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by fer 5y ago
> apply for PhD in EPHE institute of France [...] I got nothing in response. Well, that's hardly surprising, and it's not because you're Russian, in France it's hard to get any institution to ever reply you by mail, l
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by fer 5y ago
> Neutrality doesnt mean subjugation. It does though. Latest Putin demands involve complete demilitarization of Ukraine. For what purpose? Invading it better afterwards?
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by fer 5y ago
Chomsky literally said that the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was US/NATO's fault. He's not an ideologue, he's just an old asshat way too many naive leftists put on a pedestal. Nothing positive about the west can get into h
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by fer 5y ago
> nobody actually cares enough to bust money laundering if it's not causing publicly visible problems. That's the harsh truth. Where I live, THC is illegal, and its distribution usually ends with time served. Interestingly, CB
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by fer 5y ago
> "oh, I just received 100 dollars worth of Monero from 1 million unknown entities, my $100 million is totally legit, fuck off" That's pretty much the whole NFT craze, but without Monero which makes it even dumber.
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Semantle: Semantic Wordle(semantle.novalis.org)
5 points by fer 5y ago|0 comments
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by fer 5y ago
I think you overestimate the influence of the FDA around the world. To point an example, the FDA approved oxycodone for oral administration (and trusted patients with the dosage of a strong opioid). Meanwhile in most European countries it&#
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by fer 5y ago
> Iraqi WMD The literal Secretary-General of the UN said it was illegal[0], along with dozens of countries. You can't get more high profile disagreement than that, especially considering the rationale of the US was to enforce UN SCR
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by fer 5y ago
My point is, if every (or almost every) actor does the same thing, and someone argues that's bad/damaging/not the best course of action, the only explanations are either: * All actors are anti-rational (not just irrational, w
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by fer 5y ago
Who is this person/organisation that made every authority agree with each other for the first time in history?
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by fer 5y ago
Adding to that, it helps to think about how the types of accident are dramatically different. 1. In a regular car, most accidents are at relatively low speed, and in those at high speed are generally front collisions (for at least one of th
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by fer 5y ago
Fair enough, for me it's fairly useful even with niche genres, but promoters around here tend to use it too (or the info gets scraped because the area has more things going on). I've had free open air (no venue) concerts of Balkan
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by fer 5y ago
If concert info is what keeps you on the platform, you can kick FB out of your life with Bandsintown.
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by fer 5y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34813628/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34161818/ Also the meta-study submitted is certainly creative in their understanding of the studies. For exmaple: > Usi
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Space Burial(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by fer 5y ago|0 comments
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by fer 5y ago
"Cancel culture" is not a simple boycott as you put it, and it's kind of disingenuous to portray it as such.
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by fer 5y ago
He also claims children don't have strokes, that basically 100% of them are caused by COVID-19 vaccines, even though strokes are among the most common causes of death of children (that's from his JRE interview). That information k
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by fer 5y ago
> Someone just slipped a bug into production. We now have $12,399 per minute in transactions that will not be processed. CEO needs a report for a board meeting in 20 minutes. Junior dev didn't show up and four team members were wait
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by fer 5y ago
Actually I'd go further and stop citing these XXXmeta.org websites that pop like mushrooms after the rain. It's probably the result of a Python script that pops graphs and tables according to a csv with data from the studies selec
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by fer 5y ago
Reminder that US patents don't require a working product to be granted. The USPO just takes the money and leaves it to lawyers to defend them. It's common in certain fields to blanket patent inventions before even having looked at
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by fer 5y ago
I've certainly noticed Google ignoring results more than 3-4 years old when something barely related, but more recent, matches. I call it "recency trap". Because of that I've found myself more and more systematically set
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by fer 5y ago
> Public safety agencies, however, which account for one-quarter of piston-engine planes registered with the Federal Aviation Administration, are “likely to consume more than half of all the avgas used by the fleet,” according to the Jan
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by fer 5y ago
I think you've misread me.
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by fer 5y ago
Most flying is done in airliners (at least in passenger-miles), whose engines don't benefit from any lead. On the other hand, smaller, piston-engine aircrafts are overwhelmingly a hobby for relatively wealthy people, where leaded avgas
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by fer 5y ago
Comparing a: • Pre-industrial society with widespread slavery, with most of the agricultural production of the union, trying to secede because they don't like the new rules. Against a: • Turn-of-the-21st-century, religiously-motivated,
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by fer 5y ago
We're not talking about USA.
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by fer 5y ago
> Also, do not equate Chechnya, Georgia and Crimea. Of course you can equate. Russia has a history of supporting separatists immediately outside of their borders, while cracking them down when they're just across inside. You can dir
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by fer 5y ago
Actually Crimea is probably the hottest spot for any action, as Ukraine has been cutting the supply of fresh water to the peninsula. They have running water for 3-5h a day. If war starts, securing water supply to Crimea is one of the first
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by fer 5y ago
The distinction needs to be there, from the moment FB (or Twitter) has a conflict of interest: their revenue depends on the content being engaging, regardless its factuality. In my head, if they do any filtering or ordering of content, they
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by fer 5y ago
What? Mine is hollow steel tubes + wires, 20€, it will hold about 12 using only the center section and it won't be even close to abuse. I only see it bending if putting heavy clothes on the side racks.

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