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2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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>Over 89,000 subscriber Some experts are publisher now. How many subscriber pay? (1970 circulation of "The Economist": 100000)
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US was well intentioned in Sudan (this happens sometimes), but it did not work out. Wagner has no morals at all. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/20/sudan-civil-war-bid…
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I like this: "Inertia Theory of Politics"
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Some philosophers think similar: "In contrast, pre-reflective self-consciousness is pre-reflective in the sense that (1) it is an awareness we have before we do any reflecting on our experience; …
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The history of East Central Europe is very complicated and contested. Don't know whether there were obvious good guys in the aftermath of WW I. "He (Piłsudski) used military force to expand …
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In western parts of Germany something similar happened, for example the Bavarian Soviet Republic. And it ended similar: nationalist troops killed the people. (though it was much worse in East Central …
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It got better and better and is still around. Their base technology server side (Sql Alchemy/ Pandas) and client side (React Antd, Apache Echarts) is future proof.
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I'm using Fedora 37 (Xfce) and everything works fine. Anyway - I'll upgrade and try Gnome 44.
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I like the techno optimism of this guy. Max Roser's work is more holistic and maybe more important: "Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals:" https://sd…
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There are many quadlet and "play kube" enhancements. (Container Orchestration but not full blown kubernetes) I found this helpful discussion after submitting: https://news.ycombin…
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Olkiluoto 3 is not exactly a success story. 1600 MW for 11 billion Euro is a bad deal. "Nuclear reactor Olkiluoto 3 has gone online in Finland some 12 years behind schedule and on a massively inf…
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Talk is titled: "Exploring hypercomputation with the effective topos"
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I like Lyn Alden's writing. Though I'm not sure whether she is really an expert. (I'm never sure whether an economist is an expert) "The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve S…
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Mr. Haass answers: "Ukraine might still refuse the call for a cease-fire. If so, it would hardly be the first time in history that a partner dependent on U.S. support balked at being pressured to…
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"We are not in a position to negotiate the surrender of territory" Richard N. Haass (President of the Council on Foreign Relations) would like to see as many Russians as possible killed in a…
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It helps learning about history but it takes time. Ian Kershaw is nice to read and gives a good overview over European history. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/279961/roller-…
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"2. A Primer on R Vectors, Arrays, and Matrices" This should be referenced in every R Tutorial.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09116
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"The heroes of tragedy driven by consistency and by righteousness, destroy each other. He who seeks total supreme justice seeks death." https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/…
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"Our biggest jobs run MPI, and all pods within the job are participating in a single MPI communicator." https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes …
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The comment is a bit abrupt. The article questions the normal distribution assumption for benchmark timings. It says that this assumption would be important for the "standard error of the mean&qu…