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Here's an interesting one: "this set is open, hence it is not closed". Apparently this is wrong, and R is both open and closed. Does anyone have a clear explanation as to why this is or what this means? I can't quite understand the comment explaining it.

I'm out of the loop here apparently, is margarine bad now? What's consequences does long term use have?

I don't have access to the article, is there any chance his brain might improve somewhat if the shunt was repaired?

Does anyone with knowledge about volcanoes have context on how big this is? Clearly not small, but is this a once-in-a-decade or a once-in-a-lifetime size explosion? Are there any well-known eruptions to compare it to (e.g. Mount St. Helens)?

I'm wondering if they're subsidized, but the price in Germany at the supermarket hovers around 1€ each. I was really surprised to hear that these are not a thing in the US, any idea why?

Probably not the kind of law you were thinking of, but articles 1 (protecting human dignity) and 20 (enshrining the principles of democracy and rule of law) of the German constitution can not be changed or repealed.

Never worked in the states so I'm not sure if things are different there, and I guess I'm misunderstanding something here, but are you saying that there are no contracts between most employers and employees?

There must be something that both are signing right? With pay rate, hours and benefits written down.

Even if it was true that software engineers that don't work for FAANGs can't develop something complex (I doubt that's true, I'm sure there's plenty of skilled software engineers working at Lockheed Martin), FAANGs don't employ a lot of aerodynamicists, flight dynamicists, weapons engineers, material scientists, experts in radar technology etc. though, which is just a selection of the kind of specialists you need to develop a fighter jet.

As someone who's never been in an American school, what does algebra entail in the US curriculum usually? Is this the first time "solve for x" is introduced? How broad is the amount of teaching that happens in algebra?

I still don't understand what TFT is supposed to mean, could you explain?

Not to diminish the accomplishments shown there, but that plane seats maybe a dozen people? Most airliners can seat 100+, and their range is sometimes an order of magnitude higher than that. The problem is that batteries are significantly less energy dense than jet fuel, both by weight and by volume. To reach capacities and ranges of modern airliners you'd need batteries that are much more dense, compact, and light, and afaik there's nothing even close to the improvements needed right now.

My first thought was that comments in many online spaces, including youtube, can simply be mean. If I was responsible for the online presence of a course I wouldn't want my lecturers to have to deal with random people commenting on their bad haircut or annoying voice, for example.

As someone that just finished a similar master's degree as you I'm very interested in how you made the switch to data science, do you have any advice to share?

A lot of people get the idea that Italy is poor and only running on tourism and olive oil from popular media, but it's actually a complex economy with lots of high tech exports. The biggest exports are medical and engineering products[0]. There's a lot of problems to be sure, but it's still a competitive, high tech economy, especially in the north.

[0]https://oec.world/en/profile/country/ita/

How long have you lived in Italy? If you were born there it seems that three years of stay are enough to qualify for citizenship:

https://www.inps.it/pages/standard/51985

Though I'm guessing you've probably spent much more time than me researching this already so this might not apply. Are you back in the US?

I think they meant ten times the average income, i.e. 240.000€, which sounds about right to me, obviously going higher near big cities.

To be fair it's quite difficult to make out the words when listening to the song. I must have heard it dozens of times and somehow I got the idea that "brown sugar" must have been some American slang I just didn't know for some drug, because I couldn't tell the words apart.

Reading the lyrics now is... wow it's something.

I'd just like to point out that raising 6 kids is very much hard work, even if you're a bad parent I find it hard to describe it as no work at all.

Any good books or other resources where it is presented well?

As far as I understand patents still have to be "novel", i.e. new. You can't patent something that is already known to the public, otherwise people could start patenting chairs and sandwhiches.

Patents are meant as a reward for making an invention, the deal being that you get a monopoly on this new invention for a while and in exchange you have to tell the public how to implement your invention. If you could patent known things that would defeat the whole point.

What changed is that until recently the US operated under a first-to-invent principle, so if two people invented the same thing and they both wanted a patent on it, the one who invented it first would get the patent. As you can imagine, proving when you invented something can be quite difficult at times, and the whole process can be messy. First-to-file just means that in such a situation, the first person to file wins, which puts the US rules in line with other countries and makes things much simpler.

Growing up in Italy around the same time my experience was very similar, movies would come out weeks or months later, and access to english media wasn't great until fairly recently.

Piracy and torrents were amazing though. We could find any movie no matter how obscure, as well as books, comics and all kinds of stuff (my uncle gifted me a kobo e-reader many years ago, it was amazing and I loved it).

I basically learned English that way, and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that that's the most important skill I have. So much access to information, travel, and relationships to other people just would not have been possible if I didn't speak English well.

In a way piracy has improved my life tremendously, while not really hurting anybody (as if a kid in Italy without any money would have been able to buy all those movies even at a 90% discount).

What apps or programs do you use to make your phone work as a webcam? I've tried that last year but none of the solutions in the play store seemed to work for me.

I'm guessing they might mean the literal roundness of the country, i.e. how close the geographic borders are to a circle.

Quick search suggests they might mean Poland.

I believe they were referring to England, where you do get legal counsel for free (though my understanding is that restrictions to that have been placed in recent years).

I have to admit I don't know a lot about the history of Wikileaks (I was still in school when they started going after Assange), but how did it hurt democratic movements in developing countries?

Wouldn't a US citizen still have those obligations if they, for example, had committed crimes in Germany but just happened to fly back to the US before being arrested?

I'm almost certain it is. There's a housing project in Rome that has the same tale, apparently the architect killed himself after seeing it completed.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corviale

I'll admit I'm not an expert in this area, but why are apps using Bluetooth useless? Because people turn Bluetooth off?

I agree that contact tracing is important, but there are ways to do it without tracking each student's location all the time. The contact tracing app we have in Germany simply communicates with phones nearby, remembers who it has met, and if any of them test positive it sends you an alert.

There was a long and heated discussion about making this app as privacy focused as possible while still being useful, and it seems to have struck a reasonable compromise. Why can't the college's contact tracing app do something similar?

I rarely if ever go out of the house without my phone on me, but I reckon it wouldn't be that difficult to get a small group into a car and just drive out, maybe writing down the way beforehand. It would be annoying, but they'd manage just fine.