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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous. This might just be revealing a lack of imagination on your part. I'd argue the opposite: there are sounds you can make with your mouth that can change the cou
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
There are Armenian/Georgian lamb stew recipes that call for beer and wine, it's not uncommon in the Caucasus. It sounds plausible that it was common more to the south as well, prior to Islam.
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
It's near-100% intelligible for a Russian speaker: http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/selo.html > кде мы знајемо всих и јесмо знајеми од всих Funny enough, this reads like "old Slavic" to me, rather tha
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
That's more just SF though
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
> What don't you get? No reason to assume I don't get something here. Learn to leave room for your own ignorance and blind spots. 600k/y doesn't make you a millionaire in a year or two, especially in SV, no matter how
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
> $600,000 a year > be wildly rich in a couple of years pick one
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
> if you're an engineer or programmer, you need to be here no you don't, this is completely inaccurate
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
It really isn't though, it's still miles ahead of SV (I have lived and worked in both areas)
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
> representation that is invariant under program equivalence is this even computable at all (leaving aside the complexity theoretic issues)?
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
No, not like that at all. Old Assyrian = Akkadian, New Assyrian = Aramaic. A closer analogy would've been "Arabic to Egyptian", or "Macedonian-Slavic to Ancient Macedonian", as in it's the same language family,
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
> Most adults have at least a passing familiarity with the rules of chess If anyone ever needed proof that HN lives in a bubble :)
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
Democritus, who lived many centuries before Lucian, reasoned his way to discovering the concept of atoms, and that the world must be built up from a finite set of small indivisible particles. I find that even more fascinating...
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by 0xBABAD00C 8y ago
It is hell. The difference between having a third (or second) world passport and a US passport is night and day. Worst of all is the attitude at embassies from some washed-up diplomat-wannabes who show open animosity and derision towards yo
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Ask HN: What are the best tools to add a charity donation feature to my app?
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
> Easy: the bubbles are tighter and harder to pierce Says who? It's absolutely the opposite in my experience, having lived in various conservative societies most of my life. Bubbles are much more self-imposed and easily breakable an
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
> I think it's just based on how much of a threat a group is. I don't think this is the reason. The offending group could be arbitrarily big or small. Today's true problems (from the perspective of likelihood of affecting
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
> That's called 'hedging' and is literally all hedge funds do. Uhhh, no
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
True, probability theory is merely a tool among many and shouldn't be used to attempt to solve every problem there is. However, the article is misleading about the initial gif being any sort of argument against Bayesian probabilistic
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
Good stuff, except for the rainbow color scales [1]. I'd much prefer to see the same in viridis [2] or something similar. The color boundaries on the rainbow scale are not perceived uniformly by human eyes (there might even be a cultur
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
IBM PC 286. Am I ancient?
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
Can anyone experienced in this space comment on how this tool compares to the Cocos2d family (e.g. Cocos2d-x), specifically in regards to 2D games?
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
Previously we had outsourced thinking to: - village elders and tribal leaders - educators at all levels with various agendas - workplace superiors with party lines and biases - etc etc People were never individual free-thinking agents like
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
I think the amount of Yiddish borrowings points to a certain region on the Black Sea coast (we all know where it points, as they would say in the city where it points). But the roots of it go much deeper into the middle ages, and there is a
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
Convergent evolution due to similar environmental pressures, I presume :) Garbage is a collective noun in Russian and can't have a plural, but in thief jargon it's used as a singular noun for one cop (the garbage is on my tail), a
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
Russian "Fenya" is a living example of something similar (applicable to the criminal/thief subculture), with bits and pieces of it having migrated into everyday speech, like the word "garbage" for cops. There's
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
I find that people who question Cantor's (obviously correct) theorems and concepts seem to share commonalities with people questioning Einstein's (obviously correct) theories and concepts. Let's just say if Cantor's last
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
Hmm. There are people alive today who claim to speak Caucasian Albanian (they number in the 100s and are called Udi). Also random fact: out of this nano-ethnicity, one became a tech executive in the US and is a cofounder of Evernote. It wou
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by 0xBABAD00C 9y ago
I'm in the first camp, and there are people who think we are ridiculously underpaid. "If you're so good, how come you haven't hit seven figures?" is something I've heard a couple of times already. So there is a