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by mellavora 4y ago
An explosion which sometimes, but not always, includes vertebrates. And which usually happens on a time scale which most of us would consider "long"
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by mellavora 4y ago
> Rest assured, we have no wish to inflict any form of torture upon you I will only harm you if you attempt to harm me first.
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by mellavora 4y ago
> Services can often be run more efficiently in private hands Hard disagree. Business optimized for the value it can capture in the short term. It will be more efficient at that. Services such as electricity benefit from long-term invest
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by mellavora 4y ago
This is a fascinating legal theory. We've know for years that "you are paying for it with your data"; if governments can collect VAT on this transaction, it changes the economics of so many businesses.
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by mellavora 4y ago
>plying customers with "legal addictive stimulants"? > Caffeine is addictive. Starbucks sells a menu full of caffeine. That's why people buy from them. Hey, your quote says "stimulants", plural, but you only m
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by mellavora 4y ago
Would you find it more scary if you realized it applied to almost all mammals, not just humans? Species which are already facing severe pressure from habitat loss and fragmentation? I share your view that human populations need a natural st
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by mellavora 4y ago
I find turning a simple dumb switch easier and faster than issuing a voice command. Especially if the switch is conveniently located next to where I enter/exit the room. I think in the 80s they sold coffee machines with clocks in them
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by mellavora 4y ago
> I've come to prefer it to visiting Stack Overflow when I need to get up to speed on a new thing, I'm certainly guilty of this very same mistake, key word being "mistake." I'd hope for a world where the better w
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by mellavora 4y ago
"please drink verification can"
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by mellavora 4y ago
> Typically an analog computer is thought of as a set of opamps and diodes, whose currents and voltages solve a set of non-linear ODEs; Oh oh oh! and also resistor/capacitor circuits! Great for integration or differentiation! Integr
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by mellavora 4y ago
So perhaps you should review what many leading right-wing politicians have been saying for years about teachers, see i.e. Attacks on teachers never ‘as bad as right now’: union chief (2022) https://thehill.com/blogs/blo
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by mellavora 4y ago
Oh, come on. Everyone knows about A3 and A5.
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by mellavora 4y ago
> , I suspect that most people read the time then do the arithmetic rather than imagining a pie chart. depends how the person was trained, my friend.
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by mellavora 4y ago
And multiples of 12, don't forget that! The Babylonians were masters of division-based math, when the purpose was to divide things up into equal parts. Started to fade from fashion when economics became about making things grow (increa
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by mellavora 4y ago
yeah, flutes aren't even heavy! <side note> If I remember how the band Jethro Tull got its name, it is because they had to change the band's name after every gig. The band was that unpopular, and would be told to never come
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by mellavora 4y ago
I usually don't have binoculars up to my face while driving. It interferes with the peripheral vision.
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by mellavora 4y ago
> Can you elaborate on what you mean by date ordering? day/month/year month/day/year year/month/day year/day/month The order of the numbers an be problematic. For example, 01/01/01 could
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by mellavora 4y ago
> the US has never been attacked on its own soil before in the modern age, except for 9/11, and the results there were catastrophic. except for when the Brits burned Washington DC in Aug 1814. And there was this little thing at some
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by mellavora 4y ago
Well, Black-Scholes has proved pretty useful. With the caveat that all models are wrong-- and most people using B-S know this. Which is why actual option prices have the "smile", with tail prices being higher than the model would
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by mellavora 4y ago
This also assumes that a decent candidate can quickly find a new job. That is not always true. I take a risk to accept your job offer. I turn down other offers. Maybe I quit my current job to work with you. if EVERYONE in the economy played
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by mellavora 4y ago
And the nice thing about wall power is that it generates itself thanks to the magic elves.
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by mellavora 4y ago
False. I've been operating as a high level programmer for over a decade and have a MsC in comp sci from a top school and a statistics/comp sci related Ph.D. I was bored at my job and thought I'd apply at Meta. I've never
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by mellavora 4y ago
There was almost no erosion before modern farming, say 120 years ago. The high rates of erosion are a purely man-made phenomenon
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by mellavora 4y ago
> Trade is built into our human nature. I'd go deeper than that, I'd say trade is built into nature. Forests have economies, sharing resources. Deciduous trees over-produce "food" in the summer, when their big leaves
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by mellavora 4y ago
That sounds more like a jupyter notebook/python problem than an R problem. but otherwise, yes, I see the problem.
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by mellavora 4y ago
cp is faster than drag-and-drop, especially when operating on multiple files (i.e. cp myphotos/2022-11-* someplace/)... vs drag and drop, where you need to open both locations in windows, select the files in one, and drag it to th
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by mellavora 4y ago
wonder what the homeowner association would have to say about that?
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by mellavora 4y ago
you obviously need to play more nethack
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by mellavora 4y ago
You forgot to mention: take care of the children during the day so both parents can work the kinds of jobs which you can't do with children running around. Which is a bit sad, pre-industrial revolution children could work and help with
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by mellavora 4y ago
yes, very true. I had to give up on environmental advocacy because the career path was non-existent. Money must be like democracy. The worst possible way to organize society with the possible exception of everything else we have tried.

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