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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Only covers 2015-now : https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Would that explain why a lot of companies these days are doing stock buybacks?
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I'm sure that's true if you're a high-level criminal, but I doubt they bother doing that for traffic infractions or minor crimes. I've had a ticket for something minor thrown out of court because the constable made a typ
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
The article does link to the review mentioned by the researcher : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2020.101385
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Not necessarily mandating LIDAR but at least mandating functional redundancy for self-driving / driving assistance. I'm guessing that won't happen until the deaths start piling up though.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I live in Canada in a bike friendly city but I dread having to bike through the US-style suburbs for many reasons: - 3-4 lane boulevards where motorists drive at 60-70km/h and pass close to you; - giant malls where cars turn into and o
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton, some actually not smart guy
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
> "It's easier to achieve the American Dream in China, South Africa, and Brazil than it is in the US." South Africa and Brazil are two of the most unequal countries in the world as measured by the Gini Coefficient. I think
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Where I work, most people in management positions work 50-60 hours a week because most of that time is spent on meetings and they have to work overtime to finish their "real" work. I used to enjoy meetings when I first started the
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I agree with the subtitle, there's a lot of bad and deprecated software in the medical industry. The comparison between climate modeling using Fortran and shiny IDEs with easy to use interfaces is completely wrong though. Climate model
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
It works okay if you use firefox's "Desktop Site" toggle
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Not quite. Outside the US intelligence community, very few institutions were convinced that Iraq had WMDs.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Indeed. Looks like it's been abandoned and stuck in beta
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Trying to open new.reddit.com on my ~4 year old phone is slow enough that I have time to get a coffee before the annoying Install Our App popup appears. Imgur is even worse; it takes multiple seconds to load a webpage whose only purpose i
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I had imagined they had built it by carefully folding the paper to give each "key" a distinctive sound that a nearby computer could decode into key presses
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
In the last decade : - Russia annexed Crimea; - Turkey took control of most of the Syrian land across its borders; - Israel continuously colonised bits of Palestinian land; - China is now taking political control of Hong Kong; - UAE forces
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's intentional or not but this is what some online stores appear to do (poorly). E.g. suggesting me office chairs after I just ordered one, suggesting motherboards incompatible with a CPU I'm looking at...
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's still active but there was a project to detect cosmic rays using smartphone cameras flipped upside down or with tape on the lens: https://crayfis.io/
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
There's worse: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/aimco-risk-strat...
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
The shorter lifetime is taken into account when measuring its global warming potential in CO2 equivalent. In absolute terms, atmospheric methane is responsible for about half as much radiative forcing as CO2, so it's is crucial to batt
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
It reminds me more of a genetic algorithm
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
IIRC the Voyager probes aren't on the eliptic plane, they're less likely to hit debris. Plus once they reach the interstellar medium there is not much to worry about besides cosmic rays.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
That reads like a very definitive statement to something that is subjective.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
You could argue that the works will be in the public domain by the time the vault opens up. Although considering how regular copyright extension acts have been signed into law, that's unlikely.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
That would be an interesting observation if it was true but it's not (from 2013 to 2018 at least): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_...
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Until KPIs improve?
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
>all over planet there were billions of animals that are not either extinct or close to being extinct There used to be more diversity amongst animals but that doesn't change the fact that there is 3 times more cattle in North Americ
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
>You'd essentially be drafting them. In every country (except maybe Iceland which doesn't have a standing army), the military has plenty of medically trained soldiers who are used to doing these things away from home for months
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
The same thing happened in Quebec and it lead to one of the highest per-capita death rates in the world (5,500/8,500,000) The previous government gutted budgets for care homes which lead to chronic understaffing. When the pandemic hit,
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
If I had to guess, Robingood and the burst of the cryptocurrency bubble

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