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by maus42 10y ago
The title is missing year 2012. ("This entry was posted on June 8, 2012 at 4:53 pm") Does anyone know what happened regarding all this?
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by maus42 10y ago
The thing is, if you stop for a moment, spend a considerable amount of time of studying hard sciences, and apply that worldview to almost any "hard science" .. most of the hard sciences haven't been or are not that hard. Stil
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DigabiOS is a Linux-based live–operating system for matriculation exams(digabi.fi)
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>Also, store opening times are nowadays unregulated in Finland. Well, that was a very recent change. But I don't know if that's very representative of Nordics in general, I know that shopping hours have been deregulated in Swed
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Majority of the so called "luxury taxes" (that were really named so) existed maybe one or two hundred years ago, mainly targeted then-existing aristocracy, but most of such special taxes are long gone. (Maybe the after-effects are
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by maus42 10y ago
The active, open, free discussion on findings and theories has been regarded as one of the big ideas of modern science. That's what journals were for. However, for some reason I'm doubtful if the "online comments section&quot
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>Are they planning to retire young, as a nation? What an amusing thought. One big problem is that, one part of the idea of retirement is that you eventually die. I hope Norwegians aren't planning doing that, as a nation... Maybe the
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On the other hand, Nordics are not exactly clones of each other. I believe the mortgage terms are less crazy in Denmark and Finland.
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After a while, overtly sarcastic tone gets a bit boring when you get to read it every day in the every corner of internet over any possible issue. And in my experience, it's rarely very effective in changing people's opinions, if
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by maus42 10y ago
Non-alcoholic restaurants? Maybe that's a nice idea, but I don't think that actually solves anything. The main problem with alcohol (at least in my culture) is that it's not given that you can go and drink non-alcoholic stuff
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>Finns don't really learn swedish Which is funny, considering how many years (6 I guess?) the Swedish language is a compulsory subject for Finnish-speaking Finns.
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> If you want to live as a technology-free hermit, go right ahead. That's very nice, but if you want to live as a technology-free non-hermit you naturally would try encourage other people to join you. You don't have to read the
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I wouldn't call it very math-y, I'd call it a systematic numbering scheme.
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You have lots of metaphors and how analytical thinking is "narrow", but I didn't found your argument why continental philosophy would be better to study than analytical tradition. I'm suddenly reminded of an acquaintance
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>* Interactivity is important in a training setting because you're learning along with others. That initial path you create in your brain is dotted with waypoints that everyone in class travels together. I'm sorry, I'm tot
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by maus42 10y ago
Interesting read. However, I wonder if for education purposes it would better if every student who is bored with their current schoolwork could just move into more advanced materials until they are not bored, instead of trying to spot the
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I would argue that it's valuable in itself to actually know what the humanity has found about the universe and how it works and how this method called science is supposed to work. The only purpose of the continued existence of the ma
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>If you ever feel the urge say something like "but the internet gave us mass surveillance", just stop and think wether you would really complain about hospital waiting times to someone who had to have surgery before the inventi
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by maus42 10y ago
I read Umberto Eco's guide to writing an academic thesis in early 00's; I'm too young to have first-hand experience how people did academic research before internet, but the book was from late 1970s, and the description of im
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by maus42 10y ago
But is it easier to 'drift apart' from people you know if you're the only one they need to remember specifically call or send email to, when they can in general assume that all their friends sort of follow their FB updates? B
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by maus42 10y ago
The animation (esp. flying) was great (as always with Miyazaki / Ghibli), but I thought as a serious film it was ...lacking. Somewhere in the uncomfortable zone of not being a total mess, but not very great either? The ending was beau
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by maus42 10y ago
Video and audio works now.
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Copenhagen Suborbitals: Nexø I launch from the Baltic Sea [live stream](youtube.com)
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by maus42 10y ago
>But with new programs like Microsoft Word coming into existence, typography (e.g. formatting a document, setting the margins, making sure the lettering is appealing, etc.) became something everyone could do easily without much thinking.
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by maus42 10y ago
>How do you remember all that. I ask for receipt for everything (mind, here every cashier is legally mandated to offer you one without asking, so I decided to take advantage of that). I neither use a fancy app, but old LibreOffice Calc t
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by maus42 10y ago
Good point, but not unsolvable. I can imagine the law would require user specifically giving permission to delete the data afterwards, maybe even mandating a certain form of presenting the gist of the deal, instead of lengthy and indecipher
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>how much better the world would be Unfortunately it is not. Issues like this are the reason why government and state occasionally can be useful.
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On the other hand, if you don't like the competitions, you probably would not meet like-minded people going there (assuming other participants like them). Maybe we need alternative avenues for maths nerds to meet each other.
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I like the idea of executable cells for developing. It's been a couple of years since I played around with Jupyter notebooks, but then I got frustrated quite soon: Stepping outside my preferred editor (vim) was annoying, likewise I had
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by maus42 10y ago
Well, it's a newspaper article written by who would be a source, of sorts: >The FIS - the government agency responsible for toxic oil syndrome - refused to release details of the fieldwork carried out or any background information.

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