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Geology and Game of Thrones (2017)(youtube.com)
1 points by leto_ii 4y ago|0 comments
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by leto_ii 4y ago
This comment should be upvoted. I suspect many people in the thread, like myself, read the whole thing thinking it's about the ride-sharing company. That would be bolt.eu, not .com.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I fear this will be another Bechtel story. My fear as well. But what are we (Romanians) paying for this time? We're already in NATO and the EU...
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Does anybody have some insight into the performance and safety of this type of design? Romanian media is mostly silent on the topic. When it does happen to come up, the conversation seems to get stuck either at "the Americans are final
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> also the constant repetition of people getting lost in the wilderness and having a vision of Hiroko [...] really needed a more judicious editor Agreed. I also took some time to go through all the books and did it in the end partly out
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I had the same feeling, but I'm curious which parts you found good and which painfully boring. Personally I enjoyed the politics and the society building and didn't care much for endless descriptions of rocky landscape.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> Over here in northern Europe (Sweden), what we would call a blueberry is what you would call a bilberry Thanks for pointing out the distinction. In my home country of Romania we also tend to think of bilberries when we're talking
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Unions could insure that you get some sort of compensation for the work you put in during your application. If you just try to ask for the money on your own they'll laugh in your face and show you the door.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I've never been in a union, so I can't assess their inner workings. However, nobody says you have to join an existing one - you can just make your own. Amazon and Starbucks workers are doing it in much harsher conditions, so why w
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> it is within reach for most programmers to jump on the real estate ladder, heavily invest, and retire comfortably. In Amsterdam, where I currently live, I would say a normal salary for a senior dev would be ~ 80k euros gross. A decent
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> You people need to get some self-respect and stop working for free. "You people" need to unionize. That's the only way you get some negotiating power. Alas, that won't happen until tech workers (and white collar wor
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc. Ha! So basically you're ignoring most of what weather is. I'm surprised Amsterdam (my current location) didn'
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Ok, but 10kg of dried bananas is something different. I imagine that can get close to 100 kg of raw bananas.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> A banana contains about 100 calories of food energy, and if you incinerate whole bananas as fuel, it would only take about 10 bunches per day to keep your house running. Just at an intuitive level that sounds like very little to me. 10
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> this should be a point of crossover for the (populist) left and the right There are people who are trying to bridge that divide. I recommend Breaking Points and the whole ecosystem they're trying to build around themselves.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Qcgus
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> But in the end, there are going to be survivors. Some of them are smart. Agreed. They however will be spending their time doing subsidence agriculture, basic medicine, hunting, building etc. just like anybody living in premodern condit
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> So, it's exactly as destructive as I think. My thoughts exactly. Setting the world back 100+ years is a disaster of gigantic proportions. I also find it odd that the author didn't even attempt to provide an estimate of the po
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> If X and Y are two independent random variables, X representing skill and Y representing self-assessment of skill, X and Y will be negatively correlated 1. As mentioned in another comment, X and Y can't be independent and correlat
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> therefore there would be strong a correlation between their performance and self-evaluation of said performance. If the data weren't related, then this hypothesis isn't likely, which is exactly what DK means. DK doesn't
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Here's a question that goes out to everybody: what happens if what you love can't bring you money? Either because it's not lucrative in the capitalist world, or because you won't be able to get good enough at it (e.g. yo
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by leto_ii 5y ago
You should make that clear with an edit/update in the parent. Sarcasm doesn't work well in writing, people tend to take it at face value.
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Tower Houses(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by leto_ii 5y ago|0 comments
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> I maintain that you CAN NOT build intelligence. You can only TAP INTO it. I wouldn't go exactly this far, but I would say that whatever process might exist to create artificial intelligence, it might be closer to gardening than to
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Assange denied permission to appeal extradition(reuters.com)
26 points by leto_ii 5y ago|0 comments
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Completely besides the important point, but is it the same guy who asked and answered the question? What am I missing?
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Yes! Or even better, a score distribution together with your percentile.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
This was an unsatisfying experience. The visual and audio fakes are easy to spot, while the texts are short enough and correct enough that you don't have enough to go with in making a technical decision. I did however get them right by
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> This is whataboutism and it is so tired. It really isn't. It's a short of counterfactual and it's actually quite useful in checking if you are morally/intellectually consistent. This strategy even has a name (some B
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I think by fair trial he means he doesn't want to be tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 which would allow the trial to be secretized, for the evidence to be withed from the jury etc. I'm writing the details from memory, so some

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