lurkmurk

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by lurkmurk 3y ago
I was also surprised when I first saw a huge Roman fresco in person. It seems that the medieval times were indeed the dark times. I get the historical reasons and all that but it's almost laughable looking at this art in museums.
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by lurkmurk 5y ago
The latest craze for 2021 kids is "pop it" game. We are just too old to be amazed by that. Do you think these kids will prefer living in 2050, working in a cubicle, facing midlife crisis, even though they are living through a pand
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by lurkmurk 5y ago
You were a kid, everything seems magical then. As we get older the magic disappears. Happens to every generation. See for example how many people are nostalgic of (objectively worse) 80s, in countries that were much poorer than are today an
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by lurkmurk 5y ago
What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse? Interestingly, it seems that the "smart" people are now falling for it (washington post, hn, certain subreddits and podcasts...).
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by lurkmurk 5y ago
In which case would you use the whole table?
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by lurkmurk 5y ago
They don't? One is a row in table (R^n) (order matters) and the other is a set of points (R^nxd). If you consider the whole table, any dataSET is like point clouds.
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by lurkmurk 5y ago
"There are two types of quotable quotes, those that deal in absolutes, and those that divide people into two groups."
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
So what was Austria's loophole?
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
It's better but not great. Not everyone can afford tesla. Western goverments and big companies are to blame for lack of incentives and infrastructure. People buy what makes the most sense, and petrol is better for many people. This can
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
But all of those are still true. I would argue that public transport should replace cars for commute which is most of the "non-niche" usage. Public transport can't get you anywhere, on your own terms? Sounds familiar.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
"I can't remember the date to fill out this form. Can you help me, but give me the least informative part first?"
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Is there some resource that compares all the vaccines, an article or a blog post? I would guess that a vast majority of people don't have time/knowledge to look into official reports. One big table with different companies, number
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Another sad day for internet communities. Big guys always win. If you want freedom to express, self host (let's see how long until this is forbiden).
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
What is the most common way of transmision? I assume not random policemen but relatives and friends. Try doing distancing there.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
The amount of unknown and disagreement after all this time and money spent is a big failure of science. Laymen have a unique peak into how science works day to day, which might be good or bad depending on how you see it.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Follow up: given the answer is yes, how to solve it? Allow under performing students in?
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
In the current shape this can definitely be used on social media. But I would ask someone about their life, where they live etc. GPT-3 will fail that, the next model might succeed. This model would be even better for social farming so maybe
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
I made an argument to challenge the parent comment's argument. It is obvious that nor physics nor population size led to advancements alone. There are many confounders. What I wanted to point out is: there is a trade-off in allocating
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Well educated people who can work on this problem are not minorities, i.e. they have access to education, higher social status, better starting point. While their color of skin might be different, they don't need to be aware of all the
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Where does it come from?
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
The question of spending money is the question of politics, and there is a finite budget. I would argue the reason for all of these inventions is the increasing number of educated people (not only physicists) in the world. So maybe investin
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Also generations of students stuck in this hole because the supervisors that have paid positions stick to string theory deadend -- a feedback loop.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
You can find many east european movies on youtube. Try doing the same for Adam Sandler's netflix movie. You could even watch Memories of Murder on youtube just until Parasite won an oscar. Then they started carring. And this is a relat
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
> iron media curtains You mean like itunes, hbo, netflix catalogues in countries outside US? It's just that there is no interest in seeing these movies.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
You can clone any expensive yogurt for small price and control the ingredients fully.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Ideally, the voters can vote these people out. Politicians are not hatching from eggs, they come from people and reflect them. Same people who watch blatantly biased news, later are influenced by false ads. Improve education.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
Can anyone share how big a deal is this proof? I remember seeing one post already about it on quanta.
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by lurkmurk 6y ago
"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-t