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by alexgmcm 7y ago
In Spain it's also common. I don't have one on mine because I'm from the UK and it just feels weird. Nowadays they can just look on LinkedIn or Facebook or whatever anyway so it feels kind of pointless.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I was thinking the UK due to Brexit and austerity under the Conservatives etc.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Why is annual energy growth rate or industrial growth rate assumed to correlate to the speed of space travel? Just because we build more power plants or sell more tractors doesn't imply a corresponding improvement in spacecraft technol
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah - I've never had to use a db that didn't support them. It's almost unimaginable for me!
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
In BigQuery I've found array_agg() to be preferable in most use cases. Also, in Hive I used to use Custom Reducers for many things where now I have to make do with Window Functions. BigQuery is blazingly fast though so it seems a reaso
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
But I guess you could have outlet filters to try to scrub the exhaust?
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Indeed. In Europe we still have huge issues with declining home ownership, youth unemployment and precarious/low-paid jobs (incl. the 'gig economy') etc. I did okay-ish (home ownership still seems impossible), but when I see
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah, it reminds me of the more optimistic 'Golden Age' sci-fi in the West - I mean Asimov etc.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I wish there was a more mainstream 'Prometheanism' in the West. It often seems science and technology is only ever brought up to be demonised due to perceived danger (look at most articles on AI) or high cost (look at articles abo
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I'd rather ensure research was better funded and thus a more viable career path (with more research institutes separate from colleges to level out the pyramid structure) Otherwise it just seems like turning a PhD into job training - so
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Isn't it just an expression by now though? Like how "weapons-grade" is used for many things that aren't nuclear material.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
The ex-PM called Remainers "Citizens of nowhere" though, which is still pretty bad.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah - I don't think the games even look that bad given it's isometric etc. Maybe I'm biased having played the original Avernum games when I was a kid though.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I have the book on my Kindle and it seems quite good but I found it hard to read without much chemistry knowledge. I studied Physics so there are some parts I can understand but nonetheless it felt like I wasn't truly able to appreciat
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I went into Data Science after grad school 5 years ago. If it had been as difficult then as it is now I would probably have chosen software engineering. Honestly, I feel software engineering might be better anyway as it's much easier t
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Exactly. It's the "no-one ever got fired for buying IBM" of the recruiting world.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
But the variance in the cost of living globally is also huge - so just comparing income doesn't really make sense.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Honestly, I hope electric cars become commonplace just because of the reduction in noise pollution let alone PM and CO2 emissions. Furthermore, I'm not really sure what the author thinks we should do? How can we maintain modern civilis
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Can you please make the table of contents link to the pages? Nice publication though! :)
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
The other one is: > What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning? > About $50k a year.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Birth rate seems to converge to 1-2 children per couple in advanced economies anyway. Really we should be ensuring access to birth control and education in developing countries along with improving medical services to cut infant mortality (
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
There are non-parametric statistical methods too though (such as bootstrap methods) which don't make such assumptions.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
It reminds me of Dirac on Poetry: >In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
There are reasons other than climate change though. If we don't switch to more sustainable diets we risk doing serious harm to the ecosystem and at least massively reducing biodiversity, if not actually placing humans in danger due to
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
>Maybe that's also why recently the CCP has been trying so hard to abolish religions, to keep the people's moral standard low. Is there any evidence that religion actually increases the 'moral standards'? This paper[1
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
>airlines can easily put more fuel in in a cheaper country. Wouldn't you then end up using a lot of the fuel just carrying the extra fuel? This cost could negate the tax savings.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
It is scary how many people apparently believed such a ridiculous tale - and this was just a prank. Modern 'fake news' could be far more powerful as it uses bespoke messages to target each small audience segment etc. and far from
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Lenin Was a Mushroom(en.wikipedia.org)
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But Telecoms and the old Robber Barons had monopolies without government forcing people. I mean there are areas where peoples only choice of ISP is Comcast and equally the Government wasn't forcing people to buy Standard Oil. Any monop
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Productivity in my opinion - there is no point in employing people if it isn't efficient. But it seems most societies still seek jobs for jobs sake.

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