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Comment · 2 years ago
This actually happened to me after connecting to wi-fi but there is a workaround that I found:

Convert your book to .azw3 in Calibre

Instead of sending it to the device in Calibre, locate the azw3 file (Right click -> Open book folder).

Copy the file to your Kindle, but not to the "documents" folder (where Calibre usually puts it) but rather into Downloads->Items

This folder is where books go when you buy them from Amazon or receive them after using the Send to Kindle feature. I have only tried this with azw3 so far but it might also work with .mobi format.

Comment · 2 years ago
Could you elaborate on Canada's approach? Are you referring to adjustable rate mortgages?
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm guessing the GP means that there will hopefully be an increased interest for alternatives to planes that one can take when there are air travel crises like this.
Comment · 4 years ago
The article uses "new field" as a relative term -- a field that the researcher is not an expert in.

> A question [BD14] had to address in this connection is: what constitutes a brand-new direction? Again MathSciNet guides the answer. For each pair of the 73 Mathematics Subject Classification numbers, the authors worked out the likelihood that a paper in one area is referred to by a paper in another area. Thus, for instance, they see that 35 (Partial Differential Equations) is closest to 58 (Global Analysis)and 76 (Fluid Mechanics) but furthest from 08 (General Algebraic Systems) and 19 (K-theory). Borjas and Doran deem a topic brand-new if it is not among the 15 closest to the researcher’s original area. This is a conservative choice and probably underestimates the cognitive mobility

Comment · 4 years ago
I also suffered from this issue for a while but then discovered "Unhook" browser extension, which in addition to many other amazing features (e.g. hide recommended videos/comments) has a feature to hide irrelevant search results. With the feature on I get an endless list of matching results and no junk.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s great idea but might be much more difficult in practice than a common Slavic language. Turkic languages are way more diverse where you have some languages that are extremely similar and some that are not mutually intelligible with an exception of a small number of words (e.g. Turkish and Sakha). Maybe this means there can be several common languages with a smaller number of speakers in each.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not the poster, but I concur that things weren't all that different in 2017. I would say that OP's reaction is caused by selectively remembering the state of the world. Living in the environment where mass media is ubiquitous, you don't quite realize just how bad things are or the negative effects it has on people. You only become aware of that after being removed from it for a period of time (e.g. being in prison) and then getting reintroduced to it.
Comment · 5 years ago
How would the problem of huge (dozens of GB) graphics assets be solved? Is there a current/planned way to have the large WASM binaries and assets stored on the computer?
Comment · 5 years ago
Could you explain why overpopulation will not be a problem?
Comment · 5 years ago
My interpretation was that they were already looking to quit but didn't do so because of uncertainty of the pandemic. Supposedly, when the uncertainty resolves people in the resignation backlog will actually quit.
Comment · 6 years ago
Could you point me to some examples of such discussion? Very interested in checking them out.
Comment · 6 years ago
Last I tried it, there was no way to sign in and get personalized recommendations. Is that still true (or did I just miss it)?
Comment · 6 years ago
There is no CSS on the page. I have a feeling your comment was facetious though, hinting at the amount of bloat (e.g. Jekyll theme) we need today to do the simplest things.

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