I'm not entirely convinced by the artists' argument, but this argument is also unconvincing to me. If someone steals from you, but it's a negligible amount, or you don't even notice it, does that make it not stealing? If the thief then starts selling the things they stole from you, directly competing with you, are your grievances less valid now since you didn't complain about the theft before?
I hear this type of statement often, but people rarely mention the scope or who the brain drainees are. In my experience, it's exceptionally rare that American talent comes to Europe compared to the opposite, and I see little reason why that would change in the near future. When it comes to Chinese individuals returning to China from the US, this isn't exactly traditional brain drain, and it's also something China has actively, sometimes aggressively, been pursuing the past decade or so.
I'm a little confused by this post. Obviously it's easier to maintain a plain VM than managed services. That's why people are paying a lot more money to the cloud providers for managed services, so they don't have to do it themselves. What you're saying is that this is essentially a pointless endeavor? I don't think this statement is entirely uncontroversial, since managed services are the main reason for many companies to migrate to cloud.
Global connect (the company that owns and operates most data cables in the Baltic sea) is running tests with tamper detecting cables. They say they will be able to detect a whale at a distance of 80 kilometers. I assume the whale is just used as an example to demonstrate its sensitivity, since whales haven't been implicated in any of the previous cable breaks.
I might be mistaken but I believe the final day has only one puzzle, but the 50th star (a.k.a., the second star of December 25th) is given for having solved everything else. I don't think any puzzles are "locked".
>Though secretly, it was to give hope to the students who were defeated by the education system and told “You can’t study Computer Science, because you didn’t know Carbon has a radioactive isotope.”
Forgive me if I'm being elitist here, but this seems like a strange example of outrageous admission requirements. I would have thought knowing about radiocarbon dating (which I'm assuming this is a reference to) is common knowledge (I believe it's in the standard curriculum for grades 7-9 in my country), so it doesn't seem like a completely unreasonable test question. If this is an example that the author uses from his or her own experience, it seems stranger still.
>Every evening, my brother and I would sit in front of an oil lamp and study, mostly maths and science.
It's interesting how bad the democrats seem to be at the game of winning elections. They continuously seem to pick bad candidates and poor strategies resulting in them losing the election when they seem to have had the general conditions for winning. This time, the elephant in the room is of course the late ousting of Joe Biden, but there were similar issues that (in hindsight at least) were obvious in the Clinton 2016 campaign. This pattern can be seen in other countries as well, where it's clear that one group knows how to play the game while other groups don't, but it's surprising to me that a massive organization like the democratic party wouldn't have streamlined this process.
It would be interesting to hear from someone more familiar with the inner workings of the democratic party why this is. I.e., if it's a cultural issue in the party, if it's economical, or if my view on this is completely off.
Is this really a "degradation" in popular taste, or is it a change in the demographics that dominate the demand side? While there's apparently been some studies on the demographics of Swifties, it's much more difficult to produce the same for Bob Dylan 50 years ago. My impression though is that the initial core demographics (driving the fame) of Bob Dylan's music were young adults of both sexes, while the initial demographics of Taylor Swift's music were teenagers, overwhelmingly female. The demographics have different interests, with the interests preferred by Dylan's demographics being considered deeper and more intellectual by the cultural zeitgeist. It makes sense that target demographics of popular music would have been older back in the day, since buying records required some sort of record player, which was a significant investment. Today, there's practically no investment to listen to music via a streaming service.
Toyota, who is widely recognized as the pioneer of JIT manufacturing, famously began stockpiling microchips after the Fukushima disaster disrupted their supply chains. It might not make sense to stockpile raw materials, but stockpiling things with comparatively low storage costs w.r.t. the item cost sometimes makes sense from a capitalist perspective. This assumes the company runs with a long-term perspective in mind, which often isn't the case in western companies that are publicly traded or owned/operated by investment firms. In fairness, governments also frequently fail at accounting for resiliency, even when that's their explicit goal, so perhaps the incapability to account for resiliency goes beyond the economic system.
Weird argument, in my opinion. It may be that eyesight is only one of several factors that determine performance in shooting events, and these devices help the athletes that use them but provide less benefit to others. Stating it's placebo just because other athletes don't use them is, to me, akin to saying that tape or compression sleeves don't work since some athletes don't use those.
I opened it up and was a little surprised by what it showed in my surrounding area. It was filled with restaurants and businesses that haven't existed for years. There must be thousands or even tens of thousands of apple maps users that live in the area that see those places in the app every day. I wonder how often they try to visit one of those places. Perhaps they have a habit of searching on google (or google maps I suppose) to verify that it exists before they go to a new place? Very interesting.
