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This article belies a key assumption that is also the biggest challenge when making such a statement. Distributional assumption - The assumption is that the mean and std dev of the participating class is in line with the general population.
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Can't wait for blind to be like 'shape rotator score or GTFO'. /s It's a fun game. The difficulty does vary quite drastically accross attempts. Occlusion in particular can be a pretty big issue.
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> Gaining fortune through fame is a sucker's game There is great wisdom in this line. I would extend that to say that true freedom is the ability to 'do what you want, when you want.' Money is one pillar of this. It grants
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Teams feels like a product made a 'move fast and break things team'. At its core, I really like it. The UI is intuitive. The separation between Chats, group chats and teams is neat enough, and honestly not that big of an issue. It
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> those same bikers will ignore other items on those safety lists like wearing brightly colored high visibility jacket/vest. If anything, the black leather jacket is practically a uniform. > But loud pipes save lives The argument
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one of the top comments addresses this > When protests were happening in India this is what Trudeau had to say: "Let me remind you, Canada will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protesters. We believe in the process o
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It was certainly less than 10% of Indian farmers. It was rooted in Punjab, and had weak support in Eastern UP and Haryana. That's it. Also, unlike Trudeau's mandates which had questionable backing from the constitution, the Farm B
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The hypocrisy goes deeper. Trudeau had been advocating via the WTO for the removal of farming subsidies & MSP for Indian Farmers for years at that point.[1] If he had any semblance of moral consistency, then he would have been an ardent
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I'll say this time and again. Tesla's decision to use cameras instead of Lidar is a fundamental constraint that causes downstream problems. Lidar is accurate 100% of the time. Tesla cameras create an almost as accurate reconstruct
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The cultural elite is completely different from having money. It is the same reason that Trump was ridiculed for putting ketchup on steak or why journalists/post-docs are willing to make pennies on jobs that grand them access the cult
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Twitter aggressively censors anyone without institutional approval. Twitters scratch the elites' backs, so the elites scratch back. Trump was banned from Twitter first. Any one with mildly right wing opinion is insta-banned from twitte
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> only successful abroad I don't see why that's a problem. Monopolizing the entire EU and South Asia market is huge. It is pretty popular in the US too, and the app of choice of immigrant communities. > getting eaten up by T
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> stand on the sidewalk with a sign > legal ones who get a permit have their route planned out in advance So the kind of protests that don't matter ? A protest, by definition, is meant to display discontent from the masses becaus
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> unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business So every protest that has ever happened ? If anything, the associated violence and demands of the protest are pretty tame in comparison to
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> determined by ability, not racial/gender quotas Yeah, I have no dog in this fight. I was merely pointing out, that the case for diversity as championed by Biden (or his cabinet/loudest supporters) contradicts his choice to pu
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> While the percentage of female lawyers has increased slowly over the past decade (31% in 2010 vs. 37% in 2020), recent gains among people of color are minimal. Just 5% of all lawyers are Black, the same percentage as 10 years ago Stati
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Every single piece I've read about casteism by American outlets comes off as incredibly shallow and often completely wrong. I have written about this before, and I will keep this one short. We used to have a joke about us Indians that
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Queues are country specific, and wait times are estimated from processing speeds of applications per country. India is the worst hit with 10-100 year wait times. (yeah, the estimates vary drastically between govts. It was a crawl for the l
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I am tired of people acting like their bang average pub steak has any semblance of an exquisite culinary experience. Yeah, don't sauce your A5 Wagyu or beauty marbled meat from a cow that lived like a queen. But, the 20$ filled mignon
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My sense is that most people mean pitch correction and samples that are perfectly snapped to even intervals. To me, modern 'robotically accurate' music feels like creating food using salt, sugar, lemon, MSG and coffee powder. It t
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I never disambiguate. my accent is thick enough to give away which type of Indian I am.
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It is the core approach to cooking. I would contrast it with Latin (French, Spanish, Italian) cooking. The idea with Latin cooking, is to get the highest quality ingredients that go together really well. It is about a small set of ingredien
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Never said that. See other comment above you for clarification.
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Call of duty makes most of its income through sales. So, the revenue seems a lot higher than it actually is. Relatively speaking COD sales have stagnated for a decade [1] while the gaming industry has exploded. In terms of revenue, Fortnite
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Microsoft just purchased a bunch of has-been IPs that still have great amount of nostalgia. When Zenimax was acquired, it was coming off a couple of failed fallout games, a meh ESO and delayed Elder scrolls 6. Similarly, Activision-Blizzard
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Oh for sure. The core culinary approach and ethos is identical across the subcontinent. I'd say it extends as far as Eastern Africa, Bhutan, Malaysia and Thailand. (not Vietnam tho)
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Assuming you're in tech, just ask any Indian coworker. They probably know the best ones. Be clear in wanting to eat non-white-people Indian food and specify the region. Usually finding an Indian from that region is ideal. Truth is, tha
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Not at all. In India, a Punjabi restaurant won't sell dosas and vice versa. Cuisines are incredibly local and the recipes change wildly depending on where you eat. The only exception is 'mom and pops veg restaurant' where the
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I think it has to do with a purpose that religion served = values core to the identity of everyone in the nation. Modern America has no common history. America has no common ethnicity, no common roots and now no common religion. The least r
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Kind of related : America Is Falling Apart at the Seams https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/america-falling-a... A loss of civic sense and cultural criminality are incredibly hard to weed out of a
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