brahadeesh

Not OP and thanks for linking the patent. I'm a bit confused - how this is a new patent? Candy Crush etc have been doing this for decades.

Exactly. If this make European startups build their own ecosystem and provides me with an alternative for the services I use but don't track me, I'm going to switch - simple as. I see this as a win for the internet.

Unfortunately, things don't need to be one way or the other for conspiracy theorists to spin it the way they want to.

"If there's no such thing as good taste, then there's no such thing as good art. Because if there is such a thing as good art, it's easy to tell which of two people has better taste. Show them a lot of works by artists they've never seen before and ask them to choose the best, and whoever chooses the better art has better taste."

Is anyone else finding this hard to accept? What if, for some mysterious reason, everyone chooses one particular artist? What if everyone knows good art from bad art, but there is no such thing as good taste precisely because everyone has the same taste?

Yes, you will want to look for "Shoyu" in a regular grocery store that will probably be made of fermented soy beans. You could also make the trip out to an Asian grocery store - a simple yet effective way to start an adventure :)

It's not unique to Persian cooking, but there is wisdom in most cultural foods. I have been cooking a lot during the pandemic and every month I discover a new fermented food that has "recently" been found to be a superfood - kombucha, kefir, kimchi, soy sauce, mole sauce, sourdough etc. That is not to talk about other ingredients like turmeric, chiles, lentils and other stuff that add nutritional value.

EDIT: I wanted to add something I just remembered from the Netflix docuseries "Cooked" - "If you were to eat grains and nothing but grains, you will die sooner rather than later from lack of one nutrient or another. But if you were to eat real fermented bread made from the same grains, you will live much longer". Something about fermentation is truly nourishing.

I like the rewards from my bank's credit card for the utilities I use and the purchases I make. I won't get those benefits with just any debit card.

Would you mind explaining why?

To you, maybe.

But for someone preparing their entire life to start a job, everything is up in the air now. They're not so privileged.

"His Incompleteness paper is not that impenetrable." May I ask what do you mean by that?

Like a couple of others pointed out, I don't think the piece is essentially about a health insurance screw up. I think it's about how bad the relationship between Amazon and its women is.

I'm not working for that startup or any startup for that matter.

They way I see it, it's not going to completely replace street lighting. It's going to supplement available light, thus reducing our energy consumption among other benefits like producing oxygen. I'm especially excited about the possibility of genetically modifying trees that produce edible stuff to have bio luminescence, that'd be pretty cool.

I'm just spitballing here, may be they are not fully parallel. May be it's one aspect of the universe that's parallel to its counterpart of the other universes. Other characteristics of a universe could still interact with each other, thus making their presence felt.