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... with the same execution environment
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Thanks
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As far as I can tell you've misread the article. The grandmother of one of the emperors may have been Korean but the first (non-legendary) emperor was Jimmu who was born in Japan. I'm also a little wary of that article since it sa
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You're confusing languages "descending" from others and dialects (varieties of a language). It's true that there's not a strict boundary between dialects and languages but thinking English is simply a dialect of Pro
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> can you provide an example of a pre-money society doing this? Can you provide me an example of a pre-money society becoming a post-money society? I can't name any. Unless your point is that any theory would be speculative (which i
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> Or, you can just accept a debt as the indirect thing You can :-) If the debt is non-transferable, so simply between me and the other guy, then it's not money. Debt like this may lead to money but its no more money than barter is.
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> Why do you assume this is natural? "The most saleable good" in our economy is money. The majority of explicit trades for goods and services involve money. Of course, that is now and we need to explain how this happened. If I
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Sounds like a mises.org post Jeffrey Tucker wrote https://mises.org/library/halloween-and-its-candy-economy
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YouTube also recently added a similar feature that's more limited
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Low Tech Magazine has some articles on using wood to make more sustainable turbines https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...
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I like to have fun on-line :-)
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Greetings, new friend! You seem to have a misunderstanding on the use of Hacker News (henceforth "orange site"). While orange site (or its users) may be characterized as pretentious, it's by no means not a place for low IQ di
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This seems more like the Urbit "personal server" idea than the cloud replacement for a phone I expected tbh
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When I was writing something (partly) as a learning exercise the easiest way to handle errors was to have an error handler on the server-side JSON encode any errors. The client-side JS would then split the string it got back on newlines and
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Unintuitive JSON Parsing
(nullprogram.com)
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The amazing thing about Gamergate is that it ended being a massive waste of time for everyone involved and the actual arguments were practically over right at the beginning. Most of what anyone saw was the gossip generated by two bands of g
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It should be possible to create an MKV file like this but I don't know what media player support is like. If it doesn't work then I guess you're stuck with the stupidly common dummy video thing (where the video content is jus
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>But at least you have a brand new customer: Henry@gmail.com. Since you do not lowercase the email and do not recognise him as henry@gmail.com which he used in his last order You may not like it but this is fully standards-compliant beha
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thanks!
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>where handguns are entirely illegal Handguns aren't entirely illegal in the UK. If I'm not mistaken then, roughly speaking, what the law prohibits is rifles below a certain size. In the UK it is possible, for example, to leg
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I was still in school when I first found this :)
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but don't exclude malice!
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Closest I've read is Borges' Labyrinths
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To add to the irony, I have a British accent which often drops (initial) Hs but I cringe whenever I hear 'erbal'.
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When I was a kid I found it confusing people would confuse there, their and they're – or rather being taught that people confuse them. I'm not sure whether it was due to me being more literate than verbal or not but "they
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>in many ways the presentation is the semantics As McLuhan said, the medium is the message
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I think like a lot of things it begins as parody and then newcomers are sincere
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Nice Scanner Darkly references :-) Only last night, I rewatched it
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>Why is Hacker News unable to effectively discuss difficult topics? >(Russian election interference report flagged off front page.) Why is a tech news/discussion board unable to effectively discuss politics?
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Pretty sure mine is something like Firefox -> Opera -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Iridium -> Chrome -> Firefox
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