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Finland will seek NATO membership immediately(presidentti.fi)
840 points by fsloth 4y ago|1005 comments
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by fsloth 4y ago
Before this turns into a culture-war-fest consider this: if Twitter is to be a global platform, it probably should NOT take political sides and if it is to censor anyone permanently, it should mostly adhere to local courts and similar entit
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Ask HN: Best anglophone popular science magazine?
1 points by fsloth 4y ago|0 comments
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by fsloth 4y ago
I was generally chasing the thought that reading to your kids is always good for them. Even scary stories, as long as they are don't cause too much anxiety. By trauma I was not implying "the worst thing that can happen to a person
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by fsloth 4y ago
I read the Animal Farm to my below K12 kids on one sitting and they were hooked. Kids needs scary stories in a safe environment. This will help them process these thoughts and prepare them for the inevitable trauma they will face at some po
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by fsloth 4y ago
Of course! But I felt the argument was mostly about mammals (how it's different to talk about predators meat and mans meat eating habits). Pointing out the scale of biomass is of course relevant to this discussion - there is so much of
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by fsloth 4y ago
All successful countries to a large extent are run for the companies, but the border between public, private and regulated/un-regulated is different.
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by fsloth 4y ago
Humans plus agricultural animals are 96% of all the mammalian biomass. In light of these numbers I don't understand the environmental rationalization based on the diets of predators.
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by fsloth 5y ago
Amen. Nobody has ever proved any benefits to open plan offices . Their pathologies however are well documented e.g. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.023... Teams can thrive in same room. H
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by fsloth 5y ago
I agree, my twitter view is very nice. Computer graphics, few authors, some dry political analysts, space stuff. If someone posts something irascible I just unfollow them (but might later refollow).
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by fsloth 5y ago
You can just unfollow people I think?
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by fsloth 5y ago
Symphony of Science is another sample in this genre of "remixing popular science" https://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-of-science-c... Nightwish had their "Greates show on Earth" with Sir
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by fsloth 5y ago
Companies are in general happy with paying subscriptions since it's from their operational expense (OPEX). Why companies prefer it that way is another question. But they do.
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by fsloth 5y ago
"Smoothing curves that look the most natural are often modeled after springs or friction. How is that not based on physics?" To be clear, when I say "based on physics" I mean "a value that can be computed from first
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by fsloth 5y ago
Yes, I agree it is bizarre and fascinating and everything you said about traveling in various colour spaces:) Also agree "should match spec" is always a valid argument. To repeat, and be clear, my critique was about what the page
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by fsloth 5y ago
IMO gradients are not based on physics any more than selecting a smoothing curve in animation is. They are design tools - even though physics can be used to analyze them. I say this as a software engineer with a MSc in physics and a compute
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by fsloth 5y ago
Gradients are design tools. The gradient interpolation function can be designed around some physical mixing hypothesis but there is no first principles rule as such. Focusing on the luminosity is only half of the battle. For nice looking gr
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by fsloth 5y ago
The gradient mixing example is broken. "Color gradients are supposed to be equally bright around the midpoint" This is false. Nobody mandates this. There is no "correct" way to do it, every one of them is arbitrary (alth
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by fsloth 5y ago
Sometimes intuition works much better than analytic thought. It hits you first something feels right - or wrong - and only later you are able to give some reason to this feeling. If you can, that is. Mood swings are really nasty in the sens
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by fsloth 5y ago
The parent comment felt true to me. While not author of the parent comment I would like to explain why and how it feels true. I've suffered clinical depression so am quite familiar with strong mood swings. It's never been bad enou
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by fsloth 5y ago
"Hello. I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC"
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by fsloth 5y ago
Oral history seems to be surprisingly robust. As an anecdote Socrates was critical of how writing makes you forget things. https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...
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by fsloth 5y ago
I warmly recommend to anyone interested in this line of thought James Scott's "Against the grain" for oldest evidence of the first agrarian states in the middle east. "Against the grain" points out that it's no
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by fsloth 5y ago
I would not call it hypocrisy but necessary. I mean what can you respond to outreaches like "Our client has a billion euro building project X, our collaborator has promised them Y, but our product can't do Z, can you fix it please
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by fsloth 5y ago
>>>> Finland never participated in the colonial era except as a dirt poor third world economy to be exploited. >>A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being dif
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by fsloth 5y ago
Focusing on the atlantic slave trade is understandable in US as that's very foundational there. I just hope US people would realize allmost none of their North-American cultural tropes are applicable elsewhere as a foundation for any
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by fsloth 5y ago
The article is about intentional acting (in the thespian sense) not intentionally giving oneself a clinical psychiatric condition.
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by fsloth 5y ago
I am at least and it's terribly exhausting. Need to pretend I care about the product, care about being perceived as a high output individual contributor etc. Need to pretend I'm good with people and generally cheery. I am all of t
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by fsloth 5y ago
What exactly is the relevance of this discussion here? These things are not reciprocal! They just arent! NATO was not the cause of this conflict. NATO would have stopped this conflict had Ukraine been a member. NATO is a force of stability.
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by fsloth 5y ago
I take it as a more of "liberal call to arms for western values" rather than as an objective quantitative conclusion - but yes, Economist is a bit of a mixed bag on this way. It's the best news media today (IMO) but it's

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