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Possibly a dumb question, but...is there any good economic (vs legal, cultural, etc) reason why a Spotify-style "streaming service" for books wouldn't work? That is, you pay an aff…

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One striking and highly suggestive statistic: 60-80% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia are smokers. (see e.g. the wiki article "schizophrenia and tobacco smoking", or https://…

To my not-very-well-trained ear, almost all composers before Debussy sound a little dated, corny, and constrained, and most composers after him - Bartok and Messiaen being importan…

Incidentally, more than 25% of UK pubs have closed since 2001: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/26/uk-pub-clos...

If this really is Atiyah's claimed proof, it is very sad and embarrassing indeed. I think it is in poor taste to discuss this as if it were a serious attempt at a proof.

No no no! His website is a treasure! I think the world needs many more garish, lurid, irreverent websites like this.

My understanding is that the Monty Hall problem was just a cute puzzle published in a pop-sci magazine that confused a few professors who perhaps ought not to have been confused by…

I am a math grad with reasonable coding skills and a nontrivial amount of CS education, but no real-world development experience. I've completed a few personal projects of various …

It’s presumably a reference to the fact that norovirus outbreaks are common on cruise ships.

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and the Haskell Book.