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It is weird that Fortran was modernized 30 years ago, but the old prejudicies live on. Maybe programming languages teachers in CS departments are now telling their students the same jokes "look how primitive FORTRAN is" that their
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> I feel like only the highest profile journals can be trusted at this point. The highest profile journals ( Nature , Science , The Lancet in medicine, ...) have some tendency to go for sensationalism. They want to publish radical, gr
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Feynman on reading a sociology paper: > So I stopped – at random – and read the next sentence very carefully. I can’t remember it precisely, but it was very close to this: “The individual member of the social community often receives his
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I only searched for 'th' in the beginning of the word. We can add these to the previous result: triathlon, smoothie, maybe also apartheid Also the dictionary finds huithapeli, häthätää, rustholli, but I don't think these have
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Finnish has only 3 words, all loanwords that didn't drop the h: thai (+ thai food, thai boxing etc), theeta (name of the Greek letter) and thorax (medical term, common word is rintakehä). https://www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.
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If they serve dishes, doesn't the sound of forks and knives hitting the plates when people eat, get annoying while watching a movie? Or is it all the kind of food Americans eat with their hands?
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> Not in every case. You can look at workers in the Rust Belt And the old coal mining towns in Northern England (and South Wales).
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The Lancet, China and the origins of coronavirus(spectator.co.uk)
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> In 2010 there was another Swine Flu scare but not much was learned: Pandemrix was authorized and sold in Europe but turned out to occasionally create narcolepsy in teenagers. A protein in the Swine Fly virus triggered narcolepsy in som
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> This is what happened with "Marek's disease" Marek's disease in chicken is what the PLOS article is about: MDV = Marek's disease virus. > The vaccine was "leaky" and ended up selecting for a more
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AI is very useful, even if the pioneers had to give up on the dream of human-level or human-like intelligence. There is quantum cryptography, but other than that I find it hard to find practical value for quantum computers before they reach
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> > If SF applied Rent Control to Condos, we might see more apartments being built? > Can you help me understand why you think extending rent control would increase construction? If SF applied rent control to both condos and rental
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If you want to be strict, maybe the book title should be "physics-based". If we are a bit more liberal, we can accept "physically based". "Physically-based" might be the most wrong of the three. https:/&#
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> How did the method get the name “Monte Carlo”? > The name, of course, is an allusion to the famous casino, a prodigious producer and consumer of randomness. Nicholas Metropolis claimed credit for coming up with the term. In a 1987 r
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In the tv-series Big Bang Theory, there is a moment where Sheldon (a theoretical physicist) and Amy (a neuroscientist) argue, whose discipline is more important and fundamental. Sheldon says that physics studies the fundamental building blo
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Personally, it amazes me how many people find it difficult to believe or accept, that human consciousness would just be an emergent property of how neural cells function and are connected together. That all of human consciousness would resi
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> Downing thinks there’s a strong case that Copilot uses said code in a transformative manner, which would support a fair use argument that there is no copyright infringement. Fair use seems to be a legal concept that mostly only exists
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> You make it sound as if the theory is pure quack My apologies. I tried to phrase neutrally, and give good references. What can you do, when an idea sounds interesting, but is quite clearly rejected by current mainstream science? Person
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This article is based on the biotic pump theory [1], which is not accepted by the mainstream meteorology [2]. Textbook understanding is that winds are created by pressure differences in the atmosphere, which are created by temperature diffe
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> You made it sound like child's play, and yet how many countries have been able to produce their own COVID vaccine and use it for their own people? Most of the countries that bothered to start vaccine development projects, also hav
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The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzcGOgxDoEk
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But would they actually win enough and consistently, to allow for a proper third party with a healthy organization to form and stay alive?
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> This country is fucked without proportional representation. US has 13 states that send only 1 or 2 representatives to the House (6 states: 1, 7 states: 2). Then 2 states with 3, and 6 states with 4. At these 21 states, proportional rep
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WHO really dragged their feet before admitting that (1) it is a pandemic, (2) masks work and people should use masks, and (3) aerosols are the primary mode of transmission. They have been a notable source of misinformation themselves.
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> So why don't people in those groups speak out against it? You are asking why minority groups don't speak against dominantly rich, white and male majority?
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> I'm under the impression that any public commentary about what goes on inside that forum is generally discouraged When private organizations in their internal culture and functioning deviate too far away from common social norms,
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At the end of this video, you can see how the truck looks like: https://twitter.com/FSD_in_6m/status/1400207129479352323
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> I guess you're right, my influencer idea could be called a conspiracy theory. But I'm genuinely curious Being genuinely curious is pretty much included in the definition of being a conspiracy theorist.
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Outsider perspective: American media went crazy. American perspective: We hate the other half of our own country, so we need our media to be crazy. It's all for a good cause.
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There is a lot of Chinese immigrants working in the fashion and textile industry in those areas in Northern Italy, with frequent flight connections to Wuhan, which is also a hub for fashion and textile industry.

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