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by vonzepp 3mo ago
The football (soccer) equivalent is someone kicking the ball out of play so that the game is stopped to allow medical attention to come on, and once the medical attention is over, the opposition taking the throw in doesn't throw the ba
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by vonzepp 1y ago
Yes. This isn't for dynamic events.
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by vonzepp 1y ago
When you write off a car, you don't get the value of a new car, you get the value of the car at the point of time it was written off. So if you write a 3 year old car, you get the value of a 3 year old second hand car. Uncertainty on t
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by vonzepp 1y ago
NASA is a government agency and as a government agency it is used as a vehicle to implement the general purpose of the government. To put a different example of the point. If the cheapest way to launch items into space was for NASA to buy r
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by vonzepp 1y ago
Another note worth considering is that state and companies have different roles. Take NASA vs SpaceX. SpaceX launches cheaper rockets. But NASA for example does alot of its work in Alabama, which is supporting a poor regions econonmy and it
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by vonzepp 1y ago
Comparing private schools and state schools is far from easy without going really deep into the subject. Superfically comparing grades without taking into account the self-selecting nature of private education vs state schooling. The school
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by vonzepp 1y ago
If India buys a widget off Brazil it will probably be paid in dollars. Therefore, people need to own dollars. Thus a demand for US debt. This lowers the potential interest rate. Other countries who's currency is not a need for people t
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by vonzepp 2y ago
If there is a finite amount of software to be written in the world, and an increase in productivity of developers than that amount of software is done with less people. Also, if AI allows an non-software person say an marketing person, writ
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by vonzepp 2y ago
If AI makes a programmer say 25% more productive. Then a team of 4 can do the workload of a team of 5.
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Interesting signalling. From a Europhile to a Trump supporter, where Meta feel the regulatory head winds will come from.
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Interesting reading the actual report. How strongly Ireland and England preform in Maths vs the Scandinavian countries
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by vonzepp 2y ago
I'm Irish and the later is more correct. There isn't going to be a major political crisis over this. Irish corporate taxation is to the Irish electorate what the flag is to Americans. It's quasi religious. The government isn&
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Ireland live electrical generation https://www.eirgrid.ie/grid/real-time-system-information
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Nuclear being illegal in Ireland doesn't help.
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by vonzepp 2y ago
I find this debate a bit odd. Climate change is a global issue. So moving these emissions out of Ireland so Ireland can reach it's targets doesn't help if those emissions mearly happen elsewhere in the world. In reality, there is
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by vonzepp 2y ago
This is quite hard to do safely. Generating air breakdown with IR femto requires a reasonable amount of fluence. They are probably using galvo scanners to shift the beam in xy, but to get the required intensity they have to also shift the f
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Or just American Handball
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Diamond with nitrogen valance centers are used as fluorescent markers. If a current passes close they change their emission spectrum. Some workon this as a method to measure neurons firing. So maybe that use case expands. Also quantum appli
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by vonzepp 2y ago
Proper laser goggles come with ratings. Dependent on the laser wavelength, beamsize, energy/power and pulse duration. Most goggle suppliers will tell you what you need if you supply the laser specs.
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Even pension funds can't think on that length of time. Really only institutions like university can. Lots of Oxford colleges are known to look at these time scales. It has been around for As someone said Harvard will probably be around
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by vonzepp 3y ago
During COVID in UK alot of grades were given by teacher assessment not by an exam. There was grade inflation. For one reason I didn't see was, people mess up exams, run out of time, spend too much time on an answer, misread a question,
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by vonzepp 3y ago
The do alright. Never thought to asked them although their collection is mostly brass this one's mostly plywood.
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Used to work in the Oxford lab that developed some of the earliest confocal microscopes. I had one of the early Oxford instruments mentioned under my table. Always wondered why it didn't find it's way to a museum. Science historic
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Lovely idea of a list. But not definitive. My village song also talks of leaving in the morning. Leaving Ireland was the natural state for 150 years.
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by vonzepp 3y ago
You do however spend probably 8 hrs working on it, read hackernews on latest tech, probably better than you were 5 years ago. Now imagine your marketing department saying they went to a computer summer camp once in the 90s and therefore thi
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Education is an odd profession. Where people feel because they have had an education they are qualified to determine best practice. It is as if having an operation makes one feel as they understand the best practice in heart surgery. Teache
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Accepting anything offered to you on the first offer is a bit rude. Basically, you are a guest of someone and shouldn't be a burden on them. They have to prove to you that you are not a burden, and then once that is clear you don'
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Sometimes missing in these debates is that right to free speech isn't the right to be listened to.
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by vonzepp 3y ago
Smallest probably 7nm Intel in Ireland. Not sure it is online yet though
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by vonzepp 4y ago
It is not all about the technology. Someone comes over to your home, they don't get to browser your CV flac collection, and talk about it. Log into Spotify and presented with a world of choice, it's harder to choose. Go to your co

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