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You have some deep misconceptions about science, but state them with certainty anyway, and garner upvotes for this. OK, I'm done with this forum.

We can and do make nonhuman mammals sit and repeatedly do tasks all day even when rewarded. Neuroscience behavior experiments in rats, mice, and apes are exactly this. Humans are c…

In terms of character count, it takes fewer characters to convey an idea in Japanese than in English. You see this in NES/SNES-era game translations. Both versions of the game had …

...in Myanmar, for a specific use case.

Every decision you make is made under a great deal of uncertainty. A person typically holds overarching beliefs that govern those decisions. For example, how much value do you put …

The Cory Doctorow book "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" (readable for free online) captures the duality of Disney very well. On one hand, it produces brilliant, creative, high q…

The fire department and police department are separate entities. Subdividing the police department could work.

That's an extreme way to phrase it, but possibly yes. "Infectability of human BrainSphere neurons suggests neurotropism of SARS-CoV-2" https://www.altex.org/index.php/altex/article…

If you read the article, you will see that the cognitive effects of covid-19 are not only for critically ill cases. Figure 3B, specifically, shows cognitive effects of milder covid…

> The name "Smoky" comes from the natural fog that often hangs over the range and presents as large smoke plumes from a distance. Wikipedia, "Great Smoky Mountains".

Note that this is an opinion piece. The WSJ does not make its flamebait editorial section look especially different from its excellent reporting section.

The syntax differences are indeed minor. But dependencies are not. If you have a large python2 project with 100 dependencies, will all of those have python3 versions? And will they…