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by squaredot 4y ago
Overpaid with respect to what? The comparison CEO-worker is not explicitly stated, but it's not very hidden either.
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by squaredot 4y ago
The scale linking cost to quality of a good is not linear. People often pay twice as much for something that is only 10 percent better. Prices are a matter of allocation, not value.
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by squaredot 4y ago
These remarks about the salary of the last percentile of the population only serve to raise controversy. If you want to see how people's well-being has evolved, you have to make somewhat more intelligent comparisons: for example by loo
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by squaredot 4y ago
I miss that the comparison is made only on the base of growth, without mentioning the absolute size of the companies, or the volume of their sales.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I would love to have something like this. With Julia, a programming language that I like very much, it's really a pain.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I agree on this. Poverty, in this sense has, more to do with being than with having . A friend of me recommended to me on this subject the book: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass ( https://en.wikipedia
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by squaredot 4y ago
I wouldn't paint everything in black and white. For what concerns the discussed legislation, I think it would be more correct to legislate about goals and leave everybody free on how to achieve them (when needed).
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by squaredot 4y ago
As my ancient Greek's professor used to say, by looking at the class taking notes: "Why do we write? We write to forget!".
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by squaredot 4y ago
I long for the day when we ditch HDMI for thunderbolt!
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by squaredot 4y ago
Sadly this is probably the best strategy. As the Chinese saying goes, "He who buys the best cries only once."
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by squaredot 4y ago
Maybe the most famous is the Lorenz attractor, arising from the Lorenz System (this is one of the simulations shown in the website). In Wikipedia you find a description of the system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz
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by squaredot 4y ago
> Wouldn't it just be better to play a sport or do an activity that required turning? I would suggest Tag. Maybe is not good for learning, but if you survive, you're definitively good. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by squaredot 4y ago
That seems good news. From what Wikipedia says, the power plant should generate 16'166 GWh per year. The investment should keep the power plant operating during 5 more years. That is 220 M USD / 16'166 GWh = 0.013 USD &#x
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by squaredot 4y ago
> you still have to overcome the hurdle that people just _don’t want to spend time learning your one-off language_ That's an important point. Maybe as an academic someone is more inclined in learning new languages for the sake of in
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by squaredot 4y ago
Question: is 240Hz beneficial in practical terms wrt let's say 120Hz?
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by squaredot 4y ago
> I think the comment that it was harder to be an asshole because someone would just ask you to leave (physically! With your equipment!) is quite relevant. It’s way too easy to be a jerk online now. Maybe the big difference is that you w
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by squaredot 4y ago
> You should think really carefully about using exceptions in situations that don’t correspond to the preceding section. One particularly common inappropriate use of exceptions is for signaling “logical errors.” > A correct program sh
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by squaredot 4y ago
I am not sure if the state of the UK economy would be substantially different without Brexit. Most of the problems would be the same, maybe with a slightly bigger carpet under which to hide the dirt.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I agree. The other day someone commenting the layoffs of meta, noted that the company has still more employees than at the end of last year. These changes are bad for the people involved, but even if the numbers are big, their relative amou
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by squaredot 4y ago
Last year I read the following post regarding the application of hydrogen on ground transportation, simple and insightful. It basically explains why it doesn't make sense to use it for that particular application. https://et
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Free Will Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by squaredot 4y ago|0 comments
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by squaredot 4y ago
The content of a book is always more important than its form, but we cannot get to its content if not through its form. What I don't like here is the general Microsoft Word-like feeling of the book. What I like is the use of colors and
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by squaredot 4y ago
It happened to me to think about this (but from another perspective). It seems to me that the sentences "I want [A]", where A is an object outside me, and "I want [to want A]" are essentially different. But the sentences
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by squaredot 4y ago
I can share that feeling. However, more than the thought of passing on what is ours, what such a chronological fact inspires in me is the awe of realizing that a city like this represents a history within history. And like that there are ma
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by squaredot 4y ago
>Robots still have a hard time navigating terrain and manipulating stuff The author argues that doing things at higher pace should be cognitive intensive. But robots are not bad at doing things fast: if they can do things, they can do th
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by squaredot 4y ago
I like very much this conjecture: easy to grasp, with some intuition you can understand why it is plausible to hold. No general method has been discovered to settle the matter, only proofs for specific cases (up to 7 runners apparently).
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by squaredot 4y ago
The greatest threat to an already established project is not an earthquake, but the unperturbed erosion of time that causes it to fall into insignificance. Trying to ignore all this attention given to Twitter, let's see a year from now
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by squaredot 4y ago
I agree with that. In addition to that, German students who want to go to elite schools also go abroad (like ETH of Zurich), this is probably an effect that is unknown to US people.
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by squaredot 4y ago
I think these kinds of articles are geared toward people who do not know (even superficially) about the models. Perhaps the sentiment they want to elicit is "If the person who created these models cannot explain how they work, then he
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by squaredot 4y ago
Quite related: https://what-if.xkcd.com/135/

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