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In some branches of engineering (traditional engineering, not software), there are sometimes too few symbols in the Latin and Greek alphabets, so they have to rely heavily on subscripts. Expanding the set of symbols would be useful here, but I guess it's hard to get people to accept change unless they absolutely have to.

If the use of greek letters is a major hurdle to learning maths, I'm guessing that the learner has misunderstood something fundamental about symbols in maths. It shouldn't make any significant difference if the symbols are Latin, Greek or even made up by the lecturer (as long as they are sane).

> Have been wondering if these consumer protection things also extend to software side. For example is a mobile phone or Internet router considered broken, if the software contains critical security problem for which no patch exists?

Would you consider your front door broken if it is vulnerable to being opened with a screwdriver? What about a wine glass that breaks unless you aren't extremely careful when washing it?

In my opinion it depends on how it was marketed.

I, for one, am perfectly happy not giving money to companies enforcing DRM. If only 1/10 to 1/5 of the population cared (which will never happen), I'm sure we would see a major change in attitude from media companies.

From https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv057

We found no significant adverse effects of CR [calorie restriction] on a broad range of quality of life variables including mood, self-reported hunger, sexual function, and cognitive function, using validated measures of all constructs. These results are shown in online Supplementary eTable 3.

> Trying to keep calories at or below 2000 is hard enough.

How much of a reduction from your baseline usage is 2000 kcal per day?

> This makes no sense. Nothing happens "automatically", someone wrote the code for that to happen, in this case, Facebook.

The website you are visiting has to deploy Facebook's code though. So the website owner has to allow it (assuming the know the implications of what they are doing).

Having an OS that arbitrarily denies applications access to files would drive me mad very quickly. I'm guessing that seemingly unpredictable behaviour would annoy the average user as well.

I find using brand names for drugs less-than useful in international contexts. Brand names differ between countries, generic names don't (except paracetamol/acetaminophen).

If dreams only were the result of some cleanup process (i.e. just arbitrary neurons firing), I imagine they would be a lot less coherent and all events would be (stochastically) independent. While dreams usually don't much make a huge lot of sense, they are sometimes quite realistic and "past" events seem to influence "later" events.

Livestreamer is discontinued. I suggest people try https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink

> The part of history that he emphasized to me, was that in spite of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killing tens of millions of people, communism was still much better than what came before. There was constant famine before communism.

Most countries in the world did significantly better post-WW2 than before. No thanks to their leaders, but thanks to technological progress.

They are trying to achieve complete control over the code it runs. Which is in some ways the opposite of Apple's approach to security.

>Essentially, male users were more likely to rate television shows with a female-heavy audience lower than female users would rate male-centric television lower.

If you look at the gender breakdown on imdb for movies that have been out for a while (meaning that people have actually have had the time to watch them), it seems like the differences between the genders are nowhere near as big as for the new ghostbusters movie. The original Ghostbusters for example is 7.8 (m) vs 7.6 (f) [0]. It doesn't look like imdb provides the gender breakdown of votes in their publicly available dataset[1], but it would be interesting to see someone preform a more rigorous analysis (than me looking at movies I can remember at the top of my head).

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/ratings-male

[1] http://www.imdb.com/interfaces/

Part of the reason why people are afraid of flying is because you are locked inside an aluminium container flying 10km above ground. Sitting in a self-driving car is psychologically quite different.

There are a couple advantages to the EU system that I can think of:

* Workers can (in theory) move around the EU depending on the demand for them in the different regions.

* Lower bureaucratic cost.

>Wouldn't that be better than accepting blue-collar workers from Eastern Europe? Are you ‘bigoted’ because I think a PhD from India would be better for the economy than a blue-collar worker from E-Europe?

It doesn't work exactly like that. The "value" of a worker depends on the demand for workers in said field. Accepting a million people with PhDs in particle physics doesn't add much to the economy when there are hardly any job openings (you get 999700 physicist working lower-skilled jobs or on the dole). I don't know exactly how the situation in Briatin is right now, but I'm guessing that part of the reason why blue collar workers from Easter-EU come to work Britain, is because there has been demand for them.

Do you know if (m)any of your coworkers also quit?