16C, there’s no need for that.

Okay, but if an office is so cold that people are putting scarves and jackets on, that’s a problem. It’s also a huge waste of energy.

Letters change shape depending on where they are in the word, so almost certainly! :)

Interesting they used Arabic for this example - I grew up learning it at school but it’s only recently that smartphone keyboards are good enough to implement abjad. Most of the tim…

Buddy, the article was about moral relativism from different cultures and western grandstanding. If you want a good primer, go and read Edward Said/Franz Fanon/Huda Sha'arawi/Kim T…

Haha, it would not be the worst headline out of England this week - I meant to say funding in that last paragraph somewhere!

And as someone just mentioned to me just now - Unherd is funded by the same people who do GBNews, who are trying to set up a Fox News style service in the U.K. Also might be relate…

The type of article like this is in the U.K. often at the moment - presented liberal with an awful lot of ‘here’s my wonderful argument that sounds liberal and intellectual but if …

Why are conservatives so keen on wanting to shag animals? Can anyone enlighten me? What’s the allure here, people? All I’m going to think of when I see a link to unherd.com is ‘Hor…

There are some great services out there for people who want their designs made at that level. Speaking as someone who has worked in fabs - there are so many ways it can go wrong an…

I don’t consider the Quillette to be a good source of anything and it’s well known to be good at peddling right wing interests. It’s a student newspaper for weird right oddballs. S…

It’s true for all genders. Girls with things like adhd and autism are generally over policed in their behaviour compared to boys.

Speaking as someone with ADHD that is being studied by a big international university- adhd has a huge sleep disorder component. Your septum will have contributed, but generally pe…

I agree with all this. It’s one of the reasons why so many products get built and fail - engineers of all sorts, not just computer programmers, need to consider why things need and…

Sigh. Speaking as someone who has spent the last six years of their career working on advanced physics in various technology sectors (including biotech) and then trying to make var…