Archelaos

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Sexual war crimes need to be prosecuted more strongly(theguardian.com)
10 points by Archelaos 5y ago|0 comments
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by Archelaos 5y ago
One should also not forget that Germany's nuclear industry is identical with its fossil-energy industry: RWE, Vattenfall, E.ON/PreussenElectra, EnBW. (STEAG is the only major fossil-energy company that was not involved in nuclear
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Microfossils may be evidence life began 300m years after Earth formed(theguardian.com)
3 points by Archelaos 5y ago|0 comments
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> "David R. Musser, and Alexander A. Stepanov: Tecton: A Language for Manipulating Generic Objects. In Program Specification, Proceedings of a Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, August 1981" The concept of "generic object" in
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by Archelaos 5y ago
"It's hard to ... design a heuristic for an acceptable amount of negative dentries: it won't scale from small to large systems well" Has an AIMD algorithms[1] been considered to dynamically adjust the limit? [1] https:&
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by Archelaos 5y ago
In my country this would be an illegal disproportionate action. Did the state trooper get away with this? If not, wouldn't it be time to change the law?
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> But that's completely ignoring any geological differences of course, so not very realistic. I could imagine that there are several other features of a tunnel that might affect its price considerably: cross-section dimension, numbe
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by Archelaos 5y ago
Layperson's question: The article talks about "a possible galaxy that exists some 13.5 billion light-years from Earth". But isn't that just the light traveling distance, and the object should actually be much further awa
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by Archelaos 5y ago
I have one big to-do list for a project. The list is organised by topics. If a new idea comes up in the context of something else, it is put on the list instead of being implemented immediately. (Exceptions are made for important quick fixe
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by Archelaos 5y ago
Such statements like "measure x prevented/caused n deaths" should generally be considered highly dubious unless applied to a very narrow context (such as a randomized double blind placebo control study, etc.). There is nothin
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A London festival celebrates 100yrs of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”(theguardian.com)
1 points by Archelaos 5y ago|0 comments
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by Archelaos 5y ago
To put some numbers on the table, in 2018 (I could not find more recent data) the values of CO2 emissions in metric tons per capita were as follows:[1] France 5.0 Germany 9.1 For comparison: India 1.9 EU 8.6 China 8.0 J
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> A graph over nuclear waste would have no correlation with the market price. At most one would see a slightly more volatile market price when nuclear energy production is low, and a slightly more stable market price when the production
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by Archelaos 5y ago
Exactly. It is sad when people think that a moral high ground justifies being sloppy with the facts, not checking them, or just making things up by following stereotypes and clichés instead of researching their subject well.
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> The point of a graph is to illustrate a number that fluctuate and changes over time. Nuclear waste production does not. I would expect that more nuclear waste is produced when more nuclear energy is produced and less waste when less en
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> Now for some extra fun, overlay this with graphs over CO2 emissions. Some other fun: Overlay this with a graph of nuclear waste production.
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by Archelaos 5y ago
Just lately there was a documentary by filmmaker James Jones released under the title: "Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes". More about it in this article from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/202
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by Archelaos 5y ago
From the article: > Example 1 '156X-12-25' > December 25 sometime during the 1560s Such a historical use case comes with a huge caveat. ISO-8601 is based on the proleptic Gregorian calendar (which extends the
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by Archelaos 5y ago
I think there is a problem with the meaning of the '==' sign here. You are using algebraic notation where we are really dealing with ordered sets and their members. So '==' meaning equivalence is not very useful here. &#
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, she can calculate its future for all time and all space. No (or only in very special configurations). See for example the n
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> it creates real demographics problems in that few young people need to support many old people I think this problem is overrated, because at the same time they need to support many less children, youth and young adults. In other words,
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End of the Tank? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Archelaos 5y ago|0 comments
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by Archelaos 5y ago
"As cells read out the information stored in DNA, they do rigorous proofreading and error correction, to nip potential errors in the bud." But cells also accumulate more and more changes in their DNA over time. The system of cells
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by Archelaos 5y ago
From the requirements: "... if an event is of sufficient importance, even relatively minor participants may require their own articles." Another criterion for his notability is that his killing has received significant internation
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Borys Romanchenko, survivor of concentration camps was killed in Kharkiv(en.wikipedia.org)
26 points by Archelaos 5y ago|2 comments
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by Archelaos 5y ago
By skilfully omitting details and cleverly juxtaposing statements, the article you cite evokes connections and conclusions that are not correct. I would therefore like to mention a few things that are also important in this context. The dec
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> if a leader just signs off a suggestion ... This is what I was asking for: whether there is evidence that he himself made a deliberate decision or at least consciously acknowledged it. Such details can be of importance. When Ernst von
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> hypocritic nonsense Please, stay calm. Germany is in a transition process. Nuclear is phasing out, renewable is coming. In the EU Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Norway, and Portugal have no nucl
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by Archelaos 5y ago
> Why did Germany put itself into this strange Russian dependency is also very strange. For the same reason, the US has long been dependent on Russia for space travel and is still dependent for the ISS: It worked for a long time quite we
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by Archelaos 5y ago
Germany does not need nuclear power. This is far too expensive and dangerous. The future is renewable.

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