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by cedilla 5y ago
Running benchmarks is not only useful but necessary. It's a point where planning meets the real world. Private clusters are also routinely benchmarked, often as part of validation. In the end if someone just tells you their supercomput
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by cedilla 5y ago
Sure. Except that frauds actually exist, not everyone accused of fraud is just a victim of envy. Its quite telling that your quote is about a singer, where talent is quite subjective. In technology, things can be a bit more objective. Peopl
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by cedilla 5y ago
Lots of man-hole covers are rectangular though. Turns out it isn't very important at all to have manhole covers that don't fall in. They are quite heavy and don't roll around on their own, so having them fall somewhere really
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by cedilla 5y ago
Charging batteries also produces a huge amount of heat. In general, storing energy is never free. It's the tyranny of the second law of thermodynamics.
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by cedilla 5y ago
Semi-decidable means that will accept all correct formulas, and either rejects incorrect formulas or gives no answer. It's the same as having a generator that generates every correct formula eventually. In my opinion, OP is incorrect a
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by cedilla 5y ago
It's not that weird. Mail is the only critical thing most people run for themselves, really; and if the proverbial excrement hits the fan, mail is useful in fixing the fallout. Sure, I would be able to acquire the skills to run a mail
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by cedilla 5y ago
Please note that that's an opinion article, not an academic source. It's borderline misleading to say that mastectomies "happen", and then link it with an unrelated number for diagnoses of gender dysphoria. It's als
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by cedilla 5y ago
Well, of course. Disease outbreaks happen all the time. Just from the top of my head I remember tropical fevers (like Zika and yellow fever), Ebola, Corona viruses (such as MERS and SARS), zoonotic flues outbreaks that threatened to become
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by cedilla 5y ago
Airbus pledged to supply to tools and spare parts for Concorde until the late 2000s, so yes. (Of course they stopped supplying them in 2003 when the service was retired after the crash).
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by cedilla 5y ago
It should be noted that these problems aren't the only important reason why Concorde failed. Pre-orders were made in 1963-1967 and almost all were cancelled in 1973 due to the oil price shock, in addition to a 500% increase in sales pr
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by cedilla 5y ago
I don't think the difference between a country of 125 million and 300 million is very meaningful in that regard.
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by cedilla 5y ago
A critic who only recommends what's on the best-seller list seems rather redundant.
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by cedilla 5y ago
I don't. Immigrants and emigrants are the same just seen from different perspectives, with migrants describing both. Please note that general dictionaries are always a poor source when discussing word definitions. Their aim is to clari
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by cedilla 5y ago
Half of people live with less than that joke by definition, and most don't have the privilege to be supported by wealthy relatives, either.
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by cedilla 5y ago
The majority of migrants don't permanently move to a new country. And really, does it make sense to categorize people on their unknowable intention? Especially since this can clash with legal reality. Undocumented migrants sometimes in
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by cedilla 5y ago
Immigration doesn't imply permanency. Indeed, most migrants don't aim for permanent residency. There is a widespread idea to count permanent migrants only, but in practice, that's impossible to determine in the first place, a
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by cedilla 5y ago
It's more than twice the median salary. It is quite high. Upper class income only seem lackluster compared to the perverse 0.1% incomes and the housing bubble.
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by cedilla 5y ago
On the mass scales we talk about, even small rocks would add up and lead to an observable dimming. Nebulae usually are usually even less dense, just a few molecules per cubic metre, but they are still easily observable.
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by cedilla 5y ago
> Redundancy is usually just incorrect How is it incorrect?
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by cedilla 5y ago
It is, and "RAS syndrome" (redundant acronym syndrome syndrome) should be encouraged, not avoided. "PIN number" is easier and faster to understand. Probably better understood than "PI number" or the expanded fo
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by cedilla 5y ago
This critique doesn't really convince me. It mostly says that the original article is wrong, but is mostly silent on why. But the claim that forward secrecy is unnecessary because STARTTLS protects mail in transist is downright odd. Fi
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by cedilla 5y ago
If I understand the situation correctly, the current president is already willing to enact such a law. The lobbying seems to be about pressuring congress into actually passing it. Fair enough, everyone is entitled to lobby for their interes
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by cedilla 5y ago
Wealthiest entities on Earth lobbies government for handouts. I'm not even being snarky, this is just a lobby group trying to socialize costs to avoid spending their own money. Explicitly: “Government should refrain from intervening as
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by cedilla 5y ago
I think this overstates both the willingness of businesses to move and the relative importance of taxes compared to other factors on where businesses will stay. Even with a negative tax, fast fashion wouldn't produce any clothes in the
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by cedilla 5y ago
Petroleum is mostly marine microorganisms. Coal is mostly old forests from a time before fungi developed the ability to break down lignin. Dead trees back then just continued to pile up without ever rotting.
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by cedilla 5y ago
To be fair, the consequences of unethical research in medicine or psychology can be much more dire than what happened here.
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by cedilla 6y ago
Higher courts can make fundamental decisions which are binding for other courts; however these are not precedent as they only clarify how the law is to be interpreted in general. There are indeed inconsistencies in the decisions of the lowe
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by cedilla 6y ago
No, if that's what happened, that's indefensible. But that's only what the plaintiff alleges. Wouldn't critical thinking also mean that you should keep in mind that an expelled student describing the situation in his leg
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by cedilla 6y ago
Please don't quote less than half a sentence and then be surprised that it doesn't make sense. Also, that we can't now either way is exactly my point. We can't disprove either the student's nor the university's
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by cedilla 6y ago
The reason why I personally flagged this story is not because it is outrage porn – I think it obviously is, but that's not why I flagged it. I flagged it because it misrepresented the very source you now linked. Quote: > For the pur

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