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by anovikov 3mo ago
So the point of study was to find out "whether becoming skinny provides comparable benefit when everyone already knows that it's possible vs becoming skinny at the time when it was in general assumed that obesity was one's ow
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Well it's their problem if everyone wants to live in the capital. Perhaps it's another manifestation of people being deeply irrational.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
But indeed Moscow is one of the cheapest cities to buy housing in Europe... On par with poorer East European capitals and second-tier Central European cities.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
With housing their being so cheap, what the hell is the problem anyway? It's impossible to have expensive real estate in a country that's dying out fast.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
It seems like the sooner the economy will really wean itself from dependence on consumption of the poor (lower 90%), the better.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
In the era when Upwork provided lots of opportunities to cheap outsources and was heavily gated - anyone without highly sought after skills had a hard time getting their account approved - around 10 years ago - there was a similar market fo
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Well, this is certainly the case. Many migrants said that they were encouraged and directed by Moroccan police that informed people in advance, removed border controls and on the crossing site, encouraged people to cross. It's an exagg
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by anovikov 3mo ago
...and the food part, it's been this way for almost a hundred years now - with agricultural productivity skyrocketing in between. But 100 years ago, chronic food overproduction bankrupting farmers, was already a persistent problem. Sin
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Oh well several arcminutes is excellent. Yes this is best case.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
building a WCS model (pixel XY <-> ray vectors) of a camera is a solved science. Of course you can never expect it to be rectangular.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
That's basics of meteor observation. As long as camera didn't move, you can plot the track against the stars and time is known. Then with two tracks from different locations, orbit is determined.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
20 years back, i've build a tennis prediction system that beat bookies hands down while placing bets on around 30% of all games - and actually made a modest profit (simulated, i never tried because it makes no sense) if i bet on every
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Either this, or will instead become a China-like full-on fascist. Because capitalism stops working if there are no guarantees of private property (no point to own stock if company can be nationalised, diluted, or simply gifted to a crony at
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by anovikov 3mo ago
The catch here is that homeownership rate is the highest in history now except 2000s speculative subprime bubble when a lot of purely investment properties were bought at 103% mortgage by people who could not afford the risk.
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by anovikov 3mo ago
I only meant to say that China will simply revert to government ownership of virtually everything, eventually, when they will no longer need to maintain the mask of capitalism. Government already owns 60% of productive capital there. I didn
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Well, everything in non-democratic countries, except (part of) organised crime, exist with the approval and in service of the state. So formal ownership doesn't matter there (this is why Chinese stock market is a joke). I don't th
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by anovikov 3mo ago
For vast majority, it never worked. I know plenty of people who made it there and there were just two categories: - Freelance platforms. Hard-mode multiaccounting (passport scans, rented RDP servers, auto clicking apps, drop cards, etc), ha
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Someone will soon discover the killer app for FPV drones...
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by anovikov 3mo ago
Haven't tried Chinese foie gras, but Chinese caviar is excellent and i see no point buying Russian one anymore, much less Iranian (Iranian is too pricey for me anyway).
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by anovikov 3mo ago
This problem just doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Ambulance is just another truck. There are some fees involved with having priority on the road and some regulations, but it's just another truck. It won't cost (to a
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by anovikov 3mo ago
In every game, you can't repeat same trick on and on and expect same results. Eventually the trick gets old. It has nothing to do with AI - been that way since forever. To become rich, a country needs rule of law, guarantees of private
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by anovikov 4mo ago
OK count it as race too: "Reds"
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by anovikov 4mo ago
SpaceX enjoys an effective monopoly in at least one critical sector. And it seems to be entrenching this monopoly. This is where the company value is. AI in space is bs but it doesn't matter.
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by anovikov 4mo ago
Why are Russians supposed to integrate? They are not Jews (if you mean Russian spouses of Jews). They are there so that their Jewish spouses are there, too. They don't "multiply" in the sense that their Israeli-born kids do n
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by anovikov 4mo ago
With Israel, it's because of race of course, and also poorly integrated new repatriants who almost never knew Hebrew before repatriation. As for Poland, i am extremely surprised too.
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by anovikov 4mo ago
It's extremely counterintuitive to see France score very low (so very good) in this rating for literacy, while Poland, very high. Why is that?
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by anovikov 4mo ago
Interestingly, in Spain where investments are one of the lowest as per table, trains are fast and arrive on time. Spain by all accounts has the best high-speed train service in the world (one problem is mountains in the north where speeds a
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by anovikov 4mo ago
Why not? People thought so about Soviet Union too. Just keep pressing until it dissolves, then reform away what's left until shards of the former empire is inhabited by people identifying as something else and no one speaks Russian at
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by anovikov 4mo ago
Why so? Ukraine at this time is enjoying a certainty: Russians are already doing whatever they can to harm them and no surprises are possible. If "peace" will be established they will have to be ready for a surprise attack in an u

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