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by pinko 4y ago
There's a modern hotel in the attached original monastery. I attended a scientific conference there a few years ago. Very cool, very weird venue to spend a few days.
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by pinko 4y ago
Orwell.
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by pinko 4y ago
Just curious, in what kind of situation did you "own" (I read the quotes as implying you had responsibility for the upkeep & use of) a small well-defined piece of a larger ship?
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by pinko 4y ago
Do lawyers really take anything like that personally, on behalf of other lawyers ? I find that hard to believe...
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by pinko 4y ago
Ah yes, my comment was totally US-centric, which is dumb of me.
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by pinko 4y ago
Almost every terminal will fall back to mag-swipe if the chip fails to read 3 times. I had an Amex with a faulty chip and had to do this every time. Terminal (every single one) would refuse to allow me to pay with a swipe initially, insis
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by pinko 4y ago
That visualization of circular flows is gold. Thank you.
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by pinko 4y ago
A decade ago, the father of my kid's friend ran a PE firm and I'll never forget the day at lunch when he laughingly mocked how the lifelong employees of the large ($50M/y revenue) family business he was gutting were "whi
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by pinko 4y ago
Midwest Express (YX) tried this (a whole plane of quasi-first-class seats for only a little more $$$ than coach on other airlines) for a decade or two and couldn't make a go of it either. It was great while it lasted, though.
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by pinko 4y ago
Baffles are typically used to control this, even in conventional aircraft fuel tanks. It's a non-issue.
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by pinko 4y ago
I wonder what this means for people I know with accepted offers who haven't yet started.
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by pinko 4y ago
Original paper abstract: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00989-0 and PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00989-0.epdf .
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by pinko 4y ago
https://archive.ph/JmC9w
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by pinko 4y ago
World-class papers with >1000 authors are routinely published by large scientific collaborations like CMS, ATLAS, and LIGO.
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by pinko 4y ago
Yes, he could end up negotiating a lower price. Even a tiny discount might make it all worthwhile.
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by pinko 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what if any liquid EUR-denominated good or services a US borrower could profitably buy with a credit card (if they had a huge, say, $1M credit limit), in the event the Euro ever dropped >5% in one day agai
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by pinko 4y ago
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but a good start is just to go with the ones that humans have been eating for millennia: whatever's in yogurt, sauerkraut, natto, fermented pickles, etc.
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by pinko 4y ago
One bad example may not be useful, but FWIW the first blurb I read on your demo got the salient facts of the article badly wrong: "What Range Anxiety? The Mercedes-Benz EQS 580, Reviewed Mercedes-Benz first gave us a glimpse at its ele
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by pinko 4y ago
I know Ray and this is an accurate retelling of this line, but it's comparing apples to oranges in the context of this thread. He knew LIGO was rapidly approaching the necessary sensitivity to make great discoveries -- a threshold. T
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by pinko 4y ago
Some would say AR is a commercial innovation in computer interfaces. (I'm not one of them, but I think it's worth mentioning...)
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by pinko 4y ago
I just removed GOOG-411 from my address book the other day. RIP.
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by pinko 4y ago
> When tech- and progress-focused people can't figure out why some cultures/countries have "anti-progress" laws (France's protection of book stores, for instance), well, this is often part of why they do that. Th
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by pinko 4y ago
Nice! One pedantic note, hopefully helpful: "this let's you move further" should be "this lets you move further" -- there is no apostrophe in "lets" unless it's a contraction of "let us".
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by pinko 4y ago
I think the OP already said: dockworkers unloading ships -- that's the industry. And to the extent that the cargo isn't containerized (sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't), automation is harder than it sounds here: sequencing
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by pinko 4y ago
I think you're right. Thank you for the clarification!
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by pinko 5y ago
I remember years ago reading horror stories of a similar nasal spray (Tamiflu I think?) causing long-term or permanent loss of smell, and swore I'd never use it since I'd much rather have the flu once than never smell again. Is th
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by pinko 5y ago
Agreed; an ugly but reasonable solution to a real problem. However! I wish they'd put a URL in the email which brought you directly to the message in question once you logged in, rather than forcing you to navigate through the whol
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by pinko 5y ago
> I'm listening to a talk about the computational complexity of economic planning Ooo, sounds interesting! Link?
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by pinko 5y ago
This is still true of small credit unions, but over the last 30 years has become less true of giant credit unions in my experience. Large credit unions have have morphed into institutions that are nearly indistinguishable from banks, are r
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by pinko 5y ago
This is almost true: you will, in fact, be forever on the hook for any medical expenses charged which exceed the "reasonable" limits your insurer has set for each given service, even after you've exceeded your MOOP. So if yo

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