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by aqsalose 4y ago
>Following this reasoning, all children would be subject the whims of their backwards city or rural enclave. Parents will have more of an ability to brainwash their kids, I suppose, but that's not what we usually mean by "libe
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>They're already not working for the same money they could be getting in industry, now they also have to eschew prestige in their own communities, or else they're not driven by the pure intellectual pursuit of knowledge and sci
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Many pre-modern apprentices never became journeymen and even fewer a master. In 17th century Leiden, 40% of surgeons' apprentices dropped out. In Utrecht's Coopers' Guild, only about 10% of apprentices became Masters. On the
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by aqsalose 4y ago
His accusations in the web archive snapshot that I pulled are ... quite mild, concrete and specific enough: Nobody to talk about in the university about your projects or topics. First PhD student. No postdoc working on the same topic. Advi
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Isn't the "go up by a factor of ten" pattern you describe more of your parents spending behaviors (until you are old enough to get odd jobs by yourself) than anything else? The concept of "save money and put your loose c
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by aqsalose 4y ago
So, what if all the publishers in one country just so happen to decide that Mr. Solzhenitsyn's book "Gulag Archipelago" is politically very uncomfortable to the ruling elite and all decline to publish it? This was Finlandiz
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by aqsalose 5y ago
"Technologically superior" is kind of relative to comparison group. As a consumer who does not enjoy particularly high salary, "is it affordable" is an important consideration when buying any technological product. What
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by aqsalose 5y ago
I linked to part III in a series. There is also part I https://wyclif.substack.com/p/victorian-values-a-practical-g... and part II https://wyclif.substack.com/p/a-practical-guide-to-victorian... .
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Victorian Values: Conclusions (2021)(wyclif.substack.com)
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Quoting the key definition: "Bringing all these pieces together, we can now define our formal measure of intelligence for arbitrary systems. Let E be the space of all computable reward summable environmental measures with respect to th
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Funny, I thought his musics about "language games" was the part of his output more amenable to fashionable nonsense. I have met very few students who attempt to say anything about Tractatus, but quite many who espouse deep-soundi
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by aqsalose 5y ago
I am unsure if it tells more about any general attitude about "tools" or more about Broadway. Microphones are still not used in opera or classical music.
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Olkiluoto 3 suffered significant delays and cost overruns. My impressions, based on recollection I got reading the newspapers during these two decades, are: 1. Bad management of construction project, almost near corruption level stupidity.
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>EU members to assist in case of military attack Treaty text specifies: Aid and assist. Likewise, the second paragraph specifies the NATO remain foundation of NATO member states' security. It remains untested if "aid and assist
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Was the activity found to be illegal by a court where the defendant had ability to defend themselves with assistance of an attorney of their own choosing?
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by aqsalose 5y ago
How much of that totem pole exists just because kids are kids, or because of the arbitrary environment, imposed by the adults, wherein they find themselves?
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Thing is, I don't think any individual investor is going to experience "on average" stock market patterns, they are going to experience a particular random walk. I think averaging is "better" if you are risk averse
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>The alternative is if you really understand valuations, diversification, risk and market psychology, like I do, then you can consistently beat the market. Most people cannot and most people you pay fees to do it on your behalf won'
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Interesting language analysis, but I disagree with the conclusion. Authors merely stating "conclude" or "determine" instead "believe" or "feel" doesn't prove they actually were any more or less r
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by aqsalose 5y ago
I must say, that line about "there is no force, only consequences", it does sound a bit ludicrous, not matter when it used. When other human being A willfully inflict a consequence on other person B because of past actions of pers
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by aqsalose 5y ago
India is much larger country than the others mentioned in this thread.
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by aqsalose 5y ago
It is a quite old and often repeated claim, first made by Ronald Fisher in 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel#Mendelian_parado...
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>You don’t have to understand the intricacies of the finish educational system, but I bet that if you tried to emulate it, you’d get decent results. You might choose to emulate the wrong parts and disregard parts of that contributed to t
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by aqsalose 5y ago
> So did every piece of technology that was widely adopted change behavior. >So what? It sounds relevant if the pill was introduced and got legalized on the grounds that it would not cause that kind of change but e.g. only help marrie
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>I took part of an effort to ship PPE to friends and family in Asia in January Apropos, when the similar effort by the "patriotic Chinese emigrants" here got reported in press, one common angle was to present it as a hostile ac
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by aqsalose 5y ago
So took a chance to Google the quoted phrase attributed to Cotton. It comes from an interview to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, in context: >In the interview, Cotton said the role of slavery can’t be overlooked. >“We have to study the his
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by aqsalose 5y ago
It is difficult to give a comprehensive answer in a fly-by HN comment. Very brief answer: It was complicated. It is complicated. Slightly less brief answer: Define reconciliation. I doubt any kind of perfect, ideal reconciliation was ever
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Only thing I can think of is eminent domain. Here it using it requires either a specific decree by the national government (as in, the prime minister), zoning plan approved by the elected municipal government, or in some limited cases, appa
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by aqsalose 5y ago
In civilized countries, it requires a specific decree or order by some government body, possibly after appeals. Not just random clerk writing a line in a book when random stranger comes and tells they own a piece of land and are going to se
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by aqsalose 5y ago
It was a retro-chair already in the 1970s. See here Aalto's Armchair 406 (made and sold by Artek) from 1939. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Armchair+406+aalto&iax=imag...

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