mrow84

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by mrow84 10y ago
That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1: "We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl]." They do, however, note that the "fact it can also be pronounced &#
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It seems to me that, historically, it is simply adversity in a general sense (be that other humans or not) that has driven humanity forward. "Competition" per se is not the motivating factor, it is just that there is a problem tha
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So I just did an experiment with simple assortative mating, where the population is drawn into an ordered list, with the probability of selection being proportional to wealth, and then paired off according to their order in the resulting li
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You can get a large inequality effect just from differences in inheritance between children. If we call the child who gets the bulk of the inheritance the "first child", then the first child of the first child, etc., will end up b
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by mrow84 11y ago
What makes you say he was on a steep slope? Nothing about the background suggests that this is so (for example, all of the cars in the car park below). Also, if he was on a hill, the bike would have to have somehow had enough angular moment
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"United Kingdom, Taxis: Tip 10-15 percent for black cabs and licensed minicabs, or just round up to the nearest Euro." I see that the "in" campaign is really upping its game.
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I'm not sure if you meant to reply to my comment - yours sounds much more relevant to the topic at hand. As for the content of what you've said, if it's true, then it's quite terrifying! But it hardly seems unusual [0].
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After re-reading, I can see that I didn't clearly express my point of view. The first line should have said this: "Why would you attribute an increase in sales or profits solely to the leader?" If you meant something simila
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Why would you attribute an increase in sales or profits to the leader? Just because Pharaoh decides to build a pyramid, doesn't mean it will happen, however hard they think it, without an army of people doing the actual work. Also, aft
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I also know nothing about the limitations of the temperature sensors on smartphones (I don't even know of any phones that have temperature sensors). What I do know is that whilst teasing signals out of noisy data is achievable when the
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In case anyone starts wondering, in the article it says that they're assuming that atmospheric motion is linear, which they justify (reasonably) because they're only looking over short time scales. So, although it is a forecast, i
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You are correct, and I don't think there is much more of a collaborative than a competitive spirit between the various organisations. However, it is not only the model that is important in weather forecasting, but also the data assimil
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Yes, it is the interconnects that are important. The UK Met Office has also recently upgraded to a Cray XC40 [0], and there are other XC30 systems in the UK NSS [1] and the US NERSC [2], both of which are used for weather/climate model
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My understanding of debt is as the cost of shifting purchases in time, in the same way as barrkel [0]. Working out what the cost is going to be up front only works if you stick to your assumptions throughout repayment, which is a good way o
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by mrow84 11y ago
Ok, I can see why you might be jaded about it! I've had very different experiences, and, as you say, it probably depends on the people who are implementing it - the discipline is very important, and perhaps we were fortunate in that re
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That is pretty shocking. Wouldn't all the other riders be pretty badly pissed off with that, or is it just something everyone gets up to when they can?
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For the video in the second link, I get the arguments about the camera angle possibly being misleading, but it looks pretty damning.
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The title of the article is "Switzerland will be the first country in the world to vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month", and the omission of the word "on" led me to believe that they had actually voted for
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by mrow84 11y ago
Out of interest, could you elaborate on what is it about agile methods that you dislike/despise?
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The following anecdote may not really be applicable to children, but you might find it interesting anyway. I went through a period of getting an ear infection, being prescribed antibiotics, having it clear up, but then having it recur somet
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Thanks for linking to this. I am on the second lecture and it is pretty stunning so far. I really appreciate it.
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> Simple supply and demand dynamics are not at work here. I think that in this case simple supply and demand is a pretty major factor. There has been consistently limited supply of new houses in the UK (policy driven, as I understand it)
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I would say it is far more unusual to see a scientist saying that we do really know how the Earth (system) works. You may well encounter people saying that we have a good understanding of certain processes, for example plate tectonics, bu
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Do you think that there are no issues with information asymmetry between Facebook and the people who they are trying to co-opt into their programme? You appear to believe that the motivations of the Internet-literate about the consequences
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They may (or may not) be willing to pay in principle, but that principle is untested because they can access the content for free. Value is not equal to the price you pay, but the maximum price you would pay, if you had no other options.
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I think the difference in this case is that we are looking at a point that exceeds the current series maximum. If we had a single value from a series without a trend, we would expect it to fall below the maximum value observed so far (perha
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I'm not sure that the single number is entirely meaningless, because you would expect reversion to the mean in the absence of a trend, so if you computed the likelihood function then I guess it would be weighted toward there being a po
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It seems to me that you can reverse the sense of the author's conclusion by changing the initial conditions: The change in utility by going from 2k up to 10k (~ +1.3) is significantly more than the change in utility by going from 18k d
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It doesn't have the same religious dimension - they're basically just the butt of southerner's jokes. There is quite a bit of regionalism in the UK, but it's mostly pretty harmless, and doesn't carry that much bitte
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I'd be interested in hearing if anyone from the UK with a background like this has had a similar experience of prejudice (beyond what I would consider to be background level "you're different"-type feelings). I am always

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