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nairboon
11y ago
Joining the EU does not make it a part of Europe. Turkey is used as the definition of where Europe ends. While Istanbul is an exception, being a transcontinental city.
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11y ago
I glanced briefly over your posts and it seems that you're dealing with a complex system . The trouble with those is that you can't just break it down to a simple prototype, because by simplifying it you lose exactly the properti
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11y ago
What would your guess be for that area?
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11y ago
This is actually very in line with what they are hypothesizing. Apparently a problem with positive fantasies is that they present an easy path to an idealized future situation. The path is missing any obstacles and possible hardships. And
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11y ago
It's not defined very clearly in the article, but they seem to use the definition from an earlier article: > "Positive fantasies about the future are positively experienced mental images of future desired events that emerge in
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11y ago
The vote is on the 5.6.2016: https://www.bk.admin.ch/aktuell/media/03238/index.html?lang=...
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11y ago
I do like your idealism. But what means "to give everybody the same voice"? Is this about having your voice heard? Or about actually participating in a decision? Either way, only the pure direct democracy guarantees both. In the
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11y ago
Of course you can. Democracy is just the ruling of a majority of a specific group. It doesn't have any inherent "higher ideals", human rights, or whatever.
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I'm not still not sure whether this is either a) a joke b) a cultural difference in what's 'acceptable' quackery or c) you're just very uninformed. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and opt for c). Sorry t
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11y ago
University of St.Gallen (Business school in CH)
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11y ago
Good question, keeping is probably more environmentally friendly. I'm not sure about the second hand market. As by buying one there, you'd give the previous owner some capital and him selling in the first place, could indicate tha
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11y ago
No. 1 should be mandatory reading for HSG students.
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11y ago
Medication is not the only choice. Although it's the one where you might see small results at the earliest. CBT and biofeedback are promising new treatments, but not mainstream yet. May I ask, where this bias against medication comes f
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11y ago
Direct link: http://faculty.washington.edu/pemp/pdfs/pemp2015-06.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/18/1513619112.abst...
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11y ago
I didn't particularly think of ALGOL with the bit-string, but more of the parameter space of the mentioned black-box model. Which I'd assume, coding for a black-box, is quite huge, with lots of local maxima that could appear '
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11y ago
Quite an interesting idea, so it'd be like extending the scope of GA4GH beyond 'just' genomics? https://genomicsandhealth.org/work-products-demonstration-pr...
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11y ago
>Replicating intelligences might be like black boxes which we don't understand but can generate, or grow, if you will, from simpler primitives. We might get lucky and discover the means to generate intelligences without understandin
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Good old Homo Sapiens is already disappearing thanks to Homo Oeconomicus. I don't see a problem if we move on to Homo faber next.
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11y ago
So how do you pirate a Youtube link?
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11y ago
Sounds similar to screeps an MMO strategy game that opened a couple months ago: https://screeps.com
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11y ago
>> I could give you a very simple example of cultural similarity across Europe. Religion. Pretty much the majority of European countries are Christians. >> 72% of Europeans are Christians. There are no "Christians" in
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12y ago
Actual paper: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/26/bra...
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Toward Stronger Authentication for the Web
(browserauth.net)
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12y ago
TLS client authentication [1] is doing this already. [1]: http://www.browserauth.net/tls-client-authentication
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12y ago
[1] summarizes why TLC client auth isn't wide spread, but he also proposes some TLS extensions to improve client auth. Such as Origin-bound certificates [2] so that the user does not have to choose which certificate to use for authenti
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A New Funding Model for Scientists
(sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
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Unconditional payment will probably have the highest impact on open source development, either through the government as a basic income or through the people like gittip: https://www.gittip.com/
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Top 5 Mistakes Journalists Make about Sexless Japan
(yutaaoki.com)
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Npm like centralized repository for versioned Go packages
(gonuts.io)
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13y ago
sounds like angularjs with golang backend,kind of irritating :/
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