mikhailfranco

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by mikhailfranco 4d ago
The blog post was not written by Terry Tao :)
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by mikhailfranco 6d ago
Similar argument expanded to all product design: Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore | Design Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjXjPP_p3s
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by mikhailfranco 1mo ago
Saudi Arabia changed the weekend from Thursday-Friday to Friday-Saturday about 10 years ago. The existing week only had 3 days' overlap with western businesses, and the smaller Gulf states had already changed. The weekend discussion ha
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by mikhailfranco 1mo ago
Lake Mead (1,040ft) is 5ft above 70% power impairment (1,035ft). But if you look at the last 2 years, this date is typically the minimum for the year. So it seems unlikely to hit zombie power pool this year. https://mead.uslakes.
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by mikhailfranco 1mo ago
Multi-year web traffic statistics for HN?
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by mikhailfranco 1mo ago
English people learning Chinese are told that goodbye is zài jiàn ('again see'), only to find that most Chinese informally say bái bái ('bye-bye').
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
I think the basis of this is the same as WFH, which has not been mentioned in the article or the comments: insurance, mostly on probabilities of fire and injury.
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
Their infamous editorial Drowning in oil (4 March 1999) bottom-ticked the oil price.
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
Counter argument from Matt Ridley: Why the flames of Britain's wildfires have been fanned by the Green agenda as much as the weather https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16017973/Britains-w...
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
Good inside analysis from Martin Shkreli: Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdgh9eEZvw
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
Also Nicolas Gisin on Curt's podcast: Nicolas Gisin: Time, Superdeterminism, & Quantum Gravity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHzgy0I6gk
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
We should also mention Nicolas Gisin. One of his mantras is Time is real; Real numbers are not. He conceives of real numbers resulting from processes (approximations, relaxations, computable calculations) that unfold over time. So there i
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
All integers are happy; each real is unhappy in its own way.
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
Lotteries are pay-to-play and always have a negative expected return (like the fairground). Participation (like second marriages), is always the triumph of hope over experience and rationality. People are just willingly paying a tax to have
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
The problem is believing the fairness of the toss. The odds with a fair toss are obviously stacked to prefer taking the gamble, hence inducing all credulous rationalists to take the bet. It is rare for anyone to give away £50k, and even rar
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
How many are available on Safari? ($43/month)
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by mikhailfranco 2mo ago
and the Earth's orbital diameter is 10^3 light seconds so the Earth's orbital velocity is 10^-4 c
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by mikhailfranco 3mo ago
Windows 11 seems to feign forgetting your PIN password to force a restart.
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by mikhailfranco 4mo ago
A long-form critique of Suno by a musician/producer: Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future | Adam Neely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk A detailed philosophical discussion of his point=of-view: AI Music is
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by mikhailfranco 4mo ago
Consumption taxes and sin taxes. Consumption tax is sales/VAT tax excluding some necessities and capital goods. Yes, there are some awkward edge cases: in the UK the exclusions were food and children's clothes, which leads to batt
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by mikhailfranco 4mo ago
Also The Shock of the New with Robert Hughes.
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by mikhailfranco 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_galaxy
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by mikhailfranco 6mo ago
Obituary at The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2026/03/23/sir-tony-h...
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by mikhailfranco 8mo ago
Typo? I like the idea of a noun collider. Then we could smash apples and oranges.
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by mikhailfranco 8mo ago
Maybe they're original, found buried in some obscure monastery in the mountains of Umbria. Perhaps Leonardo invented the LHC!
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by mikhailfranco 8mo ago
Here is the BBC's own commentary on their much respected Indian correspondent: Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do
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Sir Mark Tully has died(telegraph.co.uk)
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by mikhailfranco 8mo ago
Yes - notice, observe, focus, consider, judge, refine ... repeat ... - Photography, not to take better photos, but to see the world more continuously and deeply. - Architecture, not to build anything, but to be more aware of urban context
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by mikhailfranco 8mo ago
It's not too difficult to know or calculate inches in a mile: 12 * 3 * 1760 = 12 * 5280 = 63,360 A few Americans may know how many cubic inches in a US gallon: 231 But I don't believe anyone (apart from rainman&
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by mikhailfranco 8mo ago
Live out of a suitcase, travel the world, hang out with a wide selection of excellent mathematicians, write joint papers with many of them, when you get bored or stuck, pack the suitcase and keep moving - for your whole life.

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