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by lainga 2y ago
Very nice explanation! Is it possible that Φ could vary smoothly and subtly over space, such that it's a few degrees or so away from our value in the Andromeda galaxy?
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by lainga 2y ago
"Our external strategic objectives, as decided by delegates at our annual conference, are: ... 4) The closure of the Nuclear Power Industry." Nuclear power is not, as a photograph of a banner on the CND's website tells me, th
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by lainga 2y ago
Vladimir Bukovsky charged the Western disarmament movement (in particular the CND) with taking Soviet funding in the 1980s. YMMV up to your credence in him. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00153R0003
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by lainga 2y ago
// TODO: evil hack!! refactor this
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by lainga 2y ago
> And worrying about 'what will happen if human population actually drops to zero' is like worrying about commuter traffic congestion on Mars. Why not? I don't think it will happen, but at the same time, I don't want
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by lainga 2y ago
I should have been more clear. Assume these 4 things: 1. Industrial activity will continue to require nonzero human participation, even in the future. 2. Culture has no impact on the fertility rates of citizens in developed economies, they
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by lainga 2y ago
I assert at least one person is required to run the fertiliser plants; but if that is wrong, my whole proposal falls apart, and swiftly
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by lainga 2y ago
Assume birthrates fall and remain below replacement globally. Is the percentage zero?
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by lainga 2y ago
Well, one solution could be for Western economies to irreversibly contract under the strain of a high dependency ratio, leading to the cessation of industrial fertiliser production. At that point, I expect a large fraction of the population
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by lainga 2y ago
A large fraction of the new doctors in my town in Canada are Britons who have emigrated here. The Canadian government is actively recruiting them. Why could that be? Does that factor into your assertion?
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by lainga 2y ago
During the Francoist period, the lyrics to the Spanish national anthem (which now officially has no lyrics) read in part Gloria a la Patria que supo seguir, / sobre el azul del mar el caminar del sol. Glory to the Fatherland, who
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by lainga 2y ago
Shouldn't it be "for the Dear library" given that the dear-imgui creator has stated it's named "dear"? (IMGUI means immediate-mode GUI, and ocornut has said he was inspired by another IMGUI named "simgui&q
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by lainga 2y ago
Isn't most food in industrialised countries made partly out of thin air (via the Haber-Bosch process)?
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by lainga 2y ago
Plato has dealt with both of these already in the analogy of the divided line as dianoia (mathematical reasoning) and noesis (understanding). To Plato, facts are likenesses of the truth, just as an imagined object is a likeness of a rea
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by lainga 2y ago
Sure there is. Many of the politicians from the past are politicians today. One of them is president (for the next 5 months).
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by lainga 2y ago
Only for repeated vowels, which deoörbit is not
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by lainga 2y ago
Do you think it's a matter of the task being framed as within vs. without your agency?
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by lainga 2y ago
If I see any of those coming around the corner, I have intent to make like Ambrose Bierce: get my affairs in order and then go off into harm's way. "If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags, p
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by lainga 2y ago
Wow! Me too. When I go into apartments and think about how my furniture would fit inside, it's like it turns into a little dollhouse (or do I become giant?) and I'm physically running my hands over where the couch, table, TV, etc.
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by lainga 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceeding_the_UK%2C_catching_t...
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by lainga 2y ago
Interesting, thanks! Well, as I said, I would expect them to outperform at large scales, specifically because they're learning and memoising large, stable patterns (ed. in the sense of teleconnections) at low wavenumbers. I hope they h
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by lainga 2y ago
Sigh... don't make me bind a hotkey to paste my spiel about how these non-primitive-equation-based models are bad at long tails and freak weather... Ed.: too late! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40577332
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by lainga 2y ago
That would be funny! It would mean they emerged right after the Huronian icehouse period ended, in the same way the Cambrian Explosion happened right after the Cryogenian period ended. [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G
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by lainga 2y ago
lol, it failed at decoding base64 in my case
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by lainga 2y ago
I forget where I read this, but one of the key differences between German and English (and later American) socialist thought in the pre-WWI era could be summed up as: In England: in the future, nobody will have to work. In Germany: in the f
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by lainga 2y ago
Work graphs are in Vulkan (pg. 3)?! Since when? Where can I learn about this? Excitement
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by lainga 2y ago
Ate some cheese before dreaming: Google and MSFT (as maintainers of the dominant mail clients) start charging TLDs under the table to go on GMail/Outlook's "Default Allow" list, except, of course, the ones that Google ad
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by lainga 2y ago
I have some inkling that not having the urge to lock in to a single input (as TFA puts it) is not universal. One of the most common reasons (IIRC) for failing the RN's submarine command course (the "perisher") is excessive
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by lainga 2y ago
Can I ask why the employer wanted this of you? Were you compensated for your eminence embiggenment?
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by lainga 2y ago
Now comes the important question: did CrowdStrike's sales team try to sell solutions to operators of such critical systems? If so, how hard did they push?

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