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by dsq 5y ago
Does the lower count imply lowered fertility? If so, there should be an affect on births. Is there data to indicate this (after two years of covid)?
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by dsq 5y ago
Didnt SpaceX move their hq to Texas? It was all over the news, with a lot of political emotions mixed in.
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by dsq 5y ago
Any country that encourages or at least turns a blind eye to criminal enterprises targeting its rivals is encouraging privateering and will eventually be hoist with its own petard.
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by dsq 5y ago
People entering this post may enjoy Larry Niven's short SF story 'Grendel' in which, if I remember correctly, the protagonist solves a murder partially by realizing that a female antagonist was actually much older than she ap
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by dsq 5y ago
Isn't this exactly the 'single point of failure' that we are always warned to guard against, whether in our coding or deployments? Yet here in our daily lives people can't get the lights on or make coffee.
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by dsq 5y ago
The question does imply that one knows one's self sufficiently to answer.
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by dsq 5y ago
Wouldn't this also imply it preferable to receive the injection in the right shoulder rather than the left? It's also further from the heart, after all.
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by dsq 5y ago
Having being exposed to personal computers only in my early teens, most of my time was spent on reading (books for the most part). I feel that, at least for me, reading skills translate well to code. Even writing code didn't feel forei
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by dsq 5y ago
This reminds me a bit of Larry Niven's idea of breeding for psychic luck in his Known Space stories, in which Birthright lotteries are held which gave the winners the chance to have children. So, if wealth is indeed due to luck, one c
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by dsq 5y ago
I stopped reading at 'anti-semetic'[sic]. Because the article specifically calls out what the author terms the 'Back Row', that is, the uneducated, a bit more attention to spelling and grammar are called for.
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by dsq 5y ago
Just as massive railway investment for civilian use in the 19th century was key to military movement plans in the early 20th century, so swift and massive sealift for trade can be used for transporting munitions and other supplies globally
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by dsq 5y ago
If you were hired specifically to solve the mess, or if the mess was directly your doing, then yes, it is unprofessional. In all other cases - leave with no regrets.
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by dsq 5y ago
Which is why the current US-Russia antagonism is an anachronism, facilitated by anachronistic leadership, especially, but not only, in Russia. The fall of Communism/Warsaw Pact should have led to a great rapprochement between the two n
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by dsq 5y ago
Absolutely, married partners have a transactional relationship. I wasn't clear enough that I was referring more to the parent child relationship, which, although you could say is also transactional ("I pay for college and you stud
555.
by dsq 5y ago
The family being the only remaining non-transactional long-term social construct in moden society, it is not surprising that both marriage and child bearing are anachronistic and have been falling for the past decades. Eventually, a combina
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by dsq 5y ago
Let's hope that at least this does stir some kind of Sputnik moment in the US. That would be a silver lining of sorts. Currently there does not seem to be the necessary political will or social readiness.
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by dsq 5y ago
So far the CCP has shown great willingness and ability to overcome any threat to its power and ambitions, including the use of various technologies. Even non-violent or passive resistance can be dealt with by deligitimation, social credit
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by dsq 5y ago
I also thought of VW in this context. The idea that the managers only set policy and it's up to the engineers to figure it out, lesving management with "plausible deniability".
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by dsq 5y ago
It is important to note that Boeing settled for 2.5 billion in which it is agreed that "...the misconduct by its former employees was “neither pervasive across the organization, nor undertaken by a large number of employees, nor facili
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by dsq 5y ago
Nuclear power has some issues which need to be addressed on the political and social level as well as the technological. Waste disposal, proliferation, safety. However, looking forward, it is hard to see any competition as a robust, always
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by dsq 5y ago
GHQ may have very good reasons to tap cables, especially in stylish cable tapping menswear.
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by dsq 5y ago
Taxes can be a perverse incentive for revenue hungry governments to encourage the taxable behavior.
563.
by dsq 5y ago
Human voices and, especially, the loud and intrusive voices of radio/TV announcers, are conspicuously not well filtered by ANC. It should be possible to 'train' the device to filter out, let's say, the sudden abrasive vo
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by dsq 5y ago
I did a little arithmetic, at 1.16 dollars per euro and 11.11 sqft per sqm, and reulted in 1228 eur/sqm in the US, compared with 2-3000 eur/sqm in Germany. So half or a third the cost. That is significant. [Edited: I see others h
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by dsq 5y ago
Crossing a wide span of water (wider than the English Channel) against a determined defender is really hard. Taiwan is bristling with anti ship missiles and are very much against being taken over by the PRC.
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by dsq 5y ago
I've had periods when the kids were small and expenses high when I would put in just enough gas to go till the paycheck came in, or even try not to drive in those gap days. Stressing and unsustainable.
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by dsq 5y ago
I've got to remember to "copy link address" and not "copy link text"...thanks! Yes, my subjective impression is that a successful post doc at a top name university will do a lot.
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by dsq 5y ago
Found this: https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/02/university-hiring-i... Basically it states that most tenured positions are filled by PhDs from the top programs. Lower tier schools have far fewer future p
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by dsq 5y ago
It's tenure track , meaning that after seven years you either get tenure or you leave.
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by dsq 5y ago
Found this: https://theconversation.com/can-you-save-money-at-the-bowser... Very nice calculation. The results were that by filling up two half tanks as opposed to fully topping off one can get an extra 3.5 kms, albeit with

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