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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
But over the phone you have to talk to a person. When I use an app, it's not because I want to save time. It's because I want to avoid having to talk to people. English is a second language for me, maybe that's why, but even
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
A poor translation. From Russian wikipedia [1]: """ Competent authorities are executive authorities endowed with jurisdiction and power to perform any specific tasks (“competence” here means “the right to make decisions”). &q
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
> this is comparable to bad flu year Maybe he means the Spanish flu /s
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Next you'll be asking whether lockdowns caused more harm than good. Oh-oh. I think we are 10 years too early for that particular discussion. This is a fascinating topic, though, and I can't help myself. I have two competing perspe
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
My impression was that the extra hours are due to the factories being on a 24/7 uninterrupted production cycle. Having people work 12 hour shifts instead of 8 reduces the headcount required by 33%.
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"Horseradish" aside (lol) my favorite Russian euphemism for this is: "[I] spun [this] on my dick" (на хую вертел). Spun as in "to spin", "to rotate", "to twirl." The imagery is a bit absurd,
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"Horseradish" is a euphemism for "dick." Whatever translation tool he was using didn't pick up on it ;/
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
This is a nice tool. I wonder, if with some additional bells and whistles, like machine translation, bookmarking, and tag search, this could be a product people would be willing to pay for.
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"These people don’t last long and I have gotten pretty good at screening out this personality in interviews after having it cause huge issues at two different places I worked." Well, now everyone is curious for more details on thi
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Well, for one, the US government prevents private actors from buying all sorts of things. I am surprised that selling tools which potentially "enable cyber crime" hasn't triggered some overzealous regulator in DC yet. It seem
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Who buys this stuff? Other things in the shop: > Screen Crab: This covert inline screen grabber sits between HDMI devices - like a computer and monitor, or console and television - to quietly capture screenshots. Perfect for sysadmins, p
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"The 'publish or perish' mentality makes it easier to put blinders on when faced with something that's inconvenient." I'd like to provide a competing take on this. In my experience, it's the job of the pee
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
You are right. We do need systematic trials to confidently makes statements like the one I made. Thank you for pointing out the error in my logic.
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Russia isn't the only country to have trialed Sputnik. From a recent Nature article (July 2021) titled "Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective" [1]: --- Figures released by the United Arab Emir
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Perhaps, I am a bit naive, but what qualifies as insider trading? If I work at a company, I am bound to know things that are not public knowledge. This means that any trade I make is technically insider trading. Example: I am an engineer, w
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"This doesn’t even include the costs... " that the locals paid. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ I am sure Brown exaggerates the number of people killed and displaced, but even a conservative estimate is
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
This sounds like something from a sci-fi novel. The only tangible new thing in production is the Angara heavy rocket that will replace Protons. It's an actual thing that exists and flies. There is also a new piloted ship (Eagle/Fe
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Here is a piece of commentary from a Russian insider covering the launch of Nauka, but not the docking, in Russian [1]. There was a litany of smaller issues with the launch, probably stemming from the fact that the module has been tossed ar
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
I am curious as to how you would remove us from the ISS. A third of the pressurized modules on the ISS are Russian [1]. Do we just take them with us when we leave? How do we achieve that? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
I dunno what the author meant, but probably alluding to the fact that the electricity powering your EV comes from a plant burning fossil fuels. I've been curious about this topic for a while: what contributes more pollution per mile tr
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"well developed economically (punching far above its tiny weight)" I am being a nitpicker here, but I think there is no correlation between country size and level of economic development. Many of the richest polities in the world
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
I have not been to Japan, but I have read several fairly detailed accounts coming from multiple travel bloggers. One thing they all pointed out is that Japan is full of what by our standards would be considered semi-antique technology like
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
WoW has been my main game since I was a teenager, and for the past decade it's been lurching up (Legion) and down (WoD), but mostly down (BFA, SL). It seems like Blizzard is out of ideas with WoW. They are like a tired writer who is tr
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
I don't understand why a game company is expected to have an opinion about international politics, outside of "we don't want our platform to be used for politics." It's bad enough that Facebook mods are now in charg
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Russians introduced standardized testing for college admissions in late 2000s. The stated goal was to curb regional variations in GPA (easier to get high GPA in a bad district), and to make it easier to apply to colleges outside of your imm
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
"functioning real estate markets" Is the housing market in the Bay area really uniquely dysfunctional? High property prices are a result of demand outstripping supply. It's what you get for concentrating the entire tech indus
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
From their abstract: --- After decades of effort, 17% of the total residues in human protein sequences are covered by an experimentally-determined structure1. Here we dramatically expand structural coverage by applying the state-of-the-art
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
This is awesome! When they announced CASP results a few months ago, I was wondering if AlphaFold will be accessible as an API, where you can submit a protein id or a sequence and get back a 3D structure. This database is basically that, exc
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Can confirm most of the above :) Specifically, let's talk about "cost." I did a biology PhD at a respected school in a low COL area. The annual stipend, when I graduated in 2019, was around $31k. It was enough to afford basic
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
The entire thread is pure gold. If you scroll down, he writes: > The Chair [of the Columbia Film program] reached out and said he was confident that we could work out an arrangement to get my degree. But he insisted that I fly out to NYC

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