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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Do you only ever expect things that were explicitly promised? If you go to a job interview, are you self-entitled because you expect a phone call afterwards even if that wasn't spelled out?
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Most of the comments here remind me of the famous Neil Gaiman quote, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch." [1] But I don't think that's the right framing. People buy the first book because they hope there will be a sec
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
I don't know if this is what you're getting at, but Chelsea is in London.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Who is this mythical "they" you talk about?
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Mearsheimer has this annoying tendency to switch between two completely different claims: (a) that the west caused this crisis in a billiard balls sort of way, x leading to y leading to z, and (b) that the west is culpable for this crisis.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
I may not like the ads, but I like that they pay for a lot of cool stuff on the web that otherwise would not see the light of day.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
“As Energy Ministries across the EU become "ecology" Ministries led by people who don't even know the units used to quantify energy, Finance Ministries become the adults.” This is not more numerate coverage, it’s semi-infor
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
It’s not quite like News In Slow French, but you might like https://www.nedbox.be/ . They sometimes refer to the easier to grok content from the Belgian public broadcaster, https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl&#
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
... which, as the OP points out, were hollow words and the Membership Action Plan that would have been the first step to joining NATO never got off the ground. Two minutes on Wikipedia!
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
First subheading of the study: "Thiomargarita magnifica is a centimeter-long, single bacterial cell". They apparently stick together, but do constitute individual organisms.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Erm, no, self-selection bias never disappears or even attenuates with sample size, the best you can hope for is to reweight the sample according to known demographics of your target population, which does indeed get a bit easier with larger
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
That's a pretty bizarre reading of history. The Soviet Union declared war on Japan because Stalin had promised Roosevelt and Churchill at the 1943 Tehran conference, so this was not some sort of surprising or unwelcome development.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
There's probably something to this analysis, but to go from "jobs that depend on cultural as opposed to financial capital can lead to overly homogeneous groups with strong and at times bizarre in-crowd behaviors" to the idea
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
FWIW, there's one particular use case where the isort behavior is incredibly useful: in eval-as-you-type data science e.g. when using Hydrogen in Atom you type an import whenever you need it but that leads to a lot of duplication and i
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Framing it as paying a price to be paid might be a bit awkward, but surely the idea that we often make aspirational purchases without thinking through what it will take to actually get any enjoyment out of those items afterwards, resonates
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
A number of reactors in France are down at the moment: https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/edf-extend-civaux-nuc...
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
That's interesting, I've been renovating my home for the past two years and have had the exact opposite experience: I've been quite happy with my cheap pipe bender, cheap angle grinder, cheap hex crimper, cheap multipipe plie
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
> How many of those services can live with that? Apparently, many can! Look at how many companies choose not to pay ransom when hit with a ransomware attack, or prefer to negotiate for days instead of buckling straight away, even if it m
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Smallish non-tech companies typically have single points of failure that are much more severe than a server/service being down for a couple of hours. Accountant on holiday? Guess we're not writing any invoices this week. Two of ou
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
Zope hails from the era when Python was trying to appeal to programmers by showing that it, too, could be a Serious Enterprise Language. Everything had layer after layer of abstraction and the code looked more like Java than Python. The Zop
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
The choice to display anything under 35 μg/m³ as "good" does not seem unreasonable at first glance. Indoor PM2.5 can often be higher than outdoor so that the yearly average will be pushed down by time spent outside and there
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
It's worth considering whether the premise actually holds. * Yeah, there's a feeling of malaise, but if you look at e.g. surveys of trust in government (Pew, OECD, etc.), it's a fairly slow decline over decades and the end po
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
But you first have to observe them using the card… so 5 cards implies mugging 5 people, which is quite different from stealing wallets from random targets, easiest first.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
In wood fiber insulation, some factories do manage to use the wood's own lignin to keep the insulation batts together, though apparently it's harder to manage for very thick batts.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
How so? Concrete takes any kind of wall plug extremely well, and brick is not so bad either as long as you don't hit the mortar joints. Vertically perforated brick and old cinder blocks can be annoying, though, I'll give you that.
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
I think that blogpost is very reasonable, and actually when I first heard about the mask study my thinking was very similar, "whoah, how do you even start to control for all of the kinds of interference that'll play havoc with the
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
The article presents algorithmic summarization as an alternative philosophy or paradigm to probabilistic modeling, but the thing is: we model when we have no choice but to model, which is any time when we can't perform a randomized exp
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
I've done quite a few as part of courses, and I've also served expensive bottles to people without telling them. It's definitely a humbling experience and the most expensive wines are certainly not always the most liked, but
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
> I've definitely heard the life advice to avoid trying this kind of thing in case you do like it, then everything less is permanently tainted with the knowledge that it's not as good. Does that actually happen though? I know a
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by stdbrouw 5y ago
The 25 kph is on the assumption that people will use these e-bikes on bike lanes. Pretty much everyone who bikes regularly hates race bikes and speed bikes and anything else going over 25 kph, or frankly, going over 20 kph, because it'

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