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by sampo 5y ago
IPM = Integrated Pest Management
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by sampo 5y ago
> I believe most of the couriers have ”residence permit for an entrepreneur”. That means you get emergency care but thats about it. This is not true, for Finland. Residence permit for an entrepreneur [1] is still a residence permit. You
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by sampo 5y ago
> because of how Finnish law works for small business owners, means they get cut off from any public health insurance This is not true. Finnish public health insurance is residency based: Every resident has it [1]. What you are probably
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by sampo 5y ago
The description says they already have a market simulator, which must be a significant piece of software to initially construct. Once you have that, you could just run simulations and observe empirically, if your algorithms end up competing
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by sampo 5y ago
> As my university teacher in Latin once said: sure, you don't need Latin anymore, but learning it will unlock areas in your brain previously unknown to you. Couldn't you just learn some live language, that has those same gramm
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by sampo 5y ago
My comment was about: In some countries your after-tax salary does not depend on your spouse. In those countries, people are taxed as individuals, not as a family unit.
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by sampo 5y ago
> The after-tax salary depends [...] on the spouse's income This is not true, in some countries. In the US it is true.
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by sampo 5y ago
> How does an average even makes sense, in such discrepancy in temperatures observed worldwide. > Also, how do they account for urbanization effects (which in itself causes warming), and placement of thermometers around these areas. R
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by sampo 5y ago
> I wonder if growing seasons have been extended too. You are correct. This has been known already 24 years ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/386698a0
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by sampo 5y ago
There is also a possibility of more vegetation in the arctic → more BVOC (biogenic volatile organic compounds) emissions from the vegetation → more aerosols → more clouds, which could increase the albedo (albedo as seen from space) and thus
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by sampo 5y ago
> the fact that there's no particular reason to expect Invermectin should have any impact on any particular virus. Ivermectin (you spell it wrong) is a known antiviral against several viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, when studied in
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by sampo 5y ago
It's a ban on banning apartment buildings. It's not a ban on building detached homes.
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New Zealand Government is banning detached housing zoning across whole country(twitter.com)
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by sampo 5y ago
The song says both that the pandemic isn't real, and that the vaccines failed to stop the spread. So the song contradicts itself on the realness of the pandemic.
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by sampo 5y ago
Now 7 hours later, this is #11 on the front page.
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> Covid: I took this seriously relatively early on and bought a half mask respirator on 2020-01-26 and was using N95s I'd already had on hand for the week before (IMO, the case that covid was airborne and that air filtration would h
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by sampo 5y ago
3rd doses are coming, and seem to give a good and needed additional boost to immunity (this is true for many other vaccines as well). 2 doses won't be "fully vaccinated" after one more year.
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by sampo 5y ago
According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond, Europeans had a history of living in close encounters with farm animals, so they had adopted diseases from the animals. And also the Eurasian geography made trade, and exchange of both
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by sampo 5y ago
One way to increase the virulence of a virus in lab, is to let it infect cells in cell culture, and replicate for a large number of generations. This is sort of natural evolution, guided in a lab, and doesn't involve genetic modificati
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by sampo 5y ago
According to this [1], producing tofu for protein consumes more energy (fuels), and emits more greenhouse gases, than producing chicken. Tofu wins in total calories produced, but chicken wins if we only look at the amount of protein produce
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by sampo 5y ago
> And no excess deaths. Euromomo shows excess mortality for Sweden for both the spring 2020, and the winter 2020-2021: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country
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by sampo 5y ago
There is a fringe theory, that agglutinative languages with consistent vocabulary are more effortless for children to learn. So children would spend less time learning and memorizing words, and could proceed faster to learn other things. En
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by sampo 5y ago
> Before this milestone, there were still reasons to believe that quantum computers could not, in principle, beat classical computers The laws of Quantum Mechanics clearly allow quantum computers. So those beliefs must have included some
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by sampo 5y ago
> They are very good at doing the exact same instructions in parallel (apply this formula to 4 million pixels) In numerical fluid mechanics, you rather want to apply the same formula to the nearest 27 (3x3x3) or 125 (5x5x5) pixels in the
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by sampo 5y ago
This is worrying. I still remember, in March 2020 believing that face masks work was still the contrarian opinion. Large Western countries such as USA, Germany, changed their official position in April. WHO changed their position in June. M
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by sampo 5y ago
> Could you elaborate on this one? I thought tenure professor is as stable as you can get in terms of a career "Tenure track" doesn't mean tenure, it means on a track towards a possible tenure. People are hired to start th
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by sampo 5y ago
> My own comment about how I hated Thinking, Fast and Slow seems to be counted as a recommendation. What is the level of sentiment analysis in natural language processing? Would it be easy to add the feature, to recognize whether the boo
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by sampo 5y ago
https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/7084/bulk-downl...
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by sampo 5y ago
> setting properties on a hash Nowadays it's called a dict.
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by sampo 5y ago
> Has this gone through any peer review process? No. Stephen Wolfram is wealthy. He doesn't need to operate or publish within the academic system.

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