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Kane Tanaka(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bloak 5y ago|1 comments
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by bloak 5y ago
Yes. The topic is somewhat taboo, but The Economist wasn't scared of mentioning it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303693 (I don't think it's something we should worry about, though: humanity has far
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A traditional magnetic compass can be confused by metal (ferrous) objects in the vicinity. Do you have a way of reading just what the phone's compass is saying, as opposed to the output of some software that uses all available informat
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by bloak 5y ago
So why wasn't the thing returned by post, I wonder? Perhaps the notebooks never left the building ...
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But here's the clever bit: you have a second phone guarding the first phone!
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Also: "Sorry, we've already been pillaged!" (It might work.)
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What's the connection between the Black Sea coast and energy supplies to Europe?
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The UK hasn't used conscripts in a conflict in which they were at serious risk of getting killed since 1951 (Korean War), I think, though I could be wrong. In any case, there have been no conscripts in the armed services after 1963. Wh
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by bloak 5y ago
Presumably you're looking for problems with a written output to facilitate comparison with humans, like in a Turing test. How about the problem of getting a good mark in an English Language GCSE exam: an exam taken by nearly all 16-yea
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by bloak 5y ago
Julius Caesar refers to foraging in his "Gallic Wars". It wasn't easy because the Gauls would systematically destroy all food supplies in the vicinity of the Roman army ("scorched-earth policy"). I wonder what the l
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by bloak 5y ago
It looks like they might be. This seems to be the relevant part of the Act: (1) A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty o
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by bloak 5y ago
The diff is moderately entertaining. I thought it might be an April Fool's. many -> persony hero -> theyro che non sono [Italian] -> che non childo
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by bloak 5y ago
> generally when you sum together a lot of random variables following a specific distribution you end up with basically the same distribution (scaled by the N random vars). So a lot of sigmoids put together (e.g. covid spread) will still
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by bloak 5y ago
> What is it then? I'd say it's a property of forms of government, or of constitutions: some of them are more democratic than others. Sometimes it's obvious which of two systems is more democratic; sometimes reasonable peo
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by bloak 5y ago
In my opinion that's a stupid saying because democracy isn't a "form of Government". In reality there is an infinite range of forms of Government and people can argue for ever about which form is more or less democratic
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by bloak 5y ago
You're probably right about card payment being a condition of the contract, but a contract has to be enforced by a court: the police, if they turned up, would shrug their shoulders and say it's a civil dispute. In the somewhat unl
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by bloak 5y ago
The UK had its own space programme once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_(spacecraft)
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by bloak 5y ago
Buster Keaton's "The General" is on YouTube. (It's out of copyright, but still worth watching, in my opinion.)
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by bloak 5y ago
Did you reach a point of peak non-awkwardness? At what age? I think this might happen to some people. When they're young they haven't yet learnt how to interact with other people. Perhaps at age 30 or 40 they've learnt enough
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by bloak 5y ago
> There are 7,100 official languages on planet earth There are roughly that many languages known to science, according to Ethnologue. Does anyone happen to know if the advertiser has to tell Meta what languages are used in an advertiseme
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by bloak 5y ago
Suddenly waking up about a minute before the alarm clock goes off happens to me, and other people, surprisingly often while none of the obvious explanations seems sufficient. Perhaps the explanation for that phenomenon would also explain so
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by bloak 5y ago
Cannot "just" switch? What's that mean, exactly? Surely there is some kind of a procedure for people to change their "sports" nationality if they really have emigrated and so on? (You might think of having a rule th
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by bloak 5y ago
> Banning all Russian athletes is a clear decision. Yes, it would be clear if you define "Russian". Do you mean everyone who currently holds a Russian passport? Everyone who has at some point held a Russian passport? What about
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by bloak 5y ago
So what are the options for people who like to download all their e-mail onto a Linux box and handle it locally?
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by bloak 5y ago
More information is required to answer that question, but I can imagine two countries that both have a policy of "no first use" could have a conventional war, including an invasion, without the conflict becoming nuclear. Losing a
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by bloak 5y ago
I don't know much about stock markets, but the question I'd ask is whether it is in any way feasible to build up a short position that is "massive" on a scale that would be of interest to a Russian oligarch, as opposed t
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by bloak 5y ago
It's probably true, though. I would guess that Russia didn't want to invade Ukraine. Russia wanted to extract concessions by threatening to invade Ukraine. But since NATO gave Russia nothing, not even some tiny symbolic concession
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by bloak 5y ago
I agree that "Daniel" doesn't sound like the sort of person who could easily "come out as nonbinary" but there are people with more "flamboyant" personalities who would rather relish an excuse for drawing
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It's hard to decide how "rich" a student is. They probably don't have much money in their own name. They may have rich parents who regularly give them money. They may have rich parents who don't want anything to do
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But it's not quite that simple, is it? You can change the culture of a child by forcibly separating them from their parents, putting them in a boarding school, beating them when they try to speak their mother tongue with other children

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