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The Armorials section in Wikipedia:

The armorials of the South Sea Company, according to a grant of arms dated 31 October 1711, were: Azure, a globe whereon are represented the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn all proper and in sinister chief point two herrings haurient in saltire argent crowned or, in a canton the united arms of Great Britain. Crest: A ship of three masts in full sail. Supporters, dexter: The emblematic figure of Britannia, with the shield, lance etc all proper; sinister: A fisherman completely clothed, with cap boots fishing net etc and in his hand a string of fish, all proper.[61]

Sounds interesting, unfortunately for some reason a login is required - I'll pass

As long as the submissions are on behalf of humans we should. The humans should accept the consequences too.

I shared this one with my son, the step where the 2ab expressions cancel out gave him a little aha moment.

Many go off-world to create real estate opportunities?

The author is stretching an analogy, it's a price to pay for starting with R^3 as a motivational example. There is nothing in the general definition of a vector space that requires it's elements to be "indexed"

"junior developers" is a convenient label, it is incorrect but it will take a bit until we come up something that describes entities that:

- can write code

- tireless

- have no aspirations

- have no stylistic or architectural preferences

- have massive, but at the same time not well defined, body of knowledge

- have no intrinsic memories of past interactions.

- change in unexpected ways when underlying models change

- ...

Edit: Drones? Drains?

Would a mention of loot boxes move you?

At least for 4D, would you not consider 3D-over-time as a four dimensional model? Doesn't watching the evolution as seen here allows for building up an intuition ?

The commercial models are not designed to win the imitation game (that is what Allan Turing named it). In fact the are very likely to loose every time.

River of Gods by Ian McDonald

Indian politics 100 years following independence, forbidden AIs that pass a predefined threshold and policemen that chase them, individuals who have all their gender indicators surgically removed ...

An amazingly saturated piece of writing

More paintings by Pirsomani AKA Pirsomanashvili

https://www.wikiart.org/en/niko-pirosmani/all-works#!#filter...

That narrowing gap is where we humans find purpose and meaning.

If an impersonation of an opera singer can't be distinguished from the real thing, what would be the point of the real thing?

"The discriminatory treatment they faced included social segregation and restrictions on marriage and occupation. Despite laws and edicts from higher levels of government and religious authorities, this discrimination persisted into the 20th century."

Which part?

You could get hit by a meteorite or space debris without flying too.

Not sure if this helps though...

A relevant quote from David Hilbert:

"Mathematics in Göttingen?" Hilbert repiled. "There is really none any more."

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2486/source-for-hilb...

"The existence of altruism in nature is at first sight puzzling, because altruistic behaviour reduces the likelihood that an individual will reproduce"

More, in the Altruism in Biology Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism_(biology)

Can you conceive of how caring for the injured might have a benefit in an evolutionary / game theoretical sense?

Apocalypse Now was financed by Coppola.

or you could just skip the pain and count the space between the fingers.

An example lethal dose table here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose

Aspirin and Caffeine are lethal, so are Capsaicin and water. What is your point?

inevitable... because of Manifest Destiny?

Like so (source Wikipedia)

"... there were three basic tenets behind the concept:

The assumption of the unique moral virtue of the United States.

The assertion of its mission to redeem the world by the spread of republican government and more generally the "American way of life".

The faith in the nation's divinely ordained destiny to succeed in this mission." ?

OneCoin's founder Ruja Ignatova, is the subject of an excellent BBC podcast: The Missing Crypto Queen.

Tylenol is a brand name owned by Johnson & Johnson. The active ingredient is Paracetamol aka Acetaminophen

I agree with most of what you are saying except for the "solely defines" bit. The culture is a powerful force but individuals are free to make choices and the language allows for these choices.

It's a culture, not language thing. Here is a JSON parser implementation (part of PlantUML) that lacks endless levels of abstraction.

https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml/blob/master/src/main/ja...

"The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must."

The dash in the spelling is unusual (according to books.google), also different languages tell different stories

Russian - looks like a hot topic at the start of WW2 :

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%D0%B3%D1%83%D...

German:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Guttapercha&ye...

Perhaps Sankey diagrams is a better way to visualise