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It starts to make sense once I see nations as collections of big cities holding arbitrary (terrain may matter here) amount of "wastelands" between them. In general, no country would generate from those wastelands so it make sense
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Europe in unusually warmer than anywhere on its latitude, mostly because of gulf stream. So Norway (and Canada) comparison should be appropriate.
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Beware the Man of One Study (2014)(slatestarcodex.com)
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A sidenote: my immediate interpretation, and this article's interpretation, of the quote is to disparage someone who only sees things from one perspective. But reading the Wikipedia the original quote seems to mean more like that Bruce
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In lots of disability cases, share of people affected is very very small it's not profitable to cover them. Otherwise the companies would already fight to capture this market. This is why lots of disability measures are (or campaigned
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That Heraclidean one also seems interesting. At the distance of Uranus or Neptune, it makes little difference whether it actually orbit Sun or Earth
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There's still bureaucracy part of ensuring that it's exactly-once per period, and it seems hard to do without some kind of unique ID. But yeah it's still much easier than also ensuring that the recipient "deserves it&q
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I guess those kind of citations should be put in different category that doesn't increase citation count of the referenced paper, in other words raising its prestige. These kind of citations shouldn't do that anyway. So now if you
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I mean there are several reasons why this is not argument for communism: 1. Here communism means handling it all yourself and capitalism means leaving some part of the economy to AI. It's immediately obvious why one will prevail since
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So what's the tech that was making this decade of the battery possible? I remember 10 years ago reading lots of articles that battery is and will be the bottleneck for the next 20-30 years, but now in only 10 years looks like it's
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> The various "-punk" subgenres are connected by the idea of social disruption. Interesting. I heard the other opinion that all "punk" are connected that they're all dystopia, but in different flavors. This is sp
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Yeah. Eugenics for instance didn't go down before claiming millions of lives, and even seeing another resurgence just after several decades.
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I guess there'd still be. Finding one that's also competent enough to be trusted to lead the mission will be quite hard tho.
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Everyone have their own rational ratio of how much should be allocated for space (or any blue sky research). For example I'd oppose my country funding a moon landing, not only because my country have GDP per capita 20 times less than U
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Yeah seems like with our current physics, almost everything can be cheated out, except mass and gravity. There's no other solid Earth-sized mass now other than Venus so it may be our only real potential second home.
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Ah so it's about onyomi and kunyomi (Chinese and Japanese reading)? It screws me up sometimes too but there's only two choices. What I heard lots of people cries about sometimes is the counter words, that's indeed so many, so
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> seemingly completely unrelated number words for different context I don't know much Japanese but I don't see it as that weird. I see it as something like "murder of crows" or "pile of sand". Something cult
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> price is the cost of extracting the CO2 from the atmosphere again It's actually interesting not only because it encourages people not to emit carbon, it also encourage research for CO2 scrubber. If the price is attached to the cur
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> English is also bad at this, ironically https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce
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Any more example where it needs to be a tradeoff? I've been very skeptical about the concept since first hearing it. Seems too good to be true.
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People around me go less to the doctor/hospital for "small" things, mostly because of perception of how long and expensive one session can be. Sometimes it makes them neglect preventative things. More hospital would induce th
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I don't think HN is dialogue, for sole reason that I don't get notification whenever someone reply to me. I wouldn't even know that I'm involved in a dialogue!
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*Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of news. I bet that's what a further study will conclude.
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This is also what I realized when memorizing Qur'an. It's really felt when there are some similar "nodes" that makes you confused on what should be the next node. Like if line 1, 16, 78 is almost the same, when you encou
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Several countries in Asia are/were not only making new cities, but new Capital cities (Malaysia, Egypt, Indonesia, etc) and they have mixed results. Old city pull and inertia is so strong.
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I don't feel it's counterintuitive. If we have a leaky cauldron, the bigger the hole, the faster it emptied and vice versa. Although we wouldn't know whether this big stream is because of a big hole or a big jug...
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This Guiness connection is the core of the jokes when explaining about t-test in Larry Gonick's History of Statistics.
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I thought it's notorious that sometimes they also don't know what they're doing, being carried by trends and vibes. "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half"
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There's Mathrioshka Brain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain which uses the energy then and there for computation.
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And then we have Cleopatra the last Ptolemy and she seems normal. Even the famous inbred Charles Habsburg have relatively normal sister. Nature really plays dice sometimes.

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