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Passengers in wheelchairs can't use most airplane washrooms. That could change(techxplore.com)
2 points by palae 3y ago|1 comments
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by palae 3y ago
R also has data.table, which extends data.frame and is pretty powerful and very fast
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by palae 5y ago
What about the "essential meaning"? It's non-circular and (to me) fitting.
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by palae 5y ago
> The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it's highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action. That is your definition, but not necessarily the one meant by others. Fr
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by palae 5y ago
Well, I guess it depends what you value. Some of these French hours went to a 2nd language, and personally I think it's a good tradeoff.
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by palae 5y ago
> One fault is the drop in teaching hours : https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/collections/cache/a65f40c ... this is a schedule from 1952. Is that really more than today? It doesn't seem like it.
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by palae 5y ago
Fair enough, my question was hinting at the fact that most people don't seem to be morally consistent between turkeys and (for example) dogs. As for the breakdown in logic, you said this in your first comment: 'Your appeal to emot
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by palae 5y ago
Well, precisely, to me there's no ethical difference between a turkey and a dog (and a cow), that was my point.
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by palae 5y ago
Let's suppose that in a country far, far away, there is a holiday called Givingthanks where instead of turkeys, dogs are eaten. Your alter ego in that country could then write the exact same comment than you did, replacing 'turkey
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More Eyes on Polluters: The Growth of Citizen Monitoring(e360.yale.edu)
3 points by palae 5y ago|0 comments
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Sitting more linked to increased feelings of depression, anxiety(news.iastate.edu)
2 points by palae 5y ago|0 comments
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by palae 5y ago
It's probably a good idea to remind (or inform) people that at least in scientific research, null hypothesis statistical testing and "statistical significance" in particular have come under fire [1,2]. From the American Stati
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by palae 5y ago
Pas de problème ;) Now I'm thinking about it, finding a name that is easily pronounced in many languages is probably a fun but not that trivial task.
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by palae 5y ago
As a native French speaker, I would say Comirnaty is actually easier to pronounce than Spikevax, and I suspect it might be similar in other Romance languages.
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'Autonomous help-seeking' on the job pays dividends for workers(phys.org)
1 points by palae 5y ago|0 comments
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Explore the World from Home(virtualvacation.us)
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by palae 5y ago
A few years ago, I closed my Amazon account partly because I felt like the company was a net negative for society. And I haven't missed it, even in the past year. I guess it's kind of similar to social media in that respect, you f
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by palae 5y ago
This paper has some insight: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/753/2/0...
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by palae 5y ago
Linus seems to disagree: Question: You were born in Finland, but your mother tongue is Swedish. Do you call yourself a Finn, or a Swede? What is it like to be a Swede in Finland? Torvalds: Oh, I’m a Finn, definitely. When Finland beats Swed
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Wisdom, Loneliness and Your Intestinal Multitude(ucsdnews.ucsd.edu)
2 points by palae 5y ago|0 comments
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by palae 6y ago
I feel a disconnect between what you say and the article you linked: > Fire up new coal power plants "This whole calculation is changing dramatically, however, as Germany moves to shutter its coal-fired plants (the country’s last wi
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Citizen science is booming during the pandemic(vox.com)
2 points by palae 6y ago|0 comments
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by palae 6y ago
> The WHO is already telling all nations the lockdowns need to end. I can't find a source for that claim, would you mind sharing one?
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Lectures – International Winter School on Gravity and Light 2015 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by palae 6y ago|0 comments
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by palae 6y ago
> New players start at 1500 ELO in both Lichess and FIDE I've never played otb, but on the FIDE website, they have a initial rating calculator ( https://ratings.fide.com/calc.phtml?page=initial ) which seems to depend
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by palae 6y ago
I thought most postdocs in Germany were on TV-L 13? That should be at least around 2500€ net, right? If you're at 100%, of course, but I would think most postdocs are.
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Global Land Cover Maps(maps.elie.ucl.ac.be)
1 points by palae 6y ago|0 comments
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Astronomers confront their role in–and vulnerability to–climate change(sciencemag.org)
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by palae 6y ago
Yes, and here is what's at the end of the linked paper: "She has received research grant support from The Beef Checkoff and the National Dairy Council and compensation for speaking engagements with The Beef Checkoff and the Nation
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by palae 6y ago
> Is it harder to remember and distinguish “Hamiltonian”, “Dirac delta” or “Lagranian” than “cohomology”, “homomorphic” and “homeomorphic”? While I agree with your overall point, I must note that you did write Lagranian instead of Lagran

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