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by jltsiren 4mo ago
That may depend on the field. My experience (in bioinformatics method development) is that people in the industry can't afford to work on state-of-the-art problems. But once a problem has become established and it's important enou
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
The actual law is more that you need an objective reason for a fixed-term contract in any sector. A genuine project (such as the completion of a PhD) is an acceptable reason. The availability of funding is not. In practice, it has been acce
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Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein), A Theory of Justice (Rawls), and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn) have all been pretty influential.
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I guess I disagree with both of you. You probably have plenty of novel ideas in early career, but you almost certainly lack the experience and the basic understanding of your field to develop them properly. Most people have exhausted their
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
Not always. I think it's an inherent failure mode of markets when everyone is playing by the same rules. You could simply invoke Goodhart's law: If the purpose of a business is to make money, its ability to make money is not a goo
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The Space Liability Convention establishes that all liability issues must be resolved between states. If a Chinese spacecraft damages an American spacecraft, the US government may be entitled to compensation if it can prove that the operato
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
> (but wasm64 doesn't really make sense unless you really need an address space greater than 32 bits, because the downside is slower performance) Or unless you need to use integer types that depend on pointer size (such as size_t or
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
You are focusing too much on legal definitions. The intuitive difference is mostly between the many and the few. Between the ordinary people and the elite. If your money comes from many small streams, it looks likely that many people have i
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
The essay kind of misses the point, as the question was mostly about the meaning of word "earned". "Earned income", for tax purposes, matches pretty closely the kinds of income many people consider genuinely earned in th
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
Remember how Brexit started? Cameron wanted to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership. Of course, those negotiations didn't go anywhere, because the EU has a limited ability to make concessions. Any comprehensive deal mu
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The sixth largest, more likely. US dollar declined enough last year that Japan and the UK probably surpassed California again. And India is also getting close to California.
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Denethor is described as wise and strong-willed (unlike the caricature seen in the movies). He knows Sauron is trying to manipulate him, but he believes his strength and legitimacy will let him prevail. It's the same belief Aragorn has
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
The actual lesson was that you need to be the trueborn king who can claim the palantiri by birthright if you want to use them for good. Even then, it requires great effort. Bad things will happen if anyone else tries to use the palantiri, n
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
They are basically restoring troop levels to what they were in the mid-1990s. Cold War levels were twice as high. Russia had gradually emptied most of the Leningrad Military District from troops, apart from a few key locations, such as Sain
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
Humans are good at resisting things outside their comfort zones. Strong incentives select for people who don't have to leave their comfort zones to pursue them. Most of the nerds I knew when I was young were nerds because they valued t
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
The Paris Agreement deals with total emissions. Unlike previous climate treaties, it doesn't specify a baseline year. If you use 2005, as the US was supposed to use, the 2030 target is ~3.5 billion tonnes. 2024 emissions were ~4.9 bill
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
Incentives matter on the average, but people are too unpredictable for categorical statements like that. They can always have other reasons beyond personal gain to leak secrets. There was no shortage of spies and defectors leaking American
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by jltsiren 4mo ago
Creating competition where it would not otherwise exist is the essential nature of the EU. Originally it was mostly about forcing protectionist member states to accept competition from other member states. But they extended the approach to
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
The root issue was already visible in the 1970s. When birth rates drop below replacement, you eventually end up with a society with more old people than kids. And when you have a society like that, you naturally invest more in maintaining t
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
Those "guillotine clauses" mostly exist because member states didn't want to cede their sovereignty to the EU. If a treaty covers areas where member states have shared or full responsibility, it must be ratified unanimously b
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
Schengen is a minor treaty about border controls. The actual issue are the Bilateral I agreements, which link free movement with many aspects of free trade. If Switzerland drops that, it needs new free trade agreements, which take many year
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
Those two outcomes are not mutually exclusive. A first-past-the-post system can give the power to a minority, if the opposing votes are divided. In the 2024 elections, Labour got a third of the votes but almost two thirds of the seats.
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
Look at the text of the Nicene Creed. There is a phrase that reads, depending on the translation, something like "one holy catholic apostolic church". That is the core of the issue. All mainstream Christian denominations are branc
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
The choice with Mormons is technically correct. Those who use theological considerations to define Christianity generally don't accept Mormons as Christians. For example, the Catholic Church sees Mormonism a non-Christian religion, bec
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And stable sorting typically allocates large amounts of memory, which is also an unpleasant surprise. I prefer the C++ naming convention, because it matches my expectations. When I studied CS, quicksort was considered the default sorting al
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
When I was involved in higher education, people talked about three motivations: passing the class, being good at whatever is being measured, and learning the topic. Those were not distinct categories but separate axes, and they were underst
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
Finland only started building solar recently. Wind is still more cost-effective, if you only consider the cost of generation. But there is almost too much installed wind capacity. If you also consider the value of the generated energy, sola
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
It sounds like we are not even talking about the same thing when we talk about performance. HPC and video game engines are examples of traditional performance-critical work. Performance-critical, because they typically run in a resource-con
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
Fermat's last theorem probably doesn't. While attempts to solve it have led to many mathematical discoveries, the theorem itself feels little more than a piece of trivia. I'm less familiar with the implications of the Goldbac
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by jltsiren 5mo ago
If what you are saying is correct, the performance of Java has to be the best-kept secret in the industry. Because you are the only person I've ever heard making such claims seriously. But this looks more like an apples-to-oranges comp

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