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Patent revenue is mostly irrelevant, as it's too unpredictable and typically decades in the future. Academics rarely do research that can be expected to produce economic value in the next 10–20 years, because the industry can easily ou
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The population is growing older. Young adults rarely live alone, while retirees often do. There are more old people than there used to be, and people often want to continue living in their own home after their spouse dies.
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Starlink is illegal in Iran. Being a foreign journalist is a huge red flag in totalitarian countries, making it harder to smuggle in illegal devices than for the average citizen or visitor. And because journalists are probably under surveil
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There are plenty of Western journalists in Iran, but they are subject to the same internet blackout as everyone else. Embassies can use satellite communications due to diplomatic immunity, while journalists are just average nobodies who fac
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I don't think the question is really about whether AI art is real art. (But it could be about that, as I'm not familiar with commercial cons in the US.) Some years ago, around the time I became aware that AI art is a thing, the ar
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Ethnic Greenlanders living in Greenland are ordinary Danish citizens. Any Danish citizen can obtain almost the same legal rights by moving to Greenland. Citizens of other Nordic countries can also live and work in Greenland without any perm
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Annapurna Circuit has changed much over the years. It feels busier than EBC, because roads go all the way up to Manang and Muktinath, with only three days between them. And Muktinath is a big pilgrimage destination, with ~800k visitors a ye
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You must be thinking of 2008. And the EU economy was not bigger than the US back then. There was a temporary distortion in currency exchange rates, as people saw a significant risk that the financial crisis would cause serious long-term dam
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If you want to use national security as a justification for subsidies, you need to be careful with what you are subsidizing. Only essential things should be subsidized. Non-essential things can be left to the market, or at least their subsi
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Concurrency is easy by default. The hard part is when you are trying to be clever. You write concurrent code in Rust pretty much in the same way as you would write it in OpenMP, but with some extra syntax. Rust catches some mistakes automat
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There was Conan the Barbarian before them. But pretty much everything else in the genre was mediocre or cringe-worthy. On the other hand, I remember fondly the movie nights a local sci-fi club used to run until the mid-2000s. There were so
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Wild edge cases are to be expected when you do things at scale. If you build 20 buildings in different regions, at least one of them will likely face a once-in-1000-years natural disaster. And it's difficult to estimate how bad that pa
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In my experience, people are willing to contribute up to 10 hours/week to individual volunteer projects they care about. That may increase to up to 20 hours/week for a year or two when they assume a key role. A full-time job takes
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I meant that the person writing the contract must be a pedant. Vague everyday language can only lead to bad things, when someone inevitably interprets in a different way. In this particular case, the bets were clearly about military operati
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In some languages and situations, "army" is a general term for the military or for a military force. In other languages and situations, it refers specifically to ground forces. Americans are usually in the latter camp, especially
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Do you mean that if the US Marine Corps takes some foreign territory by force, it's not an invasion, because there is no army involved in the operation? Vague everyday language is unsuitable for contracts. When there are multiple reaso
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EB-2 application timelines are measured in years. If you qualify for a national interest waiver and are not from China or India, it's plausible that you can get a green card before the STEM OPT extension runs out. If any of the three c
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Negative numbers are probably convenient, if your background is in a field, where numerical calculations are the norm. Traditional accounting is better justified from a mathematical perspective, as mathematics is more about definitions than
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Negative numbers are a hack in the sense that they can be confusing, and it's easy to make mistakes with them. For example, I would interpret "-100 L/min outflow" as an indirect equivalent of "100 L/min inflow&
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I think the biggest challenge is that negative numbers are fundamentally a hack in this context. You don't have negative $100 in your bank account, and you don't pay negative $100 for something. Instead, you are $100 in debt or yo
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"The West" is not a unified entity, and the interests of Western countries almost never align. Remember how mainstream media was reporting in 2003 that Powell is obviously lying? How the whole debacle about Iraqi WMDs was little m
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The 28% claim is wrong. It seems to be based on a common misunderstanding of how overhead rates are calculated. In the supplementary table cited as the source, 72.1% of the total costs were awarded as direct costs and 27.9% as indirect cost
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That's not a good example, but for a different reason: the N95 outsold the original iPhone. The original iPhone was a promising proof of concept. It got the form factor and the interface right, but the actual device was underwhelming.
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It's more about the combat model. Everyone is a fanatic who fights until death, despite any casualties their friends and allies have suffered. And weapons and other attacks are mostly harmless. They deal limited damage measured in hit
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Chip and signature, which often means just the chip without further authentication. EMV has multiple options. Many countries (including the US) chose the signature option for credit cards for convenience and use PINs only with debit cards.
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I've never had trouble buying train tickets with a credit card in Germany. If I had to guess, your issue was that you were trying to use a card that didn't support chip-and-PIN or contactless payments.
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Educated immigrants often consider countries interchangeable. They are in a country, because they found an opportunity and took it. But they are not committed to stay, because better opportunities could arise elsewhere. When you have alread
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There are large numbers, and then there are even larger numbers. Academic research is roughly $100 billion a year in the US. A foundation with $2 trillion could support that indefinitely with the required 5% minimum distributions. By today&
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All laws are inherently vague. Some actions are clearly legal and some are clearly illegal. Between them, there is a gray zone, where it can be impossible to say in advance what's legal and what isn't. If you are an amoral profit
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Indie Game Awards defines it like this: "Existing outside of the traditional publisher system, a game crafted and released by developers who are not owned or financially controlled by a major AAA/AA publisher or corporation, allow

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