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by qubex 6y ago
> lockdowns are terrible for human mental health That’s exactly what this study is disproving. At the very least, this data is showing something that is well-known in behavioural circles: that once the threshold of a radical change is
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by qubex 6y ago
Discrete Mathematics
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by qubex 6y ago
How timely... just today I received my CloverPi which I backed on Kickstarter (no other affiliation), a “back panel to enable 4 RaspberryPis to be clustered”. Finally I can earn my “ My other computer is a Beowulf Cluster ” bumper sticker
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by qubex 6y ago
Yeah... now that you mention it...
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by qubex 6y ago
Thanks, I hate it. :) Speaking of creepy kids’ books, what gives with Marianne Dreams ? It felt like real nightmare material when I read it as a mature adult.
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by qubex 6y ago
I’ve always been profoundly “creeped out” by Dr Seuss’ books—the text and the illustrations, now as much as when I was a kid and part of the target demographic.
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by qubex 6y ago
I seriously doubt that a lot of the “ such-and-such mean that the terrorists won” would score very highly on the actual terrorist’s criteria for success... they seriously desired to destroy the West and institute a theocratic Caliphate in
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by qubex 6y ago
Yes I’m assuming a huge number of things, but that’s the nature of ballpark figures and estimation. We’re well into “spherical cow” territory here.
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by qubex 6y ago
Very good point... You’ve triggered off the famous gif of Captain Mal from Serenity having is “uh ah um” moment... Fundamentally I’m going to answer that you’ve hot the nail on the head: enforcement of franchises, parents, or brand-names
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by qubex 6y ago
To be perfectly honest, that was my very first reaction when I first watched the video: it looked like the fuming aftermath of Something Really Bad, and then BOOM! Something Really Bad unfolded on-screen. I figured that it must’ve been so
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m not subtracting, I’m multiplying fractions. Half stayed on-shore; of that half, half went into the sky. That’s half of a half which is a quarter, which I’m rounding up to a third because later I take the reciprocal so the higher proport
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by qubex 6y ago
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that too... harsh as it may sound, big concrete cylinders fillded with loose grain is pretty much the best pillow to cushion the blow you could think of. EDIT: As for the grain silos being “single points of fai
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by qubex 6y ago
That is what I’m saying: it is exactly analogous to the government of Sarawak declaring that only what is made within its borders can be called something... if it is made outside its borders, it is only within its borders that that thing ca
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m not saying that the European stipulation has more valence than the Malaysian one. I’m saying they’re equally unfounded, though one is blessed with a greater consumer base than the other they’re equally predicated on the same principle.
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by qubex 6y ago
For all the horror, at least this happened at the quayside and half the explosive force radiated away almost harmlessly over the sea. That basically halved the actual destruction at the outset. If it had been in the middle of the city, ther
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by qubex 6y ago
> it looks like firecrackers going off It’s literally firecrackers going off. It’s one of those cases where if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and swims like a duck, it’s not a camel disguised as a duck.
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by qubex 6y ago
> the Sarawak government designated it as a “protected geographical indicator,” decreeing that true kek lapis Sarawak can only be made within state borders I love stuff like this... a governmental body’s deliberate grab for extra- ter
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by qubex 6y ago
Just take oxidizer to me an “ something that accepts electrons, like oxygen would ”. Of course, there’s some oxidizers that can accept electrons from things that oxygen can’t (think of fluorine, for example) but... it’s just a term. There
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by qubex 6y ago
Thanks for writing this. There’s been some strange tendency of late to conflate the weapons effects of nuclear or thermonuclear explosions with those of “really big amounts of conventional high explosive”. While that may even hold true at a
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by qubex 6y ago
It’s a cultural thing: if I’m not mistaken the traditional Chinese system is Y-M-D and always has been.
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by qubex 6y ago
They could even have it on by default, or rather, have “Excel NG/Matrix” be an optional no-quirk behaviour regimen. They could have a scripting environment variable that is “quirkkMode=ON” by default and would maintain backwards compat
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by qubex 6y ago
There’s no actual definition of ‘ hyperinflation ’ that I’m aware of in the macroeconomic literature, beyond it being a quantitatively large value of inflation. What you purport to be the discriminante (economic agents’ perceptions, presuma
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by qubex 6y ago
OK, I’ll happily grant you that you’ve made a compelling case. I still think there’s a significant difference between “cancel culture” (which I deplore) and boycotting/“voting with your wallet” (which I support), but I can’t quite put
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by qubex 6y ago
He calls it an iBook but I’m pretty sure it’s a PowerBook 12”. I got one of those when they were released and it soon earned the pet-name of ‘sparky’ because when charging it wasn’t very well grounded and would regularly give me shocks.
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m going to be downvoted to oblivion, but I couldn’t care less. From my point of view (Western Europe) this whole “cancel culture” thing is demented and stupid, and I’m probably as liberal as they come. Why? Well, let me provide an illustr
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by qubex 6y ago
Nano is my dog in the Vim-vs-Emacs holy war.
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by qubex 6y ago
“ Reproduction in the age of COVID-19 lockdowns ”
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by qubex 6y ago
I come from northern Italy and during my relatively brief lifetime ( length(life.qubex)>40 ) I’ve seen this happen to formerly exclusive “Beverly Hills”-type affluent residential areas (and un/gated communities). Enormous, cavernous
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by qubex 6y ago
Exactly: deletions is what came to my mind instantly and if you hadn’t raised the issue then I would have.
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by qubex 6y ago
You jest, but the economic effects of all of this are severe. A total regression in the real-estate market (because stagnant demographics means the existing housing stock will roughly suffice or even exceed demand) will have severe effects.

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