Frqy3

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by Frqy3 8y ago
Even English subtitles on English movies are often inaccurate and missing key words.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
Why? Because governments like to achieve social outcomes by mandating cross-subsidies from profitable customers to non-profitable customers instead of explicitly funding the outcomes themselves. However, like the proverbial hole in the buck
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by Frqy3 8y ago
As someone who has lived more than an extra 10 years of life due to receiving a transplant, I am very happy to take my daily immunosuppressant medication. For context, I was in my 30s when I had the transplant. If I was 70+, then perhaps I
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by Frqy3 8y ago
And the grid is too expensive because the regulator allowed an effectively risk-free rate of return on investment that was too good to pass up. In telecoms wholesale pricing in Australia, there would frequently be adjustments to the claimed
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by Frqy3 8y ago
I've heard designers talk about the business card scene in tones of deep respect.
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by Frqy3 8y ago
The densification of the mobile/cellular network (greater number of cell sites and infill using smaller micro, pico and indoor sites) over the last 20 years also means that devices statistically operate at lower power levels most of th
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by Frqy3 9y ago
For children, one advantage of having a formal diagnosis is that it allows access to funding for support resources during school. Such as having a teacher's assistant available in class to provide additional 1 on 1 teaching time.
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by Frqy3 9y ago
Humans have had millions of years of system level optimisation (evolution) which then only needs a couple of additional years to train the wetware to operate the system for daily activity. Chess has only been around a mere 1,500 years and h
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by Frqy3 9y ago
Are you also planning to include pregnant women in your trials? I'm not in the health field, so I don't know where the regulations stand, but I recall talking to someone who was advocating for this a couple of decades ago to avoid
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by Frqy3 9y ago
In this case it is a "white bots only" sign, as it allows some bots but wants to block the rest. Even for those who think that robots.txt should be enforceable, allowing some bots but not others makes it difficult for a new player
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by Frqy3 9y ago
Ignoring the specific issue in this case that the outcome appears to be pre-determined, it remains that the surface process being followed is standard for regulators. Regulators hold public/industry consultations to gather evidence and
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by Frqy3 9y ago
I think it is a combination of people expecting to move up financially over time, and wanting to keep as large a gap as possible between themselves and the next rung down on the financial ladder.
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by Frqy3 9y ago
With unlucky departments almost always being cost centres rather than revenue centres.
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by Frqy3 9y ago
I think the right path for humanity is to remove the tendency for violence from the population pool. To this end, I have been developing in my secret laboratory a retrovirus that can achieve this. This is the true path to world peace, nay,
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by Frqy3 9y ago
Have you been tested for Autism/Asperger's? I ask because I am on the spectrum and have a similar anxiety with how people will think of me during interactions. This stems from a difficulty in reading other people. Over many years
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by Frqy3 9y ago
Exactly this. I've worked with many regulators on industry/public reviews. Submitting opinions or copy pasta achieves nothing, no matter how voluminous. It will at best end up refered to in the final report as something like &quot
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by Frqy3 9y ago
This is a symptom of PR copy paste article writing.
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by Frqy3 9y ago
The classic answer I recall from a maths professor was "First visualise an n-dimensional space, then simplify to the 4-dimensional case."
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by Frqy3 9y ago
The phrase used in China was that women hold up half the sky, and the expectation was that males and females participated equally in the economy. While there has been some regression on this coinciding with more exposure to Western culture,
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by Frqy3 9y ago
What you described sounds like the modus operandi of a cult.
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by Frqy3 9y ago
I have an engineering background and worked with a major telco for several years before moving to work as a financial analyst for a while. Few of the other analysts had an industry background in the companies they covered. Mostly they had a
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by Frqy3 9y ago
It could have been physicists conducting relativistic experiments with themselves as trial subjects.
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by Frqy3 9y ago
Even mining is in the process of reducing the number of people needed at the mining site by moving to autonomous control from a central office. For example, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-wor
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by Frqy3 10y ago
From an economic viewpoint, this also means that the brand value of the articles remains with the masthead rather than the individual authors. This commodifies the authors and makes then more fungible. Being The Economist, I am sure they ar
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by Frqy3 10y ago
Even if mobile carriers introduce truly unlimited plans and excellent indoor coverage everywhere, they will also need to open extensive APIs to enterprises if they want to entice them away from Wi-Fi. Enterprises (including businesses with
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by Frqy3 10y ago
Unfortunately they have gone for the Harrison Bergeron approach to achieving equality. A better approach would have been to build a tool that allows crowdsourcing of captions with a way for students with special needs to tag videos for prio
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by Frqy3 10y ago
I never type in URLs directly. It is either a single click on the menu bar/blank tab, or else I go via a search engine to reduce the risk of landing on a typo squatter.
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by Frqy3 10y ago
Wikipedia (with it's current edit culture) is an example of what bikeshedding looks like when scaled up.
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by Frqy3 10y ago
A good example of this is Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician, who discovered four new types of tessellating polygons. [0] https://mathtourist.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/tiling-with-pent...
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by Frqy3 10y ago
The successful students do that in spite of the bad teaching. In my view, a lot more students would both enjoy and do better at maths with more appropriate teaching.

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