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We had a maths lecturer who got us to buy their text book. Turns out the text book was just copy pasted sections from other maths textbooks in one book. Cost 30 quid, had the old p…

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There's also Russell discussing it on the Material Podcast ( https://www.relay.fm/material/149 ). That gives me hope (but it is a shame to hear he won't be on the podcast as often)…

There's a very good book called E=mc^2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation written by David Bodanis. I think I read it at about 16 and it was very approachable.

To quote my Physics of Electrical Power Generation lecturer from a few years ago: "Fusion is 15 years away, I think it will always be 15 years away."

I agree. I was a longtime Nexus user and switched for the S8 as Pixels were in short supply (UK, not sure if that was the same in the US). We still don't have Oreo on EE over here …

Are you referring to meta analyses? They are often used to find p-hacking: [1] http://training.cochrane.org/resource/introduction-meta-anal... [2] http://journals.plos.org/plosbiol…

I think for most people it is portability. I can use my .md files in any Markdown editor and reasonably expect it to look the same. If there isn't an editor to hand it is easy enou…

I recently analysed a load of my time tracking data.[1] I only managed to get up to 11h37m per day when I'm travelling for work. That includes flights as 'work'. It does seem prett…

The backup planet strategy is one I approve of. Backup solar system would be better.

I was not meaning to equate ArXiv to Nature. I can see how I implied that though. As I've said in another comment it was used much more frequently during my undergrad years than at…

1) I was trying to talk in general terms. I understand that the peers doing the peer review are usually not paid but that there are other editors involved. I probably should have m…

> Publications should be judged on their content They are but it takes time to build that reputation. Also publishing houses with big pockets can hire good reviewers etc and get es…

I would argue that the species will be fine. If your definition of 'fine' is the species surviving. If 99% of the human race were wiped out by Global Warming we would still have 70…

> Then it went to unlimited storage for Office users, but then they stopped that for no good reason. That was brief and sadly disappeared. However OD is still cheaper than DropBox …

While that is all true Amazon Fresh has completely blown that out of the water for me. Though it is only available in Greater London atm.

They have Trusted Voice on Android[0]. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before it is on the Google Home. [0] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922 - last entry.

Well in the UK they amended the law to exempt themselves: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

It has recently become the ease-of-use choice for our RPG group. Being a mixed group not everyone is used to configuring clients etc. so the out of the box usability is definitely …

Connected from UK with Chrome, language DE. Celsisus was default.

> I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure i…

> I would jump on this if I had more time to game. I'm getting it as I hope having a portable console will give me more time to game. It'll fit in my suitcase and plug into nearly …

-Price: Exactly the same as the basic Wii U at launch. Comparing it to the PS4 is disingenuous as it is a 4 year old console [1], it is £100 cheaper than the PS4 Pro deals currentl…

> I encourage old Opera fans to check it out as well. Did something happen to Opera to make it lose fans? I tried it a long time ago (pre-Chrome) and enjoyed it then but eventually…

> Add on to this the customer support, marketing, warranties, legal expenses, returns and other typical overhead of production. This is often why startups and SMEs can sell at lowe…