ciphol

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by ciphol 5y ago
I assume by "religious" you mean Christian. Before Europe became Christian, it wasn't secular, it followed a wide variety of other religions just as devoutly.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Leaflet is literally my favorite piece of software. So refreshing compared to any other web framework I have had to work with. Thank you for creating it and of course go Ukraine and fuck Putin!
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Chernobyl killed about 10k people. A single dam collapse killed 170k people a few decades ago.
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The materials in those batteries can be recycled into new batteries indefinitely.
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IIRC there are no pipelines between Russia's main oil fields and China, all the pipelines go to Europe
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It's the best we can do, given our difficulty in conducting experiments.
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Yes - I would add that a philosophically-knowledgeable scientist knows that nature does not HAVE to be lawlike. But like you say, the process of science is hypothesizing laws and checking to see if those laws make predictions. So far this p
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by ciphol 5y ago
It depends. XML is generally not human-readable, it's got way too much programming code in relation to the amount of human content. But a simple subset of HTML is definitely human-readable.
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> Elite schools were priced for the elite. Note that most people don't go to elite schools. In particular, the middle class (almost by definition) doesn't go to elite schools.
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If I could pay 50 cents for an interesting-looking article AND be guaranteed they would not use my email/CC to spam me or add extra charges in the future - I would jump on it.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Ironically, the "pro plain text" link posted earlier used lots of formatting. I don't see why pure plain text is better in any way than plain text with formatting, like a simplified form of HTML (<a>, <b>, <sup
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by ciphol 5y ago
Our investigations ever since the scientific revolution have progressively shown it to be more and more lawlike. It would be a bit of a surprise if this stopped being true.
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Nobody is preventing string theory from being tested. If you know of a way to test it, please go and do so, you'll get a Nobel Prize for it because nobody else has thought of a way.
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> And, physics departments find string theorists to be the cheapest kind of hire, because they aren't always trying to get expensive equipment together for experiments. You know the joke - a university was having budget problems, so
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by ciphol 5y ago
So email a non-name physics professor. They'll probably be clever enough to recognize the revolutionaryness (?) of a theory even if they couldn't invent the theory themselves.
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> Also, I’m not quite “neurotypical,” and avoid writing things down. I tend to keep my strategic model in my head. ... About the only time I write stuff down, is when I want to pass it by other team members. What happens to the project i
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by ciphol 5y ago
Question for those who have or have considered part-time work - how does your employer/manager look at this? Do they view you as a regular worker who wants to strike a different work/money balance, or as a slacker who isn't c
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by ciphol 5y ago
I think what they actually said was "Just because it's business school it's not relevant"
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by ciphol 5y ago
You'd have to put a vent through the wall. People do this for clothes dryers. But for fridges it's probably not worth it - worthless in summer, and in winter the bad insulation around the vent likely cancels out the electricity sa
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by ciphol 5y ago
It puts much more of central and southern Russia in missile/flight range of NATO.
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A general comment on cyberwarfare. The Russian government/military is probably one of the most formidable cyberwarfare forces in the world (a quick googling lists US, UK, China, Russia, Israel as the top 5 cyberwarfare states, and I as
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by ciphol 5y ago
> The 2014 invasion was relatively well restrained campaign at reminding who the master of Ukraine is Nice attempt at justifying imperialism.
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Really? Fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan wars are only a blur if covered at all? I don't think so.
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Ukraine's president is Jewish, I don't exactly think he is favoring "Nazi partisans"
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by ciphol 5y ago
A bad climate year will kill a handful of people, like California and Australia's fires did. (Humanity is getting richer and more capable faster than the climate is getting warmer.) A limited nuclear exchange will likely kill millions
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I think it's more "we need Russian support against Democrats". Given the events in US politics of the last 6 years.
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Those are done much better with a web site (for many purposes, a static website with no Javascript is sufficient!) than by downloading a gigantic possibly-insecure app.
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Wait a few years, we might have software driven humans. And that's a much bigger deal. Replacing the driver versus replacing the map.
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Sounds like you have bought into "attachment parenting". There is no real evidence that attachment parenting actually makes a difference.
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The best time to give advice about the first 3 months is when your kids are 3 months old. After that, the kids change and parenting changes too and you're likely to forget what worked at age 3 months. Someone with 10 year old kids has

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