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It took me fifteen minutes to figure out that the screen reads "PRO". At first I thought it was PBN and couldn't make head or tail of it.

Have the three videos been modified by AI? They (esp. the second one) look like having voice-overs with lip-sync. Feel very unnatural.

> The only thing Google had going for it was no ads and a committment to not be evil.

No, those are not the only reasons. There is a more important one: in its early days, search results from Google were noticeably better than those from other search engines. Google’s PageRank algorithm was ground breaking. It allowed the search engine to rank webpages fully automatically without human moderation and without using some obscure heuristics with unstable performances.

While I understand that the ‘America’ in ‘Lake America’ means the USA, I can’t help but think of ‘America’ as the America continent. In this sense the whole farce feels less political.

By the way, Carney may consider calling the USA ‘Nocanoram’ (Non-Canadian North America). This at least is more precise than hijacked term ‘America’.

Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?

Yes. The next step is to send a very human-like robot to impersonate you on a date, in wedding ceremony, during intimate times in the bedroom, etc., but we are not sure if your date will do the same.

In terms of temperature rather than length of daylight, the peak of summer depends on geography (and latitude in particular). In where I live (Hong Kong), July and August are the hottest months and so it makes sense to me that Summer begins in June.

Not all men, but all men over 17 and under the age of 45. This still seems draconian, though.

I like this more than most modern designs.

I have longed for this feature. For me, it is useful in many scenarios, such as:

  * reading two distantly separated sections of a long article on two split tabs;
  * reading a research paper on one tab and typing a question to StackExchange on the other;
  * reading a scanned book written in French on one tab and using a dictionary on the other.

The article is well written but its title is a click bait. Although the film portrays mathematicians in a negative way and the allegedly hard problem on the blackboard is actually an easy homework exercise that every decent first-year student is able to solve, I don’t think the film has ever gathered any hatred among mathematicians.

  > The muster roll for the garrison of Calais in 1357 shows not only the names of men-at-arms and archers but also the support roles needed: mason, locksmith, fletcher (a maker of arrows), bowyer (a maker of bows), plumber, blacksmith, wheelwright, cooper (maker of barrels), ditch digger, boatman, carter and carter’s boy. One record belongs to a tiler – Walter Tyler. Was this the future rebel leader of 1381, Wat Tyler?

I didn’t know that the surnames Cooper, Carter and Tyler were originated from different kinds of artisans. I didn’t know that there are names for makers of arrows, bows and wheels either. What is carter’s boy? A bellboy for a cart?

Do people these days call robbers ‘thieves’? When I read the title, I thought the article was about pickpockets.

A wild guess: perhaps it was the Russian authority, not the site owners, who blocked the traffic. Collective action is usually inefficient. If something suddenly happens in a large scale, more often than not it is caused by a few influential entities.