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by sampo 20d ago
If you don't mind the new UI (arguably worse than the old), you can see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5whpqs/comment/dea5fl...
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by sampo 21d ago
Swedish electricity generation is 99% low-carbon sources.
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by sampo 1mo ago
> I can't think of a single other instance of academic fraud being pushed to the top of any news site for several days running. The news cycle about Harvard University president in December 2023 might have been close. https:/&
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by sampo 1mo ago
When one's whole career and self-image has been based in academia and then the academic career ends, it can easily give a feeling of failure and worthlessness, even in the most normal circumstances. I couldn't find statistics abou
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by sampo 1mo ago
Eric S. Raymond opines that now that Microsoft makes its profits mainly from Azure, some product owner in Microsoft will be allowed to enshittify Windows for collection short-term profit, thus paving way for Linux on the desktop. https:&#x
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Over 20k precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia(nature.com)
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LLMs Can't Jump(philsci-archive.pitt.edu)
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by sampo 2mo ago
You are correct that Czechia, Cyprus and Romania (and France, and Lithuania) send their president to the European Council. But Poland and Portugal, and all other countries, send their prime minister. 22 countries: Prime minister 5 countries
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by sampo 2mo ago
> There are many countries in Europe with a president and a prime minister In most of those countries, the role of the president is mostly ceremonial and/or has to do with foreign policy outside of EU.
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by sampo 2mo ago
(1) Replace US president with a Commission of Presidents. One from each state (well, EU only has 27 member states). Each Commissioner is appointed by state legislature, not elected. No more presidential elections. This is the EU Commission.
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by sampo 2mo ago
I think what you've typed is not representative of how EU works. The Council [1], also known as the Council of the European Union and the Council of Ministers, does not consist of heads of state. The body that consists of heads of stat
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by sampo 2mo ago
> What I don't understand, based on this: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775 the votes are the other way around They voted for "Proposition de rejet". It's written there, but it's in French
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by sampo 2mo ago
I mean, if the electoral college would have enough faithless electors to swing the result away from the president whom the majority of the electors had pledged to vote for. There has been so far 5 elections where the electoral vote chose a
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by sampo 2mo ago
> So is the US president (Electoral College) It has never happened, but if there once would be enough faithless electors to swing the election (choosing a different president than what people voted for) it would be a huge scandal and it
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by sampo 3mo ago
Seedless watermelons are my favorite!
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by sampo 3mo ago
This is what you wrote: "The impact of their wild propagation should be studied first, not unleashed upon the local ecosystem." So by "wild propagation" you meant farm-to-farm propagation? And by "local ecosystem&
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by sampo 3mo ago
Monsanto ceased to exist 8 years ago. It was acquired and absorbed by a bigger company.
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by sampo 3mo ago
If we understand "in the wild" to mean outside of farmers' fields, then rapeseed pollen flying from one rapeseed field to another nearby rapeseed field is not "in the wild".
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by sampo 3mo ago
Breeding new crop varieties is relatively scientific and sophisticated work, like any other advances in technology and products. If you couldn't parent your work, there wouldn't be much incentive to do the work. America has had pl
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by sampo 3mo ago
> their wild propagation In general, crop plants don't propagate well in the wild. The whole point of breeding a crop plant is to remove their chemical defenses (to make them edible) and to make them produce lots of edible parts. Th
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by sampo 3mo ago
Biosciences mostly don't use arXiv, they have their own https://www.biorxiv.org/ but it's usage is not as common as arXiv is in e.g. physics.
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How to Disable Blinking Cursors(jurta.org)
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by sampo 3mo ago
> You get a 4 year degree in college This is pretty uniquely a US-Canada specific system, that you first do a different 4-year BSc degree, before entering a 4-year medical school. In most countries, you go a 6-year medical school right a
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by sampo 3mo ago
> Because Anthropic has terms of service Not following terms of service doesn't necessarily constitute a fraud. It just means Anthropic can close an account that breaks the terms of service.
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by sampo 3mo ago
> You can probably No need for "probably". That absolutely works.
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by sampo 3mo ago
It was this paper folding video (and the guy's unapologetic Finnish accent) that launched Hydraulic Press Channel to fame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuG_CeEZV6w
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by sampo 3mo ago
"Nuclear holocaust" is a somewhat common expression both in and outside of fiction.
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by sampo 3mo ago
"Butlerian jihad" comes from a science fiction novel from 1965 (Dune, by Frank Herbert). They didn't know about current political correctness 60 years ago.
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by sampo 3mo ago
2 months ago also: > A politician’s home was shot at 13 times over a data center vote. > A shooting at the home of an Indianapolis city councillor is bringing new attention to a fight that's been building in communities across th
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by sampo 4mo ago
> But I guess I couldn't read the future in terms of which one would win out! After Linus Torvalds gave this talk at Google in 2007, it was clear he would win. (Is there a better quality video somewhere?) https://www.yout

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