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by greenpresident 6y ago
The M1 MacBook Pro starts with 8GB and has an option for 16GB. I was talking about the Mac mini which in the Intel version has an option for 64GB (at +$1000 it's not exactly cheap).
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by greenpresident 6y ago
Max 16GB of RAM on these new machines is really not that great to be honest. The mini supported up to 64GB before.
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by greenpresident 6y ago
Germany has a toll system for trucks only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKW-Maut From Wikipedia: > Germany's LKW-Maut is a toll for goods vehicles based on the distance driven in kilometres, the emission categ
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by greenpresident 6y ago
I am happy that you have not experienced this kind of adversity in your personal life. There is no reason, however, why your personal experience should be generalised to the population/world. >stomping out these fake narratives. Why
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by greenpresident 7y ago
I use it primarily for cooking ingredients. The names on some unconventional grains and vegetables are easy to translate using this method and not always available in conventional dictionaries. It would also be useful for identifying cuts o
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by greenpresident 7y ago
That‘s true, it‘s not present at the voting level. But I believe it’s present at the level of submitting and feed selection.
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by greenpresident 7y ago
In my opinion, groupthink on social media is to be understood as a Keynesian beauty contest. [0] Suppose you‘d want to determine who among a group of entrants in a beauty is the most beautiful according to standards shared by the group . S
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by greenpresident 7y ago
Celia Moore[0] has the same opinion: Being able to effortlessly act immorally makes you more likely to rise to the top for the reasons you name. Afterwards, people will imitate that behaviour, giving rise to a corrupt corporate culture. [0]
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by greenpresident 7y ago
It's a reference to fever temperatures. Internal body temp != ambient air temp.
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by greenpresident 8y ago
There are several famous examples of this in economics. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect <-- Observing behaviour changes said behaviour, leading to invalid observations. https:/&
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by greenpresident 8y ago
While not as heavy with respect to the physics, this guide goes into all the detail you could want when it comes to making great pizza at home: http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm
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by greenpresident 9y ago
Ha, I did not know that there had been a New Yorker profile profile of him just a few days ago. They are really jumping on the predictive processing train hard: In the same issue, there had been a profile of Metzinger [0], who plays an imp
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by greenpresident 9y ago
Are you familiar with the current debate about predictive processing / free energy minimisation / active inference, driven by philosophers such as Clark & Hohwy on the one side and the neuroscience tribe around Friston along s
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by greenpresident 9y ago
(I am not a physical therapist.) The ankle part can be trained separately by flexing them, I would believe. If your heels keep raising and you really want to be able to do it, have someone take a video of your attempt and study where your c
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by greenpresident 9y ago
You are retracing the arguments made by Rawls in Theory of Justice. The result he proposes is a maximin principle that gives (grossly simplified) based on the maximum of access to social goods that is compatible with similar access for ever
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by greenpresident 9y ago
I am thoroughly impressed by the number of people involved in this class. I teach a class at a large European research university and it is the professor plus two TAs, nobody else. That is a difference tuition and funding can make. You get
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by greenpresident 9y ago
Here‘s an example of how they are handled in Germany: https://goo.gl/maps/cmLVxuhViyF2 The space it requires is not much bigger than the traffic light. That town replaced many of its intersections with roundabouts even
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by greenpresident 9y ago
Selecting text on an iPad is a breeze if you use what Apple calls trackpad mode. Resting two fingers on the Keyboard lets you slide around the cursor. A double tap selects the current word. Resting your fingers before moving initiates a sel
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by greenpresident 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma The Heinz Dilemma is not evaluated based on your decision but (as you correctly note in passing) based on your reasoning.
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by greenpresident 10y ago
After moving audio to USB-C, you only need one jack for charging and audio. Space saved right there. You'll also notice that 3.5 > 2.6, so it allows for thinner phones (for whatever that's worth...). USB-C also grips the jack o
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by greenpresident 11y ago
There are proposed models that would reward a company for developing a drug for a specific purpose. It would allow them to recoup a part of their R&D up front. Rewards could be offered by the government, NGOs or insurance companies. Wou
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by greenpresident 11y ago
Here is a description of the phenomenon, recently linked on daringfireball: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox
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by greenpresident 12y ago
Incidentally, one of the motivations behind the Bauhaus movement was to move against art nouveau's style that was impossible to mass produce. So they started using material that was easily available and designed furniture that could po
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by greenpresident 12y ago
This kind of branding is called ingredient branding. They try to remain visible as the supplier of a component. Intel is the textbook example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingredient_branding
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by greenpresident 12y ago
>In light of the decision by the majority of our exhibitors not to show the film The Interview, we have decided not to move forward with the planned December 25 theatrical release. We respect and understand our partners’ decision and, of
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by greenpresident 12y ago
When I was in middle school, Battle.net was our main tool of communication. I hung out in channels with my friends from school and we chatted and played together. Diablo and ICQ were our way of texting. I guess the comparison is fair if it&
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by greenpresident 12y ago
This would also facilitate committing to assurance contracts via bitcoin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract
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by greenpresident 12y ago
Hub dynamos are very efficient. I do not feel a difference riding with or without one. For street speeds of around 20km/h in an urban environment they create mechanical drag of around 6 watts [1] with the lights switched on. http:&#x2
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by greenpresident 12y ago
Note that this neatly integrates into their plan of digitizing all books ever written. Next: Brahimi Captchas.
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by greenpresident 12y ago
As to the employer expectations in Germany: I found this really ridiculous for teachers in training who are expected to own a car to get to the school they work at but are paid 1200€ pre-tax which does not get you very far. You also lose yo

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