princeb

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by princeb 10mo ago
the US has a recent history of extra-terrestrial law enforcement, both in ally countries (kim dotcom, meng wanzhou), and non-ally countries (bin laden). that's the main fear. w.r.t. the US, everybody is at risk, all the time. if you do
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by princeb 1y ago
i really quite like the quality of vba code you can find in excel sheets in non-tech corporate environments, well, at least, the range of quality you find in there. there can be some incredible ones. code quality of matlab scripts and scien
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by princeb 2y ago
i mean, if you want to go all epistemological, sure, let me rephrase. each of us individual humans live in a specific world mapped on what we believe we know and our lived experience, and there is (at least) one unique world for each indivi
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by princeb 2y ago
??????? emh doesn't mean everyone knows everything, it means the price accurately reflects available information. if an innovation was believed to be world changing, it would be worth a lot, if the belief changes, the price changes.
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by princeb 2y ago
This is what Singapore does. Although the government provides substantial aid to new citizen families, the unspoken preference is for the immigration authority to shape national demographics by filtering the educational, racial and cultural
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by princeb 2y ago
in my opinion i expect a vocational institute to teach the practical aspects of the industry, or at least be taught as part of OJT. And I believe many companies actually do provide a significant amount of OJT as part of their management tra
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by princeb 2y ago
>“We kind of suspect that fatigue is one of the major factors that is driving this effect, because when you’re working on something for a long period of time, you get tired and then you start to lose your attention and your cognitive abi
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by princeb 2y ago
Japan is not a high trust society. Japanese people are highly suspicious of other people, including Japanese. Japanese people are extremely concerned about how they are viewed and judged by others; the conformity is a desire to be accepted
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by princeb 3y ago
singapore gives generous subsidies to working adults with children who hire live-in helpers/nannies. the government spent a lot of money on subsidizing tertiary education and the last thing they need are adults dropping out of the work
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by princeb 3y ago
the most obvious anecdata is that for some female endurance athletes, menstrual cycles delay or stop altogether. that's one of many things the body can turn off to reduce energy expenditure.
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by princeb 3y ago
in singapore a $60k/yr salary is more than enough to justify a small $200k honda civic.
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by princeb 3y ago
the best case is that you make the firm a lot of money, and you were successful justifying your contribution and your deserved commiseration. the least bad case is that you realize why nobody wanted to go ahead with your proposal in the fir
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by princeb 3y ago
how do you turn them on through local network? the typical solution using wifi connected arduino servos seems like overkill.
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by princeb 3y ago
seems regional. i use tang for all cousins on my father's side, without exceptions. the cousin differentiation is probably one of the more meaningless differentiations anyway - when addressing our cousins directly or within the family,
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by princeb 3y ago
this seems to be an internet trope because it's completely wrong in reality or completely lacking in nuance? the japanese usually have some kind of decorum when interacting with people they are not familiar with but once you get throug
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by princeb 3y ago
he said solar, which is pretty nice if (1) he is generating excess solar in the day (2) he cannot sell it back to the grid (3) it's not cost effective to store in batteries for night use (4) there's nothing else to spend the energ
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by princeb 3y ago
The icons are made up of strokes and there are only a handful of strokes in Chinese writing. The combination of strokes and the location is arguably as complicated as spelling in English. When I read anything, be it mandarin or Japanese or
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by princeb 3y ago
it could be more advantageous for china to, say, negotiate emissions and environmental agreements through multiple political groupings - like NE china, south china, and west china for example, and treat them as separate countries in a union
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by princeb 3y ago
> immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions this is a myth. even if you just look at asian immigrant groups alone, many groups do very poorly economically - the burmese, hmongs, nepalis etc are all poorer than the aver
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by princeb 3y ago
there are hard paths, and there are easy paths of course. there are people holding 5, sometimes 10, directorships at different companies, collecting a nice little 30-50k paycheck at each firm for nodding heads and opining hand-wavily, or so
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by princeb 3y ago
1/0 is undefined and 1/-0 is also undefined. what we have is lim(x->0+) 1/x = +inf and lim(x->0-) 1/x = -inf
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by princeb 4y ago
the important part is to never let your glop go below 60C in its entire lifespan. keep it in the oven, the pot, wherever, and leave the fire running until you finish it.
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by princeb 4y ago
but the wealth gap only started in the last 600 years or so. why didn't it "track" the other 6000 years between 5000BC and 1000-1300AD when science, philosophy, and literature were dominated by the mesopotamians, egyptians, i
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by princeb 4y ago
the dialects in australia, NZ, england, US, Canada have a handful of unique idiomatic grammatical structures. never mind the varieties in the british colonies in asia and africa where the native/imported community outnumber british des
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by princeb 4y ago
not everyone on ADHD medication is on amphetamine. methylphenidate and clonidine are other treatment options.
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by princeb 4y ago
we hire the 0.01% :)
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by princeb 4y ago
my work starts around 5 am so my personal time starts at 3 am. One of my colleagues has two children a few years older than mine so his bed time is a little bit later- he goes to bed at 11 pm and then wakes up at 2am to do his personal stuf
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by princeb 4y ago
it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!?
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by princeb 4y ago
this is extremely interesting, the fact that at the end of the day, the plastics exporters still do a remarkable job of processing whatever plastic waste they keep, way better than the best job that plastic importers do with the plastic was
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by princeb 4y ago
> 3D animation has killed a lot of tweening artists (the people who smoothed out animations for Disney Films like 101 Dalmations or Sleeping Beauty). But 3d animation created the need of modelers, texture artists, riggers, and more. toge

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