bigbacaloa

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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
It's involvement in 1/5 of overdose deaths worldwide likely is (far) too high.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
This pseudo-apology is the worst sort of political expediency. He did what the government asked while denying doing it, now apologizes for it to curry favor with the rightwing world he alienated. It's like the NY Times pushing the weap
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
How can they vote on a national holiday?
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
A more undemocratic, anti human rights perspective is hard to imagine. Only I can hold myself accountable is the essence of authoritarian thinking.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
In their day, slide rules were the most efficient easily available option.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Having immigrated to Spain, it's not so bad. Everything is done digitally. There is a unique personal identifier. Something like filing tax returns is genuinely very easy.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
I found this explanation quite bad. Poorly motivated and making a priori regularity assumptions that are not necessary. The quoted explanation by Arnold is much better.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Jai alai in Miami was always about betting. Like the dogtrack.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Slowly
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
All the editorial response demonstrates is that the editors understood so little about so many things that they could not understand the difference between an evident satire of a pseudoscientific text and something of substance. Any scienti
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
In Spain my home internet provider (Movistar) blocks access to LibGen and the like. My university, however, does not. It realizes that de facto these sources serve as the library for its professors. So I wind up having to connect through th
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Living in a single family home may be nice, but it's resource inefficient to the point of wasteful. Among the resources wasted are energetic and spatial resources. There is a reason per capita energy consumption in the US dwarfs that i
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Having taught both I get what you are saying, but the rigor required in programming is quite trivial compared to that in mathematics. Writing a well structured program is much more comparable to what is involved in careful mathematical writ
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
This is like grading calculus exams. Student gives the memorized answer which most resembles (in his mind) the question asked.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Why don't Spaniards eat mutton? Spain has very good lamb. But impossible to find mutton anywhere.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Like the NBA world champions.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
That's easy. But they know that already anyway.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Not more dangerous than clearly dangerous is a low bar.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Nonsense. US just as badly motivated as China.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
I had two classmates in school who could converse this way. It can't be that uncommon. They had independently learned how to do it and one was showing off and the other started talking back to him. We were 13 or 14.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Old books don't smell good. They provoke allergies.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Thread has far too much analysis premises on notions such as the US economy works the best and everything works like in the US that are simply stupid.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
What all the set lists have in common is that Lars plays them badly.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
He is perhaps the worst speaker I have ever witnessed.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Proof that PNAS will publish anything for a few clicks.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Nothing compared to cold fusion
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
uS style privacy invasion only makes sense if you're already drunk on the Kool aid

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