Economic Historian at Università di Torino. Previously Chapman U in OC. Even earlier NES in Moscow. PhD at UPF. From Palermo, Sicily. Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com
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Armies should give out medals if the guy on the other side gets a medal. Sample citation "Private Fritz was doing a perfectly adequate soldiering job, manning an MG, when one Corporal Jones just decided to pull some hero shit and rolled up his position. Adequately done Fritz"
I have a great image of Nilo on holiday with the fam "Dad can we go see the Pan de Azucar?" "Shush, we have to go check out the frequency of the 331 to Niteroi"
So using hydrogen/helium accepts some weight for the benefit of keeping the skin very thin.
The ideal airship would be a vacuum ship, full of empty, and the skin just holding the volume apart. But to keep a vacuum flask from collapsing the outside wall would have to be so thick the airship would be heavier than air.
not enough volume.
I think it would work better as a monorail hugging a tube so it doesn't get lifted off the rail.
There's this theory that says that dirigibles get more cost effective with scale (because skin squares with the square and payload with the cube), this was my idea for moving them around
This is signifcantly better than the last attempt at this concept
Home delivered pizza is an interesting job. Not super high paid but I imagine it's nice that most of the time your arrival is the highlight of everyone's day
If each atom on Earth was a deck of card, and each was shuffled once per second, you would only expect to get them in new deck order (or any specific desired order) once every 26 billion years. But you would expect to get SOME order twice (birthday problem) in one quadrillionth of a second.
I am sure that's the case. Just so we can start ruling out people, could you tell us where you were between 3738 and 3731 BC. If it's any help Urk won the bone toss competition in 3732
Amazing preservation, despite what I can only surmise were the most perfunctory of burial rituals.
That sounds amazing
If they accept you, does the email say "congratulations! And by the way, this year's bunch of applications.... Kinda meh"?
Would love if they just showed up in perfectly waxed mustachios "Well, what did we miss?"
give them a couple of million years and they could evolve into seals
I would like to remind people that I applied to Stanford to do a PhD, and i wasn't accepted, but I do have a letter strongly implying that it was related to an exceptionally strong pool of candidates that year
My niece can scrunch up her mouth and block her nostrils with the top of her upper lip. She learned how to do this naturally when swimming and thought everybody could do it and did it. The other day in swim class a friend asked her why she always puckers her mouth underwater and found out.
doubt
I got this from the horse's mouth
I mean bluesky is pretty antigambling
yes but he point is it was like middle school level math
I’m pretty excited today that the paper that received our inaugural Best Paper Prize at Standard Error earlier this year has won another recognition from an impressive collection of institutional partners
Love it
It wasn't this exact one and it was a few years ago to protect the laureated
mine are hilarious it's everybody else's that are lame
The only possible leader for a united Korea: Kim Jung Kook
Nothing can be quite as good for your self esteem as seeing an economics Nobel prize answer one of these on Facebook
Yes but the stereotypical wolf howl is a descending note
I thought the wolf whistle was the howl
ah i see what you mean. I'll come up with a bioacoustics version of that too but it might take some time
@hollyhowls.bsky.social do you think this is plausible? It's inspired by chirped radar.
Point being it could be that there is a different animal in the galaxy far far away that evolved a similar vocalization to estimate distance. convergent evolution.
I have a theory that wolf calls are designed to allow robust, accurate ranging. firts wolf howls a descending rote (standard wolf call sound), second wolf matches pitch he hears. first wolf compares his emitted pitch to the one he hears to estimate distance to second wolf
Cefalù
They refurrbed the old villages mall in orange
Awesome
On the relationship between family ownership and innovation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The daily min looks very out of scale with the rest of the oscillation
The Hittites were famous for their great aim with vow and arrow. This allowed them to easily conquer their much less accurate neighbors, the Missites
Half of them will become quartz eventually no?
