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Prime numbers are tricky things. They are one of the most fundamental parts of our numerical systems, but they're difficult to predict. You would kind of expect that something so e…

I read to my daughter every night starting when she was about 10 months old. Now, I read little books to her all the time prior to that too, but we read novels. The first book was …

One thing that I want to teach my child(ren) is how to function in school, and what the purpose of school is. I was always ahead of the class, and similarly I was bored and it actu…

Essentially you're asking for the same thing. If you're constantly overthinking it's become involuntary. Part of that cycle comes from stress hormones. One of the easiest ways we c…

While he's misusing the word there's still value in the things that he's reporting. What the article talks about is how there is a benefit both from focused thought, and involuntar…

Hiring who you want is agency and power. Being powerless hurts, and giving us less agency makes us more powerless. Applying to a position to a human similarly gives us agency and p…

I think algorithmic hiring can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Putting people in situations that are not optimal for them can cause them to grow. This might lead to situations where…

I think it's a big challenge of culture. Substance abuse is a problem that becomes a symptom. Part of the issue I think is cultural ideas about mental health. American culture is s…

It's funny that you see it as flipped upside down. I see it as flipped left and right. In terms of whether the Y is up or down, neither of them are, but the original one had it lea…

Communicating with your friends online via insult isn't bullying. Bullying is about the power dynamic and about making another person feel weak or appear weak to their peers. Forci…

It's interesting though because this is not a technical problem. A cremated body's ashes don't take up much space, and don't need to be housed in an urn. It's entirely a cultural i…

I think there's a big difference between these two things. When you use a phone to track exercise and reduce insurance premiums, that's a good thing, it encourages (or at least rew…

Boredom isn't the act of having nothing to do. That's idleness. Boredom is a problem of a lack of satisfaction. There's various reasons for that but I believe having too much to do…

Maybe, but anecdotally, I saw the FFV remake on steam, and I'm the target audience and have bought a number of versions of various Final Fantasy games and remakes. However, I didn'…

Two things: 1 - Regulatory capture. 2 - Startups might be efficient because they're lean on things that might be important to government. Like a small IT firm handling a presidenti…

I'm not sure what you mean "It gets coded as green". It doesn't consider an entire statement, it considers word choice. Similarly, it says that green means that it's placed in the …

Science is composition. We build a bit, we test, if it's solid, we build a bit more. We don't need to come up with hypothetical black hole computers. The paper and the concept of T…

I've never had a person actually get upset with me because I've not responded back to a text immediately. I have some people who will always respond to my texts immediately, and so…

Its these kind of experiences that I want to learn to teach my child to make it through. There are a lot of other people out there who will unknowingly be very discouraging, to bot…

And I think that's the biggest issue is that Microsoft makes it pretty easy to disable them. Most of these settings are all in the same place, right where you set up the OS. In my …

I have a 2 year old, and we play Minecraft, and I'd say we've started with 'concepts' already. Simple things, but things like make a switch that turns on and off a lamp or opens a …

I've never felt millenials have been relatively happy socialites. I've felt millenials are the generation that feels the most helpless. Gen-X felt like they were promised something…

Because many people speak similarly. If a number of people who speak similarly can train it, it can learn how you will say words that you haven't even said to it yet if a number of…

Does it say that it will send actual audio data? I mean more of my problem has to do with the fact that it's an open door than what they will actually do. It doesn't say they will …

I agree that calling it a disability is not right. It's a difference, it might make certain things more challenging, but a disability carries tones of uselessness. The thing is I a…