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This is a classical circular problem of transportation planning: when deciding whether to get a car, and if yes which car, people often use their vacation as a use case. And then, …

Very interesting. I first wondered how nature can randomly generate such a pattern, and then realized we are just falling for our "built in" pattern recognition: it would feel much…

This was my question as well. I was myself directly involved for about 10 years in the development and maintenance of a medium-sized open source project, and am still part of the c…

For anyone interested in those topics, I can really recommend the report of the Galileo commission: https://galileocommission.org/report/ It is a report from a number of establishe…

To be honest, there are 1000 ways to see this work, and he probably had a very different view of what he was doing than "chipping a the same rock for 5 years". Here is a proposal t…

I wanted to say the same thing. Here i Germany the choice of vegan sausage and cold cuts is huge, even in small grocery shops. I know lot of people who eat meat regularly _and_ buy…

I would argue the opposite. Give anyone who can write reasonnably the abstract of a few dozen papers in a given field, and I am confident they would be able to produce a convincing…

I do not live in Switzerland anymore, so I cannot do a survey, but I can tell you helicopters are used an absurd amount in Switzerland, and everyone seems fine with it. For instanc…

Re looking silly, I am not so sure. Only 10 years ago no one would have expected adults to proudly navigate the city on flashy colored elwctric kick scooters, and yet look at any b…

Trying to interpret dreams logically is unlikely to generate explanations that are helpful: there are so many possibilities, and even when one finds an explanation that makes sense…

I read it as well, and also listened to his podcast (which is where I learned about "TEAM-CBT", his supposedly highly effective new approach). The concepts and arguments in the boo…

(Before anything: sorry if that nessage comes accross as insensitive, this is not the purpose. More on this at the end) Your situation sounds like the textbook description of depre…

I did not read the book, but my understanding of "bullshit job" is a job that is useless to the entity paying for it: you could remove that person completely, and everything would …

> Another French slang expression (also testicle-related) for not giving a fuck is “I’m painting my balls with the brush of indifference” If anyone has an idea of the original in f…

In French cuisine fish sausages ("quenelles") exist since a long time, though I expect they might taste quite different from the ones described here.

The article makes the exact opposite claim: the cultural imprint does ot need to evoke a feeling in you, you just need to believe that others are associating the product with a cer…

I am not sure that this really changes the situation. The fact that peopke do use guns in defensive situations do not meant that this is the best option. I would expect most of tho…

I once read something that went like: - do not carry a gun if you are not ready to draw it - do not draw a gun if you are not ready to shoot - do not shoot if you are not ready to …

One requirement seems to be that the driver can access the mailbox without leaving the vehicle. So the equivalent in Europe would be the bikes (or, nowadays, electric scooters) tha…

This might be related to people not having English as their native language and just absorbing whatever formulations they read most. I thought about it, and in English I would say …

That's funny, I had exactly the opposite reaction. Almost 20 light hours sounds far for something we basically strapped on the top of a big firecracker, which probably provided pro…

Am I the only one wondering why they used 40 computers, if the computation only lasted for 30 minutes? Does anyone who read the full paper jnow the reason? The article does not exp…

Really interesting paper. Layman summary for those not used to network science: infection rate are lower than expected from standard models, because they consider each infected per…

This might sound silly, but the following, cited in Getting Things Done, helped me a lot: "The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster" Whenever I have setbacks, d…