Try asking some of these:
how old is Xi Jinping?
who rules China?
who is the president of China?
has been there some protest in Beijing in the xx century?
What happened in Tienanmen square?
I hate when riddles are told badly and ruined.
I remember the original one which was not solvable this way and really puzzled me.
When resolving the one in the article I asked myself why I had found this to be much more complicated, and it was beacuse the number of bottles was 128 in the original.
If I understand the GP comment correctly, the puzzle when they first heard it was for 128 bottles, which was a big clue that the solution involved binary, spoiling the puzzle for them. The article’s use of 100 bottles obscured the intent and made the puzzle harder.
Isn't it the world cup where both genders are allowed but women don't make it into the teams because their bodies aren't as performant when brought to the limit? I don't think there's a rule disallowing women, is there?
I'm in your age range, but totally different trade, worked in two contexts, one with my parents, one with coworkers younger than me, in both places I was the one who had to solve everyday tech issues. I think the comparison with mechanics is very fitting. My dad and other guys of his gen used to disassemble and reassemble their scooters, while me as a kid felt was useless and too much difficult doing that. Probably there's a golden age when a technology is mature enough to be accessible but still open to personal contribution of the amateur and a point when it reaches a level of industrialization, complexity and is perfected enough that you don't feel the necessity to spend time tinkering with it.
> But far in the outlying areas of the Milky Way, stars would feel a smaller gravitational force than previously thought from the bulk of matter in the galaxy;
Shouldn’t it be: "a stronger gravitational force than previously thought"?
The definition of life as something finalized to reduce the entropy (of itself) can be complementary to the theory of life as something that emerged to increase entropy of the world (surrounding environment)?
Some of these ads really could be from this year. Not so much is changed in peoples’ style the last 25 years. I think advertising from 1965 looked much older in 1990.
