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by kilotaras 4y ago
Yeah, UKs train tickets are ridiculous if you compare it to rest of Europe. And that's not even case of UK just being generally more expensive, e.g. cheapest StAlbans - London (~25 km) yearly pass costs around £4k. About a 1000 pounds
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> If SWE was the only non-NATO country in Northern Europe it would be quite open for an attack. EU has a mutual defense clause [0] [0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...
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by kilotaras 4y ago
@dang can we get a change "away for" to "away from"
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by kilotaras 5y ago
AFAIK there's not much causal evidence for supporting NYCs "No Broken Window" policies effect. Phasing out of lead has more explanatory power.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
That is ridiculous intersection. What is the point of bike lane if it's used as turn lane anyway?
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> It's horrible, and I bet all well informed Russians will agree that it is. One of the heavy pregnant woman photographed there has her instagram full of hundreds of Russians calling her a crisis actor, wishing her and her (yet unbo
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by kilotaras 5y ago
"overseas oil, even after shipping costs, is often cheaper than domestically-produced crude + domestic shipping cost " (emphasis mine). One reason that domestic shipping cost is so high is that 1920 Jones Act[0] prohibits shippin
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by kilotaras 5y ago
In Russia (as well as Ukraine, Belarus and maybe some others) passport is the name of internal ID. Everyone gets it. Passport used to travel is called foreign passport.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> They believe in the propaganda mostly, celebrate the victories over "nazis" and support Putin. I've had a coworker posting on FB how he's supporting Putin and "Russia doesn't start wars, it ends them.&quot
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by kilotaras 5y ago
See also "100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder: A proof of concept RCT of bright, whole-room, all-day (BROAD) light therapy" on https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.29.21265530v.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
IMO all Pigovian taxes and fines (alcohol, tobacco, speed fines, etc.) should go in special pool and then distributed to citizens. Fixes moral hazard pretty good.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> I'm innocent until proven guilty: prove it was me. This is trivially circumvented via "attach fine to car" and "driving in a car with fine attached is illegal." (AFAIK that's how it works in Ukraine). End
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by kilotaras 5y ago
That's why I'm a big advocate for infrastructure changes. The expected behaviour should be the most comfortable one. Raised crossings[1] or deliberate narrowing [2] forces people to pay attention and slow down. [1] https:/&#
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by kilotaras 5y ago
Huh, TIL. I was too lazy to check the exact value of 2^31 and payed for it.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
UB = undefined behaviour. You can write code that is valid as in "can be compiled" but outside of C++ standard. It is duty of programmer to not have those, as compiler usually assumes that there's no UB in your code and can d
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> So there where 2 Y Tymoshenkos on the ballot, causing confusion and splitting her vote. Leading to a comedian winning the race for president. She got 13.4%, other Tymoshenko got 0.62. Even if you add them she's still in 3rd place.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> Foregin corporation wants to keep it secret before the deal is reached. How can you communicate? Foreign corporation wants to do X but X is banned in country. We don't accept that for minimum wages, discrimination laws, pollution
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by kilotaras 5y ago
Bayes rule with odd ratios makes it pretty easy. base odds: 20:80 = 1:4 relative odds = (1 letter/6 letters) : (2 letters / 8 letters) = 2/3 posterior odds = 1:4*2:3 = 1:6 Final probability = 1/(6
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> all segregated into their own neighborhoods. Check out Shellings model of segregation [0]. Global seggregation doesn't necessarily mean that local decisions have strong preference for their race. e.g. for two types it's enoug
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Techno-Optimism for 2022(noahpinion.substack.com)
1 points by kilotaras 5y ago|0 comments
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The Paxlovid Paradox(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by kilotaras 5y ago|0 comments
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by kilotaras 5y ago
US has competition between FAANGs driving salaries upward. Europe with the exception of, maybe, London - mostly doesn't. It would be interesting to see how shift to remote plays out here. Fun historical fact: Apple, Google, Intel and o
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by kilotaras 5y ago
Can you expand on that? I find the claim almost trivially true: we care about electricity production, so that should be the main goal we're tracking.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
> To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000 [0] That group is still pretty price sensitive. Maybe not enough to drop beef completely, but enough to at least partially move to pork or chic
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by kilotaras 5y ago
Are you asking if Russia would allow alternative voting system in order to make it easier voting for opposition candidate?
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Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it(inputmag.com)
1003 points by kilotaras 5y ago|291 comments
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by kilotaras 5y ago
Difference with pipe operator would be 1. can't be extended. myhashmap.entrySet() .stream() .flattenBars() .toFoo() 2. (As a result of 1) - applies only to streams
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by kilotaras 5y ago
Not even close. *Total* urban area in the world was around ~3.5M km^2 in 2010[0], or 1% of total ocean area. Daily evaporation dwarves anything a couple thousands of drones can do in the morning. https://data.worldbank.org/i
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by kilotaras 5y ago
https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/local-weather/uk/london?fore... shows 50% and 80% confidence interval as well as median for rain and temperature.
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by kilotaras 5y ago
A simple variable would be a scoped resource, unique_ptr can be transferred. { RAII file = ....; // do stuff } // file is no longer open vs unique_ptr<RAII> outer_ptr; {

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