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by kmm 6y ago
I communicated badly and meant the last quarter for which we have final results, Q1. Technically, "this" quarter is Q3 and we're already halfway.
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by kmm 6y ago
Those are preliminary flash estimates, we'll see how they hold up in a month. Even if true, it's still less down than any other European nations, and the only one not in a recession, because you're not taking the previous qua
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by kmm 6y ago
Where are you getting those numbers? Swedish GDP is up this quarter, as about the only nation in Europe
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by kmm 6y ago
You'll find that people, even those without formal education in English like me, don't generally write like that. I think just reading and writing a lot makes one's spelling naturally converge to the most common one.
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by kmm 6y ago
Expansion into a vacuum, also called free expansion or Joule expansion, is not the same as an adiabatic process, there is no piston and no work is done. For an ideal gas the internal energy does not depend on the volume, so conversely such
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by kmm 6y ago
By way of the central limit theorem, summing a dozen uniformly distributed variables (and normalizing) will give a a reasonable approximation to a normal distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
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by kmm 6y ago
> Latin is dead I know what you mean, but I've always found that such a curious expression. There's an unbroken line of native speakers being taught by other speakers from every person native in French, Romanian, Spanish, Portu
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by kmm 6y ago
I've wondered if rolling shutter could be (ab)used as a poor man's one-dimensional high speed camera. Depending on the framerate, resolution and exposure time, wouldn't you be able to get hundreds of thousands of frames per s
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by kmm 6y ago
The sex ratio at birth is actually slightly biased towards men, it takes a few decades to even out. Globally, there are also more men than women, but that's partly due to China and India being artificial outliers, in most countries, wo
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by kmm 6y ago
Since fusion is only happening in the center of the Sun, and the outer layers are almost entirely transparent to neutrinos, this is actually a direct image of the solar core. Which makes it even cooler imo.
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by kmm 6y ago
Here is a write-up by Terry Tao. This doesn't disprove the premise that linear algebra is more or less solved. Although the result was unknown and a little surprising, once formulated the proof was relatively straightforward, and does
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by kmm 6y ago
Honest question, is that relevant? Two thirds of the population live in the capital region, measuring just over 1% of the area of the country. Iceland is according to some measures one of the most urbanized countries in the world [0]. The v
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by kmm 6y ago
It came up a few times when I googled it. Since the phone was completely dead, I figured it was worth a shot, nothing to lose.
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by kmm 6y ago
When my mother's smartphone wouldn't boot anymore, I took it apart and put the main board in the oven for a while. It worked perfectly fine again for a week or so. I repeated the procedure a few times, until her new one arrived. N
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by kmm 6y ago
There's an experiment that transfers that angular momentum all the way up to macroscopic levels. By magnetizing a cylinder of iron, all the spins start pointing in the same direction. By conservation of angular momentum, the cylinder i
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by kmm 7y ago
19-40 makes up 0.25% of the deaths (4 in total) [0] In the US, of people aged 20-44, "only" 2.0-4.2% are admitted into ICU, significant, but making up only 12% of the ICU admissions, and 20% of the hospitalizations. [1] 0: https:
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by kmm 7y ago
That's what I'm asking myself too. It's way too early for any kind of herd immunity, and you only need a handful of people who have broken the rules (or simply due to delayed intrafamilial infection) to have a few infectious
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by kmm 7y ago
Do the police face any retaliation from blowing up houses through guns? Is there any way to retaliate police violence without getting the death penalty?
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by kmm 7y ago
Belgian license plates also have 3 letters, and there is a list of 99 forbidden combinations. Most of them are slurs, swears, political parties or things like SEX or BOM (bomb). No idea about some of them, like KKQ. https://nl.wi
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by kmm 7y ago
I'm afraid that is a folk etymology, the second part means "to eat", related to contemporary Russian есть "jest'". The /v/ sound actually comes from the short /u/ at the end of the word medъ
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by kmm 7y ago
That is exactly the analogy I have a problem with, it is variously explained with cars in parking lots, people on seats, .... It is wrong however, the electrons do not move one at a time, they move in unison opposite to the normal flow of c
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by kmm 7y ago
I know all analogies, especially those explaining complicated physics to 11th graders, have to oversimplify some aspects of a phenomenon, but this one always rubbed me the wrong way. The hole moves with the electrons, if they move right,
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by kmm 7y ago
AZERTY gave me 0.03%, even though France and Belgium together have >1% of the world population, and definitely more than one percent of all internet users.
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by kmm 7y ago
I always say it as something quite benign: a state-sponsored daycare. Where else would we put our kids if not for school?
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by kmm 7y ago
The acceptance of slavery was not universal. Back then there were already people, abolitionists, striving to end slavery. So looking at what small but vocal groups protest now can give a hint at what future people could find wrong or evil.
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by kmm 7y ago
To be precise, it's explicitly 2pi R^2 ( 1 - cos(r / R) ) , where r is the radius of the circle on the sphere, and R is the radius of the sphere itself. If r is small compared to R, cos(r / R) = 1 - (r/R)^2 / 2 + O(
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by kmm 7y ago
Hyperbolic spaces are a bit freaky because of how huge they are. Living on a flat plane (like we do for scales smaller than a few thousand kilometers), area grows quadratically with the radius, i.e. if you venture out twice as far, the area
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by kmm 7y ago
I have a hard time believing that. Lots of parents are afraid of dogs, but that doesn't give their children the visceral irrational revulsion towards dogs that arachnophobes have towards spiders. I've never heard of someone who ca
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by kmm 7y ago
I'm afraid that's not true. The 's particle comes from one of the many Old English genitive case endings, namely -es (no apostrophe of course). Interestingly, this "his genitive" emerged as a backformation of this g
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by kmm 7y ago
It wouldn't take any more parsing because we'd be used to it. Dutch doesn't have the apostrophe for the possessive (except where a word ends in a vowel, where the rule is opposite to English! At least I have a good excuse for

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