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by em500 3y ago
> Nutritional labelling is such a cesspit of lies. My pet hate is the 'portion' or 'serving' sizes which are blatantly wrong just so the companies can lie about how much sugar they are selling to you. "Per servin
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by em500 3y ago
Using base-2, you could in theory count to 2^10 using 10 fingers. Unfortunately in practice many binary numbers or very difficult to represent on my fingers.
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by em500 3y ago
This is already concisely explained in the article The Mesopotamians’ unique counting method is thought to come from a mix of a duodecimal system that used the twelve finger joints of one hand and a quinary system that used the five finger
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by em500 3y ago
That ship has sailed in NL, where only 20% of store payments are in cash (despite quasi-regular outages of the electronic payment networks).
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by em500 3y ago
As someone else mentioned, it's a thing all over Europe. https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/shopping-internet/cas...
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by em500 3y ago
For economists, growth is shorthand for growth in (inflation adjusted) GDP, which is the sum of all incomes. Most adults who pay their own bills find it rather obvious why we should care about income growth: it pays the bills, and hopefully
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by em500 3y ago
Politician just respond to their constituents wishes. "We should build more houses" Proposals for for new development. "... not here."
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by em500 3y ago
On Debian 11.7: $ parallel --embed > parallel.sh Unknown option: embed [edit] Ran it in Ubuntu 22.04, it does output a bash script ... which still depends on Perl.
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by em500 3y ago
Except Perl isn't always present by default either (e.g. in Arch Linux or FreeBSD).
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The whole rationale of the laws in these countries is that you shouldn't be allowed to get one.
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by em500 3y ago
This might be because most countries nowadays require a photo ID for SIM cards. The Netherlands, UK and US are among the few that don't (yet). https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
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by em500 3y ago
These guys employs lots of techies (and I suspect also submarine / "organic" PR) https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/travel-and-tourism/
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by em500 3y ago
Most mainstream Linux distributions (including Debian), as well as macOS use vim as the default vi. As you noted, the BSDs still default to (n)vi. Another place where it vi (not vim) is still used is in embedded systems and stripped down&#x
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by em500 3y ago
In my view the "vi way" is to forget about a insert as a mode and instead, treat i(nsert) and a(ppend) as commands, with the to be inserted string as an argument, terminated by <esc>.
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by em500 3y ago
Not just English speaking countries: housing affordability is low in most European and developed-Asian countries.
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by em500 3y ago
Most of the other responses are missing the point of your question. You really asking why central banks don't engage in targeting the price level , rather than price changes (=inflation). In price level targeting, they'd aim fo
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by em500 3y ago
> 5. The headline while true might mislead people, yes Mark said the bubble is set to pop, he didn't said it will pop soon, in fact he said it will pop "Eventually" and he has no idea when it will pop. And this is why he
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by em500 3y ago
> Do we have enough historical weather data to train a decent AI on? I have no particular insights about weather data or models, but I want to note that some prediction problems are just not limited by historical data (as you seem to ass
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by em500 3y ago
That argument is a variation of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), that at any moment market prices already reflect all information available to the public. Or as the old joke goes, two economists are walking down the street and pass by
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by em500 3y ago
Data probably comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm#11-0000
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by em500 3y ago
Throughout history childless people faced high risk of destitution in old age. That’s no longer true in most developed countries, and I don’t think anybody would want that to be changed.
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by em500 3y ago
Do they not understand that - there’s no need for most remote jobs to hire only from the USA, and that - 60-80k is a huge salary in most of the world?
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by em500 3y ago
The standard model is not a plain random walk, but a random walk with drift. (Actually a geometric random walk with drift, but thats besides the point.) The drift term for the broader US stock market is usually assumed around 8% (long term
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by em500 3y ago
Stock price movements are literally text book examples of unpredictable (or more specifically, random walk) time series in university time series courses. A proper statistics course teaches you that you can predict with great certainty that
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by em500 3y ago
> I think the customer has just changed. Consumers don't have money anymore. Businesses do. Maybe said a different way, for the highest margin products you are targeting businesses. That's seems like a fact-free assertion. Both
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by em500 3y ago
I don’t know about other European countries, but an annual physical exam is not a thing here in the Netherlands. I don’t know any person who’s ever done one here, and I don’t know where to get one if I wanted. We go to the GP if we have spe
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by em500 3y ago
Advertising is in itself a sustainable business model, hovering around 1% of US GDP for the past century[1] (p.37 figure 3). Google really just needs to defend their position within the ad market to remain sustainable. [1] https:/&#x2
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by em500 3y ago
I think that reputation is undeserved, ard there's a bit of resentment at play. They're seen as toys for the wealthy, as mMost Amsterdammers probably ride a 3rd or 4th hand beater bike worth less than €100. But it seems that the r
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by em500 3y ago
True story. I got their original model X, which they offered as a limited issue in Europe. Near the end of the 2 year warranty period the controller broke (no power assistance at all), and the shop told me it was irreparable since the part
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by em500 3y ago
As opposed to state run education where the best possible education is available to everybody? Is that what we see in public education?

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