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by carlob 7y ago
> I'd imagine the new trains post-electrification will also be much better on the suspension front. So right now this is still Diesel?
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by carlob 7y ago
Allow me to use a leaky metaphor. We now know pretty well addiction has little to do with the specifics of the substances we abuse: one can be addicted to gambling or sex just as well as to various chemicals. However that argument doesn&#x2
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https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/society/scottish-book-lvivs-m... very interesting, from the page references
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Also a European, but I really don't understand you. I don't know what you think park means in a urban context, to me a park is a man-made green area. Anyway, even when you go to a forest in Europe you likely have no idea of how mu
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> Do they really outperform a basic index fund strategy? Any data on this? Yeah, Piketty's book. But of course the Norwegian government and Harvard administrators are just a bunch of idiots, they have billions of dollars to invest
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by carlob 7y ago
> But someone who earns more will also have a higher marginal tax rate. Not currently on capital > But someone with $10M will be able to get the same risk adjusted return as someone who has a net worth of $100k. That's exactly wh
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Before income tax, nobody had any idea about who was making what. Fast forward 100 years and we still have no idea about who holds how much capital. Even if you disagree on a universal wealth tax (just like we have for income) there is an a
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by carlob 7y ago
Cocoa is pretty fat and (at least in Italy) there is a popular belief that it might cause acne. I think it's also interesting to note that Nutella (also from Ferrero) has a history of being a post-WW2 pure chocolate substitute at a tim
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by carlob 7y ago
Funnily enough I've always thought Kinder chocolate was way too sweet (even as a kid) and I remember being flummoxed by the tagline of Kinder ads (in Italy, but that's where they're from), which was "more milk, less coco
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Matteo Ricci is also known for being one of the pioneers of mnemonics. Some of the techniques he employed were known in the middle ages before printed books (in the West), but he wrote one of the first treatises on mnemonics. A Jesuit once
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No, Mars is the god of war (and the archetype of masculine) and Venus the god of love (archetype of feminine).
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In Italy you shouldn't get married (or leave for a trip) on Tuesdays and Fridays. Possibly because those are the days associated with Mars and Venus in romance languages.
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But don't you think that living in a place that requires you to commute for so long is a situation you would not be in to begin with if cars were not an option? And I don't mean it just as a personal choice but as a urban planning
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by carlob 7y ago
All you say was kinda true for the magsafe ones, I recently saw the adapter that comes with a new macbook air: - no little clip anymore - no long cable anymore - not the smallest Watt-for-Watt anymore (the new GaN ones are smaller) - and of
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A lot of people would have said that of Erdős as well...
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> Don’t be afraid to tweet him your thoughts on this and a link to this thread: https://twitter.com/cbuechler Last tweet (from 2 years ago) is about supporting Tencent Christmas party.
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Sibling poster replied for me better better than I would have myself. Regarding price I wanted to add that a physical artifact that I can resell or pass down for generations is worth much more than the bits it encodes. I also think we have
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by carlob 7y ago
Which is why I refuse to buy ebooks while they are at the same price as paper books. Unless publisher get their act together I will keep buying a hard copy and then pirating the ebook. I think this should be a right just like ripping CDs.
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by carlob 7y ago
It probably should be pointed out that most French-educated famous mathematicians actually came out of schools that pay you to be a student from the undergraduate level (actually third year out of high school).
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by carlob 7y ago
> To put this into perspective, you produce more waste with a grocery trip or a takeout order than you do with owning AirPods. That is probably only true in the US given the amount of regulation on compostable bags and boxes we have now
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by carlob 7y ago
There were also Italian translations of Russian books, which were very popular slightly before my time as a student. On the other hand one of my most prized possessions is a hardcover version of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games in R
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And while we're at it we can count non-Caucasian Americans as immigrants /s
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Italy is pretty interesting geologically, Greece is not bad, Istanbul is amazing.
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by carlob 7y ago
That's a very stupid argument it's basically like saying that Roger Ebert should not have written a single review because he hasn't directed any movie. Furthermore the FSF is eminently a political and legal organization, havi
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by carlob 7y ago
I wonder when these are gonna go the way of Pluto: Saturn has n moons and a shit-ton of dwarf moons. Wouldn't know where the threshold is though, because something like Phoebe is an absolute outlier.
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In the Italian version of A Fish Called Wanda the mock-Italian is replaced with mock-Spanish.
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Well there is a stark difference between: "This is my grandma recipe, a family heritage" and "This is my drunk piss-himself-on-the-couch neighbor recipe" the first is something that can inspire you to impale yourself on
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They also all agree that their country once comprised all of the Balkans and possibly was the cradle of western civilization.
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An excellent book about this is Cuisine and Empire by Rachel Laudan. However I think you're missing one of the points of teaching history in schools, which is to instill some sort of shared sense of national identity (which is mostly m
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As a matter of fact I know of one person who met a driver through Uber and decided to hire them daily to get to their job without going through Uber ever again. I think that this is extremely rare and that everything in Uber is set up to pr

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