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by pimmen 8y ago
> Unlearning things requires you to review entire branches of your knowledge tree to eradicate every trace of the now wrong fact You cannot be serious. So if someone tells you that you’ve got a fact wrong, you have to review entire branc
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In diplomacy, yes. However, the US was the largest national economy even in the 1870s so in trade, no.
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English still has a lot of influence over India, though. I think this thread is confusing influence with supremacy, English has had a huge influence on other languages and cultures for centuries.
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I would absolutely not say that. The British Empire encompassed more than a quarter of the population, and in the 1870s the US became the world's largest national economy. I think what you're thinking about is when English suprema
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But it's also far riskier, at leats this time they were assaulted by a law in the EU parliament. In China, the party could just decide they don't like you and get rid of your business.
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I hope EA loses and appeals all the way to the European Court. Once it’s settled there EA loses a market of more than 450 million people for its unregulated casinos.
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According to the Geneva Convention, refugees don't need a visa or travel documents like passports to travel (to make it purposefully more difficult to mess with persecuted people, like Germany did by stamping a "J" in the pas
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Absolutely, the difference is obvious between the two. I have colleagues who've moved from the South up here who think I'm crazy when I'm talking about it but I should probably mention that the main reason is that I want to t
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Yeah, I was mostly in Andalusia and I thought it was gorgeous so it certainly has that going for it, but I think I would like bigger cities. Especially thinking career wise. (Was very surprised that some Spaniards I met didn’t think Andalus
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> Just as a curiosity. Where in Spain? My two top picks would be Barcelona and Madrid. Barcelona has real estate prices on par with Stockholm but from what I’ve read a lot of other stuff is cheaper. A city where being carless would be no
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I’m actually thinking of moving to Spain from Sweden (born and raised in Gothenburg) because the real estate market here is absolutely ridiculous and our personal debts a ticking bomb, and a trip to Spain last year exposed me to the vibrant
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by pimmen 8y ago
I don't think we we should blame the ER, we should blame the system that allows hospitals to exploit them.
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A lot of people look at the equity of their homes, unfortunately. Consumer spending has been steadily increasing in Sweden during the past decade in spite of salary stagnation. This sadly means the restaurants, novelty stores, coffee shops
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I think StrongTowns like moderation. I often suggest to people that they should put savings into stocks to grow it for their retirement. If someone listens to me and sells the house, invests everything in the stock market and has to declare
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Mattis in 2016: "Man, serving on this board reflects poorly on my ability to pick out people with integrity, it even makes me look complicit in deluding people. I better choose another job to clear my name." Mattis in 2018: "
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MOOCs have a staggering drop-out rate though, which I think makes predictions about their disruption less clear cut. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/research/csrmaj/dan...
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by pimmen 8y ago
This really depends on the city. In this particular city (Sundsvall, Sweden) I would say no and especially if you’re willing to bike to a commuter’s parking lot next to the bus station. This goes for a lot of cities in Sweden, it comes down
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> Driving to the corner store isn't the issue. Having a lifestyle that makes you need a car is the issue. This. I pissed off my ex's sister once when she said that since she was moving 40 kilometers outside of the city, she and
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by pimmen 8y ago
They violate multiple GDPR restrictions already by having all kinds of options already pre-checked for you when you click "allow", and hidden no less. https://twitter.com/ow/status/999575371556294656?lang
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There's three billion people living in the tropics. I don't know how closely you follow European politics, but letting all of them move to cooler climates simply because they can't stand the heat would upset quite a few in th
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In the Nordic countries, we just can't survive without our heating. Without it, we could probably not produce as much during the winter as we do now. Even with triple pane glass being the norm up here, we still consume massive amounts
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I have a colleague who is an ML PhD student part time and works as an engineer part time, but his research (NLP with a focus on text classification) aligns well with his job such that the company supports him writing on his thesis and going
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by pimmen 8y ago
If the judge doesn't throw out the suit and decides to try it, because of that clause alone, the feeling of dread and despair that poor woman would go through is more than enough harm caused.
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I would argue that they should be able to understand it to the level that they can at least defend Chi-squared as a tool for the problem at hand. Then, they should be able to evaluate whether or not it works correctly. If a medical research
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They were very popular when they came out and until SVMs were introduced to the United States. Then when the data explosion started during the 00s, it laid the groundwork for the NN comeback.
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The smartest engineers in the world have been figuring out how to make people click on ads. If they have to figure out how to quell genocidal movements I think that's an improvement.
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The West condemned Germany, the USSR, South Africa and even China when they did stuff like this a long time ago. Let's hope that China becoming the world's second largest economy, and the world's largest market for a lot of p
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> "Now I don’t know what they do to teach English to Swedish children, but whatever it is, anybody can see they do an excellent job." Stop. Dubbing. Media. I'm a big lover of cinema and every time I visit France, Germany o
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I won a hackathon with a couple of friends at university, the company sponsoring the hackathon let us work for them while writing the masters thesis (carefully splitting us up, to see if one of us was just coasting on the others' work)
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This is a still ongoing affair, and the trade terms are still not finished. The only thing he’s accomplished is an image of the US as unpredictable and dishonest since they had no legal standing. The EU will remember this the next time the

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