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by leto_ii 5y ago
I've heard similar stuff about the Dutch iDEAL [1] system. It's probably true of a lot of complex software systems. These things always remind me of Jonathan Blow's talk (I think here [2]) about the collapse of civilization.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> I've never heard him acknowledge the irony of how he's living. I don't have an exact source, but I remember him saying how he didn't really want to end up in Russia, how he hasn't adapted super well to it and h
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by leto_ii 5y ago
A couple of things to note: 1. Snowden is a dissident wrt the US government, not the Russian one. He doesn't have an obligation to criticize Russia (neither does he have an obligation to criticize the US, but that comes with the territ
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> NATO would repel the attack Let's say afterwards Russia nukes Western Europe/the US. What then? That's the thing with MAD, you have to be mad to toy with the possibility.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> amount of resources they supply to an increasingly resource hungry world But that's the only thing they supply. At least in Europe (I hope) they'll start decoupling from Russian fossil resources asap. > The amount of math
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I just don't think that Putin in 2022 is Hitler in 1939. Russia is a waning power clinging to significance, not an ascending one.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> What if they aim to "liberate" Moldavia, Bulgaria, Serbia and encircling Romania? An attack on Moldova is not beyond conceivable. Bulgaria and Romania however are NATO members with US troops stationed there - Russia will not
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Here I am, a Russian oligarch. I ordered the Ukrainian invasion because I bet that NATO wouldn't intervene because of my nukes I think the mistake here is to assume that the invasion is dictated by economic interests (be they olig
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by leto_ii 5y ago
The risk of a NATO military intervention is non-existent. Biden said it explicitly. Wrt economic reprisals, Putin probably did the math and found it acceptable. They might be kicked out of SWIFT, they will probably get closer to China.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I would suggest also adding some sort of error counting into the mix (perhaps allowing 3-5 lives in total, maybe with bonus lives if you're fast or you get it on the first try). Right now it's a bit too easy to semi-brute force sh
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by leto_ii 5y ago
You might be confusing Patriot with Aegis ashore [1]. That's the one that is usually suspected of having offensive capabilities (by replacing interceptors with Tomahawk missiles that could hypothetically have nuclear payloads). [1] ht
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives. I used to share that same conventional view, but the following comprehensive piece really changed my mind: https://l
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The Draupner Wave (2016)(ecmwf.int)
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I think it's something related to the curse of dimensionality [1] [2], basically just a property of high dimensional spaces (perhaps only certain kinds of spaces though). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_
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by leto_ii 5y ago
It's first important to note that 'Modern western countries with christian historical traditions' are NOT for the most part Christian states [1], but secular ones. This is important. Secularism and the separation of church an
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> 60% of working Dutch women only work part time, versus 20% of working Dutch men I would attribute this more to cultural aspects (there's something of a ravenmuter [1] issue in the Netherlands as well), but even more importantly, t
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I haven't gone through the whole thing, but the point seems belabored and superficial tbh. I imagine the whole piece is essentially a comment on having a discriminator with great true negative rate and terrible true positive rate in a
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> people like to win True, but there are a host of other things that people like. The idea that "winning" is the ultimate goal in life is more socially induced than immanent. If as a society we decide to foster different attitu
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Wasn't Eric Weinstein also involved with that hedge fund? Or am I mixing things up?
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Something similar happens to "recycling" as well, take for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFjsL61qi3g
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Where do the worn out NL semis go? Eastern Europe, if I had to guess. I can't say specifically about semis, but in my home country of Romania I've seen quite a lot of Dutch clunker vans/small trucks roaming the streets (
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by leto_ii 5y ago
The weight of the names in this thread is really something. I'm constantly amazed at the quality of what is posted on Mathoverflow. Kudos to them for harbouring such a community.
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Spinthariscope(en.wikipedia.org)
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I will contribute by adding a couple of references to AdamSomething's views on skyscrapers [1] (we shouldn't build them) and commie blocks [2] (surprisingly pleasant and efficient housing): [1] https://m.youtube.com&#x2
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> where will they park their retirement nest egg? I imagine a good part of it is already parked in stocks. But since it's s retirement nest egg and they're getting retired, won't they just start spending it?
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> despite the prerequisites just being “math maturity”. TBH I've started interpreting the maturity part at code for solid experience with proofs and abstraction. I'm not sure exactly why they do it, it's possible that ther
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The Tonga “Meteotsunami”(youtube.com)
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I too am using a Nokia KaiOS phone (8110 in my case) from time to time. Two flaws of the device that I think would make it hard to use as a primary are the short battery life (far from the fabled 10 day charge of yore) and the short key tra
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Havana syndrome is unlikely to be caused by hostile foreign power(theguardian.com)
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> US is one of the richest countries, has less poor people than other rich countries, the "poor" in the US are richer than the "poor" in e.g. UK or Italy, Certain structural factors matter a lot: How affordable is it

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