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And the fact that determining the true lat/long of one's location was best done by using mapquest.com (ah memories...). Unscrambled GPS for civilians didn't come along for another couple years.

This is a fantastic explanation.

The UK also gives people 6ish weeks (5 weeks to take when you want, plus 8 fixed bank holidays). I grew up in the US and am American more than I am anything else. I've lived in the UK for a relatively short time (6 years, under 20% of my life) -- but that's been my entire professional career. It's cultural differences like this that lead me to believe that America will never feel like "home" again -- I now can't imagine living somewhere where 6 weeks of vacation time seems like it's far outside the norm.

> If you want to stop polling from a server response you can respond with the HTTP response code 286 and the element will cancel the polling.

Oh wow, it gets a lot worse...

It's typical to use "to" rather than "in" when discussing odds. So the odds of getting a 1 on a 10-sided dice are 9 to 1 against (odds are also typically specified with the larger number first, because of the overlap between mathematical odds and betting-shop odds). And the probability of it happening is 1 in 10.

(I suspect that counter-pedantry on these lines might be part of why your post is getting downvoted; I wasn't one of the downvoters fwiw.)

It's less about pure random chance, and more about our uncertainty. Compare it to a weather forecast that says there's a 10% chance of rain tomorrow. In the same way that weather forecasts get better over time (better atmospheric measurements, more sophisticated computer models), we could potentially do more to measure what the outcome of the election will be. And it might be theoretically possible (albeit highly unrealistic) to predict it with complete accuracy, given enough data. But we're not in that situation, hence uncertainty.

(There are a couple of caveats about election forecasting as opposed to weather forecasting. The first is the "October surprise," a sudden revelation that changes the election. This cycle, it was arguably Trump's covid diagnosis, although that tended if anything to push the results further in the direction they seemed to be going on their own, rather than upset any trend. The second is that, unlike with weather systems, measuring voter behavior (and widespread reporting on these measures) can change people's behavior. The effect of this is hotly contested, but one of the many explanations of Trump's victory in 2016 which hinged on turnout in a few key states is that those states were predicted wins for Clinton, so Clinton voters didn't bother voting. Despite occasional jokes to the contrary, it doesn't rain just to spite the weatherman.)

My guess (for men, at least), is the still only partial eradication of homophobia from society. Before the 1970s or so, it was not threatening to be naked around other men because homosexual advances could be violently punished with relatively little fear of consequences. (This is at least my understanding, I was not alive at the time.) In present day European culture (including North America, Australia, etc.) expression of homophobia is not generally acceptable, but enough straight people are privately homophobic that they are not willing to participate in semi-public nudity. The exceptions to the generalization that group male nudity is not acceptable are either subcultures where overt homophobia is still practiced (fraternity initiations, some sports teams), or unusually "woke" spaces/groups.

In principle, we eventually may reach a stage where homosexuality is so destigmatized that straight men are not bothered by the possibility of being checked out while naked, and that might make public nudity once again acceptable in all-male spaces. I don't think it is particularly likely to happen soon given that there are other simmering cultural disagreements about how bodies relate to sexuality (e.g. how genital anatomy and gender identity interact) -- I think that consensus and stability around those questions are a precondition for the acceptability of same-sex group nudity.

The considerations for fully public (and by necessary implication all-gender) group nudity are broader, but I think an element of the above analysis is in the mix there too.

Universal grammar is a theory about how the human mind processes language. AI and ML don't bear on it at all.

Is it open source?