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by stewbrew 4y ago
Roads don't just emanate out of nowhere either. They must be built and maintained, or they become useless. I doubt building new highways really takes much less time than building new railways.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Ad uft8: it would change the problem only if the definition of word breaks changed. E.g., if a word break is defined by whitespace, then it probably doesn't.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
This doesn't work in countries with book price fixing. So the problem rather is online distribution of counterfeited books in countries that, for whatever reason, abhor government intervention in the book market. In the US, this is a p
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Ad 5: more data doesn't help if the main problem of your research is that your data is shit. People benefit from generating tons of shity data because they get more money, which looks good on their resume. If their results are shit, th
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by stewbrew 4y ago
So that we can reinstate the old order of eminence-based science? I think the funding system should be rather be more anonymous, more global, more detached from local elites ... like universities, organization close to government/admin
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by stewbrew 4y ago
"It affects nearly all high sale volume technical books on Amazon. If you've bought a technical book on Amazon recently there's a >50% chance it's a fake." If it were a high sales book, Amazon would probably have
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Your reasoning sounds weird but Amazon actually is a good source for out-of-print books. Another good source is a abebooks, which is also owned by Amazon, unfortunately.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
I don't see how this relates to this discussion other than by spamming this subthread.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
BTW the author is the founder of a company called Terraform Industries. (Their for a commercial business strangely looking homepage: https://terraformindustries.com/ .) This is funny because there is also a company called Te
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by stewbrew 4y ago
How is this a tiny detail. We live in a passivhaus. We hardly ever heat. Improving insulation of old houses is an important aspect here. Reducing energy consumption is as important as generating and storing energy.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
That's why (good) science is difficult and why good study designs matter.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
This way you know exactly which browser people are using and you don't have to deal with idiosyncrasies.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
I'm tired of these probably nuclear industry backed articles that are wrong and miss the point. 1. Nuclear energy is no solution. See here for an example how things turn out in real life (in German): https://www.n-tv.de&#x2F
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by stewbrew 4y ago
This probably is a reference to Max Weber's "Protestant work ethic" - a classic and interesting read.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
I'd say the page is a candidate for the title worst mobile UX ever.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Yes, but if I could stand up to pull the lever that's meters away, I wouldn't be in the position to ask myself what to do.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
WRT #4: How am I supposed to pull the lever when I'm tied to the rails?
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Bureaucratic processes are about the process and not about single individuals. Such a process is anonymous by definition. It doesn't care about what type of people is involved. If the typr of person were important it would be a flaw, a
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by stewbrew 4y ago
All these devices look as if the Psion 5 never existed. And they look old on arrival compared to that.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
This really depends on where you live. Consider yourself lucky if it is the same.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
How would a few rich people flying above the lower ones reduce congestion ... on the ground? Congestion would be reduced by people using trains and maybe, I would be actually willing to see this as an option, autonomously driving cars.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
They also import electricity, e.g. last Winter from Germany.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
The state better invests the money in cheaper technologies. Why should it waste the money on nuclear plants? Edit: To the downvoters: Seriously, why should the state waste money on a technology that doesn't work and never has? More tha
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by stewbrew 4y ago
We already have https://r-project.org . Now we have https://rr-project.org . So, https://rrr-project.org is next?
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by stewbrew 4y ago
You cannot blame him for shortcomings of the English language.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Good investors adapt to changing conditions. But even a bad clock is right two times a day.
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DuckDuckGo browsers don't block Microsoft data flows, for LinkedIn or Bing(twitter.com)
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by stewbrew 4y ago
Okay, it's a PWA that is served from a server. The code in the repo is the code for that server. (We could waste some time defining "server".) You wouldn't deny that? Docker containers don't run on phones. But I agr
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by stewbrew 4y ago
From what I gather it's a server the serves pages that can be displayed well on phones. The notion of phone application makes me think of something else - but maybe I'm just old.
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by stewbrew 4y ago
"You can exit the Tokay REPL with Ctrl+C." Other repls often use ctrl-d for end of Input Stream instead. Ctrl-c is rather expected to Interrupt the programme execution, not the repl.

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