nosianu

75 ms·

721.
by nosianu 5y ago
> [Cheng-Yun Tsang, an expert in financial regulation at National Chengchi University in Taiwan] said Beijing’s moves to distance itself from Moscow appeared mostly symbolic, inflicting little actual pain on the Russian economy. After
722.
by nosianu 5y ago
The GDR was not an inheritor of the 3rd Reich's militarism - it was an inheritor of Prussia's militarism. But yes, even school classes had a somewhat military organization. Serving in the military also had very high prestige and w
723.
by nosianu 5y ago
I have good memories of the AN-2 as a skydiving platform. As part of East German pre-military training of the youth I chose the paratrooper path in the GST ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_Sport_un..
724.
by nosianu 5y ago
Current article headline is "Turkey to implement pact limiting Russian warships to Black Sea" though... it also says "Last Updated 43 min ago" and "4:44 PM GMT+1" (it's 17:29 GMT+1 for me right now), while
725.
by nosianu 5y ago
Scale and danger and consequences. Ukraine is a big country. Russia has nukes. It also has a huge territory, so anything significant happening in or to Russia has a high chance to be or to become important. Also, this could be a test case w
726.
by nosianu 5y ago
A local coffee roaster with a coffee shop offered cold brew a few summers ago, one of those when it was really hot. They stopped because it was too much work. I drank it like whisk[e]y - in a similar glass and on ice (okay okay, ice and w
727.
by nosianu 5y ago
> shipping some people over to die and then walking away Eh??? This is exactly what happened. Soldiers were sent to Afghanistan. Thousands died. The US left, and the enemy took over, both government and equipment. Also, the parent ha
728.
by nosianu 5y ago
So.... Afghanistan? How many soldiers from several Western nations died there, and of the US in particular? Only to recently withdraw unconditionally and even hand over lots of military equipment to the enemy they had been fighting for deca
729.
by nosianu 5y ago
> China is completely invested in renewables > No sane country builds new energy infrastructure not firmly anchored in renewables today. Eh?? "China Is Planning to Build 43 New Coal-Fired Power Plants" https:/&#x2F
730.
by nosianu 5y ago
The problem with this advice is the same as with most advice for how to get ahead: It just does not scale, not even a little. It only works for a few. If more people follow it, it's just more stressful and/or expensive for everyon
731.
by nosianu 5y ago
I know someone who did that and in the end he went from well-paid technical sales to homeless with serious health issues. One piece of minor bad luck followed by more bad luck with the health issues, probably a consequence of the former. So
732.
by nosianu 5y ago
But that Japanese experience is not just created by the teachers, the other students and their parents are a very big part of it. I think kids around that age care most about their peers. If they didn't do as everybody else there they
733.
by nosianu 5y ago
As a German, I learned this as a rule. Outside of towns when there is no sidewalk, always walk on the left side, against oncoming traffic. From the StVO, the law, the road traffic regulations, §25 section 1, first paragraph (German): https
734.
by nosianu 5y ago
That is what I get when I disable Javascript. With JS enabled, I got a flash of just the first paragraph and after a second the rest is loaded and displayed. Not exactly ideal, that's true. Still, I prefer not to nitpick over design an
735.
by nosianu 5y ago
At some point you have to let people make decisions. You can't "logic" your way out of everything. But... the mistakes! Yeah, so what? What about the mistakes of the rules that a human at the scene is not allowed to overrul
736.
by nosianu 5y ago
Chemicals don't need to chemically react. Especially for biology, merely existing is enough. Lots of biological regulation is done by influencing three-dimensional shapes of the huge highly complex structures called proteins. Organic c
737.
by nosianu 5y ago
> If you dig up HN only paying attention to potentially toxic comments (and the entire comment really, to the and including and especially the last sentence) Uhm... this is the kind of response the blog post was talking about. Kind o
738.
by nosianu 5y ago
I usually do it by approximation most of the time. I estimate and then I multiply to see how close I got. Multiplication is easier. 720 / 13 for this example and 1.3% looks pretty easy this way IMO, you just need a few iterations. I im
739.
by nosianu 5y ago
..and I forgot: That means that it should have been J-Ph-EG and not JPEG. They created a completely different first letter by ignoring that "ph" is one letter. The J-PEG pronunciation was obtained by using destructive force.
740.
by nosianu 5y ago
The situation is different. The first letter in "photo" is not the "p" but the "ph". They are one. The "h" is a modifier. In "graphics" there is no modifier on the "g". TL;DR H as
741.
by nosianu 5y ago
Because everybody knows GIF means Giraffe Interchange Format! It was invented by rangers in the Serengeti for keeping track of Giraffes changing between areas. They made graphics illustrating those movements, and the format they used became
742.
by nosianu 5y ago
> Another article with a bunch of questionable data Could you please elaborate? > Vote with your wallet, you don't like it don't use it. But don't try to convince me I don't understand this argument. You can ea
743.
by nosianu 5y ago
The people getting stalked have a 100% risk. You don't care because for you it's all just statistics. With statistical arguments, why do we spend so many resources on prevention of anything, e.g. cancer, when it only impacts a s
744.
by nosianu 5y ago
(Private) pilot here - relevant for this question only because I hung around airports and runways long enough, not for my piloting. You can see the light easily even during the day when they are flying towards you. It's like cars using
745.
by nosianu 5y ago
I would like to emphasize, since I did not already do so, that I make no value judgment. It is the public that does not want the US government to do "socialism", but there seems to be a real need for it so politicians do it throug
746.
by nosianu 5y ago
Yeah, but that helped out a lot of US companies that have significant lobbying backing and districts where those companies are located. Similar to how some NASA things get funded. The outcome itself is not nearly enough, if it even matters
747.
by nosianu 5y ago
What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman. You even try to bring COVID into the discussion? What are you doing, and why?
748.
by nosianu 5y ago
To see both the longer trend (graph), a comparison with the value at the same time the previous year, and the current value for CO2, CH4, N2O, and SF6 I occasionally check the Global Monitoring Laboratory (NOAA): https://gml.noaa
749.
by nosianu 5y ago
The sub headline is a better summary of what is happening: > Peter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates He just wants to be free to involve himself in politics but not get Meta involved. Maybe he also has additi
750.
by nosianu 5y ago
It works and is IMO quite okay because NA is not the same as NaN (not a number). NA _does_ actually stand for a number, it's just that we don't know it. Which is an interesting detail in R that should be mentioned anyway, the diff

More ›