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by beojan 6y ago
> Other research areas could be more important to progress right now and we only have so many scientists available to do the work. Allocating those scientists to research areas is an incredibly hard task, but it’s a necessary one. That&
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by beojan 7y ago
I suspect that might happen eventually.
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by beojan 7y ago
> The school then has to choose to either fail the student or ignore their cheating. With a $250k incentive to choose the former, that's what they choose. Isn't the former exactly what they should be choosing?
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by beojan 7y ago
> In my opinion, RFCs should strive to limit the optional parts of a specification at a minimum If only USBIF had done that
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by beojan 7y ago
An iPhone really doesn't "just work" if you're used to Android.
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by beojan 7y ago
I've used a few video conferencing packages and Zoom just works , and works well. No quality issues or dropouts, Linux isn't treated as a second-class citizen.
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by beojan 7y ago
Indeed. It's the Celsius figure that I misquoted. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
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by beojan 7y ago
> and the imperial part there for old people's convenience. And also because that's what was used to actually design the container. Milk bottles in 1 / 2 / 4 / 6 pints (imperial pints, not US pints), 454 g jam ja
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by beojan 7y ago
India is a Commonwealth country, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people still think in imperial (not US customary) units. Also, here in the UK, for the purposes of identifying COVID-19 symptoms, a fever is being defined as 38.6
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by beojan 7y ago
If the company is on the brink of bankruptcy, its stock is going to be close to worthless anyway.
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by beojan 7y ago
Bailing them out is OK, but it should be through the government buying equity in those companies (essentially partial or complete nationalization).
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by beojan 7y ago
You could tell them the test came back positive. That's not really a lie.
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by beojan 7y ago
I think it may not be officially sanctioned by the UN. Unfortunately, it's really hard to tell. This is why trademarks are a thing.
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by beojan 7y ago
With a 50% false positive rate, most of your positives are false positive. You might as well just tell everyone who asks for a test that they're infected.
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by beojan 7y ago
Used to be a rare market occurrence.
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by beojan 7y ago
Acetaminophen is just the American word for Paracetamol.
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by beojan 7y ago
They tried to buy US exclusivity for the vaccine candidate. I really hope they don't try anything similar with ventilators.
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by beojan 7y ago
That's not because they have targets to meet, that's because closing a station officially is very difficult.
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by beojan 7y ago
Not quite, Google are running their own code.
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by beojan 7y ago
> I think we can all agree that operating an aircraft SAFELY requires some prior domain knowledge, which is obviously applicable to drones and RC as well. So you're saying drone operators should be even more strictly regulated with
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by beojan 7y ago
The fact that you're on the ultralight would go a long way toward making sure you're careful not to do anything dangerous.
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by beojan 7y ago
The point of the NATO alphabet is everyone in NATO uses it, even if it isn't their native alphabet, as in the case of Greece.
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by beojan 7y ago
That's what the NATO phonetic alphabet is for.
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by beojan 7y ago
Not if you replace the keys with your own.
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by beojan 7y ago
You need zmv
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by beojan 7y ago
Much as I'm personally very pro-GPL, I think there are good reasons to avoid licensing fundamental parts of the SciPy stack under a copyleft license, since anything built on top would also need to be GPLed. A scipy-copyleft for such GP
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by beojan 7y ago
So the catch is that you have to be in control of the projector.
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by beojan 7y ago
That sounds like arXiv.
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by beojan 7y ago
You can do it from your phone.
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by beojan 7y ago
> My gut response would be yes I'd guess no, since there doesn't seem to be another human culture / civilization that independently invented it.

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