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by astrodev 9y ago
The article has it backward. As a staunch deletionist, I can attest that articles about non-notable women are much harder to get deleted than articles about non-notable men.
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by astrodev 9y ago
"Overall, the lifetime risk of someone developing colon cancer is 5%. To put the numbers into perspective, the increased risk from eating the amount of processed meat in the study would raise average lifetime risk to almost 6%."
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by astrodev 9y ago
The trick is to be among the first who steal it.
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by astrodev 9y ago
Airbnb doesn't really provide customer support in relation to off-site issues - even if as in my case it involves the host asking for extra payment in cash in direct violation of AirBNB's terms. When you pay hundreds of dollars in
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by astrodev 9y ago
I expected any discussion of the memo to be quickly shut down, its supporters classed as filthy misogynists. It was surprising to see over 1,000 comments and upvotes. I'm glad that it's becoming OK to discuss these topics again.
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by astrodev 9y ago
Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads - world history from an Asiacentric perspective. Harold Coyle, Team Yankee - WW3 in Europe in the 1980s from the perspective of a tank company commander. Poorly written, in my opinion, but the accurate (or so
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by astrodev 9y ago
Sorry, I only had one left (you get two for completing the challenge).
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by astrodev 9y ago
Emailed! I hope the link still works.
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by astrodev 9y ago
How can I message you?
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by astrodev 9y ago
I completed all problems in March, but haven't heard anything back. It was fun but much easier than the problems I remember from the high school Olympiad (or I have improved), except for the final one, which was more of a maths questio
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by astrodev 9y ago
Yes, thankfully, national sovereignty is still a thing. Why exactly do you want to invade China?
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by astrodev 9y ago
I don't think the remark about antifa was meant to be taken literally. Of course, no one will put it in the job description. Do you think it's easy to be supportive of the current US president, supportive of Brexit and sceptical o
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by astrodev 9y ago
Are you referring to anything specific?
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by astrodev 9y ago
If that's the case, then I don't understand why the student loans are said to be such a big burden. It's just another tax, I wish more taxes were voluntary like that.
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by astrodev 9y ago
That's quite impressive. Where are you from? I think even Cambridge, which is an outlier as far as the course level is concerned, only uses "Mechanics" as a recommended textbook in the third year.
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by astrodev 9y ago
These are graduate level textbooks. There is little point in attempting them without a solid undergraduate background in physics, which is necessary both to understand and to appreciate Landau's presentation.
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by astrodev 9y ago
Not naming their foundations after themselves would be a good start.
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by astrodev 9y ago
4am-7am - 11am-2pm, all week, very consistent, extremely stable against perturbations
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Amazon Is Now Paying Game Developers of Popular Alexa Skills(voicebot.ai)
2 points by astrodev 9y ago|0 comments
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Random Numbers from Astronomical Imaging (2005)(cambridge.org)
53 points by astrodev 9y ago|17 comments
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by astrodev 9y ago
It's about half as good as a non-specialist human proofreader (see my post above) for a fraction of the cost. While that's not sufficient for some documents, I consider it (in addition to my own eye for detail) good enough for thi
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by astrodev 9y ago
I can't make any general statements. I checked both tools against a document that was recently corrected by a human proofreader. Out of six errors found by the human, Grammarly identified three and proselint none. "only half of th
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by astrodev 9y ago
The negative comments don't make any sense. It's hard for me to understand why a bunch of people who clearly don't understand the domain complain how more informed parties invest their money. I use Grammarly daily. The subscr
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by astrodev 9y ago
Wow, everything you wrote applies to me, including the two alarms and the difficulty getting things done due to being so out of phase with everybody else. A few months ago I had to work 9-17 for four weeks. With some difficulty, I managed t
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by astrodev 9y ago
Well, Coursera has a course in interviewing for software engineering jobs.
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Neil Ty, the Scientism Guy(mises.org)
4 points by astrodev 9y ago|2 comments
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by astrodev 9y ago
What makes you think that you would have done better in a brick-and-mortar programme?
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by astrodev 10y ago
Bill Gates said so, so it must be true.
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by astrodev 10y ago
Actually, the paper this article is based on suggests the opposite: "Only a minority of 5.6% [of those who later experienced a lethal CVD event] were free of any risk factor. This challenges claims that CVD events commonly occur in per
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by astrodev 10y ago
It means that there is a correlation between "depressed mood and exhaustion" and cardiovascular deaths. The paper does not demonstrate a causal relationship between the two.

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