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by pfortuny 4y ago
Usury is not interest. Interest is not usury. They are different things, at least in out modern language. One has a moral value, the orher has not.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It is very easy to play a game with debt and interest.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Funnily enough, “economics” used to mean exactly that: hoysehold management. It got somehow lost in translation.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes, humans in a sufficiently developed economy (most are nowadays) act driven by CONVENIENCE not need.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Insecurity. There are many maths professors who do not really enjoy them. This creates insecurity which the formalism alleviates (as an insecure person myself, I know the strength of formal rules). They are afraid to do maths the true way:
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Ah ok. Sorry, got it wrong.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Especially if the connector is not compatible with any other brand’s.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Only S3. In any case, GREAT work!
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by pfortuny 4y ago
If rclone’s author is around… You should update the lage with an easy and VISIBLE link for dontations. I could not find it while browsing (ios) although it appears somewhere in the FAQ. Thanks for the product. Unbelievable.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Honestly, the first paragraph cannot be serious and, if it is, I am sorry to say it is delusional (I am judging the text, not the person).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Also keep in mind that everything assumes the equations are Lipschitz in order to guarantee uniqueness of the solution given specific initial conditions. But this is too optimistic. y’=y^(1/3) with y(0) = 0 has an infinite number of so
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Not at all: the poor citizen who has a small business: this is the most persecuted in Spain by the IRS.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Be horrifly careful with taxes in Spain (am a national). You can involuntarily get into a mess very easily.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The existence of siri “as it is” (sending the audio/message to Apple) is the proof that they do monetize your data. Siri is not free…
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. Suddendly my car can only drive for 10km a day. My computer can only download 1Gb a day (not because of my ISP but because MacOS). My fridge can only be opened 3 times a day. My doorbell only works 4 times an hour. That move by App
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The will to power. It is a much stronger force than one reckons usually. And it is very difficult to be conscious of it in oneself.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It looks like (not an expert) they did not use a state machine there. Those kind of behaviors are better detected with them. But I am just thinking out loud.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I managed with “cardio workouts” from some youtube channel Indo not recall, but there are hundreds nowadays, for free or paid. The important thing is to keep to a schedule (not necessarily the same “time” but the same “moment” -after a meet
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Remarkable text about the arsenic-filled XIX Century wallpapers. Thanks to OP for sharing!
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by pfortuny 4y ago
There are interactions which are impossible in the square but are real in a torus or cylinder. For instance, periodic patterns may appear due to translations which do not in the square.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
“There is no stupid question” is something any teacher should get ingrained in the minds of the students. Of course once the student STUDIES.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You might want to revise this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:German_inventions_o...
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes, I did not know exactly what he meant, so I went for “shortness”, and “compact”.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
In that vein I’d suggest J (or APL but J has ascii symbols). It will blow your mind and you will learn a lot of different ways of thinking about composition.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I do not know either the OP or the author but thanks for sharing this and to all of you who have done the same in the comments.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The problem is the meaning of those rules . Any rule looks reasonable when it is written down. And after some time it becomes a weapon. For instance, the three deletions (forget the exact term) rule in wikipedia. It is now a tool used by “
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is a straight path to becoming an unthinking entity. The first requirement of thought is memory. You can only think with it.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Is this really a political statement? Was the French Ancient Regime a liberal government letting people choose their lawyers? Was the French Revolution bloodless?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Totalitarianism. Just that. You do not know what uou are risking if you protest. It may be worse that death or jail… Your family… Edit: the ellipses are because there are other possible outcomes, just that. I am not blaming the Chinese peop
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by pfortuny 4y ago
This was much worse (I saw it on TV), and the reason why the last two matches in the qualifiers are played at the same time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gijón

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