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by algorias 4y ago
And there is of course a time delay between the prices of the input rising, and the prices of the outputs rising.
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by algorias 4y ago
It's hardly an unpopular opinion. It just gets shouted down very loudly by the true believers.
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by algorias 4y ago
This is no longer legal in many jurisdictions. Family members often have a minimum allocation of the inheritance (e.g. 25% must be equally split among all children)
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by algorias 4y ago
To be fair, many such games do disclose the odds. The difference to older tech like mechanical slot machines is that the game records everything the player does, and can then drop a "discounted" special offer at the right time t
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by algorias 5y ago
I hadn't heard of it, but it's straightforward enough. Johnny decimal seems to work best for communication between multiple people, it's like a lightweight way of having human-implementable URLs. The thing with PARA is that i
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by algorias 5y ago
been using PARA for a few years, I can vouch for it to be a very natural way of organizing information once you get used to it.
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by algorias 5y ago
snoring does not imply that you have sleep apnea! I actually had a sleep study done, I snore but have neither apnea nor dyspnea.
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by algorias 5y ago
I'm in CS research, I submit all my papers as latex sources. Submitting pdfs that were obviously created in latex is supposedly against the rules.
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by algorias 5y ago
Just as a rule of thumb, a container is easily worth 10-20x what it costs to ship it from the US to China (under normal circumstances). There's a reason they're reusable: these are quite sturdy boxes built out of high quality mate
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by algorias 5y ago
It is completely standard in the shipping industry to have lopsided routes, where one direction has 100% full containers, and the return direction a much lower percentage, like 50%. The shipping cost of different routes takes this into acco
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by algorias 5y ago
You need to keep the objects alive obviously, then it works exactly as expected. >>> a = [1,2,3] >>> b = [4,5,6] >>> id(a), id(b) (140659402612872, 140659403098568)
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by algorias 5y ago
Note that this is not the case in all jurisdictions. In many European countries, the company cannot monitor employees' corporate emails without specific justification.
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by algorias 5y ago
Your circulatory system is actively pumped by the heart, but also passively pumped by everyday muscle movements. Lack of movement decreases oxygenation and clearance of metabolic byproducts.
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by algorias 5y ago
Spinach famously contains iron, but less famously also contains a substance that inhibits iron absorption. So IIRC, it actually lowers your iron, unless you blanch it and throw away the water.
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by algorias 5y ago
I would never write "to our surprise" in a paper. Rather, it would be "Surprisingly, ..." which fits the pattern of "Thus, ...", "Furthermore, ...", "In contrast, ..." etc, which is a nice a
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by algorias 6y ago
You are correct, this "guide" is called a pilot, and exists for every port and canal. However, you're wrong about ship size being a problem. A suez canal pilot is guaranteed to be very familiar with container ships of the sue
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by algorias 6y ago
Twitch takes a 30-50% cut of revenue from subs, which is an incredible money printing machine. Ads aren't there to make money for twitch. They're there to annoy users into subscribing.
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by algorias 6y ago
On one hand, I'm shocked that this actually happened, but OTOH, I can't say I'm surprised by this. Companies like twitch have no respect for art and creative expression. Their very purpose makes them incapable of truly caring
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by algorias 6y ago
You might be interested in biogenesis, a 0-player game that simulates evolution at microorganism scale.
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by algorias 6y ago
I think GP meant that lower egg quality leads to more birth defects, etc. So not just fewer humans born, but those born have more problems. A statement which is completely independent from point 1.
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by algorias 6y ago
> like how the free market without government intervention always is supposed to give the most favorable outcome? Nobody actually claims that, specially not economists. In fact, economics study exactly how and when markets don't p
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by algorias 6y ago
Can confirm this. The concept is not as weird as it sounds once you consider that the ship's captain is a naval officer who has duties and a social role roughly similar to that of a doctor. For any task related to navigating/opera
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by algorias 6y ago
That raymarching accident is really interesting! It reminds me of Newton fractals, which basically compute a color for each pixel that depends on the sequence of points visited by the newton root finding algorithm. This is basically the sam
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by algorias 6y ago
Well, if someone is predicting an event 3 years into the future, then... yeah!
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by algorias 6y ago
I also have VESs (among other things), and I can confirm that they indeed feel quite nasty. In my experience, the heart seems to have a direct connection to the lower-level emotion-regulating parts of the brain, and any physical symptoms ca
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by algorias 6y ago
Yes. The master's thesis is often the first time someone does real research from start to finish. Make sure it's not just implementing some already existing idea, there are a lot of "easy" topics like that being offered.
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by algorias 7y ago
Well, in Spanish a refrigerator can be colloquially called a "frigider". I've never seen it in writing though.
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by algorias 7y ago
Thank you for this detailed and insightful comment! In Europe (or at least in my country), health authorities have been saying for several weeks that we need to stop people from needing ventilators, rather than get more ventilators. I think
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by algorias 7y ago
What you say is true in principle, but your numbers are wrong. I got a rather less dramatic 50% difference after a year: >>> 1.02**365 1377.4082919660768 >>> 1.021**365 1969.6808462403098 >>>
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by algorias 7y ago
This is just nonsense. It equivocates between two separate things by calling both of them "quantum interference": 1) A quantum computer uses computational gates to very deliberately orchestrate interference patterns. This is the r

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