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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Unless the target market for the small phone is not worth it at the scale of Apple.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Lying, manipulation, and violence share the same underlying theme: depriving someone else of their free choice. Either by withholding truth, playing on their subconsciousness, or threatening harm.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Is there any credence to this, or is it just in your head? There is a lot that goes into earning the organic label from regulators, and it‘s highly correlated with doing things slowly, the old-fashioned way. So the only way you can beat n
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
It‘s not the same. If anything, organic produce and its labeling are regulated (at least in EU), magical cures for cancer are not.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Are you familiar with quantum Monte Carlo? This is just variational QMC, a well established method, with a neural network as an ansatz. Traditionally QMC uses ad-hoc ansatzes anyway, so this is not different. Also, I‘ve spent last seven yea
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
This approach is guaranteed to give better answers than pretty much anything from standard quantum chemistry. Its limitations are (i) computational cost and (ii) the fact that many material/drug design questions cannot be answered with
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Useless does not equal pointless.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
The official Berlin website disagrees with you, https://www.berlin.de/en/shopping/shopping-streets/ . I live in Berlin and disagree too.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Controllably fly in strong wind using very primitive sensors.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
No, it doesn't work in quantum mechanics. Even under many-worlds, the result of a measurement is fundamentally indeterminable until it is realized. In many-worlds parlance—which "world" you end up in is indeterminable.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Anyone can experience this by overtightening the headset (the steering axis) on a bike. Suddenly one has to focus on balancing way more and riding a bike no handed becomes almost impossible.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Anybody who studied a bit of probability theory knows that all this depends on the underlying probability distributions. If one draws five samples from a Gaussian distributions with an unknown mean and a standard deviation of 10, and none o
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Social lock-in.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
“class” and “inheritance” are just abstractions of the very traditional meanings of these two words. I’m sure Thai has to have equivalents for those?
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Here’s one example. Though it’s probably different from what you had in mind https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408370
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Yes, I had Iceland, Norway, and Sweden in mind. Iceland is very strict. Denmark is pretty continental in this regard.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
The Scandinavian countries show that if you do not prohibit completely, but just make people jump through some hoops to get it and/or make it very expensive, it sort of works.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I’m no mountaineer, but I’ll guess the misunderstanding here stems from where one draws the baseline. If you’re someone who spent years climbing in the Alps or in Colorado, then I assume that Everest simply may not be an upgrade. It’s like
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I’m no mountaineer, but I’ll guess the misunderstanding here stems from where one draws the baseline. If you’re someone who spent years climbing in the Alps, then I assume that Mt Everest
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I agree, but these are second-order effects, so that's even more complex than what I wrote about.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
My interpretation of the parent was that there is some hypothetical point at which basic needs (whatever they are) of all humans are satisfied and additional growth is about more comfort/less work. At that point one could in principle
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
This reminds me a bit of the environmental issues. Most of my friends are aware of the impacts of flying (CO2) and buying stuff (waste), but the negative end results of these things are just too distant and abstract for them to voluntarily
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Black verifies that the abstract syntax trees of the original and reformatted code are identical. There is practically zero chance of breaking changes.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Yes, the side effect of using black seems to be a more reasonable factoring within function bodies.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
The world population will saturate around 10B. It's not really something to worry about for two reasons: (1) From what I've read, there's very little that can be done about it in terms of policy. (2) The largest effect has be
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I vaguely remember that Yubikeys with NFC cannot be used with iPhones (only with Android phones) because of some limitation related to NFC tags. So perhaps after this update, it will be possible.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Germany deals with most of its waste internally. Most paper is recycled for second-rate paper products. Metal is recycled. Some plastic is recycled. The rest (general waste, organic, most of plastic) is incinerated under corresponding condi
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by jhrmnn 8y ago
Not necessarily. As other posters in this discussion point out, you can for instance create biochar from trees, which can be permanently planted in the ground, thus finally returning in the place of origin the carbon we earlier dug out in t
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by jhrmnn 8y ago
Each new standard usually removes a very small number of features, but Fortran 2018 is mostly a superset of Fortran 77. Most compilers retain absolute backward compatibility, so they can compile a superset of Fortran 66 to 2018, and often s
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by jhrmnn 8y ago
Does anyone know a study that would look into all the implicit subsidies? Externalities in terms of environmental impact, building of roads/rails from general taxes, direct subsidies. Maybe cars wouldn’t be as cheap if all these things

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