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   by n4r9 6y ago

   Using violence to achieve political goals is not in itself a "hallmark of fascism". From the Gordon Riots, to union riots, to militant suffragettes, history is littered with examples of political change that was expedited by viole
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   by n4r9 6y ago

   Thanks for the response. I wonder how many of the 1/3 in the first article can be done fully remote, i.e. without needing to come in once or twice a week, which might make moving out of the city less attractive. The uniform distribut
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   by n4r9 6y ago

   > American office-workers now work completely from home; this policy will last until the end of 2020 for many and will likely shift millions of office jobs to fully-remote workers. Justifying the word "likely" is key here, sure
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   by n4r9 6y ago

   Just having a voting system doesn't feel like it's enough. And there are many different styles of voting, some which seek to reflect a broad range of view points and others which seek to give strong executive power to the majority
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   by n4r9 6y ago

   Technically the quote belongs to a character in one of Heinlein's novels. He did love writing hyper-competent men though, so chances are he believed it himself at some point. It's a decent description of a hyper competent person,
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   by n4r9 7y ago

   My wife is a plant pathologist and mycologist and had a similar opinion: "some interesting bits, is too preachy". The SAH has always seemed empty to me. If you don't propose an actual mechanism, do you even have a hypothesis?
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   by n4r9 7y ago

   The memo was undoubtedly political; it claimed that Google has an inherent left-leaning bias and that this blinds it to the facts.
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   by n4r9 7y ago

   When I was doing my PhD there was also SciRate: https://scirate.com/
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   by n4r9 7y ago

   It says where the data comes from: Glassdoor. Every time someone uses glassdoor to make claims about salaries in the Bay Area, someone else chimes in to say that they're way lower than their own experience. I wonder if there are two st
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Happened to me last night while playing a game on boardgamearena. Funnily enough the other people on the game (who weren't with virgin) also got disconnected. Added to the general confusion. I guess the website must be using virgin med
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    He's quite posh. Humour aside, I don't think he's posh enough to use it in the intensifier sense. If he says something is "quite good" on TV I'd expect it to mean "good" but not necessarily "bett
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    > In British "quite good" is similar to "particularly good" If you're very posh then yes, but everyone else now uses the American sense. If you asked me what I thought of a TV show, "quite good" means I
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    It is a bit weird. As a Brit I would say that the first "home" has changed from a noun to a sort of adjective. It has the same type of meaning as fr example "busy" or "asleep". We quite often say "Sally is
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I don't think there's much better advice than what the OP has already said: train yourself to wonder if there's a deeper question that the asker might be asking. Ultimately it's a question of humility. I think dismissive
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    It varies by course and college. My college had a relatively small number of maths students and would give a prize to the top performers each year. We all knew who got the prize and what grade everyone got. Some of my friends were top athle
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I installed the game but it crashes immediately on opening. I'm on an oldish phone (OnePlus Two) which may explain why.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    The BBC is still serving niches,for example fleabag, the night manager, inside no 9, Sherlock, Peaky Blinders, people just do nothing, Dr who, silent witness, death in paradise, and the detectorists.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I sympathise with this position but on balance I'm against the idea. At-the-time popularity is very different to quality, and I think moving to a subscription service would favour the former. There's been a decent number of extrem
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Canada may be testing a greater proportion of the infected people. They may also have different criteria for when someone's death is "caused by" COVID19.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I guess I worded it weirdly, but isn't that the same as just having an innate talent?
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    This is all true but it's worth bearing in mind that OS recently made a lot of its mapping data open: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/tools-s... . If you ask me it's probably because their
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    To be fair there's quite a big difference: Lionel Messi is an individual footballer whilst in Fifa you have more control over the team strategy.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Exactly. It could be that this guy was just born to be a real racing driver but never realised until too late, or just didn't want that career. And that a good racing driver is likely to be a good simulation player.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Physical separation doesn't suggest a lack of mutual cooperation. I'm interacting with my friends as much as if not more than ever despite never seeing them in person.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I wonder if the Varsity Brand's hold on the cheerleading industry satisfies this? Like all big corporations they use legal means as leverage to suppress competition but other than that it seems like a classic case of one business using
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by "proposing what continuity holds for the quantum system". There are a number of results about how measurements of an individual infinite-dimensional quantum system can be approximated to arbitrar
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Thanks for the link. Does this mean we're closer to experimentally determining whether infinite-dimensional quantum systems actually exist (rather than being approximated by very large finite ones) ? I vaguely remember this being a top
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Agreed. However, was with some Hongkongers a week ago and it seems very likely that the protests will start straight back up once the virus has died down.
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    I get what you're saying, that Brexit was in a sense a protest vote against the current state of things. But if it was purely down to the working class feeling disenfranchised, then it gets very hard to explain why Labour did so dismal
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    by n4r9 7y ago

    Absolutely. It's extremely psychologically compelling: the porcelain features, the "black seed", the imagery of thousands of screaming humanoid beasts hurling themselves ravenously at a shield wall. imo the series (at least t