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by chabska 11d ago
Not for the Sami people who have to inhale the rocket exhaust blast.
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by chabska 11d ago
Why would language matter? Anyway, Frankfurt is the next biggest financial center after London, and it tend to get the business when a firm wants to move out of London .
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by chabska 13d ago
Consider that, from the justice system's point of view, there's no distinction between between someone breaking house arrest for a drug fix versus due to GPS error. They don't have the resource to investigate every single vio
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by chabska 15d ago
The current set of planets, we are quite confident to be complete, there are no more planets out there. The set of known dwarf planets is likely to be incomplete, we think there are many more out there. I think that's a useful distinct
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by chabska 17d ago
This is mathematics, the Alps is drivable like a manifold is smooth.
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by chabska 25d ago
First they came for the niche news, and I didn't say anything because it's only 0.5% share of the viewership. Then they came for the regional news, and I didn't say anything because it's only 3.5% share of the viewership
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by chabska 25d ago
There's no term limit for the British Prime Minister and Germany Kanzler. What do you think about that?
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by chabska 26d ago
Why are we using British PM count like it means anything. Meanwhile, Angela Merkel served longer as Kanzler than Xi has served as President. Is Germany a dictatorship? (Neither Britain nor Germany have term limits for their head of governme
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by chabska 26d ago
He was not elected by the general public to the position of Prime Minister. He was elected, by a small number of UK citizens in his constituency, to the Parliament seat. British law doesn't even require the Prime Minister to be an MP,
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by chabska 26d ago
Democracy is when you drop a ballot every two/four years, and the elected officers ignore you while they take millions of donation from wealthy donors. Dictatorship is when the unelected representatives work their ass off to better the
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by chabska 28d ago
The problem is that trigonometric functions are used in many more fields beyond geometry. The input is not always an angle around a point in euclidean space, it could be phase angle of a periodic signal. You can make an alternative set of t
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by chabska 28d ago
It's weirdly phrased, but it just means that they don't have a tight control for battery capacity. Their device is designed to operate for at most ten hours (for example), but the battery that they use could have anywhere between
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by chabska 28d ago
You would think that the right to bear arms would extend to Iran developing a nuclear warhead though.
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by chabska 28d ago
I'd love if the people who put a tape over their laptop webcam could answer this.
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by chabska 1mo ago
Most central banks in the world hold their USD reserve in the Federal Reserve. There's no need at all for a the currency to be exportable, for it to function as a reserve currency. Do you actually believe that the Central Bank of India
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by chabska 1mo ago
We knew how to make synthetic hydrocarbon one hundred years ago. Nazi Germany used the Fischer Tropsch process to make synthetic fuel after the Royal Navy blockaded their oil import. The only reason we're still digging up fossil fuel i
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by chabska 1mo ago
The South Korean government was a military dictatorship at the time. And the North was wealthier. Without the power of foresight, you couldn't justify the war as bringing democracy or economic prosperity, it was purely a geopolitical s
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by chabska 1mo ago
I didn't mean a literal tree that has leaves and bark. I meant the tree structure that you get when you trace the ancestry of all organisms. A tree coordinate system would assign a number to every node, so instead of saying Tectona gr
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by chabska 1mo ago
They spent a whole section glazing the Linnaeus system like it's a perfect thing, but as someone who has delved into taxonomy a lot (due to playing Metazooa and Metaflora), there are quite a few glaring issues with it. 1. political tus
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by chabska 1mo ago
There are a lot more to Criminal Botany. There's the chaotic evil variety, like planting an invasive species, planting bamboo near your enemy's house, and sprinkling mint on someone's garden plot. There's the chaotic goo
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by chabska 2mo ago
This Schroedinger's Freedom is getting tired now. They happily label themself as free-market democratic liberal progressive when you're justifying bombing a poor third-world country, but suddenly claim to be unfree undemocratic ol
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by chabska 2mo ago
One thing I really don't like about this video, is that he was specifically describing the advantages of that specific van and drivetrain, that being Toyota Sienna, and he's not wrong at that, but then he made grandiose general st
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by chabska 2mo ago
> By virtue of how hard it is to get any information on creatine What exactly is hard about that? You can get all sorts of information about creatine, it is one of the most studied supplement ever.
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by chabska 2mo ago
> Creatine breaks when cooked Into what?
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by chabska 2mo ago
You mean like building an AI data center in the middle of a residential area, and fitting it with gas turbines that deafens the entire neighborhood?
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by chabska 2mo ago
These people are perfectly fine with depicting React developers as corporate zombies that can't think for themselves. Good faith is bidirectional.
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by chabska 2mo ago
What do you think of the medical doctor Dr Tai that "invented" calculus in 1994 and called it Tai's Model?
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by chabska 2mo ago
I can accept this for a hobby project language that unexpectedly blew up in popularity. Go is not that language. Zig's developer also had grandiose plans for his project language, based on his writings, so I had expected more care put
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by chabska 2mo ago
Programming language development have been happening for 60 years. We have tonnes of prior art, we have a rich history of experimentations. If you're a language developer that doesn't study the history, and keep making the same mi
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by chabska 2mo ago
You don't think having a package management system in the compiler is weird?

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