Ugh. Is this going to be, like, a thing
It just sucks that we have to wait 6 months for Jake Tapper's next book to come out to find out if he's dead or not
Or georeference
Let's not hold it against it. I still like it. :)
I say medicine but it's a common system also for dental and veterinary school
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Obviously, there is scope to screw up the implementation, but I like the principle. Basically, it's an extended admission test (they call it a filter semester) but one that is more conformal to what you actually have to do to get a medicine degree.
If you passed all three but didn't score high enough to continue with Medicine, you can take your pick of going for a biology, pharmacy, or healthcare professions (nursing, rehabilitation, etc).
They get two attempts at each of the three exams. If they pass them, their scores are added, and the top scorers can continue with the second semester of medicine as usual.
Italy is doing something interesting with it's admission to medical school. Anybody with a high school diploma can enrol for the first semester (actually two months of intensive all day coursework). They take three course: Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. Mostly taught remotely.
Bimbi oggi andremo a vedere.... Il catasto!
Sherman was so much more considerate of the need of identification of future economic historians
It's a contentious issue
I think it's like 6cf
Layer 3: They also have adifferent pedestal with an integrated secondary washer
Layer 2: they sell you a matching pedestal so you don't have to bend over for like $300
Layers of US shopping: layer 1 the washer is like 14kg capacity
It's better to have loved and loess than never to have loess at all
When this is complete, you will be able to visit it and visualize how thick the loess of the last glaciation is across large areas in western Nebraska.
Map from Val Camonica, 1000 BC or so
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCiQ... Ok but like who tied the rope that high up on the tree
I just read this exact critique from well known economist on Twitter
The Greeks invented the concept of Hubris after seeing a married couple trying to have a conversation in the presence of their kids
And Disneyland
Typical position for reading in the evening after a day in which you woke up at 5am to swim, then run, then work, then run at lunch, then work, then gym.
@laurenwilford.bsky.social am I right? was the inspiration the sunglasses?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWd... I love that she clearly found the sunglasses at an estate sale and then built the whole skit around them
Putting a fake mustache on the ancient languages professor, assigning them a class titled "Improving Stakeholder Value in the Metallurgical Industries by Addressing Customer Feedback" and hoping no one notices
I wonder if Italy's success in the industrial machinery is due to the fact that it's a sector with vendor lock in, and Italy has a lot of family run firms that care about maintaining relationships in the long run to pass them to the next generation, and a cultural mistrusts of "excessive" profit.
how would they even cool it? The radiators would probably have to be larger than the equivalent solar array
and later it turns out he got the glove from a thrift store
Too an extent I think part of giving students writing advice is just to CONVINCE them they have to secret sauce to write the paper, and the actual key is getting them to write the paper somehow. It's like those movies where the coach gives the kid Babe Ruth's glove and it gives him amazing abilities
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www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... His name is Wally Wallington. Wally. Wallington.
I gotta say being an engineer for Mazda sound a lot more fun than Mercedes or Toyota
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tH... Also SO cinematographic because the information is revealed slowly
I miss Solari Boards
They're famous for having really short production cycles and introducing completely new models/redesigns all the time. But apparently there is even a lot of variation within a model year
Yeah but also apparently they are very flexible with using whatever parts are cheapest at the time. So two cars might be the same model year and trim level but have different fuel pumps, or windshield wiper controller or whatever. He said he's basically never seen two with the same exact components
Something intersting I heard an Italian mechanic say is that while the various Chinese SUVs run well new and are cheap, even simple spare parts like break pads are hard to find due to poor standardisation
Sciortina totally sounds like what an Italian american hip hop artist would call his ladyfriend
It's funny because I knew other Sciortinos growing up and it was some time before I realized that sciorti in Italian doesn't mean short
Worst post/meme templates: "Tell me you X without telling me you X" "I'm Y of course people X"
What if we renamed Virginia to Ralighwashereia
gds.it
Anybody who picks that tasteful a blue for his book cover has integrity written all over him
He probably entertained prospective clients there. Maybe he knew anxiety can lead to impulse buys
Apparently Padella and Paddle don't share etymology
oh wait what century is this
You must be using PAL output and watching it on a NTSB screen