Arnt

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901.
by Arnt 2y ago
Supposed to be real. And it's not typical of the Norwegian/Swede genre — in that the direction is clear, while here it might be either a dumb Norwegian driver or a Swedish journalist having his leg pulled.
902.
by Arnt 2y ago
I cannot resist… I have to tell… when they did it, they had non-stop media coverage, as much as could possibly be done. An hour or two after traffic switched, TV broadcast from Svinesund, the biggest of the road crossings to Norway, and a m
903.
by Arnt 2y ago
To the estate, in which case the next beneficiary gets the ducats. After the ones that are named in the testament, the law specifies beneficiaries.
904.
by Arnt 2y ago
I've heard a lot about California, but not that the areas that build more have lower rents.
905.
by Arnt 2y ago
The average purchase price in the US in the recent years is >$40k, and you're saying that $40k is not affordable. Yours is not a majority opinion.
906.
by Arnt 2y ago
I've used natural keys and had no problems at all, over decades. I think the difference is that my natural keys were keys already, as opposed to numbers to which it seemed possible to add the 'key' trait. The article uses the
907.
by Arnt 2y ago
It's all funded by donors these days. A small portion of Thunderbird users pay a small sum per month, and it adds up to real money.
908.
by Arnt 2y ago
It's funded by donations, so what matters in such questions is name recognition by the donors.
909.
by Arnt 2y ago
GP wrote "no one was attempting", which I didn't take to mean "only the usual set of people was attempting" or anything like that.
910.
by Arnt 2y ago
Aren't we talking about the country where error correction won over the very top administrator? He said "I am not a crook", error correction won. You shouldn't just assume that such a country has no error correction.
911.
by Arnt 2y ago
Your argument silently assumes that the bureaucracy contains no error correction procedures.
912.
by Arnt 2y ago
Sigh. There's one thing though. "ample availability of Russian crude, which continues to maintain a price advantage over Riyadh’s oil" means the Russians are selling below their long-term cost, if rumors from friends in the o
913.
by Arnt 2y ago
Maybe so. I wonder whether I lack empathy. Sometimes I think "oh, just another shitstorm where someone tries to weaponise people's shitstorm" and I wonder how often that's an appropriate reaction. EDIT: For example peo
914.
by Arnt 2y ago
Social media, in the plural. Rejoice in the wide variety of interlinked systems that is the web. (Not sure how serious I am.)
915.
by Arnt 2y ago
Can a nuclear reactor be small enough that it doesn't need an expensive fence with 24/7 guards, and an expensive evaluation of the site for disaster risk? I sort of suspect the answer to be no, but would like to hear arguments for
916.
by Arnt 2y ago
Up to Lucid, he says... has he paid attention to the Chinese cars ? https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west...
917.
by Arnt 2y ago
Oh no. And are you the Taj, then?
918.
by Arnt 2y ago
Coolo is from .de, where konqi is a term of endearment for the web browser.
919.
by Arnt 2y ago
Good for podcasters who need weird and unusual events for their podcast stories. Less good if you want to understand the world.
920.
by Arnt 2y ago
Supermarkets is exactly what I had in mind, but perhaps it was stupid. The cost of health care is kind of… a×b+c×d, except more complicated, where a is the hourly cost of a physician, b is the number of times you get an hour's care, c
921.
by Arnt 2y ago
If a cartel forms around tropical fruits… that strikes me as a strange and unreal example. Private equity buys supermarket chains in the real world. There are about six supermarket chaions in the city where I live. Most people will struggle
922.
by Arnt 2y ago
Are you saying the medicine is necessary, unlike food?
923.
by Arnt 2y ago
Everywhere I've worked had either people who made mistakes, people who made unrealisic demands, or both. I guess you'd be the type with unrealistic demands.
924.
by Arnt 2y ago
Suppose it actually required twenty, or 200. In that case, would the relevant organisation publish the truth or rather lie and say "two"? I think lying makes a lot of sense. Telling the truth would be like saying "go ahead an
925.
by Arnt 2y ago
Don't know about Sindh, but Babur used underground housing in Delhi around 1500 (and IIRC hated the hot weather). Have experienced 47 degrees in Delhi, hate to think of 52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babur
926.
by Arnt 2y ago
Capitalism. Seriously. Each owner decides how to allocate resources. Citigroup decided to let one person make wide-ranging decisions. Wonder how much the loss was. Surely more than $78 million. Citigroup doesn't say the policy has chan
927.
by Arnt 2y ago
It costs time whenever a coworker has toggled the wrong setting and you must debug. It costs time whenever some coworker asks for something impossible, and says something like "Have you really checked all the options?"
928.
by Arnt 2y ago
Which is a kind of workaround for the inability to learn after the end of training… It's not clear to me how much this workaround mitigates the inability to learn after training. Is it clear to you? If so, please feel free to post a wa
929.
by Arnt 2y ago
I'm sure that's very important in principle, much less sure that it matters in practice. Put differently, I struggle to complete the following sentence: "This limitation limits utility sharply, and it cannot be worked around
930.
by Arnt 2y ago
Yes... I'm not sure what the archetype of intelligence is, but for practical purposes I'd say: Humans have some of it. And it's not clear to me that what humans have is very far from what AI is starting to have. The halluci

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