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You're right, but I understand that many graduate programs will ask for your undergraduate GPA and/or transcript as part of the application process. If one doesn't plan on applying…

>> I try to keep 150-200 miles of spare range on my vehicle when I am in that kind of country. That is hard to do on a typical EV. Plus the additional anxiety of trying to figure o…

>>[...] at least gave precise consistent definitions for basic terminology. Hopefully interactive proof assistants like Lean or Rocq will help to mitigate at least this issue for a…

Not having a highscool diploma or GED can limit one's future career options; an example is the US armed forces[1]. [1] https://www.usa.gov/military-requirements

This reason alone is unlikely to provide sufficient motivation to keep grinding away. Language acquisition can be a slog even though it's (eventually) super rewarding.

Assuming you could afford it, would the new iPhone Air be a consideration in your ultralight base load going forward?

Ericsson is a Swedish company with headquarters in Stockholm. They (and everybody else) have lost and continue to lose market share to Huawei short of these types of overt governme…

Maybe not 'exclusively' slept, but koalas[1] sleep for a majority of the day (16-20 hours) in order to digest highly toxic eucalyptus leaves which constitute the main portion of th…

>> That's why I don't invest in bonds or any investment that is denoted in dollars. Most investments seem to eventually (?) denominate into USD equivalents, especially if you live …

>> Small dogs maybe. A judge in Brooklyn recently ruled[1] that dogs are (now) classified as "immediate family members". I wonder if the this might push the Central Park Conservanc…

I agree with you, but the trade off is real for most people. It's unfortunately a binary choice: 'privacy ⊕ social community', instead of 'privacy & social' community. It's interes…

Did I parse that correctly? You parsed that one specific incident correctly, but sems like you also missed key parts of the article that helped bring a bit more nuance into the dis…

>> Can't sell the item itself? Okay, makes sense. IANAL, but I think it goes even one step beyond that, which is that the item and derived works can't even be used to support a com…

Seems like 1-3 above could be answered/tracked with some plumbing pipeline elbow grease leveraging tools like open source edgartools[1] (just a happy user) or sec-api[2] paid propr…

You have to go back more years to see the trendline. BLS has a different chart showing the male participation rate dropping while female participation rate has remained fairly cons…

>> What's even less clear to me is why the apparatus of state seems so willing to go along with these whims of the executive. Can you expand on this a bit more? Are you suggesting …

Except that many NYC public schools have yellow buses that park in the narrow streets during pickup or dropoff which are the cause for 20 minutes of gridlock along those streets. "…

>> I've been fighting trying to chunk SEC filings properly, specifically surrounding the strange and inconsistent tabular formats present in company filings. For this specific use …

>> I've lost count how often an elderly family member (who is still sharp as a tack fortunately) told me that the "police", "your beloved niece", or "Microsoft" called them. It's v…

Did you try this with Julia too? Their vector & matrix support is literally first class.

>> [...]but do you think these groups would NOT train just because of some state law? To your point, the groups will likely continue to train (seemingly illegally), but the quality…

>> Maybe the military is just that good at filtering out those types during psychological testing, or maybe belonging is far more important than ideology. The more mundane reason i…

In addition to the prohibitive cost and effort to setup and maintain such a program, I believe all 50 states have laws on the books that make it illegal to organize and train in mi…