chesimov

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by chesimov 6y ago
I have recently moved to a macbook pro for work, having used Ubuntu on my prior machine. In my experience, the mac (despite having significantly more modern specs) is more buggy and just not quite as snappy for these little things. Opening
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by chesimov 8y ago
Contraction last 2 quarters in South Africa
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by chesimov 8y ago
I'm not sure I understood your comment correctly - did you return to the same institution 10 years later, or did you go to a new one?
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by chesimov 8y ago
LiFePO4 batteries are significantly safer for a penalty of 14% less energy density
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by chesimov 8y ago
Do mean that a government is less trustworthy than an independendent corporation? That a corporation will better look after the interests of its citizens than a government?
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by chesimov 8y ago
Depending on the class of Bluetooth, the signal strength is around 100 times less than a cellphone.
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by chesimov 9y ago
Some people say this kind of populist stuff (and worse) on campus here too. I feel like some of the polarising optimisations in social media that have happened in the US etc spill over to here - but the stakes are much higher here.
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by chesimov 9y ago
My anecdote: In undergraduate engineering, a lot of the people around me were on ritalin. I never felt disadvantaged because I felt it didn't give anyone a clear advantage in the hardest subjects like mathematics or nonlinear control.
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by chesimov 9y ago
This is something I wonder about. I'm certain they never delete anything, because in aggregate all that data is surely very valuable and will be for years to come. However, I hope that by marking it for deletion, it becomes more likely
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by chesimov 9y ago
What would be the sort of dispute you envisage?
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by chesimov 9y ago
For me, in both of these videos, the audio is severely mangled (across different browsers). Have never experienced anything like this on youtube before. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Edit: solved, some strange driv
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by chesimov 9y ago
Also available in SA. You have to share your facebook data with the mobile company though.
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by chesimov 9y ago
There was a recent Icelandic (I think) TV show with a premise along these lines
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by chesimov 9y ago
I also associate succumb with die for some reason, although I'm not sure why. Maybe in the newspapers if they say 'x succumbed to their injuries' it would imply that?
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by chesimov 9y ago
It was a different time - my understanding is that having a multiply redundant system was important for an isolated pariah state. Think of it like the strategic petroleum reserves in certain isolated states of today. Of course none of that
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by chesimov 9y ago
Fair point, but choosing the electricity crisis as an example is not helping your claim - the Apartheid lot left us with something like 50% overcapacity and almost the cheapest electricity in the world at the time. We actually have less ele
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by chesimov 9y ago
Well, there's an exodus from the rest of the country to the W. Cape. They call it 'semigration'. Property was up 12% a while ago when all other provinces saw a decline I think (except Gauteng; they were up 3%). As a young per
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by chesimov 9y ago
The people you are speaking about, the Bushmen, were wiped out by the Nguni pastoralists and the European settlers. A few descendents remain. They are not in power here. As for Westerners... they haven't been in power for more than 20
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by chesimov 9y ago
There is at least one self-sufficient desalination ship for hire that could apparently just about cover the entire city's needs on its own. It is also apparently very exensive so we are hoping to avoid that. I'd expect that's
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by chesimov 9y ago
The heaviest offenders have also had mandatory electronic limiters fitted to their properties, permitting no more than 350L per property per day (as of now)
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by chesimov 9y ago
Yes, U-boats sank merchant shipping in Table Bay
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by chesimov 9y ago
On point 4 - my understanding is that the poorest areas (which are at most risk of disease outbreaks) will not have their water cut. Rather, everyone else will have their water cut first while some water still remains in the dams, which is
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by chesimov 9y ago
Have a margin - somewhat more bowls and plates than you actually need.
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by chesimov 9y ago
Don't know about other countries but in S. Africa it also exists. We don't have Adderall as far as I'm aware but I know of people who use Ritalin and say it has improved their daily lives.
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by chesimov 9y ago
Thanks for your explanation, I did not know that this was the case. I had until now assumed that words are a kind of medium for conveying the underlying thoughts which are abstract and exist separately. Observations like this make me wonder
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by chesimov 9y ago
What do they mean by putting things into words? When thinking, it seems that the assumption is that we are silently putting our thoughts into <insert language> words? This is by experience not the case anyway, right?
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by chesimov 9y ago
Serious question: does anyone know where to get some good in-depth data which deal with the middle class's fortunes in Europe, and possibly some interpretations?
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by chesimov 9y ago
I exercise because it's fun, and allows me to do fun things like hiking in the wilderness. It's much more fun to hike when fit. Also cardiovascular exercise improves many aspects of brain function, which I'd regard as a plus.
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by chesimov 9y ago
Such a line of thinking is at odds with the ideologies of our time. If it were true, it would diminish the potency of many concepts like inherited privilege. Imagine if people were privileged in their intelligence in large part due to their
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by chesimov 9y ago
Which definition of violence?

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