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by beloch 9y ago
I'll second this. I recently spent some time in Sweden and, on the whole, really enjoyed the shrimp. In particular, the shrimp salad sandwiches. There were bad ones, of course. Bröd & Salt was a fast-food/bakery chain whose
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by beloch 9y ago
Another pitfall to be wary of in analyses like these is that imdb's ratings change over time. New releases typically have inflated scores that regress over time. Ideally, this sort of analysis shouldn't use anything under a yea
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by beloch 9y ago
I was a huge fan of the Baldur's Gate games back in the day, but never got around to playing the IWD series, which were based on Bioware's infinity engine. I played the enhanced version of IWD1 not too long ago and, of course, ha
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by beloch 9y ago
I think it was possible to assign the points in a roll to whatever stats you wanted, so a high total was basically all that mattered. If memory serves 18 str did have a random modifier (e.g. 18/50) so that 18 wasn't equal for all
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by beloch 9y ago
Strongest possible recommendation: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History episode - "Wrath of the Khans" http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-t... It's sobering to think how utterly he
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by beloch 9y ago
The author of this seems to have quit on the Eastern (Byzantine) empire several hundred years early...
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by beloch 9y ago
If someone in Canada is truly several times more productive than anyone in the U.S., some U.S. company will offer them several times more money than any Canadian company will. This is the down-side of having our economy linked so closely w
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by beloch 9y ago
Speaking as a Canadian... The U.S. still has ten times our population. With a population of just over 35 million, Canada is the world's 38th most populous country. That's a little over two Mumbai's. Perhaps Canada will bec
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by beloch 9y ago
Canada has big areas that are pretty consistent in how they vote, and identity politics do play a role. This is not as consistent as it is in areas of the U.S., but there are definitely a large number of ridings where upsets are rare. That
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by beloch 9y ago
What concentration camps reveal is that modern people are squeamish about killing. Consider the Mongol empire. While the Mongol empire had some things in common with a modern state, squeamishness about killing was not one of them. There a
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by beloch 9y ago
This is actually good news. Colony collapse disorder has been a pretty mysterious problem up until now. Identifying a possible cause gives us a chance to stop it. This might not even require legislation. Now that farmers are aware of the
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by beloch 9y ago
These graphs are a great example of why you should always label your axes . If you submitted these to a journal they'd be sent back for correction (assuming the editor didn't rage-toss your paper at first sight). If you include
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by beloch 9y ago
Arguably, we're already sailing past dominant nation states into uncharted waters in many respects. Just look at "free trade" treaties of the last couple decades. They're less about removing barriers such as tariff&#x27
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by beloch 9y ago
The problem with the ratchet mechanism is that it will almost unavoidably lead to goals that are utterly divorced from reality. e.g. A nation will propose an INDC it thinks it can realistically achieve. It will be informed it's INDC i
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by beloch 9y ago
You have to realize how Trump thinks. Everything is about him. If a deal doesn't make him personally look good, it's a bad deal. The Paris climate accord might be an objectively good thing, but signing it would make Trump loo
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by beloch 9y ago
At some point in the future, I could have a quantum random number generator implanted in my skull and defer many of my decisions to its outcomes. I wouldn't be predictable, but would I have free will? Probably not. How our brains use
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by beloch 9y ago
"The original motivation in the early 20th century for relating quantum theory to consciousness was essentially philosophical. It is fairly plausible that conscious free decisions (“free will”) are problematic in a perfectly determinis
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by beloch 10y ago
Microsoft's hardware game seems to be finally picking up steam. They used to be a big step behind Apple (e.g. Zune), but now they seem to be finally competing and doing quite well on both price and quality. It will be interesting to
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by beloch 10y ago
I'm a canuck who has worked with Turks and has visited Turkey. They're a wonderful people from a beautiful country with a real problem of a person in power. Turkey is almost entirely Muslim, yet they produce alcohol and tolerate
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by beloch 10y ago
A roller is what I thought of while reading this too. It seems fairly obvious, but I would be surprised if there wasn't an even better design. Juicero's people must have thought of this and the superior alternatives in the very
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by beloch 10y ago
Einstein, in the famous EPR paradox paper[1] used quantum mechanics (then fairly new) to show that it predicted some truly unexpected behaviour that we now call entanglement, but which Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distan
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by beloch 10y ago
How those two options are chosen is even more insane. Read up on the primaries, especially for the democrats. They're absolutely archaic (in some states we're talking about voting for candidates by physically being in a room an
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by beloch 10y ago
This is a classic "sounds small, but is actually huge " statistic. Most of these pop up when people are trying to be deceptive, but this one looks like a mistake. I'm surprised it slipped past both the author and editor.
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by beloch 10y ago
Apple reminds me a bit of B&O audio. B&O makes beautiful products for fans of a certain aesthetic, but not necessarily products that perform well. Their flag-ship products look amazing but are aimed more at interior designers than
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by beloch 10y ago
One problem with the section on Canada is that they look at CO2 extraction. Canada looks like a big contributor here because it's a net exporter of fossil fuels. However, focusing on supply hasn't worked at any point to date and
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by beloch 10y ago
1. It's per capita income that determines how equalization payments are made. Alberta has a per capita GDP of $78K while Scotland's is $43K (both according to wikipedia). Total size of the economy is not the determining factor h
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by beloch 10y ago
It's symbolic only. The crown's representative, the governor general, is a Canadian appointed by the Canadian Prime Minister. If the British crown actually tried to exert influence on the Canadian government though the governor
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by beloch 10y ago
Just to play the devil's advocate here... Such a move would pose some pretty big problems for Canada. 1. If Scotland were a Canadian province, they'd likely be a "have not" province and equalization payments from other
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by beloch 10y ago
Canada has an 11-sided 1 dollar coin (the loonie) and a bimetallic 2 dollar coin (the toonie). This new £1 coin is basically a mash-up of the two. Fair warning: People are going to put these things in pneumatic presses, hit them with sledg
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by beloch 10y ago
"Why do we discriminate? The big factor isn’t overt racism. Rather, it seems to be unconscious bias among whites who believe in equality but act in ways that perpetuate inequality." -------- Aliefs[1] are a useful concept here. i.

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