vkreso

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by vkreso 2y ago
You mean another example of apples and oranges? Is software and transportation really a good example?
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by vkreso 3y ago
The west lost? When did that happen?
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by vkreso 3y ago
Also in 1904, Franjo Hanaman and Alexander Just developed and patented the incandescent tungsten-filament lightbulb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franjo_Hanaman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al
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by vkreso 3y ago
Well, all bad practice will lose money only if such practices get public.
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by vkreso 4y ago
There is already a similair tehnique called muography which uses muons and has already been used for scanning the pyramids in Gizah and currently for the Mayan pyramids in Chichen Itza amongst others. Pretty SF stuff! https://en.
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by vkreso 4y ago
Both parties need to have a specific good or service the other wants for barter to be successful. Money, however, can serve as a medium of exchange eliminating that problem thereby being useful enough to let yourself get taxed for its use.
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by vkreso 4y ago
Latin dē, especially in etymollogy of deduction, usually means "of" - meaning: regarding, in respect of, concerning etc. (Look de facto, de jure, de dato, de futuro...); with dūcō - meaning to lead, to guide forming deducere as pr
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by vkreso 4y ago
From Latin abductiō (“robbing; abduction”), from abdūcō (“take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”)[1]. Equivalent to abduct +‎ -ion. "Away" and "to lead" indead does imply a reverse direction. https:&#x2
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by vkreso 4y ago
The link to the paper is n the 1st paragraph: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671
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by vkreso 5y ago
I love the story about soviet bootleg records pressed on used X-ray images! https://www.x-rayaudio.com/x-rayaudioproject/ https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/32308/1/russia-x-
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by vkreso 5y ago
One of two components of phase 1 implementation of the SKA[1], the SKA1-LOW in Australia, will host around 130,000 dipole antennas[2] when finished with construction starting soon. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sq
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by vkreso 5y ago
> the more you try and thwart fingerprinting, the more unique you appear. That phenomenon is called the Streissand effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by vkreso 6y ago
I use a Schneider topball 845. It's very consistent, smooth, sharp and without smearing. It's 0.3 mm though, but a rollerball so it leaves a more saturated and wider writing trail than a ballpoint pen.
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by vkreso 6y ago
It's called Streissand effect! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by vkreso 7y ago
An aria from a Croatian opera, "U boj, u boj", is sung by Japanese choirs since WW1. It was first thought to be Czech though because Czech sailors played it while repairing their ship ashore in Kobe after the great war. https:&#x
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by vkreso 7y ago
Lovely read
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by vkreso 7y ago
Those darned people looking for better life opportunities, security and happiness by moving to the developed world. Calling such behavior "forced" is so inconsiderate. It blows my mind that you are trying to blame people for tryin
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by vkreso 7y ago
According to the UN convention on the law of the sea article 92.[0] Ships in international waters are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state under whose flag they are sailing. It is basically the same situation in regards with t
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by vkreso 7y ago
> Debreu's work on general equilibrium, which was the basis of the award, had to skirt around the SMD theorem: Watch out for moving the goalposts. He was awarded the nobel prize after all. "Rigorous reformulation" does not
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by vkreso 7y ago
> Man, if you want to hear about anti-intellectualism and bias, go and look at the SMD theorem. The D in SMD was actually awarded the nobel prize in economics.
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by vkreso 7y ago
I agree. It is about time we move more towards less autodestructive international power communication.
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by vkreso 7y ago
Exactly, its an autonomous response towards the market. Stability is always preffered in human decision making.
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by vkreso 7y ago
Just imagine the astrology columns in the local newspapers
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by vkreso 7y ago
Everything is based on theories and assumptions. Everything is a model and all models are wrong. The problem with psychology is that it is a much more disjointed science than others (and has been for a long time). You have islands of logic
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Coalitional Instincts(edge.org)
2 points by vkreso 7y ago|0 comments
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by vkreso 8y ago
Exactly. Gut feeling is another word for intuition. Such background cognition is a great tool in science and has been found in use by a lot of top scientists and thinkers. Training it by broadening your knowledge and then using skepticism a
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What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses(theatlantic.com)
22 points by vkreso 8y ago|4 comments
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Venezuela’s State Entities to Make Transactions with “all Cryptocurrencies”(laht.com)
2 points by vkreso 9y ago|0 comments
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Austria to sue EU over allowing expansion of Hungary nuclear plant(reuters.com)
2 points by vkreso 9y ago|0 comments
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by vkreso 9y ago
I'm from ex-Yugo (Croatia) and even though I'm heavily biased, completely agree.

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