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by princeb 4y ago
i guess the next question is of those 33 recorded instances (or 41.25 possible instances), how many people were around the two of them? if they were literally standing within arms reach of each other, but also within arms reach of a dozen o
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by princeb 4y ago
in typical north american english, in #1 #2 and #4 the t's are pronounced /d/ and the final syllable shortened (budd'n, godd'n, ead'n) and in #3 they are omitted but not glottalized (moun'n). in #5, the fi
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by princeb 4y ago
> cost of ownership some of the cars that i've seen have EV equivalents that are so significantly more costly that the gas savings only start to work out at around 1.25-2x the average driving distance of a personal vehicle owner. it
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by princeb 4y ago
> 80% battery that’s 128 miles of range i know i am not an average user but that's like a month of driving for me.
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by princeb 4y ago
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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by princeb 4y ago
we don't need to rely on the numbers coming from the CCP to get an estimate of how bad it is in china. what we can do is to rely on the covid count of passengers coming in from China, reported by non-Chinese disease authorities. we hav
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by princeb 4y ago
it's the other way around for me. out in the suburbs a grocery run was around an hour, driving to the mall, navigating the ridiculously large hypermarket, packing the boot, driving back. right now i live a block down from a grocery sto
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by princeb 4y ago
gta's sandbox is the most "famous" part of the game to non-gamers, but the series since the beginning when it was a top down shooter has always been story driven, now more than before. if you want the sandbox experience, it i
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by princeb 4y ago
> Have you never picked up and played a game part-way through with a friend? never games that i'm not familiar with. it seems downright unfair to the person who is half-way through it. i have seen my friends who've mostly playe
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by princeb 4y ago
w.r.t the "good part", there is a difference between games as toys and games as a story. a lot of games today are "story games", even if there isn't a fixed story, there is some progression and different parts of th
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by princeb 4y ago
i certainly wouldn't want to be living in prewar houses with prewar safety and prewar appliances with prewar electricity efficiency and driving prewar cars and receiving prewar medical attention. but i guess to many people, that seems
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by princeb 4y ago
there are a lot of "sports" out there that are variations of some common core mode. aussie rules is the largest and most lucrative sport belonging to the football family of sports that is only ever watched in australia. there&#x27
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by princeb 4y ago
maybe his lawyers informed him he made a mistake. he filed the disclosure on Schedule 13G which prevents him from joining the board, rather than 13D if he wants to do so. but then again, i wouldn't put it past elon to do all the things
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by princeb 5y ago
it's not consistently referred to as "IQ" or intellligence, typically the measurement is called "g" or "g factor" or "general mental ability" and over the last couple of decades the meta-analyses
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by princeb 5y ago
the standard reference for this is ree and earles 1992. every other method of selection, e.g. structured interviews, work samples, etc, are (noisier) proxies of general mental ability.
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by princeb 5y ago
i spent some time in "data science", back when it was just called "research", in a corporate environment. 95% of your value as a "data scientist" is figuring out how to squeeze diamonds from tons and tons of st
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by princeb 5y ago
it's a company like ericsson. if this person didn't have too much an idea of the world i can imagine he'd just think negotiating with what the US calls "terrorists" is just BAU in this part of the world. i mean, i c
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by princeb 5y ago
they're referring to lactobacillus which produces some of the flavors in bread, beer, wine, yogurt, miso, kimchi from sugars, such as lactose.
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by princeb 5y ago
did a similar assessment when i was conscripted into the singapore armed forces - guessing it was a way to filter people into the air force pilot program.
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by princeb 5y ago
the writing of cantonese is a complicated affair. the only analogy i can cook up is that - imagine if formally, everyone wrote English in German, but when you speak you speak English, and when you read English you'd see German words an
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by princeb 5y ago
i too lived a 10 minute walk away from shoreditch while i was working in the City of London. Every other Friday night are partying and shouting and youths on scooters blasting eurodance on speakers and Saturday mornings are the smell of old
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by princeb 5y ago
> any problems the kids caused were way overshadowed by the vibrancy of the neighborhood. All that you mentioned looks like features to me, not bugs.
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by princeb 5y ago
> Nope. I live in a country with high quality transit and the first thing people buy when they can afford it is a car. I, too, live in a country with high quality transit and also got a car when i had a family and i could afford a car. i
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by princeb 5y ago
vba is fine but it seems to exist halfway outside the calculation chain space that sheets and cells operate in. excel can work with it, but one has to be quite careful with function returns and parameters. offsets and indirects also exist i
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by princeb 5y ago
there's no way to write regulations without some user production testing in aviation. the more "failed tests" in production, the safer aviation becomes. we give thanks to those who have fallen (literally, out of the sky).
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by princeb 5y ago
a couple thousand dollars here and there might be fungible, but at some scale it's not true that money today is money tomorrow. there generally needs to exist some method of transforming money today into money tomorrow, through various
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by princeb 5y ago
hmm i don't know. generally speaking, money today is not the same as money tomorrow. and so, if you think about money as a commodity, to be consumed, transformed, redeployed, similar to let's say... corn. what would you do, as a g
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by princeb 5y ago
the US is a low personal trust, high systems trust society. there are plenty of facilities to accommodate personal failures, in the case of defaults, insolvencies, missed payment, breached contracts there is a highly developed legal system
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by princeb 5y ago
why can't these millenials just eat like... 70 less avocado toasts a day.
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by princeb 5y ago
Yes sorry I shouldn’t be conflating two different concepts. Wbt >35 is the fatal temperature. Wbgt black (>31-32 depending on source) is where physical activity is dangerous.

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