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Comment · 11 days ago
The ones that pay their taxes fully.
Comment · 12 days ago
So the US/Israel starts random wars and everyone else is expected to just automatically join in? Lol.
Comment · 14 days ago
Spot on.
Comment · 21 days ago
>But if it does not solve it, will you really wager 30 years of your life on the possibility that you might be smarter than the AI?

Sure. Just because current technology can't prove or disprove something, doesn't mean it can't ever be proven or disproven.

Comment · 29 days ago
Please provide evidence for your claims.
Comment · 1 month ago
>There is museum in London called the British Museum which has zero artifacts on display from Britain

That's not true at all. What's your agenda?

Comment · 1 month ago
Chess is kept afloat by chess players, not by billionaires. If all the billionaire backers stopped sponsoring tournaments, people like me would still play, still pay for chess club memberships, still pay entry fees for tournaments, and still buy chess books, and so on.
Comment · 2 months ago
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton is written primarily in English but has a lot of Latin and some Greek in it. To read it properly and fully, you would need to know all three languages.
Comment · 2 months ago
Cheers!
Comment · 2 months ago
> including ice cream.

Name some brands please.

Comment · 3 months ago
Coursera stinks now. Extremely slow load times, annoying AI chatbot that takes up the right half of the screen on the landing page, and a lot of courses that were free are now behind a paywall.
Comment · 3 months ago
Nitpick: Iranians didn't invent chess. Four player chess called Chaturanga was developed in India, then it was picked up by the Iranians (in Farsi, it's Shatranj) and later the Arabs (at some point here, it became a 2 player game). Then the Spanish picked it up from the Arabs. The Spanish and the Italians buffed the Queen and Bishop allowing these two pieces much greater movement, and this is chess as we know it today.
Comment · 4 months ago
Some more free ones:

Abstract Algebra by Judson - https://judsonbooks.org/abstract-algebra-theory-and-applicat...

Linear Algebra by Hefferon - https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/

Real Analysis by Lebl - https://www.jirka.org/ra/

Differential Equations by Lebl - https://www.jirka.org/diffyqs/

These should be enough to give you a first and second year undergrad level education in mathematics (minus stats&probability).

Comment · 4 months ago
A chatter linked HN on #commonlisp on freenode back in 2011.

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