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by finite_depth 3y ago
Yeah, I'm aware. Happens to all my comments. And as the other poster correctly guesses, this was a sarcastic reference to covid.
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by finite_depth 3y ago
If only we had some sort of massive example that had killed literally a million Americans. Then maybe we'd learn. Oh well. Maybe when that happens.
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Stanford represents the intersection of the personal arrogance of Silicon Valley and the class arrogance of wealth and power. I'm not sure it's actually more evil than any other upper-class institution, but that evil manifests its
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by finite_depth 3y ago
The idea here is not what words a language has names for, but what words a language considers "primary". "Azure" is an English color-word, but an English speaker recognizes "azure" as a kind of "blue"
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Roughly, (t)see-ma-nay or chi-ma-nay. The first sound is an affricate consonant, similar to the sounds spelled ch or j in English (e.g. the final sound of "catch" in General American). The last sound should properly be spelled
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Former teacher turned tech worker here. Same opinion.
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Pure sugar may have peaked, but total calorie intake is still much higher than it was in 1970. Pew[1] has it 23% higher, which corresponds reasonably well to the rate at which weights have been increasing[2] over the past few decades (i.e.,
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Most calculus students don't need the full formal power of rigorous analysis. Calculus, taken alone and with the elementary properties of the real numbers assumed and a few elementary properties of infinitesimals (0 <<< infini
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by finite_depth 3y ago
I don't know about this specific bird, but many birds have what are essentially biological compasses built into them.
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Tom Hanks stars in: Personal Baggage
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Horseshoe orbits come from the most counterintuitive behavior of orbits: if you thrust forward , you go slower . And if you thrust backward , you go faster . (The reason is that thrusting forward puts you in a higher orbit.) In a horses
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by finite_depth 3y ago
I wonder if there's a way to tag trees to stop this. Like, spray the protected wood with some harmless-but-detectable dose of a radioisotope so you can tell which wood is which.
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by finite_depth 3y ago
The existence of sunflowers in any sufficiently large set is an example of a fascinating field of combinatorics called Ramsey theory. The idea is that for a very wide range of structures, sufficiently large objects always necessarily contai
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by finite_depth 3y ago
To give a concrete example, a free particle can have any energy it likes - it's only bound states that have discrete spectra. Mathematically, this corresponds to solutions to a particular differential equation existing for particular v
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by finite_depth 3y ago
For the curious: both "Columbia" and "Colombia" arise from Christopher Columbus' name, spelled with a 'u' in English and in Latin but with an 'o' both in Spanish and Columbus' own native Ita
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Chemistry is somewhat environment- and temperature-dependent, but there's no other element that behaves like carbon in any known conditions. Carbon's chemistry comes from three major factors: (1) It forms four bonds readily. (2) I
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by finite_depth 3y ago
And some New York-style Chinese food. Bay food might be authentic but sometimes you just need some properly deep-fried sweet-and-sour pork.
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by finite_depth 3y ago
No, but you would feel it well inland throughout the Mountain West. See this simulated USGS map for a 9.0 quake: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/9.0_Casc... - for scale, the light blu
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by finite_depth 3y ago
It might help to remember that a human body has more cells than there are people on Earth by around three orders of magnitude, and that you're engineering things on the scale of nano- or micrometers. A typical human cell is on the orde
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by finite_depth 3y ago
The Bay Area is around 6%, on the same order of magnitude as people of Chinese (10%), black (6%), Filipino (5%) or Jewish (4.5%) ancestry in the Bay. Depending on exactly how you group things, they're the 4th (after white non-Hispanic,
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by finite_depth 3y ago
American here: I've only heard "desi" used as a self-descriptor by South Asian people, usually Indian (but I think Pakistani sometimes as well?). It doesn't carry a negative connotation here that I know of, though I migh
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by finite_depth 3y ago
"Look at applicants as individuals instead of stereotypes" is, I think, missing the broader philosophical question here. Setting aside recruiters optimizing their own KPIs, hiring is about estimating the value a particular applica
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Not necessarily. Figma outputs the appropriate CSS - I think you could probably pattern-match one to the other with a relatively simple model by looking at sizes, colors, shadow settings, defined states, and perhaps even by rendering it out
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Depends on what you mean by "black box". In the sense of "has internal workings that are not directly observable [at least in practice]", yes, emotions are a black box (or may be usefully treated as one, at least). But y
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by finite_depth 3y ago
As a person very much raised with heavy upper-class British influence (one side of my family comes from nobility, and while I'm American, I maintain very strong cultural, philosophical, and even linguistic ties to Britain), I'm go
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by finite_depth 3y ago
"I’ve used them like 10 times now and know several other people actively using them in SF, and I’ve coexisted with them for years as a pedestrian throughout the Bay Area, and have had nothing but positive experiences with them." I
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by finite_depth 3y ago
This is an easier problem than it probably seems. Atmospheres are relatively low-density gas, which means they produce an absorption spectrum - a chemical fingerprint that identifies most atoms and molecules quite reliably. It's such a
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by finite_depth 3y ago
It isn't wrong. These things COULD be useful - just like a camera in your shower that warns you if you have a problematic-looking mole on your ass could be. We could do amazing things if not for bad actors. But bad actors are a much ha
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by finite_depth 3y ago
Decent. Great Comets are about a once-a-generation event, give or take. A list of brighter comets of the last ~century listed by peak magnitude (lower is brighter, the limit of a typical dark sky is about +6, Hale-Bopp peaked at -1.8, the b
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by finite_depth 3y ago
That can help with mis information, but it's less effective against dis information. No one is smart enough to be able to pick out the flaws in every bit of active, malicious disinformation in subjects they're not experts in.

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