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by tovej 4y ago
You mean the war of the winter 1939-1940 and the 1941-1944 war. 1917-1922 was the Russian civil war and 1918 the Finnish civil war. IIRC, some of the White Finnish raiding parties ventured into Russia, and the Bolsheviks supported the Finni
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by tovej 5y ago
Sounds like prime material for sci-fi horror
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by tovej 5y ago
I'm suspicious of this statement, what you count as Europe, and also of how you've focused on the mean (average), which is heavily affected by large outliers. The median feels more useful in cases like these. Also you haven't
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by tovej 5y ago
Patents also choke creativity, and arguably in a worse way. If you can't remix existing ideas, how are you supposed to create anything useful if you need to come up with an alternative scheme to every component problem that has already
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by tovej 5y ago
Making teaching a "lucrative opportunity" by paying a decent wage has absolutely no downsides. What exactly are the downsides of an increase in intelligent people competing for teaching positions?
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by tovej 5y ago
Maybe greek prefixes or even spelling out the bigger units? I.e. 9.4 gigagrams or 54 billion kilograms. Of course you might have the issue of short scale vs. long scale billions but a footnote should solve that.
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by tovej 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security#NSA_Dual_EC_DRBG_...
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by tovej 5y ago
IRC is almost always logged, and if you need to log things yourself, you can use a bouncer or set up a server.
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by tovej 5y ago
Hard disagree. The multiplication table is incredibly useful when making back of the envelope calculations. You can cheat though. 2, 5, 9, and 11 have simple deterministic algorithms you can apply to get the result. These help, but the mult
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by tovej 5y ago
Definitely related, overleaf probably depends on gitlab. The overleaf outage ended right when the gitlab outage did.
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by tovej 5y ago
Definitely related, probably dependent on. The overleaf outage ended right when the gitlab outage did.
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by tovej 5y ago
Regarding 3), how well someone's social strategies pay off is completely separate from their morality. It's irrelevant. Just as a thought experiment: if there was little social cost to it, killing your competitors would probably b
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by tovej 5y ago
I don't think they were comparing today's standard of living in the US to that in Rome, just saying that people misrepresent poverty, and that poverty is crushing for a human being. I do think the fact that you decided to counter
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by tovej 5y ago
Processed foods are chemically altered for longer shelf-life. Heavily processed foods have a very homogeneous substance, which means they have fewer nutrients that the body needs. To top it off, the substances they _do_ contain are unhealth
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by tovej 5y ago
There's one unmentioned aspect of this that's especially sinister. Salt, sugar, and fat are addictive.
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by tovej 5y ago
I haven't heard of this before, could you link some examples?
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by tovej 5y ago
Of course they can be compared. Direct comparisons may be hard if we are looking for a cause. But even though the grading mechanism is different, we can identify the overall trend. And that trend is bad for higher education.
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by tovej 5y ago
Minimum pay was an example, collectively bargained contracts offer other protections as well, but these differ more from case to case, so I didn't bring them up. I have also negotiated my pay up, but under the umbrella of collective ba
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by tovej 5y ago
These limits are in your favor, you are free to negotiate contracts within the limits. I fail to see how the right to work for less pay than what others see as the absolute minimum fair pay is a right that's worth keeping. This is a bi
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by tovej 5y ago
This might be a cultural/linguistic barrier you went up against. It might also not be related to what happened to you, but it feels like it is. Japanese use a lot of back-channel chatter when they talk to indicate that they are activel
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by tovej 5y ago
The one at your local university. Either one named something like "Introduction to Networking" or "Introduction to Distributed Systems", depending on what you want to learn. You could also read some books. Rami Rosens &q
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by tovej 5y ago
You couldn't create a parody of this naming convention that's more outlandish than the way it's actually being used.
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by tovej 5y ago
Assembly aside, all the things you mention are things I would expect a software engineer to understand. As an engineer in my late twenties myself, these are exactly the things I am focusing on. I'm not saying I have a particularly deep
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by tovej 5y ago
Why do you feel PDFs are a bad remedy? PDFs are the usual way I absorb information.
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by tovej 5y ago
I wouldn't bet on it, they didn't filter by license after all.
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by tovej 5y ago
Yeah, a sort of bargaining form of religion does impose fewer moral conditions on the gods. Things like the Graeco-Roman gods, old folk religion, Norse mythology, Egyptian mythology, etc. seem more like rationalizations of nature and the st
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by tovej 5y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm talking about. I would argue that whether or not the set of morals that god expects Job to follow are the ones that god considers good and correct makes a difference here. If they aren't, god
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by tovej 5y ago
I'm saying that determinism doesn't remove issues of ethics.
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by tovej 5y ago
If we limit god to any god worth worshiping, i.e. one that prescribes a set of morals on their followers and answers the prayers of those who follow the god's morals, you would expect that the god has the same set of morals as their fo
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by tovej 5y ago
Following this argument, nobody is culpable for any crime they may commit, because their behavior is fully determined by their biology and environment. Try that in a court. Evil is a perfectly straightforward concept. It may have many defin

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