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by phreeza 7y ago
This principle plays a crucial role in the short story Story of your Life by Ted Chiang. Sadly this did not make it into the movie Arrival, though I guess this is somewhat understandable, would be tough to communicate this in a Hollywood mo
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by phreeza 7y ago
This brings back memories from my undergraduate days as a physics student, where we made extensive use of root in labs. It was a kind of badge of nerd honor to do analyses in root as opposed to Matlab. It also came with a sort of C++ interp
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Food Delivery App Deliveroo to Stop Serving Germany(nytimes.com)
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by phreeza 7y ago
Does Uber really solve the bad neighborhood problem?
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by phreeza 7y ago
I guess at least in principle, the search engines could return many more results than actually needed, along with some feature vector per result. Then a model could be trained on the users machine to sort the results according to their pref
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by phreeza 7y ago
That is a neat way of looking at it. I wonder what the efficiency of this would be compared to photovoltaics.
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by phreeza 7y ago
In Zambia, and I suspect in Tanzania, too, four-year old siblings also already play a role in taking care of their smaller siblings.
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by phreeza 7y ago
It is in fact a random shuffling. Hence the name that was used for this function.
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by phreeza 7y ago
[Citation needed]
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by phreeza 7y ago
How does this work, are the people able to really solve the game this fast or are they memorizing sequences? Is it possible to see the game before the click starts?
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by phreeza 7y ago
Note that the "uniform" part, on which the second part ist also conditioned, ist not universally accepted. There are certainly shared elements, but most likely also specialisations.
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by phreeza 7y ago
In german: https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2019/06/bvg-aenderunge...
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by phreeza 7y ago
Surely the bus named after the airport will continue to run to the airport? I think it will no longer go up to Alexanderplatz, and instead end at Hauptbahnhof.
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by phreeza 7y ago
I wonder if it has something to do with construction company execs having more skin in the game in more authoritarian regimes.
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by phreeza 7y ago
I flew from and to Tegel once or twice per week on average last year. I find Tegel to actually be quite ok. Getting there on the TXL is quite convenient from many places in the city, and most importantly doesn't take very long (as oppo
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by phreeza 7y ago
As long as the projectile travels fast enough that there is ablation, you can use the Newton approximation [1] to get a rough idea. Using densities for uranium and air, and a projectile length of 1m, that gives a range of 15km. Of course wh
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by phreeza 7y ago
If they were in regular contact, why did smallpox have such a devastating effect on Americans?
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by phreeza 7y ago
If the ranking algorithm is open for all to see, won't that encourage even worse gaming of the system? I am trying to think of comparable situations in existing open systems, but none come to mind.
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by phreeza 7y ago
It enables a second, lower level, noise cancellation mode, that works well in windy environments.
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by phreeza 7y ago
In the time before the hydrogen bomb there was discussion that such a device may ignite the atmosphere. If we managed to somehow do that, it may do the trick.
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by phreeza 7y ago
It is made worse by the fact that Bluetooth Low energy requires location access on Android.
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by phreeza 7y ago
Had it been licenced gpl, Mojang would probably not have used it.
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by phreeza 7y ago
How so you actually tell if a brick and mortar store sources from the producer?
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by phreeza 8y ago
Haven't tried it on distil, but maybe this works? https://github.com/jgm/standalone-html
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by phreeza 8y ago
It appears to me that inhibiting mining does not really have a lot to do with usage of Bitcoin as a currency. Even if they managed to completely wipe out mining in China, that would have zero impact on the utility of Bitcoin as a currency i
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by phreeza 8y ago
Scotland probably also had a lot more bagpipes. A fact like this is not enough to draw conclusions from.
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by phreeza 8y ago
Well I suppose there is not much stopping you from still using one of those, right? Except the technology is quite outdated now, so in a way it is a bit moot how maintainable the hardware is, beyond a certain point. Unless they went an extr
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by phreeza 8y ago
I think the trick is that banks can issue loans for higher amounts than they have assets, but if you sum up all the assets and liabilities, the sum should stay constant. So the conservation works more like an electrical potential, where you
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by phreeza 8y ago
It is falsifiable. E.g. you could sever dogs olfactory nerves and repeat the experiment.
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by phreeza 8y ago
My gut feeling is that people entering a middle class lifestyle in their own countries far outnumber those doing so by migration. I might be wrong though.

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