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by michaelscott 4y ago
This is incredible! Does anyone know of other sites like this for films from other countries? I've been looking to broaden my cinematic horizons a bit, as well as hunting for material to practice language comprehension.
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by michaelscott 4y ago
The 1970 stats are just saying that of the 4% of people who held a degree, 20% had parents who also had a degree (the 20% is a subset of the 4%, the 2 numbers are not directly comparable). This in fact means that graduates-with-degreed-pare
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by michaelscott 4y ago
That's not what he did. He specifically told people they weren't happening. He could've just not said anything until the actual layoffs had to happen.
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Switzerland also solved the last mile problem with Mobility, if you really need it
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by michaelscott 4y ago
This is heavily dependent, probably even correlated, with the way the government currently uses taxes. For developed nations this is a no-brainer, of course they need the taxes to supply services to the population. For developing nations? I
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I didn't know this, that's really interesting. I, like I think many others, was under the impression that Damascus was a lost technique. I'm under the further impression though that our modern alloys have long since passed th
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by michaelscott 4y ago
True, the density gets much lower in the villages and especially those in the mountains. But for the average person in _most_ of the Swiss villages there is some connection they can take to get to where they need to go (though it may not al
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I think there are pros and cons to both structures. Villages in Switzerland are well separated by geography that is physically difficult to overcome (i.e. mountains), even if the distances are not big. It's way easier to lay down a fla
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by michaelscott 4y ago
The point is that Switzerland maintains this level of punctuality in addition to connecting the entire country, down to the village. That "down to the village" bit is the part that very few other public transport systems in the wo
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by michaelscott 4y ago
You'll always have centralisation in any system, you're just trying to minimise it as much as possible. Mining operations require you to continuously supply to the system at cost , which is completely different to staking that
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The problem isn't viability, it's the fact that PoS re-centralises wealth for almost no cost to the minter which makes it inferior to PoW. The problem with PoW is the green aspect, of course
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This is partially why UX research typically starts with rough wireframes rather than full application design, even in front of clients. The idea is that the lack of fidelity forces the client/user to focus on the functionality of the a
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A "mere" 2^96 improvement; the security between the two is a universe apart.
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It depends on the circumstance. I'm also from a poor background in a third world country (so super poor by Western standards), and although I did work both very hard and very smart, if I had not moved to a first world country there&#x2
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by michaelscott 4y ago
An architectural style can do more than one thing, i.e. it can be both utilitarian in its aesthetic and also be anti-human in its output. Philosophically, I'm not sure these are mutually exclusive but I suppose that's debatable.
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I'm talking about brutalism as a chosen approach for an architect and where that approach is most appropriate for a building. It doesn't mean that all churches or monasteries should be brutalist (obviously), I'm saying it&#x2
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Yup, that's the after effect of being anti-human in ideal. It results in a building that it sucks to be in.
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Correct, brutalism is concerned with total utilitarianism and a complete lack of artifice (the material is irrelevant, although a lot of brutalist architecture is made from concrete). It contrasts itself with minimalism by taking it to the
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Having tried both I would not consider Cenovis similar to Marmite at all. More like distant second cousins at best
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by michaelscott 5y ago
...over the speed limit, yes. The point of parent's post is that the offensive nature of a statement or speech in general is subjective and can change with whims and the time. A speed limit is objective and quantifiable; if you go over
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by michaelscott 5y ago
Highly recommend this course (it's free) if you're interested in machine/deep learning as a "regular" programmer. My knowledge of linear algebra and calculus is pretty elementary, but I was able to follow with it ea
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by michaelscott 5y ago
There are definitely a few exceptions. Pontiff Sulyvahn (DS3) comes to mind as one, it's possible that Godrick in ER is also although we'll need to uncover more lore still. Byrgenwerth (Bloodborne) as an institution definitely. Th
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by michaelscott 5y ago
This idea of a fallen-from-grace character is a common motif when it comes to Miyazaki, but it's so effective every time and always adds a dimension to the games' lore. To this day, I think Gehrman in Bloodborne is my favourite bo
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by michaelscott 5y ago
> We make smaller chips, miniaturized computers, made fancier looking user interfaces, made rocket boosters reusable, and video game graphics are approaching photorealism. Great. Damn.. I'm not sure what more you are wanting given t
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by michaelscott 5y ago
Goal of the short term cycles is different. In the US the goal is to remain in power through votes. In China, where remaining in power is a given, the goal is to use the time to make impact on the country's progress, for better or wors
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by michaelscott 5y ago
As parent said, all those Europeans went to America because they shared roughly the same ideals about what America could be. That's the foundation of any culture, and because it's shared it's "uniform". This is not
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by michaelscott 5y ago
Exactly, the "humans are killing machines" argument is false because all life is optimised competitively. We're definitely the best at it, but any species that evolved to our level would behave in the same way because it&#x
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by michaelscott 5y ago
Not in direct answer to the question, but as an interesting aside, the conditions of space didn't allow for normal memory implementations in the Apollo missions back in the 60s. An alternative form, called core rope memory [1], used th
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by michaelscott 5y ago
A concentration of group "power" into any individual/s will introduce a hierarchy to the system, which begets inequality in power, which begets class systems, which begets corruption, etc. It's why delegations and counci
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Also useful when you want to try strange or unusual openings without ruining your rating

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