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Mathematics only really matters insofar as humans can understand it.

Ah yes, memes are clearly the sign of massive progress.

True but addition becomes a lot less efficient in this representation :)

The fact is that the supply of people wanting to write books greatly exceeds the demand of readers. It’s inevitable that most books barely get read by anyone. You either accept it …

The Hugo awards have had a lot of weak winners in the past as well. For example: They’d Rather Be Right, The Wanderer, Stand on Zanzibar (some people might disagree), Harry Potter,…

I guess if you want the most average book to win

Bears sleep about 7-8 hours/day, similar to humans.

What about female lions?

Placebos are actually very effective for improving sleep

Not sure why I would trust the opinions of this random person?

Yes

It would be fun if you had to guess what book it’s from

The law being discussed is for minors. As a society we don't think minors have sufficient executive function to make those decisions, so we find it acceptable to ban them in those …

The article is a L7 weenie.

Claims in a lawsuit always seem very favorable towards their side or else they wouldn’t have filed. The truth usually ends up more in the middle.

Ticket prices seem to have increased slower than general inflation

The text here seems AI generated which doesn’t inspire confidence.

How much more efficient did compilers make developers?

Well, not totally meaningless but certainly can be misleading.

The red card was obviously an error.

I'm curious why food producers didn't do this on their own, since no one likes "sell by" anyway? Or was there an existing regulation that got changed? In any case I think the new w…

Part of the reason their prices are low is they are very efficient at using their total hours open. I often just get it delivered to my house to avoid the crowds though.

Why? Then we’d have to pay more to buy stuff.

When the Amazon truck drives down my street it’s always stopping at 5 houses or so. So the marginal cost of my package is practically zero.