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by neilkk 3y ago
patio11 has a huge and well known bias here, which is that he wants to claim, not necessarily with evidence, that all inefficiency is caused by governments and not by the private sector. A comparison of tax filing in the United States with
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by neilkk 3y ago
That isn't what "door to door" means though.
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The fact that no one used it doesn't mean that building it was a mistake. Maybe the purchase officer got it wrong, but the salesperson who requested it be built got it right, since the deal did in fact depends on it.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Rather than erect signs, they should change the official speed limit on that road to 10 miles per hour. Google takes into account speed restrictions when choosing routes, apparently by assuming that you always drive exactly at the limit. Th
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by neilkk 3y ago
A stroller is literally an urban vehicle for transporting an infant. "Walking a dog" is the name for a type of ambulatory exercise which most dogs require daily. Car seats exist to make cars workable; cars do not exist in order to
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by neilkk 3y ago
> One such use case is the synthesis of hydrocarbons for plastic/chemical production Why? There are plenty of hydrocarbons left. All climate science and renewable energy policy indicates that we have to stop burning it before we exh
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by neilkk 3y ago
I think and hope that middle-to-long term vehicle design adapts away from the constraints of ICE engines and towards sweet spots for electric. Eg, when batteries are heavier than petrol, carrying enough fuel for a 200 mile journey every tim
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by neilkk 3y ago
> If someone was killed they would get out a certain date. No, there are lots of people (in the United States) doing life without the possibility of parole. There are many people who will never be released from solitary confinement. Som
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by neilkk 3y ago
Did you read the article?
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by neilkk 3y ago
I don't think this is fair. Another underage person found guilty of the same hacks got an 18-month rehabilitation order. This basically means severe restrictions on going out and computer use together with involvement and monitoring by
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by neilkk 3y ago
Wind turbines have a max windspeed beyond which they stop generating, as it's too risky to let the blades spin that fast.
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by neilkk 3y ago
The French have tons of hydro, more than any other industrialised country can feasibly add.
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by neilkk 3y ago
My mortgage company charges interest based on the number of days in the month divided by 365. I have replicated their calculation like this. I'm not sure what they do in leap years - there are at least 3 distinct approaches.
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by neilkk 3y ago
It makes no sense to suggest that three external directors would vote out a CEO and the Chairman against the chief scientist/founder/principal's wishes.
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by neilkk 3y ago
That doesn't mean it's not a personal scandal. If Brockman disagreed with the board about the advisability of firing him for whatever personal scandal it was, this is how you'd expect things to play out.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Note that everything below is speculation . I am merely trying to suggest an hypothesis which would answer the question of how the Annie Altman allegations could have led to this outcome. FWIW I think it's better speculation than
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by neilkk 3y ago
You obviously haven't been to France.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Fewer than 5% of native speakers are Portuguese...
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by neilkk 3y ago
> tens of dead police officers on a yearly basis What are you talking about? This does not happen in North West Europe.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Some reductions via Conway's method give non-trivial Collatz problems even though other simple techniques show the halting question for those machines to be trivial; the Conway reduction sometimes reduces trivial Turing machines to non
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by neilkk 3y ago
I have a PhD in pure math. Nothing I learnt specifically in that PhD is needed for my job, and in fact, I do a job where most people who do the same thing as me don't have a PhD. So its value even for signalling is limited. However, I&
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by neilkk 3y ago
The intuition is that a monkey typing randomly on a typewriter can come up with texts which either are or aren't valid proofs of ZFC or not, and each one which is a valid proof either is a proof of a contradiction or not. To check eith
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by neilkk 3y ago
'trivial' isn't a mathematical concept. If no one has shown why this problem is trivial, it isn't trivial.
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by neilkk 3y ago
I think the point here is that it was not known whether all 3,3 halting problems are reducible to trivial Collatz-like problems. Unless someone is able to observe that sligicko's is actually trivial, then this provides a counterexample
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by neilkk 3y ago
> He seems to be an incredibly strong person and his smile shows kindness. People often seem to say this about exonerees. Perhaps there's a selection bias at work here? Something like, those unjustly convicted who are not strong and