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by chestertn 5y ago
DNI, passport or drivers license. All of these IDs cost money. DNI is compulsory after 16.
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by chestertn 5y ago
In Spain, the national ID (DNI) costs 12 euros. They wave the cost under certain conditions.
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by chestertn 5y ago
Most european countries require some sort of government ID before voting. I don't see what the big deal is.
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by chestertn 5y ago
But… what about the turtles?
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by chestertn 5y ago
Yes!
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by chestertn 5y ago
Financially.... what a way of boomerlight the youth. Of course , he is a 75 year old tenured professor.
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by chestertn 5y ago
Spanish speaker here. Also surprised that I understand the whistles, in particular the second video. Does it happen to you that when you think of a word in English, even if you don't vocalize, some of your vocal cords become tense or m
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by chestertn 5y ago
This one: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...
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by chestertn 5y ago
It is a long topic and the causes I don't understand well. We spend more time trying to obtain funding and satisfying some metrics rather than doing actual research we find meaningful or useful to society. The competition among peers i
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by chestertn 5y ago
Oh, come on. There have been Barbie doctor dolls and astronaut dolls since at least the 80s. That is besides the point. The point is the constant drilling of this topic in every form, painting the woman as oppressed superheroes and males as
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by chestertn 5y ago
I remember when similar techniques were employed by the Soviets (posters of woman in the army, posters of woman making weapons, etc.) We now consider that to be propaganda. I am a profesional in the science industry and the profession is so
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by chestertn 5y ago
Ha. Try to publish that.
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Ask HN: HN for Economic News?
1 points by chestertn 5y ago|2 comments
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by chestertn 5y ago
Why are there per-country caps to immigration? Perhaps, looking at the history of the Mexican Republic of Texas can shed some light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas > additional groups of settlers, k
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by chestertn 5y ago
I am not sure that is a good analogy. In abstract terms you can think of the inertia as the time constant of a linear ODE. For the same perturbation of the state, the larger the inertia the slowest the variation. In a grid with low inertia
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by chestertn 5y ago
That would be very cool. There is this passage in Genesis [1]: "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." If you read the list of
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by chestertn 5y ago
> It does not make sense at all. Please, I am open to see why you think so. > As a counterexample, Haskell drew mostly from an academic user base May I infer from this statement that you agree with me that Julia draws mostly from an a
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by chestertn 5y ago
Completely agree with 4 and 5. I use Julia regularly and while it is great for scripts and proof of concepts of mathematical stuff it might be too complicated to implement in Python or in C++ once one starts to grow an application it is tre
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by chestertn 5y ago
This has also harming other fields. I work as a researcher in a traditional engineering field with a very long tradition and well stablished methods. There is a push to use AI and Quantum such that in order to get funding or publish papers
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by chestertn 5y ago
I think that statement about "complex systems" being an alternative paradigm to reductionism is a bit unfortunate (articles in Wikipedia have varying quality). I believe they refer to emergence, a concept which they include in &qu
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by chestertn 5y ago
When I was an undergrad I discovered blogs about peak oil, the limits to the growth, and Turchin’s cliometrics. As an adolescent I really enjoyed Asimov’s Foundation and all of this knowledge resonated with me. I had a fried who read Von Mi
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The ban on travel from Europe once made sense. Now it’s only causing hardship(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by chestertn 5y ago|0 comments
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The Holy Bible. It taught me that vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
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by chestertn 5y ago
Western culture is not a monolithic entity. And in fact, it is not even western. In Europe when we learn history we start with Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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by chestertn 5y ago
Pink Zeppelin not Led Floyd
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> Men’s brains were on average about 11% larger than women’s—as were their hearts, lungs and other organs — because brain size is proportional to body size. But just as taller people aren’t any more intelligent than shorter people, neith
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by chestertn 5y ago
It surprises me how lenient the US is about American business not providing English signage. Wouldn’t this be considered a form of discrimination? I’m sure that if a German grocery store were to open in Paris with only German signage there
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by chestertn 5y ago
I don’t think comparing number of publications says anything.
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by chestertn 5y ago
I don’t understand how the travel ban to EU was reinstated but citizens of countries like India still can travel to the USA.
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by chestertn 5y ago
I do not see why, everyone is being respectful. Perceiving and understanding diversity of styles is something nice which to me, as seen in other fields like mathematics, leads to new ideas and insights. Unfortunately, seems like more people

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