neovialogistics

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SCOTUS to rule whether national banks are exempt from state banking regulations(portside.org)
2 points by neovialogistics 2y ago|0 comments
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The First Cat War(birdhistory.substack.com)
40 points by neovialogistics 2y ago|53 comments
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by neovialogistics 2y ago
When I was finishing high school I was introduced to an interest in programming through finding the limits of a composition applet on my Nokia (which was probably a 6300 but I'm away from home and unable to check). I know this is an un
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
I see where my post above was unclear. For the theorem to apply to a 1+2n dimensional object, the vector field on the 2n dimensional surface of the object must be restricted to the surface - it must be tangent to the object everywhere. The
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Looking at the article, the statement they display to blocked users could do with either a change in tone to be more legally formal or a change in tone to be more approachable to less-literate users - bullet points, multiple headings etc. R
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
It's not applicable. The theorem applies to the boundary of 1+2n dimensional balls - surface of an ordinary sphere, bulk of a 5-ball, 6-surface of a 7-ball, etc.
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US 'Prepper' culture is diversifying(reuters.com)
2 points by neovialogistics 3y ago|0 comments
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Giving the police expanded powers won't backfire the next time an authoritarian-adjacent party wins an election, will it? After all, look how well the enabling act turned out for the lawmakers who passed it.
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Few people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Unsure why it's capitalized in the article (it shouldn't be, consider terms like ice giant and sub-Jupiter or even the hycean planet Wikipedia page) but I'll point out that there's a pun there you've missed. High se
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Not mentioned: do amateur paintings by others with the same techniques as Pollock produce features with a similar fractal dimension? My question is intended as a proxy for investigating how much of Pollock's quality is integral to the
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Scale. Providing accurate recommendation algorithms for thousands+++ of people across thousands+++ of data items is surprisingly expensive in compute and electricity. For any one user, sure you can do whatever you like. When you divide your
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
The idea that you can substitute a culture of company 'lore' for paying millennial and generation z staff well as a way of engendering employee loyalty has some merit. Human psychology is susceptible to exactly this. Unfortunately
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
This CNN article is just a tweaked copypaste of earlier FT reporting. The FT article has no sources and a credulous comment section, some of whom are alleging that ChatGPT is an equally reliable source: https://www.ft.com/co
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Military intervention or something else?
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
The reliance of the German industry on the prolific use of petroleum and gas products isn't just an energy/heat generation story. Their economy sits on a foundation of cheap downstream intermediate products produced domestically w
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Crystallography is basically just 3d geometry (with some DE) anyway.
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
At what point in history did the FBI first begin to require aptitude tests to become an agent?
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SEC blocked Boeing shareholders voting on CV requirements for executives in 2021(levernews.com)
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
This seems like two different questions being interwoven, asking both why high-turnover business models exist and why the management culture in those business models is the way it is. I can't answer the first, but AFAICT the latter is
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Does the change in incidence rate predate 2020?
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Phthalate contamination in food uncorrelated with packaging type(consumerreports.org)
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Campi Flegrei has been worryingly active recently(scientificamerican.com)
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The Origin of Death (1970)(elijahwald.com)
70 points by neovialogistics 3y ago|16 comments
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Very basic explanation here, you will only need the visualization powers of high school physics: Most gas that approaches a black hole does a gravitational slingshot and escapes. This paper proves that the majority of escape trajectories ev
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/fever-a-to-z
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
Fever has tradeoffs: it kills most pathogens but it also does small amounts of permanent damage to brain, nerve, lung and marrow tissue. Far better to eradicate the pathogens before they enter the body, wherever that strategy is feasible to
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
According to the management of LiveJournal competitor Dreamwidth, you get approximately one violent mentally ill person stalking and sending actionable threats of assault or murder to their partners, ex-partners or family using the platform
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
I saw the best minds of my generation get jobs in fintech, adding dark patterns to ridesharing apps, reinventing databases from first principles and pseudo-journalistic influencing instead of becoming policy makers.
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by neovialogistics 3y ago
I can't think of a counterargument to the aphorism that good times produce weak men. Nobody knows the value of anything and counterproductive things are prioritised. Sure, you could say that the counterexamples are just distributed awa

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