Interesting that you should say that, because I'm of the exact opposite opinion. In fact, the omnipresence of elastane in pants has been a big QoL downgrade for me.
If they deliver the letter to the return address, what prevents you from writing the target address as the return address and getting it delivered for free?
I wonder if this will have the same effect as the "parental advisory" sticker on music, where the demand for these noodles among Danish spicy food lovers will skyrocket. Since buldak noodles are already so much more expensive than regular noodles (at least in Northern Europe) and are sold as more of a novelty item, they might justify the extra cost of shipping or private import from another EU country.
It also makes sense if Chinese car makers can only compete because of massive state subsidies, whose purpose is to bankrupt competition and gain control of the market. From the EU's perspective, it might make sense to penalize Chinese imports to prevent them from succeeding with this strategy. While the stated reason may not be the actual reason, it's not a hypothetical that China does use this strategy and has used it in the past.
Are you implying that the ethnic homogeneity of Norway is the reason for the low maternal death rates in Norway? Or are you saying it's the economic "diversity" (i.e. inequality) in the US that's the problem? What exactly makes such a comparison disingenuous?
I think a fair question then would be what you actually love about them. Theaters do boast large screens with high image quality, but compared to a large flat screen you can have at home (where you can select your own seat) the difference diminishes. They also boast high audio quality. But as we all know, the audio quality is only great at a few seats in the center. You can certainly create an audio setup at home for not that much money that rivals the actual experience at the average seat.
There are other reasons people like movie theaters: the inability to pause the movie, nostalgia, the gathering of many people to engage in the same experience. Many of these are, to me, almost inseparable from expensive popcorn and inconsiderate behavior, which movie goers have been lamenting almost since the invention of the motion picture.
You state this distinction as if it's established, but it's not a definition I've personally heard explicitly stated before. If I read the introduction of the Wikipedia article on "privacy", I find the following:
>The right not to be subjected to unsanctioned invasions of privacy by the government, corporations, or individuals is part of many countries' privacy laws, and in some cases, constitutions.
So according to Wikipedia, at least in some cases, privacy is protection against the state. Where does your definition come from?
But suppose they did tick that box. If someone ticks "need assistance" for a 1 year old, you would bring a stroller and not a wheelchair, no? A casual googling indicates that the smallest generally available wheelchairs are for ages 2 and up.
>Previously, Goldberg and I identified six critical error types a flat map can have: local shapes, areas, distances, flexion (bending), skewness (lopsidedness) and boundary cuts.
>The Goldberg-Gott error score (sum of squares of the six normalized individual error terms)[...]
I've seen many date-related bugs similar to these and in very few cases it's as simple as "one developer was incompetent and did something stupid". Incompetence may be part of the problem, but in the background there are often data sources or services that provide the data in non-standard or unpredictable ways as well as specific business requirements that complicate the process.
This is a really unfortunate but also quite common pattern in Sweden, where there's a veneer of internationality which tricks foreigners instead of helping them. Swedes will generally understand that Jönköping university isn't formally a university and wouldn't compare it to the more prestigious schools, but for international students it's not at all obvious. They might pay a lot of money and discover too late that the education and/or credentials they get in return don't match at all what they paid for. As usual, the Swedish authorities seem unwilling or impotent to take action on this type of issue.
Is that actually true? Nature has a very low capacity per area for "wild humans". I don't think the planet would support anywhere near 8 billion "wild" (hunter-gatherer) humans.
It seems a little strange to me that the people interviewed in this article find this is so remarkable. Only 40,000 people belonged to the group that got the vaccine before 14. If the incidence rate were the same as for the unvaccinated (8.4 per 100k) you would have expected roughly 4 in the group to have gotten cancer. If the incidence rate were the same as for those vaccinated after 14 (3.2 per 100k), you would have expected only ~1 to have gotten cancer. Maybe I'm missing something here?
I apologize. It was simply my subjective impression of the AoC this year, not a statement of objective fact. I didn't intend to insinuate that Wastl is a liar.
My impression of the 2023 AoC was that Wastl has spent considerable effort on making it less LLM-friendly this year. Some days, this seems to have been done by adding extra conditions and complications which make the task more difficult for LLMs to parse. Other tasks required studying the input data which is difficult to achieve with an unsupervised LLM. Finally, the first couple of days seemed a lot more difficult this year than previous years, possibly to deter chatgpt users from filling up the leaderboard right away (though this year December started with a weekend which could also be a contributing factor).