semiconductor
Well, the reasons are probably:
- wanting to develop domestic chips
- wanting to develop software companies
- wanting to push russian culture among the young population
- and others
It's paradoxical, because if memory was perfect, nothing would ever change. You have to have these small imperfections to have twists and turns to your story.
Well obviously it is, or we wouldn't have electron in the first place.
I find running on streets generally sucks, but running in nature is fun.
I read some definition of "mental illness" that stuck with me:
A mental illness is something that seriously impacts your quality of life, as defined by the patient.
So, if the patient doesn't see it as impacting their lifes, then it's not a mental illness.
(Of course, one could consider this definition incomplete; But I still find it sticks.)
The easiest thing would be to mount a remote network storage as a local directory. This way you can easily access it to read and write through normal software.
intelligence as an abstract trait
I read something about this two days ago, it's called "g factor" or something. And yes, it follows a normal distribution.
Apparently, it's very similar in animals than it is in humans.