misja

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by misja 7y ago
It means instant gratification.
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by misja 7y ago
Well only Rotterdam was bombed by the Germans. The next city to be bombed would be Utrecht, but then the Netherlands capitulated. All other destroyed cities (e.g. Arnhem, Nijmegen) were bombed by allied forces in their attempts to drive out
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by misja 7y ago
Moore's law is not about doubling clock speed, it is about doubling the transistor density. This has continued after clock speed improvements have stopped. Even today it is following Moore's law, although not at Intel: https:&#x2
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by misja 7y ago
I agree, it tasted kind of synthetic, almost like plastic. I don't have that experience with other meat free burgers.
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by misja 7y ago
And now there is BitCoin.
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by misja 7y ago
280W TDP?! That's more than what a large refrigerator uses ..
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by misja 7y ago
>> Did you keep the skills at level 1? I went through all the levels. >> What do you think is holding you back? What was holding me back was: 1. Spoken French goes much faster than the French spoken in the course so I wasn'
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by misja 7y ago
I like Duolingo because it is so accessible, however I found that it doesn't bring you up to the level where you are able to speak a language in practice. For instance, I completed the entire French course but I still can't have e
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by misja 7y ago
I'm sure that a lot is wrong with our current eduction system for teens and that giving some amount of responsibility to teens would be good. But the claim that adolescents are as good or even better than adults when it comes to decisi
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by misja 7y ago
I have been looking around for Haskell jobs for a while because I would love to program in Haskell professionally, and what I've noticed that there are very few opportunities and the salaries are quite low. You can expect to make much
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by misja 7y ago
Could you lift some of veil of the mystery and perhaps give a hint which those burned companies are?
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by misja 7y ago
I was employee #4 in a startup in 2000, just before the burst. At that time the situation was crazy. For instance our founders had made an ambitious business plan to raise money in the next investment round. It was sent back by our investor
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by misja 7y ago
I always wonder how our own evolution affects our long term chances of survival as an intelligent species. Homo sapiens only exists 30K years and until recently survival was hard, making it an advantage to be intelligent. But our recent tec
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by misja 7y ago
I can confirm. There are simply different ways how you can view life; positive, negative and probably many more. And all of those see only a projection of reality. I have been mildly depressed in the past and sometimes it struck me how narr
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by misja 7y ago
Even if the USA's intentions were good, they can be blamed for choosing the wrong kind of action. It is well known that drone strikes are terribly inaccurate and therefore the risk for civilian casualties is high.
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by misja 7y ago
Sure, but what was the motivation for dropping the bombs if you say it was not political or ideological?
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by misja 7y ago
That sounds like a reasonable definition. But how would this definition qualify the Taliban attacks on military bases and police stations in Afghanistan?
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by misja 7y ago
Genuine question: if the motivation for this bombing was not political or ideological, what was it then?
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by misja 7y ago
The main benefit of example 2 IMO is that some variables got readable names. E.g. n became maxLineLength and x became line. But bad naming practices have nothing to do with FP per se. Although it does seem to be fashionable in part of the F
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by misja 7y ago
Yes Haskell performance can be impressive. Check out this one for instance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison... , and don't forget to read the comments section.
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by misja 7y ago
Isn't this resolved by the holographic principle? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle )
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by misja 7y ago
Rakaste vägen is the aggregation of the Finnish word Rakaste and the Swedish word vägen. There are quite a few words in Finnish that are borrowed from Swedish.
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by misja 7y ago
Good point! In a normal market situation you would expect the bond yields to increase when they become less attractive, but this is currently not the case. Here is a hint why this happening: not all government bonds have such low yields: o
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by misja 7y ago
The value of gold is inversely correlated with the trust in government bonds. The reason is clear when reading the article; gold is the only real money so the higher the chances of defaults on bonds, the more attractive it becomes to swap p
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by misja 7y ago
Actually the dairy industry contributes a fair amount of the total CO2 production as well: http://www.fao.org/3/k7930e/k7930e00.pdf
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by misja 7y ago
Why is it unhelpful to point out the fact that we're overlooking the root cause of the current problems? Of course I would love to have provided the solution for world's overpopulation as well but I admit that I don't have i
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by misja 7y ago
All these suggestions are just temporary solutions at best, as long as the root cause is still in place: overpopulation. Perhaps at this point in time we could just make things work by cutting back our lifestyles: but 20 or 30 years later t
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by misja 7y ago
Nice article but I don't think this part of the conclusion is correct: 'Wealth, in Piketty’s view, perpetuates itself, and effortlessly earns its return (never mind the work, risk and selection issues involved). By continually pay
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by misja 7y ago
Actually around 1600 BC: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180815141326.h...
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by misja 7y ago
Apparently I'm in the minority together with OP but I agree that storing dates as UTC is good advice. What most repliers seem to have overlooked is that OP is saying that timezones should be used for presentation. Maybe it was not clea

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