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by Balgair 3y ago
Yes! Getting to see him up close really changed my mind on him. Obviously the transmitted colors of a screen aren't the reflected colors of light. But even quality print books aren't good because of the 3-D data that is missed. He
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by Balgair 3y ago
Not a Historian here, but I've heard that looking at Medieval art is more akin to looking at Anime art. Yes, the art is more stylized and cartoonish, but so are many art forms of today. I'm not certain of this, but I believe we ha
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by Balgair 3y ago
May be a dumb question, but why do I only see, like, every 20th letter when I visit the page? Is this some anti-ad-blocker thing?
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by Balgair 3y ago
Believe it or not, I'm going through my third read-through of his entire works right now (yes, even Cratylus). But the question still stands: What is the job?
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by Balgair 3y ago
Why kill them? Just turn them into food. Call it ... I dunno... Soylent Green. Logan? Why are you running Logan?
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, I gotta ask now, right? What is their job then?
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by Balgair 3y ago
Vova will have to purge whatever is left after this coup. Doing so will make an already paper-tiger of an army/bureaucracy even worse off, as paranoia and shows of loyalty will be paramount, not effective fighting ability. Think North
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by Balgair 3y ago
Neuro research is diverse, just like any field. In my neck of the woods, intracellular stuff, some of the large findings are (in no particular order): -Cilia regulate hormonal changes (thing we thought did nothing, does a lot) -Astrocytes p
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by Balgair 3y ago
Be very careful with MRI studies : https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: Dear HN reader, if you are somewhat curious about 'getting into' Shakespeare, I thoroughly recommend it. During the pandemic, I managed to get into him. It took me ~2 years of reading him, getting used to meter, the phrasin
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by Balgair 3y ago
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix has always helped me out with these kids of things: https://jamesclear.com/eisenhower-box
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by Balgair 3y ago
There are some big gems in there. I was once reading 'Rhetoric' by Aristotle on the site and noticed a lot of marginalia. Some of it was pretty good commentary too. Well, it turns out that I was reading John Adam's copy with
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by Balgair 3y ago
Ok, now I'm curious. How do you read and comment? I'm a one-thread-at-a-time kinda person. I read, I comment on things if I want to, then I move on to other threads.
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by Balgair 3y ago
A point against the 'narrative': Mods are very hard to deal with as a business owner. Look, we all know that going to war with your volunteers is a bad idea. But the Mods, as individual people, are not easy to deal with. To me, mo
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, how do you propose getting a quorum then? What is your definition of a community? What about lurkers, they're ~90%?
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by Balgair 3y ago
Not trying to needle you at all here: How many people are like that? I tried to google around for this, but really didn't come up with much, statistics-wise.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: I never could get into it. It feels too much like 'punching down' to me. Not in the real sense, but the hosts always come off as 'better' and so when they make fun, it's just not a good vibe. The recordings a
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by Balgair 3y ago
The cost structure and usage defies any simple explanation. Meaning that it's not easy to tie up in a HN comment. Honestly, each waterway can have it's own rules and it's own rights. In CO, until recently, you weren't ab
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by Balgair 3y ago
Sometimes yes, often no. In CA, there is a huge North-South divide when it comes to water. Northern CA constantly complains about LA 'stealing' all the water. In this case, it's urban vs urban. In CO, it's rural mountain
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by Balgair 3y ago
> The real tension in the US, rural vs urban (not red vs blue) As usual, it depends. For example, out west the tension is with water rights. All other political issues are like molehills to the mountain that is water. To be clear, the we
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by Balgair 3y ago
From the outside, this seems very much like a classic labor dispute. Management (reddit) and labor (mods) are at odds over what they see as the future of the corporation. As such, some form of mediation needs to occur between both sides for
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by Balgair 3y ago
I work with a few people that you may be referring to and have friends like that too. I use the pronouns that they request. Why? Because I'm not a jerk. Sure, if I wanted to make a stink, I could. Do I have my own opinions? Yeah, of co
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by Balgair 3y ago
Current chatter that I'm seeing indicates that the local RF commander got scared and blew the dam. It may not have been commanded by higher ups. So, the only benefactor seems to have been the local RF, and even then only until someone
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by Balgair 3y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1860/07/darwin-...
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by Balgair 3y ago
I think Elon owes ~120M/mo. just in debt servicing, let alone costs of doing business. So, 88M/mo. is just not going to cut it.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Honestly, I hope they measured something . However, looking at the app, the moderation decisions, the 'firing', and just about everything that the admins do, I know they haven't measured anything. I've worked in enoug
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Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate(counterhate.com)
51 points by Balgair 3y ago|79 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
New parent here in the US. My views on this have been swinging wildly over the past months/years, and it's been 'fun' to experience. Are kids too expensive to have? Hells yes. We're at ~$400/wk for daycare per
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by Balgair 3y ago
I think we have a difference of the definition of 'relaxed' in this case. A normal definition would be along the lines of sipping mai-tais on the beach. But in the case of active labor, then yes, you're correct. I have close
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by Balgair 3y ago
As if a woman in labor could ever possibly be 'more relaxed'!

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