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by mikorym 6y ago
I don't know whether I am committing sampling bias, but this looks eerily familiar [1]. The perhaps incorrect deduction here is that the Nordics are ahead when it comes to core or fundamental science, but they are behind when it comes
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Has the economics behind a universal basic income been (attempted to be) modelled? I don't expect a perfectly representative model, but I think a lot along the lines of what made Warren Buffet famous: What is the worth of something v
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by mikorym 6y ago
It is funny that Zoom was one of the companies that I flagged in my head as the worst (or rather, most dangerous) up-and-coming tech company and I considered Keybase one of the most promising up-and-coming tech companies. Keybase solves a (
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by mikorym 6y ago
I asked an Estonian which poet's work to use and then bought the book [1] where his poems are translated to English. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Drifts-Sing-Essential-Translatio...
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by mikorym 6y ago
This is an interesting topic and is closely related to what I am working on at the moment. One interesting thing I can say is that while subsets of a set are the language of probability and of logic (the existential quantifier and the unive
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by mikorym 6y ago
Here is a stupid example: Excel vlookups work on a network drive, but not on a cloud service like Dropbox or OneDrive. The absolute path can't resolve if it's used across multiple Excel users. If the users store the file locally,
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I am a pianist that went throught this. The first time I wrote something of my own "taste" was when I was 15. A couple of somewhat important guys told me "We can't wait until you are 18." This is the only field in w
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There is also Potrace [1], which is embedded in Inkscape. But if you want to call it via a cli you have to use Inkscape commands, which seems difficult for me. They are probably worth knowing, but I couldn't quickly find a full referen
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by mikorym 6y ago
Would this make the N64 any easier to emulate?
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Having gone through the process of starting to think about my own business and how to start generating revenue, the one interesting thing is that in the USA vs. some other countries you have venture capital vs. immediate profitability .
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by mikorym 6y ago
Category theory actually replaces set theory in the chronology of things. So more or less the history of mathematics was something like: Geometry -> Analysis -> Set Theory -> Category Theory Number theorists should not be discounte
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by mikorym 6y ago
There are foundational problems that can be studied via category theory, such as the view-update problem [1]. So, if you want to design a database you are faced with the problem of two users trying to update the same data at the same time a
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by mikorym 6y ago
In my experience at honours university level, which may or may not be relevant to the conversation, is that everyone does what they want if the leader figure doesn't understand the topics in depth. In my case, I am someone who wants to
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by mikorym 6y ago
Just trying to read a mathematical paper is like RE. You could take the approach that you try to follow every step and pause until you have the full specification, but that would take months. And more importantly, it's unlikely that yo
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by mikorym 6y ago
I don't think one necessarily has to redefine economic growth, but perhaps redefine what the kind of growth is that we want . Japan has not had much growth for 20 years now [1], and Japan is regarded generally as one of the most devel
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by mikorym 6y ago
> the Ring Doorbell You can build something much, much better with about $100 with a Raspberry Pi, depending I guess on the camera quality. Are there any features unique to the Ring? I am an advocate of using something like RPi's fo
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by mikorym 6y ago
Those physical limits are surely though at a much finer resolution that common high end digital cameras? I understand that you are saying that you see the effects even if you are not a the "molecule" level as you say, but I would
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by mikorym 6y ago
In theory, if you had the money and incentive, you should be able to develop films that are much higher resolution than current digital hardware? Like the large format films you refer to.
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Assuming that you have the technical ability, how many pixels do you need at how many colours to completely simulate film? I think that should refine my question.
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Does this hold for all types of film? For example, how small can the grain structure be?
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Something that I have wondered about is the photo quality of film photo enlargements vs. digital (which I guess is just zooming). A film is continuous right, so no amount of digital encoding would truly encode a strip of film. Of course the
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by mikorym 6y ago
The other interesting thing about the subjunctive is that it is not preserved in translation. For example: "Que tengas un buen día," would translate to: "Have a nice day." So, in Spanish the subjunctive is not strictly u
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Another thing to realise, along these lines, is that economic theories try to explain the world's economy, not dictate it. I would say that some mathematicians went into economics to win Nobel prizes (which they did win) and I guess
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> In British "quite good" is similar to "particularly good". In American it's more like "OK" Something similar happened between Spanish Spanish and Argentinian Spanish. I once used the phrase "a v
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One of my favourite quirks of English (that obscure language from a small island) is: "If it were up to me..." That's the correct grammar for when you have a conditional argument. I know that a lot of Americans don't k
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If you have 50% of the yield, you require 200% of the current area. Some pesticides have a flat rate per area, like for example herbicide.
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> Nobody contests the use of pesticides and pesticide research To me, the problem is that people do contest the use of pesticides and they also talk down on pesticide research. There is a lot of emotion involved with this and although
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But keep in mind that pesticides (in the correct quantities) are crucial for high yields, whereas I am not sure whether tobacco is crucial for anything.
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On an unrelated note, I find it amazing that Hong Kong dollar notes have written on them The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation . [1] [1] I am not exactly sure how it works, but this Wikipedia article mentions that there are differ
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by mikorym 6y ago
Since I was downvoted, here are some discussions on what happened cerca 2016–2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12816474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16130872 https://news.ycombin

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