It's language. Language goes with culture. In the past, it has been used with devastating effects on many people's lives. The infamous Sykes-Picot agreement led to instability and so many bloody conflicts between different languages and cultures in the Middle East and surrounding regions. The same is going on in...
Background * This whole thing can be seen as either a post or a question asking for fellow forum members' opinions. I've been wanting to write this for a long time, but I was not sure of my ability to properly do it. Thankfully, some new posts on LW gave...
It's no surprise LW is dominated by COVID questions right now. My guess is that many of us are holding their ground at home and have more spare time than usual. So here is a question for you: if you are to design a 1v1-type board game and your purpose...
We have many in place to give us aggregated reviews on books (example: goodreads), films (imdb), restaurants (yelp), places (tripadvisor), apps, etc... Yet it seems like there's no such thing for abstract yet important stuffs like theories (e.g. Maslow hierarchy), techniques (CFAR's various), methods... Without proper research on the issue,...
What I know about it from high school and general articles on the net doesn't satisfy. Maybe because I have critical holes in my knowledge. From what I think I know: we're having AC running in the lines. AC means if we zoom down, we'll see that an electron is...
It doesn't appear in the LW menu, and I can't recall reading about it in FAQ posts. Edit: and Nomination too.