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by em500 4y ago
Logitech's "US International" keyboards have ISO layout (vertical Enter, short left shift), not ANSI.
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by em500 4y ago
I have the exact opposite pref. In most of Europe ISO layout (with various country-specific accents) are standard and it can be hard to find a US (ANSI) layout (with horizontal rather than vertical Enter). In the Netherlands, most brands se
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by em500 4y ago
This has also been described as risk compensation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
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by em500 4y ago
It's an economic issue associated with stage of development. Remember the joke from Back to the Future. Doc Brown (1955): "No wonder this circuit failed, it says made in Japan."
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The Consumer Price Index: Conceptual Issues and Practical Suggestions(pubs.aeaweb.org)
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by em500 4y ago
> What are the actual metrics they use to measure inflation? The long answer is here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/home.htm The short answer is, the BLS samples prices of many consumer products in vari
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by em500 4y ago
And outside of the US it only gets worse. Apple only lists about half of the stores in a shopping mall near where I live in Amsterdam. They still list a bank branch as open that has been closed for around two years now. Amusingly they als
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by em500 4y ago
That, or maybe they're just publishing junk? Who can tell? I know PNAS mostly from Andrew Gelman's blog often making fun of them for publishing jargon laden pseudo-science https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
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by em500 4y ago
You're being downvoted because you're wrong about textbook definitions and then calling other commenters uneducated and spreading false information. GDP and GDI (aggregate domestic production and aggregate domestic income) measure
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by em500 4y ago
Yup, according to studies, everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer[1]. AFAICT it's almost impossible to conduct convincing nutrition science. Even if the signs of the effect in observational studies are all in the same direct
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by em500 4y ago
Almost all modern Bayesian models rely heavily on simulation. This is mostly because it's a very effective way to do numerical integration, and almost all non-trivial Bayesian models involve integrals without closed form solutions.
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by em500 4y ago
For thousands of years, most people just couldn't move very far due to physics and economics. The were mostly forced to be neighbours with family. It's always valuable to have good relationships with neightbours, whether they&#x27
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by em500 4y ago
The NYSE is closed between 16:00 and 9:30, plus all weekends and bank holidays. AFAICT real world information doesn't stop in the closed hours. So how is it credible that it's super valuable that trades can happen during the open
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by em500 4y ago
I doubt it. I've never heard a coherent explanation how liquidity on sub-second scale is a great social good, while at the same time the largest equity markets in the world are closed 2/3rd of the day, plus all weekends and holid
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by em500 4y ago
I don't know about Denmark or Switzerland, but in the Netherlands employers certainly have to pay premiums for social (mainly unemployment and disability) insurance.
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by em500 4y ago
If you have separate estimates / noisy measurements of the same quantity, and also have some estimate of their variance (e.g. pollsters or weather forecasters with different accuracy track records), you'd probably want a weighted
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by em500 4y ago
I think the most crucial (and often overlooked) difference between the films and the books is the narrator's perspective. The films are largely shown from a neutral / omniscient narrator's perspective. The books OTOH are mo
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by em500 4y ago
Or you could implement a system like in our country where national wire transfers arrive in seconds without any fees.
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by em500 4y ago
Here's an overview of the government expenditures: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-spending-sta... What should they cut? Every department will tell you they're underfunded.
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by em500 4y ago
I'm glad he did. I hope you realize that not everybody loves Pixar or Miyazaki. (Or C&H for that matter.) Watterson seems close to enlightened in the Buddhistic or Daoistic traditions. "Therefore he who knows that enough is en
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by em500 4y ago
The UN maintains a list of official country names in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic) [1], and UN representatives of the countries can request how they want their country to be written in any of those. I gu
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by em500 4y ago
This is part of the ISO-3166 standard (free draft here[1], official pdf is payware[2]). AFAIK the ISO standards are only available in English and French, so you'll only get the English and French names. The United Nations has a list of
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by em500 4y ago
Fortunately the 2 and 3 letter abbreviations (Alpha-2 and Alpha-3) didn't change. Typically we'd use the abbreviations for analysis, feature encoding, etc. and the full name only for display and human interface use (like for autoc
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by em500 4y ago
OT, but he also happens to be the developer of kitty, my favorite terminal emulator on Linux: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty
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by em500 4y ago
Note that Sichuan pepper is unrelated to chili pepper.
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by em500 4y ago
Nobody thought a one off $500 or $2000 will be life changing and it's not what the researchers were surprised about. The surprise is that on most subjective well-being metrics, the groups receiving some windfall cash reported significa
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by em500 4y ago
Gook luck trying to fund a sufficiently powered RCT to give people $2/month for a year, let alone 5. $2k for 5 years is $120k per participant, so about $120M for a 1000 sample size study.
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by em500 4y ago
I use vi(m) more often on remote servers than locally, and in many cases I don't have much control what software is available. Mouse support is a crapshoot, so I never bothered with that.
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by em500 4y ago
Tourists only visit a pretty small part of the city. If you start at Amsterdam CS and cycle north, east or west for 10min you'll be in a tourist free neighborhood. Only southbound you'll have to cycle around 20min.
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by em500 4y ago
Even weirder is that according to the rumor mill the notch is already on it's way out in the iPhone, to be replaced with a pill shaped cutout this year, and under-screen cameras in a few years.

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