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by kadonoishi 6y ago
Standardized test scores, grades, degrees, ranks of the degree-granting institutions. Is this hard? Or are you asking how to judge when you don't have access to all the metrics normally used by admissions committees for this purpose?
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
> I wonder what sort of progress would smooth over the extraordinary credit injection we've seen in 2020. A successful Mars colony, obviously :) Gaining a second planet might possibly justify this level of credit.
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by kadonoishi 6y ago
set -o vi Starts you in insert mode. To go back to the usual command-line editing, set -o emacs
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by kadonoishi 7y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1338/ Also a paper on biomass: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
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by kadonoishi 7y ago
The government prints money and sends out those $1000 monthly checks so as to continue using money to organize transactions, and the people working essential jobs continue to get paychecks. Make the distinction between financial capital and
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by kadonoishi 7y ago
So stop all payments. Nobody pays rent, landowners don’t pay their mortgages, banks don’t pay interest. Companies don’t pay dividends, bonds don’t pay interest. Just stop using money to organize productive activity for a few months until th
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by kadonoishi 7y ago
Suppose you exhaustively incorporated all risk when engineering power plants, and you designed such that exhaustive risk was equal across all power plants. That would mean risks from climate change were included in the engineering of coal p