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R also has data.table, which extends data.frame and is pretty powerful and very fast

What about the "essential meaning"? It's non-circular and (to me) fitting.

> The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it's highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action.

That is your definition, but not necessarily the one meant by others. From Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisis):

"Essential Meaning of crisis : a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention"

[...] Definition 3b: "a situation that has reached a critical phase // the environmental crisis"

Well, I guess it depends what you value. Some of these French hours went to a 2nd language, and personally I think it's a good tradeoff.

> One fault is the drop in teaching hours : https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/collections/cache/a65f40c... this is a schedule from 1952.

Is that really more than today? It doesn't seem like it.

Fair enough, my question was hinting at the fact that most people don't seem to be morally consistent between turkeys and (for example) dogs.

As for the breakdown in logic, you said this in your first comment:

'Your appeal to emotion using (incorrect) words like "genocide" and "needless slaughter" suggest a strong ideology and lack of objectivity [...]'.

Unless I'm reading that wrongly, you're saying that "needless slaughter" is 'incorrect', and I'm curious to know why that is, as to me this is a completely correct statement.

Well, precisely, to me there's no ethical difference between a turkey and a dog (and a cow), that was my point.

Let's suppose that in a country far, far away, there is a holiday called Givingthanks where instead of turkeys, dogs are eaten. Your alter ego in that country could then write the exact same comment than you did, replacing 'turkey' with 'dog'. We would read things like: 'It could be argued that our abstinence of industrial dog consumption is the ethical way to justify the one I eat on Givingthanks' or 'Givingthanks dogs are raised _to be food_ from the beginning'. You don't see anything problematic with that?

It's probably a good idea to remind (or inform) people that at least in scientific research, null hypothesis statistical testing and "statistical significance" in particular have come under fire [1,2]. From the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2019 [2]:

"We conclude, based on our review of the articles in this special issue and the broader literature, that it is time to stop using the term “statistically significant” entirely. Nor should variants such as “significantly different,” “p < 0.05,” and “nonsignificant” survive, whether expressed in words, by asterisks in a table, or in some other way.

Regardless of whether it was ever useful, a declaration of “statistical significance” has today become meaningless."

[1] The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1...

[2] Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05” - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1...

Pas de problème ;) Now I'm thinking about it, finding a name that is easily pronounced in many languages is probably a fun but not that trivial task.

As a native French speaker, I would say Comirnaty is actually easier to pronounce than Spikevax, and I suspect it might be similar in other Romance languages.

A few years ago, I closed my Amazon account partly because I felt like the company was a net negative for society. And I haven't missed it, even in the past year. I guess it's kind of similar to social media in that respect, you feel less like a clicking/buying machine and it's pretty nice.

This paper has some insight:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/753/2/0...

Linus seems to disagree:

Question: You were born in Finland, but your mother tongue is Swedish. Do you call yourself a Finn, or a Swede? What is it like to be a Swede in Finland?

Torvalds: Oh, I’m a Finn, definitely. When Finland beats Sweden in ice hockey, it’s a national holiday, and Swedish-speaking Finns are celebrating. I only speak Swedish; there are no ties to the country of Sweden. And don’t say “Swede in Finland,” it’s really “Swedish-speaking Finn” (“finlandssvensk” in Swedish, “suomenruotsalainen” in Finnish).

https://www.linux.com/news/interview-linus-without-linux/

I feel a disconnect between what you say and the article you linked:

> Fire up new coal power plants

"This whole calculation is changing dramatically, however, as Germany moves to shutter its coal-fired plants (the country’s last will close, at the latest, in 2038) and nuclear power stations (which will be disconnected from the grid in 2022). On Jan. 1, 11 coal-fired plants—nine in North Rhine-Westphalia and two near Hamburg—went dark, and others will soon follow."

> Increase emissions due to constant ramp up and ramp down of carbon plants

"And after a period of stagnation in the 2010s, the greenhouse emissions of the world’s fourth-largest economy have been dropping again, last year by around 80 million tons of carbon dioxide. That puts Germany 42 percent down from its 1990 emissions level, thus surpassing its decade target by 2 percentage points."

> The WHO is already telling all nations the lockdowns need to end.

I can't find a source for that claim, would you mind sharing one?

> New players start at 1500 ELO in both Lichess and FIDE

I've never played otb, but on the FIDE website, they have a initial rating calculator (https://ratings.fide.com/calc.phtml?page=initial) which seems to depend on your opponents' ratings and your performance, but not on the number 1500

I thought most postdocs in Germany were on TV-L 13? That should be at least around 2500€ net, right? If you're at 100%, of course, but I would think most postdocs are.

Yes, and here is what's at the end of the linked paper:

"She has received research grant support from The Beef Checkoff and the National Dairy Council and compensation for speaking engagements with The Beef Checkoff and the National Dairy Council"

> Is it harder to remember and distinguish “Hamiltonian”, “Dirac delta” or “Lagranian” than “cohomology”, “homomorphic” and “homeomorphic”?

While I agree with your overall point, I must note that you did write Lagranian instead of Lagrangian ;)

While not giving up entirely, I feel like many people, if presented with facts, would be willing to greatly reduce their consumption.

> A science fiction style solution is going to be the only way to feed the world.

What about plant-based diets? That doesn't seem too SF to me

The thing is, when switching from an omnivore diet to a plant-based diet, meat is not replaced by tomatoes and broccolis (or vegetables in general), it is replaced by tofu, beans, lentils, rice, nuts, etc. which are all at the bottom of the list your linked.

As it's a fairly long report, do you mind pointing out where in [1] your first claim is demonstrated?

Taking a critical look at one's own meat consumption can be enlightening, because it is something that we often take for granted. Do I eat meat because it is necessary for my health? If not, what are the reasons? How is the meat that I'm eating produced? How long do these animals live compared to their natural life span? What is the environmental cost of animal farming? Etc., Etc.

I did not find convincing answers to these questions, so I stopped buying and eating meat.

For sure, but I feel like he still has enough share of the company ("only" 1.3%, but that's a lot of money) that what they are doing is relevant to the discussion.

> I can't think of anyone more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Bill & Melinda.

What about this, though: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surprise-winner-dollar...

"Late Friday, the Department of Defense announced that Microsoft has won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI. The decision was the culmination of a two-year process that also included Google, IBM, and Oracle, and where Amazon was long seen as the favorite.

JEDI, potentially worth $10 billion over 10 years, has been positioned by the Pentagon as crucial to modernizing its use of technology—and making the US military more deadly.

“We must improve the speed and effectiveness with which we develop and deploy modernized technical capabilities to our women and men in uniform,” DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy said in a statement. At an event launching the bidding process in early 2018, the department’s chief management officer, John H. Gibson II, told tech industry leaders that one priority was “increasing the lethality of our department.” "

A bit of a nitpick maybe, but it's been Fortran and not FORTRAN for quite a while (since Fortran 90 in the 90's).

I really enjoy the fact that the seemingly simple equation 2^n = 3^p has so much implication for how me make music.

Clickbait title. The article is about alternative protein sources such as crickets or seaweed. The conclusion is a fairer description of the content:

"So whether it comes from a cricket or a lab or off the coast of Indonesia, tomorrow's protein alternatives will be a win for both consumers and the environment, though likely neither are as excited about those prospects as the cows."