smcin

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by smcin 6d ago
BBM apparently took down the 50 fake personas in 2024 when it was challenged by reporters.
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by smcin 6d ago
> BBM is pulling in vast audiences, ... estimated 64.7 million visits per month. According to a recent ranking, that would make it one of the 30 most trafficked English-language media enterprises on the web, with a total digital readers
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by smcin 9d ago
I know that, that was my point. I'm saying I don't see much point in restating it without adding something; it's been known for 300 years.
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by smcin 9d ago
CFMEU sounded like some EU thing, but it's not, it's Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), one of Australia's largest blue-collar trade unions.
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by smcin 9d ago
Sure. I wasn't disagreeing with you; just curious how close the coincidence was.
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by smcin 9d ago
inverse Gamma function of Avogadro's number (6.02 × 10²³) is ~ 24.99056
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by smcin 9d ago
(I just undead'ed this comment; can't see why it was downvoted.)
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by smcin 9d ago
I think you mean "using base C without any arbitrary-precision library (e.g. GMP)" . All that illustrates is that Lisp has built-in support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, whereas C doesn't. Otherwise, how is this surpris
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by smcin 9d ago
This is restating Stirling's approximation, which has been known for three centuries (1730, de Moivre 1721). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation
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by smcin 10d ago
Compare to how different countries' justice systems treat really high quality money forgers.
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by smcin 13d ago
no-true-Scotsman...
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by smcin 15d ago
Why?
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by smcin 18d ago
How much formal math background is required? Undergrad/graduate/PhD/...? For one person on each team or everyone?
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by smcin 19d ago
Ok thanks for the explanation.
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by smcin 19d ago
But who is publishing the outage information to X/Twitter if not the utility itself? I'd be surprised if they do that more timely and reliably on a third-party platform than their own app. That's not the case for any European
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by smcin 19d ago
Ok but can you answer my question about reliability?
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by smcin 19d ago
Doesn't their own Île-de-France Mobilités app have reliable information on outages? Surely it's more reliable than their Twitter account?
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by smcin 20d ago
In what ways are you saying "Europe is absolutely obsessed with the US": politics, tech, capital markets, defense, economics, culture, cultural trends, unpredictability, something else? And how is that "obsessed" rather
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by smcin 22d ago
A software office, or a driver support center? Aarhus is a pretty respected technical university, so a software office would make sense.
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by smcin 24d ago
Can you say more?
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by smcin 26d ago
Oh
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by smcin 29d ago
Accounting goodwill might be one term, but it has multiple components (trust, reputation, market share, mindshare, track record, relationships, online and offline community presence, etc. etc.)
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by smcin 1mo ago
That's not how Jason Bourne handled paperwork.
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by smcin 1mo ago
The primary thing cornering Canadian real-estate was investor corporations, rather than Chinese nationals. But it was easier politics to highlight Chinese nationals, esp. coming up to the Canadian election.
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by smcin 1mo ago
This is all very off-topic to the original discussion about reduction in air pollution.
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by smcin 1mo ago
Doesn't it depend on the mix of diesel/petrol/electric? In particular many cities ban or restrict diesel.
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by smcin 1mo ago
Ok so a basic version of adding a second stop, on a route using public transit.
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by smcin 1mo ago
Nine PBS is the St. Louis, Missouri, affiliate.
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by smcin 2mo ago
Transit App allows you configure both your walking and cycling speeds. Works great (will show you 15-20min walking), generates lots of options on how-to-get-there (e.g. bike-on-bus, Uber to train station), gives more accurate ETAs. Also ins
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by smcin 2mo ago
Conversely, as a cyclist, Google Maps infuriatingly will refuse to route you along an expressway, even when it's the shortest or only route without a huge detour. e.g. Lawrence Expressway where it crosses in an underpass under Central

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