OgsyedIE

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by OgsyedIE 2y ago
As an aside, Western Europe had actual currency/coin shortages intermittently throughout the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Bill proposes for all Chinese high schoolers to receive military training(asia.nikkei.com)
35 points by OgsyedIE 2y ago|37 comments
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by OgsyedIE 2y ago
You're comparing an international market to a domestic market.
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by OgsyedIE 2y ago
The third section of the linked content argues for the possibility that, instead of search getting worse, the internet has gotten worse faster than search is getting better. I haven't seen that take elsewhere and it seems unlikely but
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by OgsyedIE 2y ago
I'm in a different part of the Americas so I have no direct experience with this, but my understanding from Americans I know is that ~80% of workers below the median received no expansion to unemployment, just the three one-time paymen
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
Why did you quote >not worsening If you haven't got anything to say about it? Anyway, to reply to the rest of your critique, the scenario you describe (that happens often) only feels wrong because it implies that one party has an in
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The data in Jonathan Haidt's new book doesn't support it's conclusions(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|1 comments
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
You've got an idealized version of humanity in your head. Don't get me wrong, there are many real things to be deeply worried about (e.g. overshoot, nuclear proliferation and the relegitimisation of eugenics) but the monetization
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Can malaria make a comeback in the developed world?(gavi.org)
1 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|0 comments
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Producers aren't seeing any new earnings from record global cocoa prices(frontline.thehindu.com)
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
Dreamhost, Wordpress, etc
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
You aren't going to get reliable financial information from Bloomberg, (with the exception of their terminals) their entire business model is to make their audience "feel informed" with no respect to actual facts.
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
It's not psychotic at all if your moral calculus includes abstract superorganisms like nation states but doesn't include humans. Of course, is having such a moral calculus psychotic?
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
If I was using my phone to browse Hn right now I would have been moderately annoyed by this, but because I'm not, I've forwarded it to some of my groupchats.
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The illusion of free will (2001)(inquiringmind.com)
2 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|0 comments
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Use of poultry litter as cattle feed may be behind H5N1 outbreak in US cows(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|1 comments
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
The baseline will always shift to accommodate the conditions, it's how the hedonic treadmill evolved. The perspective we have, stuck inside the system, doesn't make the people of Denmark and the people of Burundi equally happy.
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The Russian Fox and the Evolution of Intelligence (2011)(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|0 comments
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Planetocopia (2010)(worlddreambank.org)
1 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|0 comments
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
I'm surprised there aren't similar complaints about the joints of commercial quadruped robots - they're covered in pinch points.
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
Those are some excellent links, thank you. For some reason (misremembering, probably) I had thought that the the limit of any Fermi gas at high density was a plasma but I appreciate the correction.
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
Why not weigh climbers on leaving and returning to base camp and bill them for any net imbalance?
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There are likely >1e12 SQLite databases on Earth(sqlite.org)
96 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|14 comments
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
They don't really, it's a plasma. The plasma is just so dense that it's mechanically indistinguishable from a solid. It's only indistinguishable in its mechanical aspects, however. Once you start looking at its thermal a
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
In other games it's called Strategic Zoom and it's an impressive feature whenever it crops up.
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by OgsyedIE 3y ago
Will photonics become competitive on a MIPS per watt basis in the long term?
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The International Linguistics Olympiad(ioling.org)
1 points by OgsyedIE 3y ago|0 comments