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by zeteo 5y ago
Well, she did champion the lower castes, so there's also that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibi_Hatao
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by zeteo 5y ago
I always find it fascinating that people are so much more interested in why he sailed for America rather than how . Columbus was a navigator, not a geographer. His true discovery was not America (which plenty of people, including some Eu
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by zeteo 5y ago
Agreed, also I think he's breathing into the bag not out of it. If you have a flotation device that's not fully sealed then you need to periodically re-inflate it a bit. It's the equivalent of keeping a leaky boat afloat by b
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by zeteo 5y ago
You're probably overestimating how fast a home invasion can proceed. Unless the intruders are completely silent and/or have perfect information about the home layout and people's locations in it, it will take them quite a fe
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by zeteo 5y ago
If you want to calculate exact percentiles there's a simple in-place algorithm that runs in expected O(n) time. You basically do quicksort but ignore the "wrong" partition in each recursive step. For instance if your pivot is
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by zeteo 5y ago
Perl was built initially as a sed/awk killer but got distracted into trying to take over the world. The interpreter for a language with 100x the number of features will always be slower. Also there's a very clear boundary for when
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by zeteo 5y ago
My company mandates Windows but Git Bash has been a backdoor into Unix tools and I've recently learned sed and awk to take full advantage of it. You need to think a bit about your one liners and they'll always feel very hacky, but
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by zeteo 5y ago
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v... If they had advertised 42% effectiveness rating when it was first launched they'd have probably gone back to the drawing board. (This is what Pf
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by zeteo 5y ago
Israel went very heavily with Pfizer which ended up rather ineffective against Delta. With a more balanced mix they would have probably fared better.
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by zeteo 5y ago
Public relations has been around for a hundred years now. It shouldn't be news to anyone that large companies are careful with phrasing things and have full time employees devoted to the nuances of messaging. And yes, when armies of la
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by zeteo 5y ago
On the average game of chess white scores 0.55 points and black 0.45. In the age of computers it should be pretty trivial to award black 1.2 points for a win (or some such appropriate number) and vastly improve balance.
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by zeteo 5y ago
Some of the smartest people I know went to work for Facebook or Google. Heck, most people on this site probably would too if offered the chance. Suggesting that thousands of highly skilled, well paid employees who could have their choice of
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by zeteo 5y ago
> wars in medieval times where shorter and less bloody then before and after Each individual war was shorter and less bloody but there were many more of them as the barons were feuding constantly in the absence of central authority. Also
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by zeteo 5y ago
> A robot can just be put in a cage where it can't hurt people, but an exoskeleton can't. This would have made a great premise for an Asimov story.
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by zeteo 5y ago
The link to the actual study appears to be broken. It's interesting that they've found the largest effect by far in people who drink the equivalent of 3 bottles of weak beer per week. It would be good to know how many people in th
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by zeteo 5y ago
It's more likely for the stronger player to have 8 wins and 2 draws in that line-up. If you're up against such a big divide you should play safe and aim for the draw, it's quite attainable.
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by zeteo 5y ago
Great, a top comment that aims to discourage people from even trying. It's unclear where you got this stuff from (maybe you're a grandmaster too?!) but this is well beyond what the author says. He mentions 2 hours per day for 10 y
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by zeteo 5y ago
Why would there be a lawsuit? There's no law that forces local government to run a media company or media companies to run government announcements for free. If the local government had decided to advertise in the local newspaper then
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by zeteo 5y ago
You must be confusing Catholic for some other denomination. Can you provide a single actual example of someone who publicly admitted to being gay and is still a Catholic priest?
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by zeteo 5y ago
I can do without the sarcasm. Can you point me to any actual experiments?
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by zeteo 5y ago
If by higher you mean 1000 ELO then sure. In actual tournament play it's very rare for someone to blunder a queen and resign. Queen exchanges happen in most games and queen sacrifices are fairly common. There are no king exchanges or s
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by zeteo 5y ago
The idea that strong electromagnetic fields affect the local curvature of spacetime is nothing short of revolutionary. Imagine the possibilities of that! This may be the beginning of the road to a functional warp drive at last.
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by zeteo 5y ago
The fact is that requiring the SAT leads to worse educational outcomes for Black and Latinx students. You can close your eyes to it all you want and say "but I don't see how that happens, they don't ask you skin color on the
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by zeteo 5y ago
By most definitions you would find that the Catholic Church in its current form is an oppressive regime. It definitely takes a lot of courage for a gay man to become a priest in such an organization.
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by zeteo 5y ago
Chess is not only racist but also sexist. How come the king is the most important piece on the board but the queen is completely expendable?! And, for goodness sake, the game features actual white knights.
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by zeteo 5y ago
Regardless of legal aspects it's hard to ignore that Google is now very much in the business of putting to sleep innovative products. Either they acquire the startup and no longer invest in it, or drive it out of the search results, or
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by zeteo 5y ago
At the very least this has no way to distinguish directly between direct and indirect effects of the epidemic. The average person has put on weight, gets less exercise and is less likely to go visit a doctor. I think the distinction is impo
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by zeteo 6y ago
>the front-end ecosystem looks like the first BASIC program written by a 10 year-old who just got his first computer: [...] it's driven by fashion and immediate business needs [...] I also miss the days when 10 year-olds wrote BASIC
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by zeteo 6y ago
A few months ago I had a jar of medlar jelly shipped over from the UK via Amazon. It was not cheap but very tasty; the flavor reminded me a bit of quince jelly, another pretty rare item in the US. I'd like to have it again sometime, ma
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by zeteo 6y ago
The writing and amendment of constitutions does seem to correlate with the importance of conscription. The French adopted their first constitution and the "levee en masse" in quick succession. The British famously avoided conscrip

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