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by bloaf 5y ago
I have slowly collected a large (several million file) ebook library from open directories over the past few years. I am now trying to set up a search solution for it. Recoll doesn't seem to work well headless, so I am taking a look a
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by bloaf 5y ago
So? Suppose you have two clocks that are synchronized to +-dt1, and sending messages takes some known amount of time +-dt2 and you want to make sure the sender is able to transmit within +dt3 of whatever event triggered the send event. It s
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The specific claim is that because the law does not prohibit something, it is therefore ok. As Chesterton argues to the contrary "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
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Stereotypes are often better predictors of human behavior than actual psychological research. [0] Would Damore been more justified in his memo if he simply cited common stereotypes rather than psychology research? Throwing out psychology,
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by bloaf 5y ago
This is dangerous reasoning; the google memo incident shows science walks a narrow path, and there are pitfalls all around. Science is the best sword we have to separate truth from falsehood; to say that science is wrong and biased whenever
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by bloaf 5y ago
I feel like now is the best time to make a 3rd party. Non-loony-tunes republican voters held their noses and voted D against Trump. Progressive D are frustrated because they're not getting so much as a fig leaf after supporting the es
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by bloaf 5y ago
>What actually happened is that Sweden has significantly lower per-capita COVID mortality than the EU average. Sweden is also significantly higher than all its immediate neighbors who have 1/3rd to 1/10th the mortality. >The
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If, as shown in their energy diagram, all food converts to CO2 and H2O, then no foods can cause weight gain because all the carbon will be exhaled and water excreted. I read this as an indication that numbers out of a calorimeter don't
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by bloaf 5y ago
...You do know that Sweden implemented more "mainstream" anti-covid measures as 2020 went on, right? A decision in July 2020 gave Swedish local authorities the right to shut down bars/restaurants. By Dec. 2020, the governme
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by bloaf 5y ago
Why was anyone talking about Sweden in the first place? Because it was the only example of a developed nation whose health officials came out and said "given our circumstances, we think our country will be ok without anti-covid measure
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by bloaf 5y ago
See also: the whimsical "Fine Artist" program from Microsoft a year or two later https://classicreload.com/win3x-fine-artist-by-microsoft-kid...
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by bloaf 5y ago
> What happens if you want to buy a condo in a competitive market that requires a 200k downpayment? Or have a medium-sized wedding? Or have two kids in day-care? If you mean after you retire, you'd plan for those things within your
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by bloaf 5y ago
At least since the civil war. > Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union > The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day
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by bloaf 5y ago
If you do a little algebra and make some simple assumptions, it turns out that "years of work required for retirement" is a function of your savings ratio only, that is savings/take-home pay. https://www.mrmoneymus
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by bloaf 5y ago
"Advertising solves satiation" You're not thinking big enough. A star trek style holodeck (or matrix-style brain port) has the possibility to simulate literally any experience with roughly constant resource inputs. Short of
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by bloaf 5y ago
I don't think there needs to be a government owned internet media company. Sometimes I wonder how weird and wild a government run social media company would be. Open to US citizens only, identity verification required? No rules other
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Studies that looked at bias in the media found PBS to be the most centrist of the major news organizations. People on the extremes of the political spectrum see PBS as biased against them, as they would any centrist organization.
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For art and music there are pretty clear and well defined skills that can be drilled. Anyone have suggestions for writing drills?
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From the report: > Provisional mortality data found an overall decrease in the age-adjusted suicide rate from quarter 3 (July–September) of 2019 to quarter 3 of 2020. The suicide rate among young persons aged 15–24 years during this same
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by bloaf 5y ago
I personally think a vector library that allowed some form of Einstein notation [1] would be a killer feature for a scientific computing environment. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation
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by bloaf 5y ago
The data doesn't seem right, wasn't the opioid epidemic pretty well covered in the media, even in 2016? Or did that not meet some criteria?
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by bloaf 5y ago
Sure: people's lives don't linearly interpolate; 2019 was the first year to be better than 1999 for several age brackets.
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by bloaf 5y ago
Seems like you'd just look at the median wage among groups of similarly-aged people to get a "final answer." Like this: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/09/2... Its
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by bloaf 5y ago
Fun fact: Just like "Lord," the word "lady" is also etymologically related to dough via hlæfdige, or "one who kneads dough" https://www.etymonline.com/word/lady
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Work thou for pleasure; paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve. Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul; Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these th
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by bloaf 5y ago
https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020... Everything old is new again.
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Climate change is real, and oil is in decline. These countries will only become harder to live in, and their incomes will only decline. That these countries will modernize and liberalize in the face of these challenges is not at all a for
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While possible, it is equally possible that the Iraq of 30 years from now is just as unsafe for LGBTQ people as it is today.
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I wonder if Osaka showed up and only said "I didn't understand, please repeat the question" until the interview was over if she would end up banned.
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I wonder if this is why h.265 HEVC video playback on firefox is noticeably darker than in edge/chrome.

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