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by mo_42 2y ago
True, thanks for sharing. Here's the one: https://imgur.com/a/SsdVhCT
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by mo_42 2y ago
I had a similar experience during the pandemic. I got hold of an old frame for a road bike that I somehow liked. Even the paint was pretty bad so I went all the way of stripping the old paint, cold-setting the rear dropouts (thanks to Sheld
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by mo_42 2y ago
I have the rule to not provide my phone number and email address to certain institutions (e.g., banks, the government, insurances). If there's a phone call or email, I know for sure that it's not from them. They mostly don't
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by mo_42 2y ago
In the past, decoration was much more expensive than plain objects. A craftsman would have to spend extra time adding this (e.g., paint some pattern on a plate). So such objects would be a true signal of your wealth. Nowadays, decorated stu
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by mo_42 2y ago
> The value of a country's currency = How much stuff it produces / How much money it prints. The value of a currency is how much people are willing to pay to have the other currency. For example, if Japan is importing many good
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by mo_42 2y ago
It's not so hard to use Tor for that. I wonder how the Tor exit nodes are distributed across the globe and see how that correlates or not.
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by mo_42 2y ago
Is this actually true? I know the text sounds really nice. Also citing nicely crafted words from famous poeple helps. I guess roughly, this is right. But there's more to add. I have a brain with a certain configuration. This configurat
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by mo_42 2y ago
There are crows that crack nuts by placing them correctly on the road. Then, they wait for the traffic light to collect the pieces. Some crows know how to bend a little stick to pull out food out of something that's too narrow otherwis
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by mo_42 2y ago
> Is it to change people’s tastes and make them addicted so they eat even more sugary? Sugar gives people a little dopamine boost. So if, as a company, you make your product a little more sugary, people like it more. Then, all the compan
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by mo_42 2y ago
I don't try to keep myself updated. I don't listen to podcasts. I'm not subscribed to any data science newsletter. Neither do I go to meetups. I think this is all a distraction. If I encounter a problem that I cannot solve su
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by mo_42 2y ago
It's already on GitHub, so why not: https://github.com/mo42/inven
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by mo_42 2y ago
It doesn't require discipline for me. Somehow I'm orderly that I put things to their designated place.
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by mo_42 2y ago
Minimalism seems like a natural reaction to things getting so cheap that you can litter your home with stuff every paycheck. On the other side, it seems like some process getting out of hand. From the initial reward of tidying and delitteri
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by mo_42 2y ago
When I was 12 or 13, I was really curious about computers. At some point, I discovered the section about programming languages in the local library. I didn't go to any other section after that. Back then, we weren't connected to t
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by mo_42 2y ago
Banks don't have that limitation for creating credit/money [1]. Technically, they just need to extend the balance sheet. Limitations are rather that they need to find good projects that yield enough returns to cover the interest r
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by mo_42 2y ago
I believe double-entry bookkeeping needs more attention. I think double-entry bookkeeping is, at least to me, as fundamental to economics (and of course business) as logic to math. Even if some actors don't use it explicitly, it still
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by mo_42 2y ago
Probably because everyone needs to make an academic career nowadays. To make an academic career you need to get published in prestigious journals or conferences. These prestigious publishers are rather established and hence still stick to t
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by mo_42 3y ago
I fully agreee. It's similar to older versions of Visual Studio. On the other hand, I'm annoyed by the omnipresent File, Edit, View, ... stuff in the menu bar. Even if those functions make no sense for a given application. And the
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by mo_42 3y ago
> According to Yoshida’s calculations, the proportion of Japanese named Sato increased 1.0083 times from 2022 to 2023. Not sure if I would base such extrapolations on a single year. For every country with this naming convention, I could
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by mo_42 3y ago
> If the EU governments actually go into trilogue negotiations with this radical position, experience shows that the Parliament risks gradually abandoning its initial position behind closed doors and agreeing to bad and dangerous comprom
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by mo_42 3y ago
What evidence supports your thinking?
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by mo_42 3y ago
Seems like a purely legal problem to have some form of real world handle. For such problems, I'd also expect a legal solution. For example, the license could include something like: if we cannot identify and contact you in a reasonable
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by mo_42 3y ago
From my experience, I strongly do not recommended You and Your Research. When I started my PhD I read this text as well. Of course I was very motivated of doing only important research. After some time I even found a nice research topic a
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by mo_42 3y ago
Tl;dr We shouldn't care. Is my partner conscious? My dog? Actually, I don't know. I can say that I experience myself as conscious. In our daily interactions we never ask such questions. Last week, I hired a new programmer. We chec
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric. I agree. As I commented recently here, we should also normalize by total hours worked. People in the US work much more than in many other
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by mo_42 3y ago
Economic activity benefits the people who, in the end, consume the products and services. Today, there are long and intransparent supply chains but I think they mostly serve this goal. Economic growth, however does not only require better p
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by mo_42 3y ago
Are there works that test Girard's theories? Is there some evidence?
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by mo_42 3y ago
> - You are required to take your holidays. Your employer can get in serious trouble if you don't, so "leaving vacations days unused" almost doesn't exist. Some systems allow you to transfer your extra legal holidays
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by mo_42 3y ago
This article seems like a joke or a parody of something I lack context. > I certainly hope faculty will take this essay to heart and sharpen their insulting skills. In the future please make all your thrusts count.
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by mo_42 3y ago
As a computer scientist this sounds ridiculous. Especially that they restrict themselves to Latin letters and Arabic numbers. I guess many people here will point out that they should use other tools. I think we should help them in any way.

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