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R also has data.table, which extends data.frame and is pretty powerful and very fast

What about the "essential meaning"? It's non-circular and (to me) fitting.

> The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it's highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action. That is your definit…

Well, I guess it depends what you value. Some of these French hours went to a 2nd language, and personally I think it's a good tradeoff.

> One fault is the drop in teaching hours : https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/collections/cache/a65f40c ... this is a schedule from 1952. Is that really more than today? It doesn'…

Fair enough, my question was hinting at the fact that most people don't seem to be morally consistent between turkeys and (for example) dogs. As for the breakdown in logic, you sai…

Well, precisely, to me there's no ethical difference between a turkey and a dog (and a cow), that was my point.

Let's suppose that in a country far, far away, there is a holiday called Givingthanks where instead of turkeys, dogs are eaten. Your alter ego in that country could then write the …

It's probably a good idea to remind (or inform) people that at least in scientific research, null hypothesis statistical testing and "statistical significance" in particular have c…

Pas de problème ;) Now I'm thinking about it, finding a name that is easily pronounced in many languages is probably a fun but not that trivial task.

As a native French speaker, I would say Comirnaty is actually easier to pronounce than Spikevax, and I suspect it might be similar in other Romance languages.

A few years ago, I closed my Amazon account partly because I felt like the company was a net negative for society. And I haven't missed it, even in the past year. I guess it's kind…

This paper has some insight: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/753/2/0...

Linus seems to disagree: Question: You were born in Finland, but your mother tongue is Swedish. Do you call yourself a Finn, or a Swede? What is it like to be a Swede in Finland? T…

I feel a disconnect between what you say and the article you linked: > Fire up new coal power plants "This whole calculation is changing dramatically, however, as Germany moves to …

> The WHO is already telling all nations the lockdowns need to end. I can't find a source for that claim, would you mind sharing one?

> New players start at 1500 ELO in both Lichess and FIDE I've never played otb, but on the FIDE website, they have a initial rating calculator ( https://ratings.fide.com/calc.phtml…