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by mikrl 3y ago
It impresses me how many global warming skeptics are in this forum as opposed to, say, the scientific community. Is this due to the level of deluded optimism that I always hear is a prerequisite for one’s startup succeeding?
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In North America you get lumped in with the Germans and the Russians and the Austrians too… glad I have a morbid sense of humour!
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How the turntables in 60 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
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During the summer when I work from home I take a 20 minute walk at 8:30 (and water my tomatoes) and a 20 minute walk at 12:00 before settling back into my home office with lunch. If I’m feeling up to it, I get another 30-40 minute walk in
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by mikrl 3y ago
I’ve had an ‘instrumental’ mindset for as long as I can remember. Almost my entire life after being a kid. >I need to do this because I need to know that to pass my exams, get a good job to… etc I feel for a lot of 30 and under people to
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by mikrl 3y ago
When you take the perspective of those to the East of the Nazi regime, every victory, every person alive today and every inch of border is because some humans 80 years ago willed it into existence at the cost of their life. It’s why Ukraine
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by mikrl 3y ago
There’s no such thing as a right or wrong side of history. If the allies lost WW2 the right side of history would involve singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied with your morning coffee. It is only thanks to human sacrifice and spirit of will that w
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by mikrl 3y ago
Maybe it’s the course I’m taking but a lot of the results are surprising to me. > such and such is a martingale so this term goes to zero This is why I dug into stochastic calculus and from there to measure theory, because it seems even
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by mikrl 3y ago
I’ve been taking an online course in mathematical finance although it’s mostly analytic, so not much in the way of numerics and all of the options are European / fixed term. Thanks for the article! It will be interesting to see how ear
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by mikrl 3y ago
>so they have little interest in allowing any new construction that could be viewed as lowering their property values This logic is so backwards on behalf of homeowners it’s unreal. Which cities are associated with out of control house p
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At my Alma Mater, the honours calculus course (with epsilon-delta proofs) was called the calculus.
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>I have very little interest in how the team I'm part of performs in general. Your job security is extremely dependent on the health of your company and team. If the structures which provide your employment contract start failing, a
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>It's not about touch nor physicality of a button or knob, but about a control that is not dependent on UI state No, I disagree. The heterogeneity and tactile response of the UI is fundamental, at least for me. Which quadrant of the
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by mikrl 3y ago
Acadians were an earlier emigrant wave from France, so their French sounds like that from the 18th century plus developments. The Québécois were about 100 years later, so their French is like the 19th century plus developments. African Fren
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by mikrl 3y ago
This ceramic vessel, about the size of a human fist and a half, is critical to the pursuit of modern science. The main ceramic caldera facilitates the enclosure of hot liquids, and the protruding element which breaks its rotational symmetry
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by mikrl 3y ago
Voting with your wallet also applies to the supply side. Either paywall it to keep me out, or just don’t do the labour I won’t pay for ;)
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My university chemistry prof told us in 2013 that the portion of oil used for non-energy applications was only about 10% so if we stopped using oil for energy it would essentially become an ‘unlimited’ resource again.
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I assume the average person does not care about what Rus’ means versus Russian, Belarusian, and so on? Is there a tendency to group them together? As Russians or as Rus’? There is a lot of cultural context that Western Europeans (inc myself
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by mikrl 3y ago
>The reason is that the adjective ruskie is typically understood as "Russian" in general parlance I’m not a native speaker, but I always heard that the Greek derived Rosyjski/Rosjanin/Rosjanka were for Russians (ie th
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by mikrl 3y ago
More so now that it’s their own money and not yours they’re being more careful with it.
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Oh fantastic, looks like I’ll never run out of QAnon jokes now!
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m in the same boat as you wrt skepticism about motivations, but there is a plausible explanation for how this kind of situation could come about.
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No, but attending multiple such conferences will expose the oil exec to the areas of research, and help prioritize their funding. Just like lung cancer isn’t solved, but Philip Morris etc still throw money at the research.
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There might be a bit of sense to it. Like tobacco companies getting involved in cancer research. If they ‘solve’ lung cancer in a way that doesn’t necessitate stopping smoking, the tobacco exec will make out like a bandit. Similarly, if the
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by mikrl 3y ago
James Bond, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, 4chan; all in unison: “Q PREDICTED THIS!”
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That would also incentivize the paper writers to be exacting in describing their methodology and lead to higher quality papers. If a paper needed to clear the bars of - can be reproduced by reading the paper and/or a few meetings with
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I believe in the 1800s ‘liberal’ also meant generous. It would have been ‘very liberal’ of Scrooge to give Cratchit some extra days off at Christmas, in the American vernacular at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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They called it Q* It’s not the first weird conspiracy I’ve heard of involving a cryptically named figure called Q…
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Yea I’m fortunate to have worked in more good companies than pathological ones, so maybe whatever my strategy is has worked so far.
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>When people complain it's a 'you said, he said' situation where the manipulator inevitably wins There’s no such thing as a free lunch. These types must have weaknesses of their own. I’m growing the cynicism necessary to t

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