DoughnutHole

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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
It’s pretty hard to dispute that it happened before Napoleon. The leveé en masse was implemented in 1793. Napoleon only rose to prominence in 1796, by which point France had already conquered the Low Countries and the Rhineland. Napoleon
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The French were thrashing the coalition forces for 2 years before Napoleon led a major campaign. Napoleon was a military genius, but what shifted the revolutionary wars in the favour of the French was the revolutionary goverments' inno
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On Ireland, our biggest business partner in Europe is still the UK. I don’t think we’ll be clambering to add friction to business with Northern Ireland and Britain so we can hang out with Portugal and Iceland.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
It is absolutely curious to talk about profit when talking about academic research or a non-profit (which OpenAI officially is). Sure, you can talk about results in terms of their monetary value but it doesn’t make sense to think of it in
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Not so true working for an organisation that is ostensibly a non-profit. People working for a non-profit are generally taking a significant hit to their earning's compared to doing similar work in a for-profit, outside of the top manag
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Air conditioning in a busy 19th century underground tunnel system is absolutely an achievement. Air conditioning an underground train means pumping that hot air into the tunnels. The tunnels have insufficient ventilation because this wasn&#
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The biggest example I can think of is Fermat's Last Theorem. Uncounted mathematicians devoted years of their lives to the theorem, and the developments they made along the way may have some applications. But I have yet to hear of any p
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
He’s right - intuitive physical reasoning is useful (and often valid in the applied sciences) but it isn’t rigorous mathematical proof. Some areas of mathematics are applicable to physical realities, but they aren’t defined by those realiti
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
This society sends people to jail for tax evasion all the time, even if the original source of their income was non-criminal. Al Capone was guilty of running a massive criminal organisation responsible for many many crimes (very difficult t
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> both are likely to appreciate More than half of all startups fail within the first 10 years. They’re not just less liquid, they never experience a liquidity event at all. That equity is effectively $0. The odds of any given big company
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> it's borderline acceptable nowadays if all you need is to go on the next page. Technical documents are exactly the sort of thing with which you need to repeatedly flip back and forth to random pages of the document, checking figur
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Canada’s situation is nothing like Japan’s. Canada’s economy has tripled in size since 1995. Japan’s economy is smaller than it was in 1995.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
…so the problem is that they’re publishing stuff of no consequence? Or that they’re things that are too obvious? Not that they’re inaccurate? These headlines are all things that happened, that they’re reporting on. You know, news.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
You genuinely believe that most of what these papers publish is false? Here’s the first 6 headlines from the NYT “Today’s Paper” page: > Promised Aid to Gaza Is Stalled by Wrangling, as Conditions Worsen > Biden Requests $105 Billio
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
If you read the New York Times article in question you’d see they didn’t actually get the facts on the ground wrong. They reported that a Palestinian official claimed that Israel bombed a hospital. This report was factually correct, but t
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
What are the topics that you are a knowledgable of that major outlets get wrong all the time? It would make make sense that reporters get political news right more than more niche topics - that’s most of what they report on, it’s most of wh
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
I guess we’re going to have to coin Atwood’s Second Law > Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in TypeScript types
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
It's a more subtle mistake than that - they did say "X told us Y": > Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinian Officials Say The problem isn't that they presented an unverified claim as fact - they tol
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Sometimes it's not horse and zebras, but horses and donkeys - both are reasonably plausible. This is generally the case in a war zone, where stuff goes wrong and friendly fire occurs all the time . If a journalist tells me that it&#x2
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
It's a classic Gish-gallop. Throw as many diagrams and vaguely plausible sounding arguments at the reader as possible and maybe one of them will stick. In the meantime it takes far more time to convincingly debunk than it does to gener
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The fact that the USA is shockingly violent compared to basically all other similarly developed countries which are not heavily armed.
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But they are not directly elected to ministerial positions. In a parliamentary system (ie most countries in the EU) members of parliament are elected. Parliament appoints a premier. Premier appoints ministers with parliamentary approval. EU
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This work is intrinsically political. There is no unbiased way to analyse centuries of history. When you study history and come to conclusions and devise a system to describe present society then what you’ve created is a political ideology.
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It was a joke.
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No, the government is absolutely swimming in money separate from GDP shenanigans. We have an unprecedented budget surplus. This is a direct result of the OECD forcing us to raise our corporate tax to a higher minimum. Big tech stayed put so
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
They did it in London - old homes aren’t a problem if you dig deep enough with modern technology (and London’s tube was built with much older technology). The bigger problem is bedrock. London is built on clay, very easy to tunnel through.
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Let's call your 90s example what we now know it was: a bubble . Software engineering salaries are substantially above the US mean and those that receive them are on track to be solidly upper middle class. They're not so high that
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
I’ll make sure to let India know that they’re not diverse despite their 23 official native languages and their massive religious divisions. You’re basically trying to define “diverse” as “amorphous immigrant melting pot”, a society that onl
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That's an interesting example because it illustrates out how fair use is in part defined by its effect on the market. A teacher copying a New York Times article verbatim and distributing it to a classroom for the purpose of analysis or
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The average family isn't that spread out in their work-life habits as you make out. Most cities have an urban core where most commercial enterprises are, and most people commute into that area. The vast majority of Dublin City Council

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