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by abrezas 24d ago
You are looking at the acceleration but without looking at the initial state. A more fair metric would be Co2 emissions/person and I’m getting USA 14.3 t, China 8.8 t, EU 5.5 t, India 2.2 t
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by abrezas 2mo ago
The history section of the book price index is incredibly america-biased. History of america, american natives, japan after ww2 and vietnam in the last century.
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by abrezas 11mo ago
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by abrezas 2y ago
just a pedantic detail, strings are passed in javascript by reference, they are just immutable
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by abrezas 5y ago
Doula (δουλα) in modern Greek is female slave.
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by abrezas 6y ago
Wikipedia: "Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and democratic control or workers' self-manageme
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by abrezas 8y ago
It does try to convey something in words in the next chapters, no?
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by abrezas 8y ago
I felt the english version was ambiguous so I read the original finnish version. It says that press reports that the trial is aborted earlier than planned is false, and for the time being there is no decision to extend it.
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by abrezas 9y ago
> Yes, I am aware that this is likewise no accident.
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The Fallacy Fork: Why It’s Time to Get Rid of Fallacy Theory(maartenboudry.blogspot.com)
2 points by abrezas 9y ago|0 comments
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by abrezas 9y ago
What do you mean by more than 100% margin? If you sell something for 150$ and it cost you 30$ your gross margin is (150-30)/150=80%.
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by abrezas 10y ago
The problem is not if someone merges a PR before you push, but if someone branches off of the current tip of master, works on it, you remove that tip, and your colleague now is based on a history that doesn't exist, has to resolve your
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by abrezas 10y ago
And Google participating in EU market is voluntary. If it doesn't like the laws or the power of the EU investigators, it can choose to take its business elsewhere.
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Responsibility Without Authority: How to Drive Employees Crazy(linkedin.com)
2 points by abrezas 10y ago|1 comments
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by abrezas 10y ago
I don't believe they are entirely independent, but there's nothing you can look outside your window that will change any mathematical theorem.
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by abrezas 10y ago
But if at some point further decimals cannot be experimentally proven to be right, at best you can say "pi is such and such for such precision" and any definition that gives the same number up to that precision must be accordingly
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by abrezas 10y ago
At some point mathematical objects are defined with meta-mathematical definitions (axioms etc), so we can accept definitions based on those terms. But in any case. You obviously do not believe that mathematical objects exist in the first pl
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by abrezas 10y ago
The concept of prime numbers and the prime numbers themselves is a different thing. Unicorns don't exist but statements about them aren't meaningless. Fictionalism accepts the concept of mathematical entities but denies their exis
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by abrezas 10y ago
If a mathematical statement did not have a corresponding experimental test would you dismiss it? What about those?
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by abrezas 10y ago
You think that they are confusing the term exists but the reality is that what "exists" means is very hard to define. Where is the line between abstract objects and the real world you mentioned? Can you give a rule that separates
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by abrezas 11y ago
One of the problems with the Canadian tax law, was that Canada has to remain competitive to the same-language speaking country south of its borders that has a bigger and more advanced stock exchange. It is explained in the last section of y
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by abrezas 11y ago
> A good start would be a readable and round-trippable format that Excel documents can be saved as What happened to CSV? Edit: Maybe you want to be able to save the equations etc?
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by abrezas 11y ago
We already have regulations for things like safety, so it all depends on how seriously you think of the matter, and how well you think the government will be able to regulate it.
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by abrezas 11y ago
Patch on chrome that enabled ffmpeg networking https://codereview.chromium.org/1391383002/patch/1/10001
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by abrezas 11y ago
It isn't at all different. The amount of money the entrepreneur didn't invest into the next company or spent, is the amount he will be taxed as wealth. This way, the entrepreneur has incentive to spend it or do more investments in
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Finland Is Turning a Big Negative into a Bigger Positive(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by abrezas 11y ago|0 comments
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by abrezas 11y ago
it's very common in javascript to have chained methods, to be able to do things like _(array) .compact() .map(function(x) { return x * x; }) .filter(function(x) { return x > 100; }).value()
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by abrezas 11y ago
C++ has a piping operator?
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by abrezas 11y ago
greece had primary surplus last year http://www.globalizedblog.com/2015/02/greeces-primary-surplu...
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by abrezas 11y ago
For me, there are several reasons why the rest of the eurozone should help Greece get back on its feet, rather than only give it more loans: 1) Due to being in the monetary union, Greece is not able to print more money, devalue its currency

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