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hackandthink

2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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We are the good guys and fight for the good and we should have better weapons than the bad guys. Says the bad guy too.
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It takes a long time. But better is better.
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"These findings may offer insight into the brain's ability to leverage these resources for quantum information transfer." Sounds crank to me, but Physical Review E should be a quality j…
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Yes, easy/hard pitchers works better than right-handed/left-handed pitchers. Don't know anything about baseball, I would have assumed teammates battle the same pitchers.
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My take: The key to understanding the paradox is that women apply mostly to popular departments therefore women are declined more often than man who apply more to unpopular departments.
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"The key to understanding the paradox is that the players did not bat against the same set of pitchers." This is misleading. I am baseball ignorant but I feel this is a contrived and bad exa…
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In Germany, public (öffentlich-rechtlich) media are generously financed with a household tax. Unfortunately, the quality of reporting is still poor. Most of the money is spent on stupid entertainment …
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https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-305-yen-carry-tra...
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"cash-like level of privacy" I'm sceptical.
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"So it looks all too likely that Israel not only will use nuclear, but even worse may be trying to set up events to justify deploying them."
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>Churchill deliberately courted the Russians Churchill was too late "Its (Munichs appeasement) reverse side was an unwillingness to cooperate with the USSR against Nazi Germany" They pref…
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"nor have tsc configured to automatically add .js extensions to its compiled output" It seems to be the default now: $echo 'console.log("test")' > t.ts $ tsc t.t…
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Gdansk was destroyed in WW2: "Ruins all around" https://artsandculture.google.com/story/9QUBrz3ybHcAzg …
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