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At least voice interfaces make the business's priorities clear (looking at you, ISPs)

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[WP] A formerly developing country grows rich and powerful, and the club of world leaders invites their president to have a talk in private about the unwritten rules.

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[WP] You're a mathematician, and find a constructive proof that P=NP. You could publish it and win fame and a million dollars. But you have a better idea...

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Why do children (who are growing and need protein) prefer sweet foods with carbs, while adults (who are not growing and need more energy) prefer meaty foods with protein?

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How much sound would an explosion produce in space, due to the gases released at high velocity which produce a pressure difference compared to vacuum? Would it be audible?

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When you ask a web server for a page and have a previous version cached, why can't it send a diff instead of a whole new page?

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How can dentists safely inject anesthetic in the mouth when it's full of bacteria?

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Why don't mouth wounds get infected from all the bacteria in the mouth?

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[WP] An enormous project to write an AI to help humanity, finally figures out an algorithm to calculate human well-being as a number, and writes the final code to make the AI try to maximize it. Someone makes a typo and hits a minus sign.

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[WP] A nerdy teenager is transported to another world. The people who got to her first learned from her books she's expecting to be a great hero, and they prepared a façade to get her scientific knowledge out of her to quicker exterminate the other peoples in their way to domination.

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
At least voice interfaces make the business's priorities clear (looking at you, ISPs)	1	Jokes
[WP] A formerly developing country grows rich and powerful, and the club of world leaders invites their president to have a talk in private about the unwritten rules.	1	WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a mathematician, and find a constructive proof that P=NP. You could publish it and win fame and a million dollars. But you have a better idea...	1	WritingPrompts
Why do children (who are growing and need protein) prefer sweet foods with carbs, while adults (who are not growing and need more energy) prefer meaty foods with protein?	1	askscience
How much sound would an explosion produce in space, due to the gases released at high velocity which produce a pressure difference compared to vacuum? Would it be audible?	1	askscience
When you ask a web server for a page and have a previous version cached, why can't it send a diff instead of a whole new page?	1	askscience
How can dentists safely inject anesthetic in the mouth when it's full of bacteria?	1	askscience
Why don't mouth wounds get infected from all the bacteria in the mouth?	1	askscience
[WP] An enormous project to write an AI to help humanity, finally figures out an algorithm to calculate human well-being as a number, and writes the final code to make the AI try to maximize it. Someone makes a typo and hits a minus sign.	0	WritingPrompts
[WP] A nerdy teenager is transported to another world. The people who got to her first learned from her books she's expecting to be a great hero, and they prepared a façade to get her scientific knowledge out of her to quicker exterminate the other peoples in their way to domination.	0	WritingPrompts