carlob

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   by carlob 5y ago

   That's cool! Thanks!
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   by carlob 5y ago

   I switched to Linux a while ago because I was annoyed at Apple for a number of reasons so I'm not exactly an Apple fanboy. However regarding your 1) there is one thing I'm sorely missing and that's QuickLook. No matter what f
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   by carlob 5y ago

   > 2) Tax carbon emissions. Progressively. Not a detail at all.
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   by carlob 5y ago

   You go to a print shop and spend 5 cents to get it printed? That is if you lost the copy given when getting your second dose...
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   by carlob 5y ago

   Probably due to Berlusconi and Salvini trying to escape their legal troubles by calling the judges communists.
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   by carlob 5y ago

   > Real question for OP (and others): What do you think is a reasonable effective income tax rate? (Please do not confuse effective and nominal tax rates!) In my view: "All in" should be about 50-55%. When I say "all in&quo
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   by carlob 5y ago

   ENEL has been privatized a long time ago and the Italian government has just a plurality stake.
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   by carlob 5y ago

   > Joules/second aka Watts
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   by carlob 5y ago

   Wouldn't "as rare as possible" mean getting the steak to room temperature and then just searing? I always assumed the sous vide was more useful for those who liked their steaks more cooked.
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    by carlob 5y ago

    Generations of childs have ared geting themselfs
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    by carlob 5y ago

    As an Italian I'm thoroughly confused by the addition of balsamic vinegar to everything. I've heard Brits put it in Bolognese sauce (ragù) and now with olives. How about you try fennel seeds and orange zest next time? Also would y
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    by carlob 5y ago

    Blueberries are a new world fruit (but then again so is the prickly pear that is so common in the Mediterranean), the European equivalent is the bilberry and AFAIK it only grows in mountainous areas at our latitudes. Blueberries are widely
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    by carlob 5y ago

    The pictures include blueberries and salmon which are definitely not staples of the Mediterranean diet and are not really available locally anywhere near the Mediterranean. If it was about Omega-3 they could have shown anchovies, sardines,
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    by carlob 5y ago

    > So are you claiming there is some systematic net movement of water out of California and into other states/countries? Not OP. The argument made in Cadillac Desert is pretty much the opposite: in order to irrigate California and to
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    by carlob 5y ago

    Not OP, but I think you are misreading their point. They didn't say that having a governing body is a sufficient condition for having a stable currency, they said it's necessary. It might not be a settled question how monetary pol
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    by carlob 5y ago

    You can set c to 1 if you want, then energy == mass. As a matter of fact this is pretty common in particle physics where all masses are given in electronvolts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system
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    by carlob 5y ago

    Completely OT: in case anyone is wondering that's not what garbage trucks look like in Rome, that thing is someone Ape [0] filled with garbage. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Ape (ape = bee, vespa = was
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    by carlob 5y ago

    E2E isn't even supported on desktop and web versions yet.
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    by carlob 6y ago

    Everybody loves to complain about the kindle browser, but the one on the kobo is actually decent...
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    by carlob 6y ago

    I highly doubt that anyone with that level of musical training really needs to look at the keyboard...just like you probably don't while you type.
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    by carlob 6y ago

    I was a physics student in Italy in the early '00 and math and physics MIR books in Italian were beginning to be hard to find as newer editions were coming out. I remember the feeling of pride when I snagged a copy of a book on calculu
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    by carlob 6y ago

    > At some point in the next millennium, all work will be creative work Or caregiving, more likely.
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    by carlob 6y ago

    > Probably more than the world uses in an entire year, but I'm going to leave it as an exercise for the reader. My back of the napkin estimate says about 7 orders of magnitude more, just to eliminate leap years.
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    by carlob 6y ago

    This made me think about Oblique Strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
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    by carlob 6y ago

    There is a strawberry tree not far from here and I find the species name very apt: unedo in Latin means "you only eat one".
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    by carlob 6y ago

    It's not just a term it's also a book! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_So_Stories
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    by carlob 6y ago

    Why are you replying about capital control when my point was about freedom of movement?
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    by carlob 6y ago

    > * To prevent a global race to the bottom on wages and working conditions. This is pretty much like saying that abolishing the privileges of aristocracy and clergy would have reduced everybody status. It was only true from the point of
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    by carlob 6y ago

    > Said differently: all people who don't have wealth in inflation proof assets (stocks, real estate etc) suffer from inflation. Except those who are in debt
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    by carlob 6y ago

    I think by most estimates the poorest half of the population have negative wealth, if that is true then inflation actually reduces their debt.