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full paper here: // deleted. Looks like my choice of an anonymous file hoster was inappropriate.

Funny, just two hours ago I saw my first Starlink satellite train running across the sky. It felt spooky and futuristic at the same time.

No half-baked products? Have you ever tried using the translation feature in the book app? That is the most infuriating, dumb piece of software I have seen in a long time.

I went jogging in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) and stepped on a huge rat. Poor dude was just having breakfast in one of the garbage heaps on the sidewalk. Never experienced that in Euro…

Have you tried it in the forest behind Apple?

So could we get members of Congress to write positive RT reviews?

Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing.

WallStreetMillenial on Youtube just had a nice explanation why comparing risk for self driving cars and human drivers is not that simple. At least for Tesla, the answer is "hell no…

To add another source, the Atlantic had a piece on birthrates in South Korea last March: https://archive.li/Fm93M Quoting from the article: > There are a lot of reasons people deci…

ctrl+f "real estate" "Another economic factor in the falling birthrate is the rising price of real estate and a resulting increase in unmarried or late-marrying people. The traditi…

> anyone can learn to fix them at home with very few tools Everytime I read comments like this I feel dumb. I'm fixing my own bikes, but it takes a lot of time and quite a few tool…

Parking where you want can be a problem. You won't have issues if you use a parking garage or park in the outskirts and then use public transportation.

If I understand your hypothesis correctly, the obvious counterexample is German. Germany had a very weak central authority for most of its history, a steady influx of non-native sp…

In Finland, ethnicity is fairly homogenous, and so is culture and language. The only exceptions are the Sami people (10,000 in Finland) and Finns of historically Swedish ethnicity.…

But do "we" really ignore the tacit knowledge? I think you are wrong that "scientific literature" pretends those things. The issue of "context of discovery" vs "context of justific…

The Firefox addon Sponsorblock blocks almost 100% of those ads. Together with uBlock Origin, I have an almost ad-free Youtube experience.

I understood that reference. To add some content: Dirk Müller is a German doom prophet who some day, eventually, will have predicted it all along.

If you have an hour to spare, I found this video by an experienced pilot extremely helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5AGHEUxLME

Deep down the brain is 100% discrete: Neurons are either firing or not. To me, the brain's biggest mistery is how it goes from this to doing all the analogue stuff, and ends up wit…

Imagine two scientists, Bob and Alice. Bob has spent the last 5 years examining a theory thoroughly. Now he can explain down to the last detail why the theory does not hold water, …

You just described the majority of scientific papers. A "working set of instructions" is not really feasible in most cases. You can't include every piece of hard- and software requ…

As others said, markwhen is awesome, but I'm not sure I'd use it as a standalone tool. I would definitely pay for a VSCode and Obsidian plugin to easily integrate it in existing wo…

Thanks for the detailed answer, I really appreciate the insight. I work in research myself, so I'm familiar with the general constraints. I was certainly unaware of the size of the…

But do you really need these features, already available in Matlab/Python/R/Julia/Lisp/? Or did the the C++ folks simply refuse to learn other languages? From what I have seen in R…

Is that so? The most dignified, people with the most money, are also causing the most desctruction. I find it odd to say people are fighting climate change if they actively contrib…