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by sidek 7y ago
Mme. Grégoire Trudeau seems to have contracted the novel coronavirus in the UK, so your datapoint doesn't really suggest anything about the situation in Canada.
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by sidek 7y ago
I miss IRC deeply. We had an internet with an amazing, people-run, free, chat network. And we replaced it with corporate things like facebook messenger/discord where you're the product.
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by sidek 7y ago
Your argument is not supported by data. The NHS and Canada's universal healthcare systems have been around for decades. Yet there is no evidence to suggest the factors you describe have ever been part of the public discussion in those
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by sidek 7y ago
As a result, lots of recent work is being done in the algebraic setting (rather than analytic), where the foundations are on much firmer footing. Being algebraic symplectic is a much stronger condition than analytic symplectic, but is still
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by sidek 7y ago
My 7th gen X1 works on Ubuntu out of the box, except for an annoying trackpad bug that can be fixed with a one-line config file change.
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by sidek 8y ago
To me, the criticism of the Science review that this book offers no alternative paths forward is very strong. This is because when blundering around in the darkness to find truth, there are no good algorithms. If you could tell a high energ
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by sidek 9y ago
Meanwhile in HK, the seven-eleven charges 80HKD plus...:(
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by sidek 9y ago
I've worked jobs with such a disparity. For a govt census job, the top two workers out of 20 visited 3x the dwellings per hour and had a ~4x success rate per dwelling compared to the average, so they were literally doing as much as th
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by sidek 9y ago
In fact, current elite US college admissions seem to select for people who vote Democrat well enough. It would be hard to increase that percentage very much. Just look at the political affiliation reported by e.g. Harvard students. If anyt
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by sidek 9y ago
The answer, as you point out, is that CP violation implies T violation. Experimentally testing T violation is much, much harder, and I don't think has really been done in many systems (look at Fitch and Cronin's work for an exampl
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by sidek 9y ago
Entropy is not due to the equations of our universe, but rather the initial conditions. So the asymmetry might be apparent but the equations might still be symmetric. Related is the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Of course, we don
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by sidek 9y ago
Do you have a citation re:mathematics? As a person in mathematical physics, I would be /very/ surprised to hear that math is a more gender balanced field than physics.
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by sidek 10y ago
I think the main difference (speaking from the biased perspective of a Canadian) is that US border guards seem to want to get angry. Whilst Canadian guards have a "what we're doing is necessary, but we want to be nice" attitu
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by sidek 10y ago
Canada would likely do more if they weren't trying to get a free trade deal with China as fast as possible to avoid Trump being able to dictate their economy. The unfortunate geopolitics of our contemporary world.
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by sidek 10y ago
Diversity is no excuse for America's failures. Your nation is not as much an outlier in diversity as you would like to believe, and in the domain of health care you need only look north to Canada to see that this argument is nonsense.
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by sidek 10y ago
You're absolutely right. Good emotional state is probably the key factor in combating addiction. Yet it's important to remember that there exist other factors at play in addiction, and that we should target them too. For instance,
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by sidek 10y ago
You can get premade meals at 7-11 in Tokyo for much less than 7 USD.
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by sidek 10y ago
The problem, like the author points out, is that you can build all the rail you want -- but you need to make sure that it goes to places dense enough to support it. When cities fail to do this, you get that ridiculousness.
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by sidek 10y ago
Yeah, I often say "in Massachusetts" when people ask where I go to school, when I'm back home. Everyone seems to think this is a mark of how snooty Harvardians are. But often when I did just say "Harvard", it became
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by sidek 10y ago
Yup. I go to an ivy and many of my best friends are construction workers or service workers who will likely never attend college. It's because I wasn't sheltered (nor particularly wealthy as a kid). And when you're there, tal
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by sidek 10y ago
My most distinct memory of early education is my grade seven teacher yelling at me, saying that he never wanted to see me read a book in his classroom ever again. I used to read books in class after I finished whatever trivial in-class work
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by sidek 10y ago
But the motivation behind dark matter is deeper than its gravitational observations. For instance, almost all particles physicists believe the standard model of particles is incomplete. No one is really sure exactly what we need to add to t
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by sidek 10y ago
More realistic might be a long-term preparation scenario in which we send a first wave of robots to set up some solar panels and run them to store H2 and O2 for a couple of decades. We won't have gained energy necessarily, but we will
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by sidek 10y ago
The problem (not having a condensed matter background, so my answer might not be entirely right) is that we can't solve the Schrödinger equation exactly for many-atom systems. So we need to approximate our solutions to be able to get a
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by sidek 10y ago
This is actually true.
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by sidek 10y ago
Building the future doesn't count as charitable?
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by sidek 10y ago
You speak of the Ivies as a group which has wronged you, but I don't necessarily think your experience is representative of the group as a whole. Certainly my experience at another Ivy has been that this one goes out of their way to ma
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by sidek 10y ago
But if Americans take the perspective that their premier universities should contribute tax dollars, whilst other countries fund their universities, American universities will have marginally less resources. This will compound, because inte
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by sidek 10y ago
Honestly, as a Canadian, this is what I find so dumb about our urban planning. People demand adequate house spacing, backyard space, etc... Only for it to be usable for 4 months of the year. Meanwhile, all that dead space makes our cities u
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by sidek 10y ago
Honestly, as a Canadian, this is what I find so dumb about our urban planning. People demand adequate house spacing, backyard space, etc... Only for it to be usable for 4 months of the year. Meanwhile, all that dead space makes our cities u

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