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by jmopp 4y ago
I always tell people, Maths isn't a science. It's theoretical philosophy.
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Of course that can happen. But it's a low-risk event that falls outside the, say, 99% confidence interval. It's like the notion of a 100-year flood. Of course there could be a tsunami or a dam failure that completely inundates an
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by jmopp 4y ago
I currently work in marketing. Before I started I had absolutely no idea how marketing worked, and had you asked me ten years ago I probably would have balked at the idea. The one thing I do enjoy, though, is learning. And this job has cert
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by jmopp 4y ago
The accountants at Amazon have material non-public information that they can't act on for obvious reasons, but if they know beforehand - for instance - that sales aren't growing as fast as they used to, or that luxury purchases ar
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by jmopp 4y ago
Saving in a period of high inflation doesn't work if your interest rate is lower than the inflation level. Irrespective of that, inflation definitely has an effect at the extreme ends. If the price of bread increases every hour, you&#x
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by jmopp 4y ago
Being able to modify accents would be really cool though. Differing prosody and regional turns of phrase would likely make the first prototypes sound very uncanny-valley.
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> Not really. Doing it right means adhering to the left’s idea of what is right. A good counter-example to that is South Park. They make edgy jokes that offend everyone and have withstood criticism from both the left and the right.
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by jmopp 4y ago
An animal dying suddenly in a landslide would be more likely to leave a fossil than one who has been killed and eaten.
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What makes it worse is that the top bracket for income tax kicks in around €68k per annum, and is 49.5%
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by jmopp 5y ago
It's common for native English speakers to be monolingual. If there's no real need to learn another language, it takes more effort. Being able to speak multiple languages looks like a superpower if you only know one language.
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by jmopp 5y ago
There are a few problems with that: We instantly lose economies of scale. While a software company might be able to scale up with 100 so employees, the same does not apply to most other industries. Goods will be more artisanal, but also mor
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by jmopp 5y ago
This is Olbers' Paradox[1] and is one piece of evidence that the universe isn't static. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
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In this case, I would argue there isn't a problem with it - as there is an English translation available and the article itself is about the author learning her heritage language.
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by jmopp 5y ago
That makes zero sense. The apartheid government was staunchly anti-Communist.
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by jmopp 5y ago
When you're taken out of a minor surgery, you're usually awake as you're wheeled from the operating theatre back to your ward. If I think though about the one time I had surgery, I remember being told to think of something re
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by jmopp 5y ago
This. The existence of Jesus says nothing about his divinity or the validity of Christianity. We have more evidence for the existence of Muhammad. Does that make Islam the 'correct' religion? We have even more evidence for the exi
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by jmopp 5y ago
There was a Dutch website a while ago where you could order a dose of coronavirus to infect yourself with.
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by jmopp 5y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this. It seems to me that because many people in Europe have grown up in such homogeneous societies, there is a tendency to have blind spots when it comes to race. A recent example I can think of is how t
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by jmopp 5y ago
The problem with covid is that it's very much a crapshoot. You could be fine, you could have debilitating symptoms that last for months. Since that tail risk is very much a risk of ruin, I would be careful with it. I'm personally
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by jmopp 5y ago
I'm the exaxt opposite. Before wearing a mask I would routinely have trouble keeping my glasses on. When I wear a mask it's actually easier to wear glasses because I can hook the sides into the ear loops and they won't fall o
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by jmopp 5y ago
Tying into this: I really liked the concert DVD - especially around the gift-giving time of the year. I could get a DVD of my parents' favourite musicians for Christmas and I knew it would be a hit with them.
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by jmopp 5y ago
Right now, track and trace is ineffective because cases are high. In the Netherlands, we can only trace the source of a quarter of infections. [1] If cases are brought down, track and trace has an easier workload and thus can be more effect
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by jmopp 5y ago
There's a difference between elimination and eradication. Elimination means getting cases close to 0 as possible, and then - any outbreaks that do occur, tracking them and stamping them out before they can spread. A good analogy is tha
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by jmopp 5y ago
Growing up as a kid I hated sports because I had zero hand-eye coordination. I also didn't like competing against people. Nowadays I enjoy hiking, cycling, and roadwalking. I love the fact that none of the three sports require much in
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by jmopp 5y ago
The Nama language has a letter that is often replaced with an exclamation mark in common typography. The lead actor in the film The God's Must be Crazy was named N!xau ǂToma
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The best example I can think of is GH Hardy's work on number theory. He was a pacifist and so specifically wanted to work on something that would not help the war effort. Fast forward 100 years and number theory now forms the basis of
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by jmopp 5y ago
The crime is bad in South Africa, yes, but it's not the worst in the world. Same with the corruption. One good thing South Africa has going for it is that the media and judiciary are stil independent, and criticising the government is
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by jmopp 5y ago
It follows directly from more acceptance of being transgender in society. It is not pleasant to have to sit with gender dysphoria for years - and then when you eventually do treat it, to have to spend thousands undoing changes to your body.
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by jmopp 5y ago
I've been barely outside at all over the past 18 months because the risk of infection has been too high. I would rather have a short, strict lockdown (followed by a period of being open with extremely low infection risk) than the long,
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by jmopp 5y ago
> based on their choices That's the difference. You shouldn't exclude people for characteristics they can't control (like race or disability) or characteristics core to their identity (like religious views), but I see no p

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