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by chalst 5y ago
Parliamentary sovereignty as a principle was fundamentally weakened in the tussle over the Brexit leave date: the government lost the battle but won the war. This parliament has been very ineffective in providing oversight of government. I&
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by chalst 5y ago
He won in parliament by a landslide majority of around 80 seats, but he increased the Party's vote by only 1.2% over the majority-losing Theresa May, with less than 44% of the vote. There isn't a stable relationship between propor
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by chalst 5y ago
Google has Mozilla on a leash.
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Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data [pdf](dash.harvard.edu)
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VCBrags, Pasquale, Mitchell, and Bhoka: A Roundup (2020)(savingjournalism.substack.com)
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That theanine has a beneficial effect on stress, via cortisol suppression, is a long-standing hypothesis. That it has other effects under the article's umbrella term of "emotional arousal" is one of the interesting novelties
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by chalst 5y ago
I don't know, but I don't find it hard to furnish ideas. Colleges used to try to ensure they didn't produce more professionally qualified graduates than there were entry-level positions for. Perhaps colleges only graduated fe
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by chalst 5y ago
If by ESG you mean Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, I don't recall Amazon ever justifying a takedown explicitly in those terms. I'm also not aware of any occasion of Amazon taking down a site that was clearly motiva
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by chalst 5y ago
You do not need FreeBSD jails if you have Linux containers; even so, jails are better for most sysop tasks. Likewise I much prefer KVM to Bhyve. I note SmartOS supports both KVM and Bhyve.
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It's pretty easy to set things up to overcome this hurdle: say either the institute handles your enquiry in a scientifically honourable manner or you will contact one of the high profile muckrakers. The most entertainingly written such
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by chalst 5y ago
I just find it nicer to admin: things work the way I expect them. Two things in particular: I can configure FreeBSD jails easily and be confident in the security model, where Linux containers are just way too complicated if you want to run
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by chalst 5y ago
I'm still able to edit the title: care to suggest another version that fits within 80 chars? The title alone fits, one char to spare, but I didn't want to pass off a 4-y.o. paper as if it was pharmacological news.
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by chalst 5y ago
Not big, because I ensure that I don't use any platform-unique services and I document my configuration. I'm using Dropbox and I'm evaluating Hetzner, neither of which has specialist services that are interesting for me; I&#x
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by chalst 5y ago
Couldn't fit title and date into 80 chars, so the story title is edited: Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention under emotional arousal, Grace E Giles et al., Canadian Journal of Physiological Pharmacology, Ja
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Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by chalst 5y ago
Quite so. It's also not true that formalism was ever the philosophical viewpoint that most mathematicians felt fit their views best.
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by chalst 5y ago
This is a curious take on the state of calculus before Cauchy: mathematicians were interested in infinite series, but aware of paradoxes around convergence: for example, the set {1,-1/2,1/3,-1/4,1/5,...} doesn't hav
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by chalst 5y ago
Any application using content addressing can make use of at least some IPFS technologies. Sharing the contents of /nix/store on a local network or VPN is something I've been thinking about recently.
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by chalst 5y ago
Given the goals of the US, anything that weakens US hegemony can be regarded as a national security threat. Naturally, any internationally successful social media technology not under the control of US corporations counts. If you are not Am
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by chalst 5y ago
> PDFs are unexpectedly well suited for that. Not so surprising, really: the PDF standard evolved in parallel with Adobe's Flash between 2005 and 2010, which was then the key technology in Adobe's effort to keep a strategic toe
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hyperpage's analogy would work if the property was "avoids undefined behaviour", rather than "avoids nontermination". When we encounter a webpage, we are being expected to execute potentially complex, well-being thr
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by chalst 5y ago
> In we know that HTML is going to be much more compact (and compressible!) than PDF and that's the biggest advantage I see on a web where bandwidth still matters. PDFs can be tiny if they do not embed fonts. Serving fonts is very m
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by chalst 5y ago
monkeynotes seems to take the line that technical defects in claims others make fatally undermines their case, but technical defects in his/her arguments are irrelevancies. For what it's worth, the same objection occured to me. Th
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by chalst 5y ago
She gave a good interview explaining why she left: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/german-parliam...
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Golden eggs and better telescopes (2018)(elevanth.org)
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by chalst 5y ago
Exactly the same experience in Germany. I use Google Maps for driving directions and OSM for everything else. I recently had GM tell me to go the wrong way up a one-way street; OSM knew better.
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Being John Malkovich had a budget of $13 million in 1999 - I'm guessing that's mid-range.
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F# isn't really ML + .NET: the module system in F# is much less capable than that of Ocaml, but has the advantage that it is compatible with C# classes. There's some nice stuff in F# that is entirely novel: my favourite feature is
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by chalst 5y ago
No, this is the time complexity of type checking before any computation on the terms is performed.
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Scientism is a term popularised by Hayek that means the fetishisation of the institutions of science and a failure to recognise the role of uncertainty in scientific judgement.

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