The_suffocated

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by The_suffocated 17d ago
While I understand that the ‘America’ in ‘Lake America’ means the USA, I can’t help but think of ‘America’ as the America continent. In this sense the whole farce feels less political. By the way, Carney may consider calling the USA ‘Nocano
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by The_suffocated 2mo ago
Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
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by The_suffocated 2mo ago
Yes. The next step is to send a very human-like robot to impersonate you on a date, in wedding ceremony, during intimate times in the bedroom, etc., but we are not sure if your date will do the same.
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by The_suffocated 5mo ago
In terms of temperature rather than length of daylight, the peak of summer depends on geography (and latitude in particular). In where I live (Hong Kong), July and August are the hottest months and so it makes sense to me that Summer begins
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by The_suffocated 6mo ago
Not all men, but all men over 17 and under the age of 45. This still seems draconian, though.
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by The_suffocated 6mo ago
I like this more than most modern designs.
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by The_suffocated 6mo ago
I have longed for this feature. For me, it is useful in many scenarios, such as: * reading two distantly separated sections of a long article on two split tabs; * reading a research paper on one tab and typing a question to StackExcha
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by The_suffocated 7mo ago
The article is well written but its title is a click bait. Although the film portrays mathematicians in a negative way and the allegedly hard problem on the blackboard is actually an easy homework exercise that every decent first-year stude
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by The_suffocated 10mo ago
> The muster roll for the garrison of Calais in 1357 shows not only the names of men-at-arms and archers but also the support roles needed: mason, locksmith, fletcher (a maker of arrows), bowyer (a maker of bows), plumber, blacksmit
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by The_suffocated 10mo ago
Do people these days call robbers ‘thieves’? When I read the title, I thought the article was about pickpockets.
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by The_suffocated 10mo ago
A wild guess: perhaps it was the Russian authority, not the site owners, who blocked the traffic. Collective action is usually inefficient. If something suddenly happens in a large scale, more often than not it is caused by a few influentia
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Test flight of yet another clone of Möwe, the wing used by Nausicaä [video](youtube.com)
3 points by The_suffocated 10mo ago|1 comments
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by The_suffocated 11mo ago
> Evidently, the missing feature of all e-readers is the addition of bellows. Nah. I'd say the missing feature of all e-readers is multiple screens bound as a pamphlet that allows users to compare the contents on different pages eas
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UK's last gravity-fed industrial aerial ropeway (2021) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by The_suffocated 11mo ago|0 comments
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
> Math in its core has always been abstract. It’s the whole point. I don't think so. E.g. there may be some abstractions in numerical linear algebra, but the subject matter has always been quite concrete.
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
Discussions of this sort can easily get chaotic, because people tend to conflate intuitiveness and concreteness. Sometimes the whole point of abstraction is to make a concept clearer and more intuitive. The distinction between polynomial fu
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
Somewhat tangential to the discussion: I have once read that Richard Feynman was opposed to the idea (originally due to Karl Popper) that falsifiability is central to physics, but I haven't read any explanation.
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
Did the scientists deliberately break the bones of the rabbits to perform the tests? I understand that there has to be a necessary evil, and the rabbits here can at least recover from bone fractures, while lab animals in other research proj
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
> a centuries-old tax loophole, abolished in April, that catered to the global rich. The nondomiciled—or non-dom status, as it is known—allowed foreigners living in the U.K. to pay tax only on what they earned domestically. Profits
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
No idea why this happened. Perhaps Math.Pow(x,y) was implemented as 2**(y*log2(x)) without writing special code to deal with the case where x is negative real and y is integer?
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by The_suffocated 1y ago
Many comments here point out the difficulties in replacing the digital infrastructure of a large organisation, but according to the ministry’s website, the ministry is only ten months old: “As a result of the formation of a new government 2
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
Thank you. I mistakenly thought the typewriter was used to type shorthands.
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
Very interesting article. I don’t understand, however, how shorthanders used typewriters for short-writing. The figure on p.168 (above fig. 9) is not explanative.
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
Then shouldn't $280 became $280\times 10^15 = $280000\times 10^12 = $280000tn dollars? Why $81tn ? Even if the currency is Brazil real, it should evaluate to about 48,000 trillion USD.
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
I don’t understand why one should define a month by partitioning the orbit into twelve equiangular sectors (relative to the centre of the orbit). Shouldn’t the orbit be partitioned into twelve parts with (roughly) equal travel times?
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
The book is sometimes confusing. See https://math.stackexchange.com/q/5027820 for example.
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
Personally I don't find greek letters problematic. In contrast, I was traumatised by upper-case Fraktur font in older abstract algebra texts.
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
The linked page is about a different notice. The correct webpage (that the linked page has linked to) is https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international... By the way, can anybody explain what's
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
It doesn't require linear algebra to understand the paper or how the algorithm works, but it does require linear algebra to understand why the algorithm works. In general, since the induced 1-norm of a stochastic matrix S is exactl
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by The_suffocated 2y ago
"It doesn't have to be as big of a deal as this." Agree. The truthfulness of the four-colour theorem is good to know, although there is not yet any human-readable proof.

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