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by anikan_vader 4y ago
The title is incredibly editorialized. The title of the paper is: >> Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching It considers the effect of attractiveness on male and female students. In fact, it finds the beauty pre
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About 69% of Sweden is currently forest, so it doesn't seem infeasible to me (even accounting for the fact that Sweden is not representative).
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>> just collapsed under its own weight. I mean, it suffered a series of military defeats at the hands of Germanic peoples.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
I can’t say that I immediately grasp the connection between narcissism and the attraction-shading effect. Frankly, if I’m following you on social media while you’re traveling to Paris, I want to see photos of you , not of the Eiffel Tower.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
On the other hand, she is asking for a form of birth control. Given that abortion is banned in many parts of the US, it's easy to see why she views the denial of birth control as an attempt to control her body.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> the worst attack on US soil. I think it is pretty strong to suggest that 9/11 was the worst attack on US soil ever without further justification. During the Battle of Gettysburg, for example, more than 7,000 soldiers died afte
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> time theft But her time is not their property, and so there is nothing illegal about her doing with it as she pleases. You can’t steal something that is already yours.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
What elections you vote in is, in many cases in the US, pretty much public information.
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Many casinos will let you bring a standard strategy card with you, because it’s still a negative expected value game for the player.
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What about publishing an HN comment? At the root of it, they’re both means of publicly disseminating information.
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The car pulls out and immediately fails to yield to two pedestrians at a crosswalk at 0:54. One of the pedestrians is in the crosswalk.
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>> he had to or the economy would have collapsed. In the US, conservatives are very much anti-stimulus funding. Similarly, Germany demanded severe austerity in Greece during the recession, leading to the worst economic depression in a
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Animals that are habituated to humans are also dangerous though. People feed squirrels and raccoons, and then some random passerby ends up getting attacked by the habituated animal who wants food. Squirrels can easily draw blood.
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
And while the list already includes Newton and Leibniz, nobody is proving calculus without Cauchy. There's no calculus without limits -- well, not unless you consider infinitesimal calculus, but that wasn't formalized until the mi
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> that better chess players don't evaluate more moves That's not true. A chess master calculates lines to a much deeper depth than an amateur player. They also have much better heuristics for evaluating positions, true. And
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
I'm no good at thinking fast in the context of chess. Probably this is because I learned to play chess by playing against the computer as a kid without clocks, so I could spend minutes on every move. Today I'm just over 2000 on Li
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted, given that its claims are well-documented. The UN Security Council had already demanded the immediate withdrawal of Argentine forces from the Falklands, essentially green-lighting the UK to resp
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> He points to a study on a skull from a Homo rhodesiensis man who lived 350 000 years ago. He was closely related to our ancestors in Africa, says the zoologist. The skull was found in Zambia in 1921, and his teeth were not in good
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
Not colliding with immobile objects at low speed is a solved problem. Tesla's just choosing to go without radar/lidar. This inability to model the 3d world makes me very skeptical that Tesla's self-driving cars are competitiv
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
The Uber self-driving car was actually a Volvo -- its logs show that the Volvo emergency braking system had detected a pedestrian crossing almost 2 seconds before the collision. It would've initiated emergency braking, but Uber had dis
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
>> What would happen... The probability of nukes hitting Moscow, New York, Paris, and London in the next 48 hours would skyrocket. One of the lowest-levels of escalation that Nato could take in response would be to deploy conventional
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
The UK and the US already have sought immediate UN Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
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And when the wolves attack humans? Lobbyists have long claimed that there are no documented cases of healthy wild wolves attacking humans, but there are actually dozens of documented cases [1][2]. Wolves are nothing like dogs. They're
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
I'm not as sure about that. From everything I can find, fewer than 10 of 134 were lost in weather. New variants of the K-class were fielded after WW2, and the navy didn't retire the class until 1959. This was one year after air-to
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by anikan_vader 4y ago
It's easy to forget the role that airships played in the US military. These two were fielded as aircraft carriers during the interwar period. Non-rigid airships were mass-produced during WW2 as anti-submarine vessels to escort convoys
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But it's difficult to carry fighter planes with much smaller balloons.
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>> I was working on a nuclear submarine and accidentally launched a preemptive nuclear first strike against a nuclear-armed nation. Apparently this triggered "world war 3" and now all of my homies have to report to the selec
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To put things in perspective, this was the only capital ship being operated in the Black Sea (by any navy). Russia is the only Black sea power that fields cruisers (or even destroyers), and the only warships they now have officially on duty
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
I mean, they're really more like trade embargoes, which have existed for hundreds of years. Thomas Jefferson reacted to the Chesapeake affair, for example, by cutting off all international US trade. In retrospect, probably a pretty ine
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Why would you want to rule out the placebo effect? If the placebo effect eliminates your pain, that's fantastic!

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