adamjb

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by adamjb 6y ago
Link to the screenshotted article http://avherald.com/h?article=4e2fd449
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by adamjb 6y ago
You said that the NYT "helped expel a girl from college". The article did no such thing, euphemism aside, for the simple reason that time travel is impossible. I am begging you to read the article or at least the date of publicati
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by adamjb 6y ago
She had already withdrawn (not expelled) long before that fairly sympathetic article was posted. I am very confused why you think it proves anything.
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by adamjb 6y ago
>The Dark Ages are from ~500AD to ~900AD and as a term were first used in the 14th century. Petrarch, the 14th C dude you're referencing, believed in a two age history demarcated by the fall of Rome and that he was living in dark, p
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by adamjb 6y ago
Study under discussion https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512...
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by adamjb 6y ago
Our office of 13ish does the quiz in the newspaper [0] as a team at 9:30 two days a week. One person shares their screen and reads the questions and then we collectively decide on our answer. Lasts about 10 minutes and it's a fun way t
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by adamjb 6y ago
>So a better advice would be "be exposed to the sun often, every day if you can, and don't wear sunscreen when you do it". Unless, of course, you have any degree of vanity.
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by adamjb 6y ago
Lawrence was able to connect with Bedouin because he had ludicrously large piles of gold
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by adamjb 6y ago
If you're gonna bring numpy into it you may as well use np.diff(): def maxWidthOfVerticalArea(self, points: List[List[int]]) -> int: return np.diff(sorted(x for x, _ in points)).max()
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by adamjb 6y ago
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the
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by adamjb 6y ago
Divide that number by 3-5, for starters. Charge out rates are multiples of salaries.
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by adamjb 6y ago
I should've been clearer: as long as the recipient has linked their email and/or mobile to their account (via PayID) settlement is instant and their email/mobile number can be used to address transfers
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by adamjb 6y ago
Europeans and Australians [0] don't have to imagine. I can literally do a bank transfer to an email address. [0] non-exhaustive list
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by adamjb 6y ago
Shares can be traded multiple times
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by adamjb 6y ago
There's no point banning it if no one's doing it.
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The Problem with Prediction(aeon.co)
1 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
edit: I was labouring under an illusion. Comment left up as a monument to my hubris *** >The airframe with the engines mounted differently did not have adequately stable handling at high AoA to be certifiable. Boeing decided to create th
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Could consanguineous marriage be a cultural remedy for the obstetric dilemma?(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
Don't forget the other half of it: the ISS was basically the only justification for the Shuttle's continued existence
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by adamjb 6y ago
Alexander is his middle name
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Niche Construction(nicheconstruction.com)
23 points by adamjb 6y ago|3 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
Similarly my first thought would be to reencode it as <96kbit/s MP3.
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by adamjb 6y ago
This is absolutely anarchist and can be placed as part of a long tradition of mutual aid that can be traced back through Kropotkin. I don't think it's possible to view this as a free market solution unless you want the term "
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by adamjb 6y ago
The project has a strong anarchist spirit. > The Buy Nothing Project is about setting the scarcity model of our cash economy aside in favor of creatively and collaboratively sharing the abundance around us
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by adamjb 6y ago
Especially a tradition that embodies camaraderie in the face of isolation.
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by adamjb 6y ago
The strike (was part of a trend that) stopped it getting any worse. The Dutch Ministry of Transport admitted in 1983 that: > Until the early 1970s, attention to bicycle traffic was minimal. The prosperity expectations were such that with
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by adamjb 6y ago
20th century in roman numerals
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by adamjb 6y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: a 1 ms/day slowing would require ~10^20 kg of mass at the equator to be moved a km inward. For scale, wiki helpfully points out that the world's oceans weighs 10^21 kg. https://www.wolf
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by adamjb 6y ago
On 2) there's Matsim and AequilibraE off the top of my head.
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by adamjb 6y ago
It works in my firefox

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