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Robotics still seems a long way off being able to automate many physical jobs - would you trust a robot to look after your aging parents without hurting them? Likewise jobs like computer programming seem pretty 'robot-proof'. It s
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Doesn't Japan have a generation with extremely poor job prospects due to the 'lost decade' etc.?
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Isn't this quite similar to the scientific bases that exist on the Antarctic though? I mean I imagine any Mars colony could be incredibly selective about who to take.
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I'd be really interested in hearing more about how you were able to do that transition to SWE. I work in Data Science so I have Python experience (at least for scripting) but the leap to SWE seems massive, let alone at some FAANG compa
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The ozone hole and nuclear warfare/proliferation were fixed by new regulations based on the fear though. Perhaps if we'd never worried so much about the ozone hole, it'd be a lot bigger now. (it's still there by the way,
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Has this actually been confirmed via observation though? Are there polls/surveys that see this effect? I mean I think if I was living right next to a dam or a chemical plant or whatever I would be more worried about an accident. Althou
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It was interesting how they dealt with this for the Apollo missions. Shortly before the launches Operation Starfish Prime took place and one hope was that detonating nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere might deform the Van Allen belts or
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Catalunya isn't a little province either - in fact much of the issue is because it has a large amount of the GDP. I'm English but was living in Scotland at the time of the referendum there (I abstained) and having been living in B
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Exactly, in my European city that delta he talks about would be negative. Plus since the crisis the banks will only lend with 20% deposit, plus 10% taxes - so you need a 30% downpayment. Given a flat will cost you around 180k euros you can
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To be honest, I think a decent IDE does this as much as makes practical sense. Visual programming just seems awful - and yet a decent IDE can remove a lot of the pain points from the textual approach while keeping the advantages.
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This is a timebomb though - how is a generation that hasn't been able to buy a house and accumulate equity/wealth, meant to be able to retire?
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It can be more than just a rumour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars
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I agree - my SO is from Peru (and the Andean area as well, which is considerably more isolated than say, Lima) and we speak a lot about how different life is there. I think proper internet access could really improve their lives. It'd
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Yeah it seems Nicolelis lab already did incredibly advanced work in rats and apes. But moving to humans with a weaker immune system and a much higher risk of rejection was always extremely difficult/not possible. It'll be interest
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I did the Nand2Tetris course which includes building a basic compiler. It just helps fully understand how you go from words in a file to actually doing computations and how purely abstract ideas like a 'class' are implemented. To
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It depends on the cost of living though. I earn around that in Western Europe but it's still a pretty good job for Spain and I have no doubt I live in better conditions than the Americans working for $15 an hour, which is really what m
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Is the North of Mexico that much poorer though? I mean Mexico is quite wealthy compared to the rest of Latin America and the North of Mexico includes many of the wealthier areas. It's not the same building a warehouse in Nuevo Leon as
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This is one of my favourite websites. It has so much interesting and just odd stuff.
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What I hate about excel is if you now need to do a very similar task, again, it can involve a lot of messing about with the GUI. Versus changing a few parameters in the Python script.
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I read it assuming it was a semester long. Then I saw it was four days.
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You can still have a security guard or two - that just means you need two guards instead of two guards and half a dozen cashiers. I agree with you - the stores will save more money by switching to this tech and it will be better for the cus
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I think the value is in checking assumptions - if the analytical approach assumes a normal distribution and then you do MCM and get a vastly different result then it is probably worth checking the assumptions made by the analytical model.
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The problem is less one of regulation vs. not regulating and more the fact that most of the politicians are dinosaurs with little or no understanding of modern technology. They probably don't realise how unreasonable the demands are.
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The original Deus Ex is a masterpiece. I love all the games (even Invisible War) but the original is a work of art. Hopefully, Cyberpunk 2077 will be in the same vein.
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I agree - it looks almost identical. I quite dislike the new Reddit design and always have it disabled.
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This book inspired the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye"[1]. I haven't read the book but the Star Trek episode was awesome. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(Star_Trek:_Vo...
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I was hoping for an actual book about the Moon. Like how was it formed, how does it affect the Earth, what could it be used for in the future etc.
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Perhaps. But in the 80's many thought that Japan would overtake the US so that dominated sci-fi and popular fiction. (see the cyberpunk tropes of Zaibatsus etc.) Didn't turn out that way though.
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I was pure Physics and did the same. I'd summarise the relevant sections for the exams in LaTeX documents as well. The pain of having to put it into LaTeX made me absorb it better I think...
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This combined with the recent BrainEx paper[1] makes me wonder how far away we are from "Brain in a box" style immortality. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4

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