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Digital Ad-Tax(adtax.paulromer.net)
4 points by cossatot 5y ago|1 comments
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by cossatot 5y ago
It seems like the bread (UI, or QE depending on your 1040) is keeping the peace and the circuses are threatening to blow it apart.
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by cossatot 6y ago
Back in the days when I was a teenager Before I had status and before I had a pager You could find the Abstract listenin' to hip-hop My pops used to say, it reminded him of Bebop I said, "Well, Daddy, don't you know that thin
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What can we tell from the evolution of Han Chinese names?(kontinentalist.com)
125 points by cossatot 6y ago|46 comments
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sharelatex.com (a LaTeX collaboration site) shared the same issue.
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by cossatot 6y ago
Fussell’s primary objective with this book is neither to inform or entertain, but to tease the readers about their class and attendant insecurities. Teasing well of course requires more accuracy than simple satire because the readers have
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by cossatot 6y ago
A whole lot of us post our papers on our websites. Those that don't are typically afraid of getting their employers in legal trouble, or don't know how to set up a website beyond the faculty bio page that their department makes f
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by cossatot 6y ago
Quanta had a decent write-up of challenges faced by some researchers about a month ago: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hard-lessons-of-modeling-... Of course there are many ways that things went wrong, and not everyone
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by cossatot 6y ago
D3.js is, to me, one of those tools that makes things possible rather than making things easy (although I only use javascript once every year or two so it's always a slog). This is big: it's like a zero-to-one step, rather tha
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by cossatot 6y ago
Though I ran across this article by happenstance today, I am sad to find Mr. Doba actually passed away yesterday, apparently just after climbing Kilimanjaro. So many gems in this article, telling the tale of a man with the right mix of fort
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Why he kayaked across The Atlantic at 70 (for the third time)(nytimes.com)
1 points by cossatot 6y ago|1 comments
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by cossatot 6y ago
The use cases for many people have changed dramatically as well. I think if I was an audiophile, and used headphones primarily to lie on the bed smoking hash and listening to Steely Dan, I would share your concerns. But I use headphones for
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by cossatot 6y ago
It would be very useful for some users if you could use either real stereo camera setup or a sort of effective one (i.e. structure from motion) to generate digital elevation/terrain models at high resolution. If you don't want to
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by cossatot 6y ago
Federal scientists are on the General Schedule payscale. As mentioned in another comment, they start out at about a GS-12 for PhD-level positions and move up to GS-15 from there (and then a small number of highly influential scientists can
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by cossatot 6y ago
It should be noted that the Federalist papers only represent the views of a few of the Federalists (Hamilton, Madison, Jay), i.e. from one of the two major parties. The Democratic-Republicans had a greater distrust of centralized government
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by cossatot 6y ago
I'm in America though I work for a firm based in northern Italy (Lombardia), with colleagues in France, Portugal and Switzerland as well. The lockdowns faced by those in western Europe seemed extraordinarily difficult, in particular t
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by cossatot 6y ago
The article states in Twitter's reasoning that: The second Tweet may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending. Plans for fu
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by cossatot 6y ago
Life isn't a constituent part of the Earth. It's a coating.
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by cossatot 6y ago
The crystal thing is throwing me (a geologist) off. Basically all Earth materials are crystalline. So rocks are alive (colonial organisms I guess since they are aggregates of crystalline minerals) but the magma that they crystallize from i
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by cossatot 6y ago
"a bicycle for the body"
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by cossatot 6y ago
I grew up in a small town in the Ozarks and there was a huge amount of fundamentalist Christian propaganda and social conditioning going on in the public school system. The high school principal passed out bibles, prayer was held before man
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by cossatot 6y ago
As of late this summer I was unable to get my BT headphones to work on Fedora in a 2-way transmission mode. The speakers would work but not the microphone. I don't remember the details but when I dug deep into the issue, there seemed t
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by cossatot 6y ago
My wife built a beautiful wooden crib (despite no previous experience with finer carpentry, mortise and tenon joinery, etc.) and it's worked out wonderfully. I think she based it off of this: https://mattcremona.com/un
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by cossatot 6y ago
And then think about tectonic plate motions and that any point affixed to a continent is moving with regards to an ECEF coordinate system.
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by cossatot 6y ago
Because the stock may still appreciate at 6% annually. And, depending on what is actually done with the money that Congress has decided to appropriate, it may be redistributed to consumers who will buy more of whatever that publicly trade
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by cossatot 6y ago
I agree that this is great, but I think saying it's Julia's best attribute is underselling the language quite a bit. Personally I like how effectively it can replace those languages, at least for future projects.
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by cossatot 6y ago
Although it's not as customizable based on fine-grained location, the USGS (not Ray Wells, the geologist who compiled the map, but his colleagues) are working on making what they call geonarratives or story maps (which is an ESRI t
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A Tech CEO Suing His Guide Could Change Everest Travel(outsideonline.com)
2 points by cossatot 6y ago|0 comments
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The primary advantage that I notice of writing complex thoughts by hand, for example a first draft of something important, is that insertion of more than a few words is difficult on paper. Therefore I tend to work just a bit more deliberate
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by cossatot 6y ago
> But neither are useful. Useful to whom? To the paleontologists? In practice, paleontologists look at the passage of traits down evolutionary lineages regularly. You are correct in stating that the same features can develop independen

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