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He was 7 years old, so it was impossible for him to give consent for anything. His parents gave consent on his behalf.
I didn't see that in the document. What page is it on?
There are probably hundreds of people on this site who had the same enthusiasm for math and time dedication as Terence Tao, but lacked his extreme outlier fluid intelligence, processing speed, perfect memory, and even handwriting talent(!). Terence Tao mastered calculus at an age when most future-mathemician geniuses weren't yet strong readers of chapter books.
You are saying something interesting but too esoteric. Can you explain for beginners?
Title: "California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves"
Actual fact: California’s New Bill Requires that 3D Printers Get DOJ Approval as Firearm-Blocking"
(The "report on themselves" is fiction invented by Adafruit.)
Typos could be automatically discovered and indexed one word at a time by watching users search the wrong word (wrong input method) and then search again with the correct input method.
SA is an ally to the Western powers, not a threat. The US government's top priority on Sept 2001 (when a group of Saudi royal family members killed thousands of US people on territory) was protecting the (oil man) President's friends (oil company colleagues) in the Saudi monarchy.
It's billionaires (in SA, USA, and China (where the Parliament is full of billionaires) vs everyone, not East vs West.
The numbers get impossibly big almost immediately.
That's not a product category. They have registered the trademark for computer networking.
If you want intentionally misrender the page, that's your right. But it's not their job to debug your setup.
> They repeatedly cut the deck and then take a card each.
I don't see how this works, unless the audience is picking five consecutive cards from the deck.
If you are picking 5 random cards, their colors can't encode what they are holding.
The opening sentence is totally misleading and ruins the whole explanation.
In the US, we walk at traffic when there are cars on the road but the passing lane is the same (left) for driving roads and for pedestrian multi-lane "roads" like escalators.
one project, RedHat/Fedora or something, was a pattern like "word A", "word B related to word A", "word C related to an alternate meaning of word B", etc.
You are over indexing on "brain".
The brain and eye are built from two sets of stem cells that connect, akin to normal mammalian development.
> . “In the mammalian brain, nerve fibers of retinal ganglion cells reach out to connect with their brain targets, an aspect that has never before been shown in an in vitro system,” Gopalakrishnan says.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/925127
How so? The "process" of getting PhD is writing up his proof and getting it reviewed by the university, and verifying via oral defense that he knows the proof and didn't just plagiarize it.
Goldbach's Conjecture is not the Prime Number Conjecture , because there is no such thing. There are several prime number conjectures.
Why does it have to be zero sum? Why can't society educate everyone who has potential to learn, and grow the pie? It's an investment in our future.
They are not political up until the moment an important enough issue comes up to make them political.
> He was a scammer, in particular he posed as a human-rights lawyer targeting victims of torture to get their secrets and extort them. Tried to do it to me, but you can't con an honest John.
You are calling victims of tortures liars?
How can you lend your miner to a neighbor for heat? You all need heat at exactly the same time. Are you going to move the rig to a different home every hour?
> A major use case lauded by supporters is the amount of money that would stay in the hands of El Salvadorans rather than money gram companies. Remittances account for 20% of El Salvador’s GDP.
What exactly is a remittance? Does it mean money that is sent, but not for a purchase? How are international remittances (in both directions) counted here?
is it ADD or is it just a common pattern of human nature?
Is eating sugar when it is offered a disease, or an environment that is toxic to instincts that usee to suit us well?
Saving a click: Generala is an ancestor of Yahtzee.
This is way beyond what a high schooler needs for getting started in life.
This is personal finance, for all, not professional accounting for optimizing cash flows. it's far moren important to learn the basics of not getting robbed by predatory businesses, so that they can have a chance at saving some money to turn into capital gains later.
the fundamental problem with cryptocurrency is that it requires being your bank and all that entails for IT security, or else you need to rely on a thrid party and there defeats the purpose and meaning of it being cryptocurrency.
It's impossible for a layperson to use crypticut effectively without becoming an expert, so the only broad education you can give is "stay away, as with day-trading stocks, and options, and any fast money schemes".
Not changed: Rent-seeking is good for people who collect, and bad for people who pay.
What's changed: automation creating value automatically, different from rent-seeking.
Starting a long game from scratch on every mistake is from an era was when content was incredibly expensive. Forced repetition, especially of the early part of the game, is a cheap gimmick.
> Why such people should be tipped is beyond me.
Because that person is paid $2.50/hr for their work.
If you don't want to tip, you should boycott the restaurant until they implement a fair wage policy.