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by piombisallow 2y ago
That's what I'm saying, read my comment again. America's highest intellectual achievements came after WW2, when there was the highest influx of European intellectuals (who studied in Europe, or were first generation). The cur
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by piombisallow 2y ago
And arguably much of current decline in intellectual standards in the public space is to blame on the integration and Americanization of their descendants.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
There were multiple projects meant to increase the standard of living in the outer provinces, especially in the ones ruled by the Austrians. Compulsory education, industrialization, electrification. Sarajevo had the first tram system!
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by piombisallow 2y ago
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Let's hope that MAD will deliver lasting world peace.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Vienna in particular were an amazing place, a sort of proto-EU that really had a shot at creating lasting prosperity and peace in Europe. I highly recommend Stefan Zweig's "The World of Yesterday&qu
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Can't wait for the moment when the majority of cars on the road will be self-driving. I assume that safety will only increase as the proportion rises. The sheer amount of victims from driving is insane - we'll look back on it as w
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Take a look here if you're curious, as an example: https://docs.ncsa.illinois.edu/systems/delta/en/latest/ 90% of my interactions are ssh'ing into a login node and running code with SLURM, then
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Probably only for some kind of research study.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Unexplored? Seems like every other movie, book or article about the recent wars is about trauma and PTSD. You can't get away from introspection! I'd much rather read something about the effect it had on the people living there.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Why do journalists like writing these endless articles about mental health?
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by piombisallow 2y ago
The easy way to do this is a Boox reader with the Superdisplay app.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Why were drugs forbidden in the Soviet Union then?
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Is the suggestion here that drugs were criminalized in Europe because of diplomatic pressure from the Nixon administration?
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by piombisallow 2y ago
What do people gain out of writing clickbait titles on HN?
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Communism certainly didn't help.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Yes, sure, but this doesn't mean that this generalizes to open math research problems, which would be the useful real-world application of this. Otherwise this is just playing known games with known rules, granted better/faster th
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by piombisallow 2y ago
IMO problems aren't fundamentally different from chess or other games, in that the answer is already known.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
"Real UBI has never been tried"
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Estrogen replacement increases the risk of cancer in women.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Such a quaint read in the age of aggressive influencer-ing
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by piombisallow 2y ago
It's an error they were happy to run with because it gave them a punchy conclusion and widespread publicity.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
At this point it's safe to assume that any social science research that ends up viral on social media is fake.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
They haven't actually analyzed reported turbulence, it's just a simulation study: "Turbulence data from aircraft could also be analyzed, but the time period for which quantitative, automated measurements are available is far
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Is there anything global warming can't do?
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by piombisallow 2y ago
The diameter of a neuron's axon is about 1 μm, this is getting close to biological levels of miniaturization.
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by piombisallow 2y ago
Purely out of pragmatism, it seem easier to vaccinate people than convince them to stop having dangerous sex.
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by piombisallow 3y ago
It's obviously a political decision to remove the Arabic from the movies, especially as it deals with religious war and extremists. The linguistic explanation is dress-up.
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by piombisallow 3y ago
From an ecological perspective, farming is probably better than fishing wild species no?
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by piombisallow 3y ago
You first buddy.
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by piombisallow 3y ago
Well yeah, it is. This is an edge case in self-driving cars, same as it could be an edge case for humans.

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