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Are you able to comment on J-1 visa limitations around duration of international travel? I'm a postdoc at a US university. My school's international office suggested there was no l…

To a large degree I think this is more true than not. Putting style aside, it's ridiculous that we don't have basic common designs that "just work". I want a kettle and toaster tha…

After the other user mentioned your name I thought it sounded familiar too so I looked you up. I used MASON quite a bit in the past, thanks for all your work on that!

I agree it is a bit weird. I also wasn't able to find a recent press release from the government and some of the articles about this from the past week have been using quotes from …

The unfortunate side effect if this became standard is that there may be far less motivation for wealthier nations to help poorer nations vaccinate everybody.

Maybe a very distorted type of theft but from my perspective the main immoral thing about theft is that it deprives someone of what they used to have, or takes the place of a sale.…

With the most common North American accent "would've" and "would of" sound very similar. My suspicion is that the error tends to arise in people that have learned language more fro…

I was surprised when I read that as well but reading further my impression was that you can confirm the contents of the ballot only while voting and then afterwards you only get ac…

Can anyone explain what happens when I click this? I'm on the University of Waterloo network and I get sent to [1], rather than what I get when I add the period for: http://ai./ [1…

There may be a different video but [1] by Steven Bridges is similar to what you describe. It's not very scientific but he interviews several groups about their preferences between …

I expect it's covered in several areas but the field of opinion dynamics often investigates these sorts of situations.

Other than not having enough mass, what would cause a celestial body to not clear its orbit? The only other factor that occurs to me is time, is there anything else? If not, does t…

This idea is explored a bit in the Ender's Game universe [1], it definitely seems pretty compelling that non-human intelligence might be so utterly incompatible with our own though…

If you haven't already you might want to look into Sony phones, they've made good smaller phones in the past. I don't know if they've got anything new out but I've got an Xperia Z5…

This is something being explored in a small trial here at the University of Waterloo. A lab has distributed several small fan/heaters that sense your presence and learn your temper…

Except the potential issue is that while R to T is the worst spot according to the data, there is a route in a poorer neighbourhood, C to F, that is far worse and more deserving of…

Any idea what the expected reaction would be if you sold it slowly but everyone knew that you had a massive reserve sitting in a warehouse somewhere ready for sale?

Does anyone know if there are cases of that being enforced? It sounds to me like the sort of thing that is thrown in by some overzealous lawyers just because they can. Still, defin…

I'm curious where you're from that Sunday isn't considered the first day of the week? I know Monday is often treated as such since it follows the "week end" but (in my very limited…

From jegutman elsewhere in the thread, batteries cost $12000, so even buying two would cut that to 6 years and I bet the batteries usefulness would last longer than that so it woul…

As does mine, sometimes when I just close it rather than suspending first it doesn't wake up and needs a hard reboot. Other times it needs quite some time before letting me enter m…