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by eszed 8mo ago
"Peanut butter" would be dealt with by including a reference under the "butter" entry. Something like: ' N, culinary. A paste made of ground up nuts, sometimes with additional oils and other ingredients. E.g. &quot
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by eszed 8mo ago
Men's clothes have gone through the same process over the course of my lifetime. For instance, I wear the same brand and size of jeans that I did in college. The waist size back then was broadly accurate to the actual size in inches, b
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by eszed 8mo ago
That's fair. RCV does break down with a large number of candidates. Though doesn't star voting have some odd corner cases? Regardless, every alternative scheme I've seen seriously proposed would be a massive improvement over
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by eszed 8mo ago
I was required when I took (two) undergraduate psychology classes. Also, when I was in grad school I did a few, because they paid (I think) £5 per - which was, in the days of £1 Green King pints and no outside income, well worth pursuing.
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by eszed 8mo ago
Wow. I didn't know this existed. Do you know the data-source? Is it primarily from your self-declarations to your credit card company? Or do they have access to tax records?
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by eszed 8mo ago
I think it's purely cultural, and totally to our (meaning workers') detriment. See my above comment about working in Germany.
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by eszed 8mo ago
The first time I worked with a bunch of Germans, for a German company, the very first topic, at our very first dinner together, was "how much are you being paid?". I was taken aback by this, until they explained the above point, a
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by eszed 8mo ago
Orlando Furioso is one of the "standard" texts posited to have inspired The Tempest , so this isn't a stretch. I'd not seen reproductions of the illustrations in the contemporary edition, however, so that's nice.
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by eszed 8mo ago
That's really cool! It'd be fun to display along with it a computer (Raspberry Pie, even?) programmed to make the same calculations the ENIAC first did. Press the button and out comes an artillery table with, "this took X sec
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by eszed 8mo ago
Yeah, I don't quite agree with that, or think of it as any kind of a criticism. The candles are placed in such a way that the faces of the important characters are easily visible, while the spectators fade into the background. This is
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by eszed 8mo ago
I agree with this. Ranked choice is easy to explain to a naive voter: everyone understands how a preference order works, and the result is "the candidate more people like the most". Counting the votes is (a bit) complicated, but
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by eszed 8mo ago
> This is about our systems of reputation, identity, and trust breaking down. So many of our foundational institutions – hiring, journalism, law, public discourse – are built on the assumption that reputation is hard to build and hard to
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by eszed 8mo ago
No, I wouldn't say that. I knew what I was good at, and like I say was pretty inured to rejection. I had plenty of confidence, but I think it's a show vs tell issue. I'm thrilled to do the first, but the latter makes me s
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by eszed 8mo ago
> Art is absolutely an expression of yourself. But your art is not you. Try not to entangle your ego with your art. This is something I wish I could impress upon 23-year-old me. I had all the drive in the world to create , and made some
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by eszed 8mo ago
This obviously has implications for modeling physical systems. That's mentioned at the end of the article - though I'm proud of my very, very non-mathematician self for thinking of it earlier, lol - but not expanded. For those of
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by eszed 8mo ago
I'm partial to Yorkshire Gold. Bog-standard British builder's tea, but I can't taste the difference between the decaf and the regular.
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by eszed 8mo ago
https://archive.is/4QQbq
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by eszed 8mo ago
Apologies for inserting myself into this exchange, but I'd like to point out something that both your primary interlocuter seem to be overlooking. > They took that decision voluntarily Doesn't really describe the experience of
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by eszed 8mo ago
Someone on here posted a link to this index: https://www.unitedforalice.org/essentials-index Which was new to me, but puts some numbers behind the non-discretionary discretionary spending concept raised by this article.
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by eszed 8mo ago
That's a fair point, but in the interests of a concise story I left out a couple of details: there were three different names associated with my SSN; all of the jobs were agricultural; there weren't any bank account, housing, or o
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by eszed 8mo ago
I'm equally careful and aware. Years ago, now, I discovered that someone in New Mexico (if I recall correctly) was working under my Social Security number. That was likely someone not authorized to work in the US writing random digits
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by eszed 9mo ago
Not questioning that, merely proposing that the two compound.
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by eszed 9mo ago
Was going to say the same thing. I've had three of these sorts of "crashes": once was my fault, but no damage, so I apologized and we shook hands and drove away; once was their fault, but same result; third was unambiguously
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by eszed 9mo ago
True, but it seems fair to evaluate Waymo against the median American driver. If they expand to whatever other countries you're thinking of, then it will be fair recalibrate accordingly.
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by eszed 9mo ago
Two things: I've read studies saying that most drivers don't brake at max effort, even to avoid a collision. This may be at least one of the reasons that Waymo predicted that an attentive human would likely have been going faster
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by eszed 9mo ago
Huh! I don't follow chess closely enough to have known the tables go that deep. Do high-level players memorize (enough of) those that their strategy in a losing position shifts to creating a drawing piece combination? Or do the tables
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by eszed 9mo ago
How had I never seen this? Fantastic. Thank you!
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by eszed 9mo ago
> 10 computers a year experience this bit flip That's wildly more than I would have naively expected to experience a specific bit-flip. Wow!
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by eszed 9mo ago
It's a low specificity test. If you get a false positive you'll be getting a colonoscopy anyway, and (less of a risk, but still worth considering) if you get a false negative it's a bit of a problem. That's how my gastro
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by eszed 9mo ago
Ask for novocain around your external sphincter - there's a high likelihood that the doctors won't think of it, because they're used to doing the procedure on sedated patients - unless, you know, you're otherwise prepare

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