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by jltsiren 1y ago
That's a republican idea (with a small r), or maybe a nationalist one. Monarchs on the other hand had a habit of collecting titles. If you only had one title as the head of one political entity, you were obviously a very insignificant
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by jltsiren 1y ago
A lot of people have learned exactly the wrong lessons from the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Making people complacent with repeated false alarms is more likely the intended outcome than a failure. When I was in school, one of the history teachers sp
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by jltsiren 1y ago
The real problem is that LaTeX is often an interchange format. Whatever tools you use to write the paper, they must ultimately output LaTeX. In the publisher's template, using only the features and packages approved by the publisher, a
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Having a unit type in your toolkit is one thing, and expecting it to play a decisive role in battle is another. For example, Alexander's heavy infantry was supposed to anchor the enemy in place as cavalry won the battle, while Roman he
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by jltsiren 1y ago
It's less about cultural preferences and more about fighting with what you have. If you have a feudal society based on personal relationships between the elites, you probably can't raise large bodies of heavy infantry. You don&#x2
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Cavalry won battles in societies that favored cavalry. If your society was built around elite warriors, your army probably relied on cavalry, because those elite warriors wanted to be individually as effective as possible. But if the state
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Dangerous arrows tend to come from the same general direction. If the archer is close enough to shoot straight, arrows coming from above have so little energy that they are mostly harmless. If the archer had shot them with enough energy to
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by jltsiren 1y ago
In a cavalry charge, the shield protects as much (or as little) as otherwise. The horse is doing the actual work, while the rider can use the shield normally. An infantry charge starts at the last moment. At that point, the infantry formati
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by jltsiren 1y ago
It's more about the oceanic climate. According to the map in the article, continental areas at similar latitudes see more thunderstorms than the UK. I guess that's mostly because temperate thunderstorms often happen near the front
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Easier firing would increase the market rates for every role. At least unless combined with generous unemployment benefits, as in Denmark. It could make the government more efficient in the long term, at the expense of higher spending (and
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Do you know the motivations of those who hanged Mao portraits, or are you just guessing? I wouldn't know, as I'm not even sure I had seen Warhol's Mao portraits before today. But I've known plenty of people who went to a
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by jltsiren 1y ago
And many Christian churches prominently display art featuring Satan. It's always less about what is actually in the picture and more about the message the picture is supposed to send and how people actually interpret it. Hitler and Naz
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by jltsiren 1y ago
I'm not familiar with the specific situation in the UK, but age-based discounts can support many policy goals. Maybe you want teenagers to be more independent, instead of relying too much on their parents for transportation needs. Mayb
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The issue with soft money positions is mostly that universities insist on being shitty employers. By default, all jobs are supposed to be open-ended. Fixed-term contracts are only allowed for legitimate reasons. Hiring someone for the expec
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by jltsiren 2y ago
But the short direct line might also not get built, if the projections show passenger volume will not be high enough to justify the costs. Passenger rail has high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Even with high-speed rail, you generally
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Then you would have two retirees for every three working age people. And given that only ~70% of working age Americans are actually working, it would mean three non-working adults for every two adults with jobs. Either the retirees would ha
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I could say algorithmic bioinformatics, but that's not really correct. The center of mass may be there, but the actual work varies from theoretical computer science to genomics.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Note how the author talks about "main conferences", "major conferences", and "top conferences". That's the root issue. Whenever there is prestige available, people will compete for it. And if you have a co
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by jltsiren 2y ago
If people are allowed to make their own life choices, you are unlikely to get equal representation of various demographic groups. For example, conservatives tend to prioritize wages and stability when making career choices. Liberals are mor
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by jltsiren 2y ago
In the almost 20 years I've done academic research, I've met thousands of scientists. Some of them have been involved in various scandals, but as far as I know, none of the scandals were about scientific integrity. When it comes t
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Internal motivation and acting according to your values is not necessarily a good thing. For example, repeat offenders are often internally motivated. They keep committing crime, because they don't fit in. And because their motivations
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Your way of thinking sounds alien to me. You seem to assume that people mostly just follow the incentives, rather than acting according to their internal values. Science is a field with low wages, uncertain careers, and relatively little st
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by jltsiren 2y ago
And my point was that academics whose primary job is doing research in someone else's project are even rarer than tenured professors in research universities. A postdoc is primarily a career advancement position rather than something w
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by jltsiren 2y ago
A postdoc is a training position, where the individual further develops their skills and tries to build an independent profile while being mentored by a more senior academic. PhDs who work in someone else's projects without focusing as
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The vast majority of those working for a PI are students and postdocs, which are inherently trainee positions. Though, depending on the field and the PI, trainees may also have plenty of freedom to work on their own topics. If you want an a
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That didn't really make sense. On the one hand, the author complains that proportional elections favor a limited number of parties, which don't always give voters good options to choose from. And on the other hand, the winner usua
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by jltsiren 2y ago
More like through Finnish language glasses. We were talking specifically about Easter, which is related to but also different from other Paschal traditions. For example, Finnish pääsiäinen was not a traditional spring festival, because it&#
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by jltsiren 2y ago
You need to look at the bigger picture. The English word "east", and the equivalent words in most European languages, ultimately mean something related to the dawn or sunrise. There is plenty of evidence for various Indo-European
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by jltsiren 2y ago
But this was about Eostre. Whatever the name meant and wherever it came from, it was pretty clearly the origin of the word "Easter". And there is reasonable evidence of a Germanic goddess with a name something like Eostre or Ostar
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Correctness doesn't scale. If something has six nines of reliability, you'll probably never see the one-in-million outlier yourself. But if the other side deals with a million requests a month, they are a common occurrence.

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