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by pintxo 7y ago
While it makes no physical sense whatsoever, I like to see climate change as earth trying to raise its body temperature to get rid of an infection.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Assuming you live in the USA, the simple fact, that you can leave your house and have access to a (still) working transportation infrastructure and do not need (I hope) private security to protect your life and property is proof that the Go
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by pintxo 7y ago
Get a BMW, here's a video from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfX1plunhAo
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by pintxo 7y ago
Don't js compressors do this sort of optimization on their own?
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by pintxo 7y ago
Actually most other continents have far less rivers which lend themselves to easy shipping. Also development in Europe was ahead of the curve in the last couple hundred years (and before we did not have the technology for locks and easy tra
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by pintxo 7y ago
Tend to agree with your conclusion. So our best guess at changing the status quo is the reviewers? If the reviewers would push for readability, this would force authors to adapt, right? Now, how do we convince people to change expectations
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by pintxo 7y ago
I have no such list at hand, sorry. I guess the best recommendation I can provide is: write for you audience. - For the general public (or management) keep it very simple. - For a specific journal, try to keep with their style. Any deviatio
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by pintxo 7y ago
> So how could the readability of scientific papers be improved? First, by recognizing that good writing doesn’t happen by magic. It can be taught — but rarely is. Douglas suspects that many first drafts of papers are written by junior m
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by pintxo 7y ago
Sure, but I hope we can agree that the power of cops is quite different from the power an IRS reviewer has over you. And while a lot of tickets are issued on a his says, she says basis, this is not how a tax audit works, is it? I'd say
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by pintxo 7y ago
Why is that? I am with you, that incentives need to be very carefully crafted to prevent negative side effects. But what could the negativ effect be here?
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by pintxo 7y ago
But why? What’s the reason this has been solved differently in the US and in the EU, when pretty much everyone agrees that the EU solution a) works and b) is probably cheaper? Or asked differently, why does something like the EU system not
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by pintxo 7y ago
So in Germany you can, since the 80, probably also longer, fill out a small (standardized) form, bring it to your bank (possibly by mail) and they will transfer amount x from your account to the recipients. Since the 90, this can be done el
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by pintxo 7y ago
The same for Germany. But the physical thing gets slowly replaced by all digital transactions.
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by pintxo 7y ago
How can a paper check be the easiest and cheap option? Doing the same transfer of money via electronic means should be significantly cheaper to execute. And it should be cheaper for all participants. No paper to print, transfer, read, proce
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by pintxo 7y ago
From [1]: > And while some outlets described the co-signers as experts in climate science, most are not. As noted in an analysis below, a significant portion of the co-signers are either engineers or professionals in non-technical fields
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by pintxo 7y ago
Only under the premise that there is no large scientific consensus.
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by pintxo 7y ago
... > So the Chrome folks plan to change that. > In Chrome 80 and later, cookies will default to SameSite=Lax. This means that cookies will automatically be sent only in a first party context unless they opt-out by explicitly setting
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by pintxo 7y ago
Actually it does not. Converting an scientific issue into a political (or better say an emotional) one is only needed if the science does not support your side. Therefore it makes sense for deniers to move from a scientific discussion (whic
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by pintxo 7y ago
On a related note, I just got an email from Atlassian, that they will stop supporting IE11 sometime early 2020.
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by pintxo 7y ago
Some might use it to test stuff still works for their users/customers.
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by pintxo 7y ago
> The FAA has no regulations on shades up or down, though many countries require windows in exit rows to be clear for takeoff and landing, when an accident could jam a closed shade and prevent passengers from seeing if they were opening
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by pintxo 7y ago
OneNote uses the virtual printer on Windows. It is actually really helpful.
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by pintxo 7y ago
You might be underestimating the negative health effects of "burning stuff", have a look at page 3 of [1]. Replacing coal with gas should give a 10x improvement on air pollution related deaths and serious illness. If we could go f
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by pintxo 7y ago
The term we are talking about is called capacity factor [1]. According to this article, capacity factor for nuclear (no data for coal available) is ~0.9 vs .2-.4 (hydro), .47 (wind), .29 (solar) for renewables. So the difference in availabi
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by pintxo 7y ago
True. Today, and probably in the next couple of years. But in 10, 20, 40 years? Hopefully not so much any longer. I firmly believe in the power of engineering research and given humanities history in solving engineering challenges, we will
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by pintxo 7y ago
For me Jira (and Confluence) suck because their are slow. This is the #1 reason, I am still looking for alternatives. While I do not like the some of the new UI features, for me it's in general a move into the right direction. Only if
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by pintxo 7y ago
Any power plant on it's own is not reliable (as in running 24x365 without interruption). To provide base load, you need many independent power plants, as this is the only way to ensure availability. This is independent of the method of
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by pintxo 7y ago
> There are three physical buttons on the top for the left, right and the middle click. And the bottom of the trackpad can be pressed for the left and the right clicks as well. Overall, a larger trackpad would have been nicer and the phy
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by pintxo 7y ago
Lights in the night sky on January 1st? Seriously?
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by pintxo 7y ago
From the comments: „it's just a dated way to conduct a study on vehicle safety. they only looked at the crash -> injury relation. based on that from a scientific perspective teslas omission from the study makes sense.“

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