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by jltsiren 1y ago
The rest of the world has caught up on methods, but each country uses its own definitions. International comparisons often use OECD data, because it's the best data source that exists. The organization has spent decades collecting data
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The republican tradition never really died out in Europe. From city states to merchant / maritime republics to free imperial cities, there were always polities that can be best understood as republics. Venice lasted for 1100 years, and
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Most Protestants don't believe in the Rapture either. It's a doctrine some American theologians created in the 19th century and which hasn't gained much support elsewhere.
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Ships going to Antarctica often offer single beds in shared cabins. When I went there, I booked the cheapest bed (maybe $6500 in 2013) in a three-person cabin. It was early season and the ship wasn't full, so the company filled it with
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Is it SpaceX philosophy or specifically Starship development philosophy? Because the development of the Falcon seemed to follow a pretty standard path. First they had three failures and two successes with the Falcon 1, and then they scaled
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That's been happening, but not as quickly as earlier generations expected. In 1970, the average labor force participant (employed or unemployed) in Denmark worked 1845 hours. By 2022, the number had fallen to 1371 hours. The numbers ar
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." That socialist principle has always been the essence of the Nordic model. While the Nordic countries chose regulated markets over actual socialism, they embrace
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There is nothing sad about this. Mandatory pensions are not a vacation sponsored by the government but a way to provide for those who can't provide for themselves. If you were born in the 70s, you should have known for most of your adu
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And capital gains are actually property taken from the workers and given to capitalists. In both cases, the recipients have magic tokens that legally entitle them to some of the value created by other people. I don't know how this work
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It's far too early to say. You can't move a conference to a different country on a short notice. You can only hold it with whatever audience you can get, postpone it, or cancel it. For larger events, it's already too late to
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Rich people are also humans. Marketing can influence their behavior just as well as it influences everyone else. There are basically two kinds of donations. You can help those in need and provide services that keep the society running. Or y
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I think the biggest issue is that shipbuilding sucks as a business. Unless you are a large company with many shipyards, you are producing a small number of ships every year, and the ships take a long time to build. Any particular shipyard w
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I didn't provide numbers for the other side, as the numbers you can easily find are almost certainly not comparable. International comparisons require a lot of work if you want to do them properly, as there are too many differences in
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Academic standards are kind of irrelevant when it comes to Harvard undergraduate admissions. Harvard is a tiny university at the absolute top of the prestige hierarchy. As far as they are concerned, every serious (non-legacy/donor) app
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I think it's actually the opposite. American universities receive less research funding from external private sources than universities in the European countries I'm familiar with. The difference is probably due to the culture of
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Printing is black magic. One common issue is that you don't have all fonts embedded in the PDF file. There may not be anything wrong on screen, as the PDF reader can probably find the font if you have it installed. But the software you
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Blaming Intel is a poor excuse. Apple could have done some actual design and built a laptop around the hardware they had. But they didn't want to. Instead, they ignored the reality, stuck to the flawed design, and shipped mediocre lapt
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I think the ultimate point is that capitalists don't care about your country, whatever country that is. Capitalism is the least bad economic system discovered so far, but the success or failure of any particular country is irrelevant i
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Attorneys have a special status before the law. In particular, an attorney is legally required to act in the client's legitimate interests. If there is another person in the organization above the attorney and that person is also an at
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In that specific case, Russians needed 8 minutes out of the 10-minute decision window to rule out a nuclear attack. And the key factor was that the rocket was not headed towards Russia. Now imagine that this is not a random peacetime incide
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Succinct data structures such as wavelet trees are widely used in bioinformatics. There you often have strings that cannot be tokenized or parsed meaningfully, so you just have to deal with sequences of symbols. And because the strings are
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Hyperlinks are often banned in various kinds of petitions and applications. Mostly to ensure that the entire application is submitted at once and does not change afterwards. Then you can process the application in multiple passes (maybe fir
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Vulnerable is not the same as obsolete. Surface ships are still the only way to transport large quantities of troops and equipment over long distances. If you want to maintain the ability to project force beyond oceans, you need a navy to e
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In 1945, US GDP per capita was almost $1600. Using your conversion factors, that would be almost $150k today. The actual number is something like $85k. I don't think Americans are that much poorer today than they were 80 years ago.
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"Wavelet tree" is not just a collective label but the name explicitly given by the authors of the paper where the data structure was first described in. At least Vitter had worked in image/video compression, where wavelet tra
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Industry researchers are less likely to release their findings to the public, because their bosses choose that way. They are also doing research, but the outcomes of the research are fundamentally different.
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The are two fundamentally different kinds of private research funding. (Let's drop the &D part, because that's mostly unrelated to the kind of research we are talking about.) Charitable foundations and similar organizations ar
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Hiring smart people who want freedom and autonomy is easy. Just give them freedom, autonomy, stability, and a good enough salary. The hard part is getting them to contribute to your business. Maybe they will contribute if they find it inter
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The national median over what? When I was looking for similar figures in Finland, I found that the median income for households with two parents and at least one child was about twice the median over all households. And it's plausible
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Employers, not universities. Employers were the ones who decided that most good jobs require a college degree. And then they sent administrators as their minions to take over the universities. Americans often call their universities college

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