It is not the technology that sucks ever more money out of the populace, it's the people at the top!

NYTimes competing with NYTimesPitchBot for funnier headlines, I see. What a bizarre and awesome piece of science. I like crystals for the miracle of uncountable numbers of atoms transferring symmetry from the smallest scale to the visible scale.

It's mentioned in the article that the chimpanzees only relinquished the crystals in exchange for many bananas, so it seems they're more into crystals...

I've often joked about inflation and that while TVs may have become inexpensive, food has not.

Are you saying that I might be able to harvest the crystals in them and pay for bananas?

This is just a general pattern: applied mathematicians are often using things pure mathematicians haven't proved to be true yet. The examples are widespread for the generalized Riemann hypothesis. There are statements we aren't sure about, but there's also a lot that we are sure about but not sure about the proof of.

Can you list some better books for those of us who liked Le Guin and are interested in what could be better?

I would suggest "In the Mothers’ Land" from Élisabeth Vonarburg. It also talk about alternate society centered around gender. I didnt really liked the left hand of the night, but liked that one. And LeGuin saluted the book apparently too.

it's hard to understand for me what you liked in Le Guin's books, but maybe Children Of Time?

That's a good example of "very shallow and mainstream" writing, but Tchaikovsky isn't in the same league as Le Guin at all.

The dots need to be the vertices of equilateral triangles for the Voronoi diagram to be hexagons, the above is a rectangular grid rotated 45 degrees.

You can overlay a regular hexagonal tessellation over a regular triangular tessellation to see this.

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Why is the scrolling janky?

Terry Tao is writing about this on his blog.