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Lauro is really rare, though. There are 259 in Spain, in comparison to over 259K Lauras. So it's not a name that most people would consider.

Not sure if this is universal, but when my wife and I were thinking about naming our son, we observed that in Spain there seems to be much more variety of girl than boy names.

In fact, you can almost prove it by bijective mapping to a subset. Almost all typical boy names have a feminine version (Juan->Juana, Carlos->Carla/Carlota, Manuel->Manuela, Adrián->Adriana, and so on... there are some exceptions, but not many) while the opposite is not true, there are plenty of common girl names without masculine version (Laura, Marta, Elena, Carmen, Sara, and many others).

There are also papers doing the actual stats and concluding that girl names are more diverse. No idea what the reason is.

Maybe for high-stakes things, serious journalism or closer interactions, but most of the time in the Internet we just consume content by unknown people and we don't stop to check their trustworthiness. In the OP's context (game wikis) you're probably not going to know the people signing the wiki's content.

The problem is that the majority of the time, the one ultimately trying to dupe you is not the AI model, but the person who handles it.

In other words, signatures don't address the fact that a human can ask an AI model for content and then sign it to pass it as their own.

Yeah, in my view this is one of those sites that add negative value to the internet, by putting a paywall in front of PDFs that would otherwise be freely available. I have seen tech-illiterate people upload material there (and to its sister site slideshare) just because they didn't know better (I suppose it's what they got by Googling "upload PDF to the interwebs" or similar), and it's a pity.

Uploaders don't even get paid at all for views, it's just taking free labor and paywalling access to it, very similar to the infamous paid academic journals. But journals survive because they are an entrenched system that lives on prestige and hard-to-change academic bureaucracy. I really don't understand how Scribd, being an obvious scam and without those legacy advantages, can survive. I suppose hosting PDFs costs so little that a 0.001% of victims paying is enough to support it, but still, I don't understand why a free competitor hasn't come up to outrank it in searches and send it to oblivion where it belongs.

I agree it's hard or maybe even impossible to entirely fix the problem, but there are degrees. You can at least try to mitigate it. And this is not done in Spain even in the slightest.

Check the charts above, pensions have been strictly updated with inflation in the last decades, while salaries (including both public salaries, fixed by the government, and private ones) haven't.

If salaries losing purchasing power haven't caused widespread riots, surely pensions doing the same wouldn't, and the impact on the budget would be noticeable. Of course, it would cause the party in government to lose votes, which is why it's not done.

I'm 43 now and haven't been to a dentist since I was 18. This started due to a combination of being young and generally careless, constantly busy and procrastinating, and somewhat scared of dental procedures. And over time, as years piled up, it kept going on because now honestly I'm ashamed of going to a dentist, looking like a normal, functional, well-dressed person, and telling them straight to the face that my mouth hasn't been checked in 25 years.

So far, I haven't had pain in any of my teeth (I guess I would bite the bullet and go if I did). I'm not proud of my attitude and I fear some day my negligence may come home to roost. But on the other hand, I see other people who go to the dentist every year, and every year they seem to need treatment and have lots of cavities while if I have had any, they haven't had any practical consequences in 25 years, and I can't help but thinking "overall, am I sure that they are better off?"

Just for the record, I'm a Spanish user with Google AI pro (€20 per month or so) and my app has Argon now. (Yay!)

I still use mIRC. It pretty much works like in the old days and has aged very well IMHO, I've tried other clients but none would convince me to switch. Now I even have a license (when I started using it, maybe at 15 or so, I was too broke for that).

Winamp hasn't aged so well, sadly.

And apart from the advantages you mention, it was really configurable in terms of the level of involvement and openness you wanted. You could use it exclusively to chat with friends and otherwise be unreachable (as in MSN and their ilk later), or you could be open to chat with strangers. And you could find people by interests, I remember looking for coin collectors from countries whose coins I didn't have :)

Then MSN Messenger displaced it (at least in Spain) and it didn't have even 10% of ICQ's functionality.

And what reaches the West is surprisingly little.

Take the Condor Trilogy, for example. It's not even underground or punk, it's a major cultural touchstone. Written more than 50 years ago, over 300 million copies sold, dozens of TV and cinema adaptations. And as far as I know, only the first part has officially been translated into English, and nothing into Spanish. Even the TV adaptations, some of which had several hundred million viewers in China, haven't been published in the West: I have watched some with fan subtitles, but they haven't been brought officially as far as I know.

If even such major works don't reach us, judging Chinese culture by what does reach us is nonsense.

If things are that simple, how do you explain slow crushes? When you meet someone and initially don't feel any attraction, but when you repeatedly interact with them and learn more about them, you start enjoying their company more and looking forward to being with them and at some point you realize you're in love?

This exists and, from both my own experience and that of others, is not uncommon.

Why does electricity need to be profitable? Are roads, justice systems, or armies profitable?