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by waqf 4y ago
> Human perception of color is certainly a matter of biology. Of course it is. The mathematics is a model of human biology (in terms of the effects of interactions with different colours of light). Mathematical models of the underlying e
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by waqf 4y ago
"whole industry": I am currently in Germany and the major apps here (Lieferando and Wolt) are a lot less dark patterny, the prices seem to be usually same as in-restaurant and there aren't hidden fees. (My crunchy friends sti
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by waqf 4y ago
Is that effect mediated by body size, or is it true even when corrected for body size and shape?
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by waqf 4y ago
Slightly better explanation: https://web.archive.org/web/20141114091039/http://math.iit.e... You still have to figure out their convention for the matrices they're taking eigenvalues of though. Look
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by waqf 4y ago
In my math it's a $210 annual delta.
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by waqf 4y ago
Next up: Guinea. And the Kiwis.
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by waqf 4y ago
It would be odd if it were not. Just as you would write "I went to the United States" not "I went to The United States". (Of course, lower case here means that you should use lower or upper case according to its position
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by waqf 4y ago
Ring binder with the clasps opened.
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by waqf 4y ago
Horace Lunt's Fundamentals of Russian is one I found helpful, particularly for being upfront about the actual pronunciation rules. There are also many similar gripes among STEM tutorials. Why can't this physics/chemistry&#x2F
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by waqf 4y ago
I wouldn't say "supreme" is inaccurate, since the Supreme Court is superior to every other court . (That's if we accept that Parliament is no longer a court after the Supreme Court assumed its judicial responsibilities.
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by waqf 4y ago
The popups happen because that turns out to be what the legislation is incentivising. The solution is to make different legislation that doesn't incentivise popups. Some examples (obviously not problem-free, but just to show that a sol
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by waqf 4y ago
Interesting, why do you perceive that "scrip" cannot be short for "prescription" whereas "script" can be? FWIW, Wiktionary lists both: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrip#Etymology_4
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by waqf 4y ago
Another is animal cruelty, pursued by animal charities. Basically it's when someone's committed a crime but the CPS (equivalent of the DA) is never going to bother to prosecute them so you volunteer to organise the prosecution you
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by waqf 4y ago
What is meant by "solving fusion" if not making fusion an economically viable source of power? And I didn't mean to suggest that available energy was the limitation on building LHC++, but rather that available economic surplu
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by waqf 4y ago
If we solve fusion, surely we have a lot of cheap energy (and attendant economic output) to throw at solving physics?
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by waqf 4y ago
Many jurisdictions outside the US do (much more readily) award fees so that the loser has to pay the winner's legal costs. The disadvantage of it is that if you're just some guy against a BigCo, then instead of risking having to p
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by waqf 4y ago
In fact this was used in the 100% official localisation of BBC BASIC … into American. The US edition of BBC BASIC 3 would print "COLOR" instead of the obviously correct keyword "COLOUR".
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by waqf 4y ago
Ducks have ducklings, so naturally, cows have cowlings.
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by waqf 4y ago
The tech may be possible, but it won't solve anyone's copyright problems. The result would be a "derived work" of the original, irrespective of whether it sounded similar or not.
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by waqf 4y ago
Last year a man died after falling through disused stairs up to a highway bridge in Boston. To be fair they were fenced off and were obviously unusable, but still … https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/newly-relea
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by waqf 4y ago
A higher price doesn't mean that most people, or even most of the people who buy it, think Hersheys is objectively "better". My assumption in this case would be that it's higher price because higher cost because imported
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by waqf 4y ago
The journalist may suffer from misconceptions, but the version of the experiment to which these results apply was conducted so that the transaction costs were equal in either case (source: https://people.duke.edu/~dandan&#x
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by waqf 4y ago
They controlled for this (in the version of the experiment for which the results are reported in the article): they offered it as part of a campus cafeteria meal (and integrated it into the cafeteria billing), so the subjects were already p
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by waqf 4y ago
An "individual" … maybe that means it would suffice for them to be accompanied by the family dog? (edit: unfortunately not, for in the German it is more specific, "nur in Begleitung einer Person …".)
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by waqf 4y ago
>In those pricey plane seats they're among themselves. Train travel also has multiple classes of service. And in some ways it's easier to keep people in their own half on a long train than on an A319 where they're only sep
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by waqf 4y ago
Well we obviously haven't yet solved the problem of preventing genocides, because we didn't prevent the current one. But we don't necessarily need new data, maybe we just need new interpretations to the data or new policies b
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by waqf 4y ago
I am not "biasing myself toward" a point of view; you are putting words in my mouth. If you can't consider someone's point of view without agreeing with it, then I do see the miscommunication. I can, and I also think it&
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by waqf 4y ago
If by "being principled or judging" you mean labelling people as evil and dismissing them then I don't accept that that's axiomatically noble. If by "being principled or judging" you mean having any ethical val
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by waqf 4y ago
I think it's very useful in such a case to investigate, as scientifically and dispassionately as possible, exactly how such a moment came to be. And I think that would involve "getting into the heads" of the supporters of the
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by waqf 4y ago
This can be explained using Bayesian reasoning. P(all heads | bad faith) ≫ P(any given "random"-looking string | bad faith) therefore P(bad faith | all heads) ≫ P(bad faith | any given "random"-looking string) So if you

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