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> but given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks

Citation needed. I'm a big fan of LOTR, but I didn't even bother with the last Hobbit movie. And I expect this series to be even worse than that.

I'd think those low wages are also partly explained by the desirability of working at a top place (good for your CV and for acquiring actual skills). Pretty similar to how the game industry attracts talent out of proportion to the monetary compensation they pay.

And there is of course a time delay between the prices of the input rising, and the prices of the outputs rising.

It's hardly an unpopular opinion. It just gets shouted down very loudly by the true believers.

This is no longer legal in many jurisdictions. Family members often have a minimum allocation of the inheritance (e.g. 25% must be equally split among all children)

To be fair, many such games do disclose the odds.

The difference to older tech like mechanical slot machines is that the game records everything the player does, and can then drop a "discounted" special offer at the right time to maximize the likelihood of keeping the player hooked.

I hadn't heard of it, but it's straightforward enough. Johnny decimal seems to work best for communication between multiple people, it's like a lightweight way of having human-implementable URLs.

The thing with PARA is that information falls into different buckets according to their use, not their topic. You're in a completely different mindset when you're looking up old stuff for reference (archives), remembering that bash command you use once a month (resources), etc.

On a first impression / hunch, your decimal system seems to have the failure mode that your old finances live right next to your current finances. Thus, the size of your context / working window just grows and grows without bounds, becoming unwieldy over time. With PARA, the idea is that a project folder contains data if and only if you need it to work on that project.

A very low-cost way of trying it out is to just implement the 2nd A (archives). That's by far the most important.

been using PARA for a few years, I can vouch for it to be a very natural way of organizing information once you get used to it.

snoring does not imply that you have sleep apnea! I actually had a sleep study done, I snore but have neither apnea nor dyspnea.

I'm in CS research, I submit all my papers as latex sources. Submitting pdfs that were obviously created in latex is supposedly against the rules.

Just as a rule of thumb, a container is easily worth 10-20x what it costs to ship it from the US to China (under normal circumstances).

There's a reason they're reusable: these are quite sturdy boxes built out of high quality materials (steel frame, corrugated steel walls, thick hardwood floors), otherwise you couldn't stack them 10 high with 28 tons of goods in each of them.

It is completely standard in the shipping industry to have lopsided routes, where one direction has 100% full containers, and the return direction a much lower percentage, like 50%. The shipping cost of different routes takes this into account.

You need to keep the objects alive obviously, then it works exactly as expected.

  >>> a = [1,2,3]
  >>> b = [4,5,6]
  >>> id(a), id(b)
  (140659402612872, 140659403098568)

Note that this is not the case in all jurisdictions. In many European countries, the company cannot monitor employees' corporate emails without specific justification.

Your circulatory system is actively pumped by the heart, but also passively pumped by everyday muscle movements. Lack of movement decreases oxygenation and clearance of metabolic byproducts.

Spinach famously contains iron, but less famously also contains a substance that inhibits iron absorption. So IIRC, it actually lowers your iron, unless you blanch it and throw away the water.

I would never write "to our surprise" in a paper. Rather, it would be "Surprisingly, ..." which fits the pattern of "Thus, ...", "Furthermore, ...", "In contrast, ..." etc, which is a nice and compact way of making the structure of an argument clearer.

Surprisingly, when I do the same searches as you, I don't get anywhere near the same numbers.

You are correct, this "guide" is called a pilot, and exists for every port and canal.

However, you're wrong about ship size being a problem. A suez canal pilot is guaranteed to be very familiar with container ships of the suezmax size, specially considering that to become a pilot, you have to have been a captain yourself.

Twitch takes a 30-50% cut of revenue from subs, which is an incredible money printing machine. Ads aren't there to make money for twitch. They're there to annoy users into subscribing.

On one hand, I'm shocked that this actually happened, but OTOH, I can't say I'm surprised by this. Companies like twitch have no respect for art and creative expression. Their very purpose makes them incapable of truly caring. They'll impose whatever policies make their business more convenient to run, no matter the collateral damage.

You might be interested in biogenesis, a 0-player game that simulates evolution at microorganism scale.

I think GP meant that lower egg quality leads to more birth defects, etc. So not just fewer humans born, but those born have more problems. A statement which is completely independent from point 1.

> like how the free market without government intervention always is supposed to give the most favorable outcome?

Nobody actually claims that, specially not economists. In fact, economics study exactly how and when markets don't produce the most favorable outcome.

Can confirm this. The concept is not as weird as it sounds once you consider that the ship's captain is a naval officer who has duties and a social role roughly similar to that of a doctor. For any task related to navigating/operating the vessel (emergency or not), the captain's word is final and there are penalties for negligent behavior that are determined completely outside of the "corporate" chain of command. Decisions of whether or not to ditch a block of unstable containers are made with 0 interference from commercial interests.

The captain is also the one responsible for upholding the laws of whatever flag the vessel flies under.

That raymarching accident is really interesting!

It reminds me of Newton fractals, which basically compute a color for each pixel that depends on the sequence of points visited by the newton root finding algorithm.

This is basically the same thing: tracing the orbit of a function that's very chaotic but has enough local coherence to get a smooth image.

Well, if someone is predicting an event 3 years into the future, then... yeah!

I also have VESs (among other things), and I can confirm that they indeed feel quite nasty. In my experience, the heart seems to have a direct connection to the lower-level emotion-regulating parts of the brain, and any physical symptoms can trigger an overwhelming sense of imminent doom that completely bypasses the filters of my rational mind.

But I can also tell you that you eventually get used to it, and it just becomes a part of life. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to talk about it sometime (my username over at the big email provider with a G)

Yes. The master's thesis is often the first time someone does real research from start to finish. Make sure it's not just implementing some already existing idea, there are a lot of "easy" topics like that being offered. You want the opposite, being part of defining what the solution looks like, or what the goal should even be.

Well, in Spanish a refrigerator can be colloquially called a "frigider". I've never seen it in writing though.

Thank you for this detailed and insightful comment!

In Europe (or at least in my country), health authorities have been saying for several weeks that we need to stop people from needing ventilators, rather than get more ventilators. I think most people here get it, and overall the population has been compliant even with the quite drastic measures that have been taken in most places.