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When I was first looking into buying Lego sets for my kids I felt the same way, but I've completely turned around. Legos are way better than they were when I was a kid. Check out the 3-in-1 lin…

Britain invented the steam engine.

Sergey Brin and Andy Grove were both immigrants. If the people creating US technology weren't permitted to move here, the center of mass of the world's tech industry would shift somewhere el…

This paper is really shoddy work. It doesn't even account for the fact that most H1B workers are early in their career and thus more junior employees.

The H1B program is the only reason the US has a tech industry at all. 75% of silicon valley tech workers are immigrants.

That isn't why they're removing grandfathered. The word "grandfathered" exists because of laws in the south that kept black people from voting by saying that you were only allowed …

I don't have any post graduate education. I'm ok at math, but not exceptional. I managed to publish a paper a few years ago that is mostly a math paper that I'm really proud of. https:…

It claimed that they significantly increased the chances of death.

The game I've found with the most cross-generational appeal is Kingdomino. I've played it with 3 year olds and teenagers at the same time, and both enjoyed it. They only change we make to th…

It may have just seen that phrase before though. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22flakes+of+fire%22+leaves …

Does anyone have a sense of how much the idealization of circuit design limits people's imagination when designing real circuits? Are there fruitful possibilities that could be explored but aren&…

Maybe, but photogrammetry is a waaaay cheaper way of producing assets, and being able to directly ingest high res models from a scan could actually drop the art costs of games a great deal.

Yes, they should quarantine until they're able to get a test and test negative. We have a lot of evidence of asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread.

I can imagine in a future iteration of this, writing a song, recording it with your phone, and then letting this turn it into something that sounds like a high quality production performed by a famous…

Something I learned from reading "The Future of Life" is that a third of the world's landmass is enough to preserve a healthy representative sample of all of the world's ecosystems…

> It's going to happen by carefully understanding the context and motivations and knowledge that led to the current laws, and only then setting out change them, hopefully for the better. If …

Ya'll might be interested in this paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13528 > in particular, it shows clear insensitivity to the contextual impacts of negation. …

The Jacobian is used all the time, but where do you end up needing the adjoint?

If your quibble is with the precise definition of "the end of the world" and not with the rest of the statement then I think we're well outside of what concrete facts can resolve. The i…

http://moultano.wordpress.com I write accessible articles on technical subjects when I have some particular insight to share that I haven't seen written about before. That ends up mea…

You don't appear to have read the things you linked. The argument Ebi is making is that we shouldn't give up if we don't hit that 12 year deadline, because it's continuous, and th…

>The world is going to end in 12 years..." " is a recent famous quote by a prominent Democrat. This isn't true, and you should probably cut whatever source told it to you out of your…

You aren't giving any indication in what you've written that you've read and understood the article.