davidktr

full paper here: // deleted. Looks like my choice of an anonymous file hoster was inappropriate.

Funny, just two hours ago I saw my first Starlink satellite train running across the sky. It felt spooky and futuristic at the same time.

No half-baked products? Have you ever tried using the translation feature in the book app? That is the most infuriating, dumb piece of software I have seen in a long time.

I went jogging in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) and stepped on a huge rat. Poor dude was just having breakfast in one of the garbage heaps on the sidewalk. Never experienced that in Europe before.

Have you tried it in the forest behind Apple?

So could we get members of Congress to write positive RT reviews?

Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing.

ctrl+f "real estate"

"Another economic factor in the falling birthrate is the rising price of real estate and a resulting increase in unmarried or late-marrying people. The tradition in Korea is for men to prepare a family home before marrying, and the rising cost of housing in recent years has thereby triggered a decline in marriage rates."

> anyone can learn to fix them at home with very few tools

Everytime I read comments like this I feel dumb. I'm fixing my own bikes, but it takes a lot of time and quite a few tools. Just learning how to properly adjust the derailleur took me quite a few hours. Youtube university forgot to mention that Shimano GRX 400 front derailleur has intermediate gears.

Many bike parts are not really standardized. It seems almost impossible to know in advance whether some part fits on my bike, I mostly have to try. Also, manufacturers keep changing how certain things work, and then Youtube university may be misleading because they show a previous generation.

Parking where you want can be a problem. You won't have issues if you use a parking garage or park in the outskirts and then use public transportation.

If I understand your hypothesis correctly, the obvious counterexample is German. Germany had a very weak central authority for most of its history, a steady influx of non-native speakers, and still maintained its complexity.

In Finland, ethnicity is fairly homogenous, and so is culture and language. The only exceptions are the Sami people (10,000 in Finland) and Finns of historically Swedish ethnicity. So in that sense, the white people of Finland are very homogenous.

I strongly believe that US-based categories of ethnicity do not work well in European contexts. We also try to avoide the term "race", that has a bit of historical baggage over here.

But do "we" really ignore the tacit knowledge? I think you are wrong that "scientific literature" pretends those things.

The issue of "context of discovery" vs "context of justification" is a hundred years old. And modern accounts of measurement and modeling make it quite clear that there is much more going on than simply writing down numbers. Theories/hypotheses can come from anywhere, I don't think that is even disputed.

However, when doing science, maths, engineering, the question is often what people are even saying, and what counts as evidence that something works. You cannnot do this without abstractions, and at some point we'll have to agree what those abstractions are. Should we leave it to individual experience if LK-99 is a superconductor?

You don't need formal maths training to raise a barn or build a kayak because there is brutal feedback if you are wrong. You'll need maths training to learn how to be right about things that will not give you any feedback.