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by labster 2y ago
Government propaganda tells you very little about the society as a whole, especially in authoritarian countries. That said ordinary Muscovites seem to have no qualms about running an imperialist state that concentrates wealth from ethnic mi
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by labster 2y ago
Another one in Rjukan, Norway: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-bu... (2017)
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by labster 2y ago
It’s in the subtitle of the article that he also won a French tournament. Please read the article.
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by labster 2y ago
The AA livery just means it’s a false flag attack. Truly, we haven’t seen such an invasion in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey since 1938.
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by labster 2y ago
> That really isn't true these days. The dynamical cores and physics packages in numerical weather prediction models and general circulation models have more-or-less converged over the past two decades. Ah, well, I did stop studying
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by labster 2y ago
Accurate black box is fine until it blows a forecast and people die, and you want to fix it for the next time. Take the situation with Hurricane Otis — what do you do if an AI doesn’t detect cyclogenesis 24-48 hours beforehand? Are we sure
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by labster 2y ago
Weather and climate models have their own physics, which at the very least means that the solution is physical for the universe that particular model inhabits. The boundary conditions are parameterized, and those can be tweaked as climate a
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by labster 2y ago
Putting a lot of people in prison sounds expensive, but still cheaper than American health care.
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by labster 2y ago
In most politicians, the percentage is even higher.
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You have the wrong orifice. That one means “rice”.
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I can’t imagine getting upset if someone wants to call my country États-Unis or 米国. Only Turks want to tell me how to speak my own language.
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by labster 2y ago
GTLB is perfect for ESG investing because it’s powered entirely from hot air generated by buzzwords.
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by labster 2y ago
The short story is mentioned at the very end of the article, The Library of Babel [0], which is a far better read than this article. [0]: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...
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by labster 2y ago
I think this is the same vibe that keeps HN going. We all collectively want to have place with high signal-to-noise. Of course moderation plays a part here as well. But I also self-moderate, deleting my own comments a minute after posting t
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by labster 2y ago
Is that because AI has gotten better or because Google has gotten worse?
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I mean there has been at least one genocide planned on social media. Maybe adults were the real danger after all.
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Why stop there? Why not revoke the City’s charter altogether?
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Good luck, I’m behind seven cover stories
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And then the rabbit pulls the reverse lever, and the trolley is speeding back towards Elmer Fudd.
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I wonder if anyone left his uncut so he could show it off later? It would certainly be more attractive to numismatics later on.
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by labster 2y ago
Admittedly most of my impressions are from watching K-dramas but I get the impression that the monarch is somewhat superfluous in bureaucracy-heavy systems like in Joseon and China — and that the government was generally happiest when the
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by labster 2y ago
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a lemon bar cake recipe.
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by labster 2y ago
No desk is truly empty, as each desk contains lots of spacetime, as well as particle-antiparticle pairs which exist only briefly.
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by labster 2y ago
Tokio is a different (masculine) name in Japanese, pronounced quite differently. /tokʲio/ vs. /to̞ːkʲo̞ː/. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(given_name)
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by labster 2y ago
Sir, I served with Napoleon Bonaparte. I knew Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte was a friend of mine. Sir, Trump is no Napoleon Bonaparte.
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by labster 2y ago
I’m sure the constitution will be changed to allow Trump to remain President, one way or the other way.
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by labster 2y ago
Yep. The internet is an infinite copy machine. All you have to do is copy the lies an order of magnitude more than the truth, and Bob’s your uncle (whether you’re related to Bob or not).
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by labster 2y ago
I suspect at least 90% are anthropogenic, but not arson. All nature has in ignition sources is lightning and the odd animal kicking a flint rock into another rock. Humans start lots of accidental wildfires, like from welding, or not maintai
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by labster 2y ago
Nothing to worry about, it’s just Elon building Galt’s Gulch in the middle of the Canadian wilderness.
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