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by krona 4y ago
> Is there even a theory that the oil is infinite? Not quite infinite, but renewable: https://edu.rsc.org/news/treasure-from-the-earths-mantle/202...
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by krona 4y ago
High conscientiousness correlates with agreeableness; it's rare to have a highly conscientious, highly disagreeable person who would actually go out other way to offend others. So I don't think that's that's the explanat
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by krona 4y ago
I think more like 30-35 minutes at the 50th percentile for the general population (ignoring warmup, stretching etc.)
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by krona 4y ago
> The United States was never an empire. In fact the US rejected that ambition at the end of WWII The US rejected imperialism but insisted on global reserve currency status in 1944. Bretton Woods and later the petrodollar is how the US c
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by krona 4y ago
Since the article doesn't mention the word 'experiment' once I doubt it's even discussing science but rather 'scientific orthodoxy' which is something else entirely and should never be categorised as 'fact
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by krona 4y ago
I might be wrong but I don't think the site was made just for you.
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> This is not the reason jargon exists. What made you say that? Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct.
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by krona 4y ago
In the north sea it is, relatively. Now factor in typhoons, cyclones, tsunamis and other local weather phenomena like very low average wind speeds, plus unfavourable geological conditions, and it makes many of the economic assumptions inval
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by krona 4y ago
> You could just compile C-like code Which also involves rewriting literally everything to Java. > In fact GCC used to have a JVM target, called GCJ Which again, had a Java frontend. So, nothing like targeting WASM with C/C++&#x2
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by krona 4y ago
JNI? The JVM doesn't sandbox native code, nor can you target the JVM with (for example) GCC. So what are you referring to?
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by krona 4y ago
> Something like Twitter with hundreds of millions of users and most of them non-paying, with governments and big brands depending on it.. And yet its on the path to bankruptcy because of years of poor management and failure to capitaliz
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by krona 4y ago
Most people like the idea of taking decisions and hate the idea of taking responsibility for them.
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by krona 4y ago
> Face reality: the ~40-yr neoliberal program has been an absolute disaster, and should be thrown on the scrap heap of history immediately. I still prefer NHS waiting lists to breadlines.
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by krona 4y ago
> ..in office but barely in power To me this sums it up. The political kayfabe is in part constructed to make it appear like the government is in control of state affairs, but Blair's legacy was to remove power from government and
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by krona 4y ago
If Anna Soubry was still an MP then the entire country would be on a different trajectory. Even though Brexit happened only 3 years ago. Definitely.
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by krona 4y ago
The big auditors don't even know what they are looking at and don't want to audit Binance. The CEO said as much on CNBC. Binance might not be fucked, but its impossible to know for sure, right now.
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by krona 4y ago
The causal link (direct or otherwise, does it really matter to most people) between vaccination and myocarditis has been established elsewhere and acknowledged by the CDC.
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by krona 4y ago
The age stratified risk was known almost a year before needles entered the arms of teenagers.
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by krona 4y ago
Then why did most of them sell it for profit?
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> I said it doesn't 'always' correlate. It either correlates or it doesn't, and outliers, as the name implies, are statistical anomalies. That being said I also think quality of life is important, but I think being de
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by krona 4y ago
GDP per capita correlates quite nicely with life expectancy, so it seems GDP isn't just a number, it actually corresponds with something in reality.
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by krona 4y ago
I guess Amazon will never need to solve its fully automated robotic warehouse problem. Brave New World here we come.
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by krona 4y ago
> it's because of the materials, the ornamentation, the history, the culture, the craftsmanship, the uniqueness Reactions to beauty are instinctive, immediate, emotional. The average person on the street knows little about any of th
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by krona 4y ago
> Overall, I see no evidence of problems of proportion getting worse. Except if you ask people, specifically the people who *have to work in, live in and around these buildings*, and given the choice, they will choose, time and time ag
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by krona 4y ago
This made me weep. Pythagorean ideals of proportion have existed for a millenia. See Ancient Greek/Roman architecture, gothic architecture (e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00004-022-00591-2 ) a
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by krona 4y ago
> But otherwise, the answer to most of the rest of the essay is: economics. Correct proportions cost nothing . And that's just for starters.
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by krona 4y ago
Believe it or not, we may also soon be able to cure practically every disease, including cancer; transition into an era of unlimited clean and almost free energy; produce all the meat we need without killing animals; Hasn't this been
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by krona 4y ago
It's section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, not the Public Order Act, which is relevant here: A person is guilty of an offence if he— (a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that
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by krona 4y ago
I have a lot of experience with C/C++ and I don't understand what this really has to do with inline expansion or linkage behaviour.
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by krona 4y ago
Have you not seen thunderbirds?!

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