Beldin

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by Beldin 6y ago
The job of a PhD advisor is to guide the student to become an independent researcher. That is: someone able to conceive of research-worthy ideas, separate the good from the bad, execute the research and write it all up in a paper. I have se
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by Beldin 6y ago
Number portability in my country is handled without blockchain. Granted, India's population is about 100 times larger. But I don't see a reason why a scale-up with a factor of roughly 100 would be prohibitively problematic.
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by Beldin 6y ago
Never encountered paying for non-open access publication. I have only encountered "article processing fees" in relation to open access publishing. If you're okay with having your paper paywalled, you do not need to pay for jo
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by Beldin 6y ago
Double blind reviews are the standard in at least some corners of CS. Not only conferences, also for some journals. Though you will also encounter single blind reviewing. I haven't encountered a truly open review process yet.
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by Beldin 6y ago
> Companies will always push for lower wages wherever they can Except for executive compensation. There they very often actively push for more compensation.
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by Beldin 6y ago
> None of the bedrock game-changer research from that period - EM theory, thermodynamics, radioactivity, QM, relativity, the original discovery of DNA - was funded by corporations. Ever heard of the Solvay conferences? While not embedd
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by Beldin 6y ago
For those who are curious about ECB: see the picture & encrypted picture of Tux on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operati...
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by Beldin 6y ago
I stand corrected.
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by Beldin 6y ago
But people do have to understand at least at a high level why the announced result matches what the voters put in. The whole point of a voting system is not to pick a winner, but convincingly show that the loser(s) lost. Undermining trust
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by Beldin 6y ago
That is a great way to elect the one who buys the most votes. If you want to avoid such shenanigans, you'll need to enforce voter privacy.
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by Beldin 6y ago
> Ibérico ham not produced in Spain but in Texas using a very similar method, what about it doesn't make sense? That is not from the Iberian peninsula. This is like having a sticker "intel" on a computer when there is no
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by Beldin 6y ago
Thanks! That convinces me to give it a shot.
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by Beldin 6y ago
I tried. Tab switching was - for me - horrible compared to Chrome (chrome:swipe down, swipe address bar down, select tab you want from carousel). I kept looking if i missed this obvious feature. I tried to live without it, but Firefox mobi
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by Beldin 6y ago
If with "VBA" you mean Visual Basic for Applications , it had (AFAIK) several ancestors from the BASIC family including Visual Basic and Quick Basic. Probably GW BASIC and its ancestors count as well.
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by Beldin 6y ago
The ability to quickly find bugs does not make you a bad customer - the way you treat the company determines that. I'm not at all convinced that tolerating bad behaviour towards your company is ever a good strategy.
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by Beldin 6y ago
I would love the idea (for data-driven science) of a peer review before execution of the work. Write up a one- or 2-pager, review methodology and accept/reject based on that. Once the work has been done, there would mostly be editori
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by Beldin 6y ago
True, good point. I have no idea what UBI would mean for low-wage, on-premise jobs. A sufficiently substantial UBI would undermine such jobs, I guess...
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by Beldin 6y ago
Now that work from home has become much more acceptable, I doubt it. WFH directly affects the relation between work and place to live. If that doesn't greatly impact rents, neither will UBI. On the other hand, if it does, there's
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by Beldin 6y ago
For a start: the speed at which stars rotate around the center of a galaxy. This should be due to gravity, yet the speed of stars further from the center isn't slower (as it should be). This holds true for the vast majority of galaxies
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by Beldin 6y ago
With respect to the Bullet Cluster (which is often mentioned as a counterexample to MOND): discussion of why that does not rule out MOND: https://web.archive.org/web/20160721044735/http://www.astro....
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by Beldin 6y ago
The reason work on alternative theories of gravity is important: We have one reality R, for which we have various possibly imperfect theories T(R) and a large set of possibly imperfect observations O(R). For gravity, we know that general re
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by Beldin 6y ago
> There needs to be a process to allocate resources that takes into account competency for the job. Counterpoint: the current system doesn't do this. It optimises for competency to attract funding. This occasionally overlaps wroth
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by Beldin 6y ago
> I do. That's how housing works in Japan - you buy a house to live in, not to save money or invest Something I don't understand: if there is real deflation, your buying power increases if you wait. In this case: wait a year,
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by Beldin 6y ago
What Twitter does likely violates (eg.) all cropped cc-by-nc-nd licensed images on twitter. I'm certainly not in favour of allowing one of the big tech companies to systematically undermine such Creative Commons licenses just because i
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by Beldin 6y ago
This reminds me of the story about an older engineer called in to fix a computer problem. Previous efforts by the local IT staff had failed. In two clicks, the problem was fixed. He charged $100 for it. Outraged at having to pay $100 for tw
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by Beldin 6y ago
Only if the election is per-seat. In the Netherlands, elections for the lower house (150 seats) are nationwide. The 150 candidates/parties with the highest number of votes get a seat. The party system makes it a bit more complex, but i
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by Beldin 6y ago
My current view is that having districts undermines everything. Once politicians are elected due to a specific geographical region, 1. they are beholden to that region, 2. You get an all-or-nothing approach to elections. With respect to 1:
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by Beldin 6y ago
It is ironic that a version control system engineered to be distributed is now typically used in such a centralised way.
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by Beldin 6y ago
So it seems that this papers result comes to "more downloads => more citations". Of course, that is hardly a surprising result. I think most authors have read most papers they cite (although things like reviewer/editor sh
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by Beldin 6y ago
Interestingly, the 4 equations shown in the article are due to Oliver Heaviside [1]. Maxwell came up with 20 equations, which captured electromagnetism. But it was... rather unwieldy. Heaviside reformulated that into 4 equations. Basically

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