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by DFHippie 4y ago
Given the news just this week about Reagan it's a little funny to cite him as a prophet of unity and our better nature. He did say some good stuff, but he also wasn't above exploiting a catastrophe for political gain. It's th
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Nature had plenty of opportunities to wipe us out when we were at our weakest, and it failed. But that wasn't when we were at our weakest, not necessarily. Diseases need to spread. When we lived in scattered hunter gatherer groups
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> So right now electric isn't worth the price difference for what it delivers. This depends on what you value. As you illustrate with your explanation of why men buy it, which is one explanation among many. If you prefer avoiding th
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by DFHippie 4y ago
From the article it sounds like the Göttingen guy bought is gold bars from this very site!
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by DFHippie 4y ago
There are many things I want to have done but which I don't want to do. I think the key to improving your say-do ratio is to figure out how to do the thing such that it's something you want to do, not something you want to have do
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by DFHippie 4y ago
There are different standard spellings, and pronunciations, in different places. In one dialect region it is "aluminium" (but they don't say "platinium" or "molybdenium"). In another it is "aluminum&q
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The people who point to the current state of material plenty and say it therefore can't be the state of the world are mistaken. If you anticipate loss, you will be unhappy. It doesn't matter how rich and comfortable you are. Anxie
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Eh, as an American I would say it checks out. We really hate each other. Much of the get-out-the-vote effort on the right consists of reminding their voters why they hate the other side. This naturally pisses off the left. This leads to muc
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Perhaps, but that isn't a complete solution. I watched smuggled cigarettes being transferred from one semi to another when I was hitching around Spain back in the 90s (the Spanish guy driving the car told me this is what I was seeing).
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The US doesn't have cameras everywhere. I think you're thinking of the UK.
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The people you're cheating are not your professors but your peers. For better or for worse, grades are used to rank people and mete out further opportunities and benefits. The professors already have jobs.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I don't know where you heard that. The media keeps reporting that Russia is losing the war, or may be losing it,* but that it is likely to drag on for a long time. No one that I have heard from since the first weeks of the war has ever
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Yep. This is a cynical counsel of despair. "Don't try filtering truth from lies. Everyone does it. Just lie back and think of England." There is a difference between withholding information, selective emphasis, and outright l
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I wrote a multi-threaded anagram engine some years ago in Rust. It uses dynamic programming to linearize the problem as much as possible. The word list I typically use it with is not comprehensive by any means. I've taken words out, fo
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Here's a thought: if there is both protesting and rioting going on, we don't have to say this is either protesting or rioting. This implies the venn diagram of the protesters and rioters is a circle. It could be, but there also co
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The one that works is the one that people do without special training: sighing*. There had to be some reason why people sigh. * Yes, this is an odd sort of sighing, but it isn't that different from spontaneous sighing. And people also
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Sure, but unless the ground is paved with mirrors it will be considerably less light.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
We're in Vermont in a house built in 1926. We blew insulation into the walls, insulated the attic well, and replaced the ground floor windows (some day we'll do the rest of the windows; in the meantime we use plastic film in the w
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by DFHippie 4y ago
My point was just that it's an interesting use of quotation marks. People once had no writing system at all. Then they had no way to represent speech sounds. Then they had no way to represent individual phonemes. They had to invent spa
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by DFHippie 4y ago
To me it seems more respectful for anthropologists to study everyone, not just people in pre-literate communities.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Off topic, but... Why do you put "environment" and "pollution" in quotes? My guess is you don't believe, or mean to convey that you believe, that these are phony concepts or issues, but that lower income people trea
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Democrats are beholden to the unions in education, so they won't bring it up. I think you could jettison this. It seems like pro forma both-siderism. I don't know any Democratic-leaning people who are unwilling to bring this
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Global trade increased from $28.5T in 2021 to $32T in 2022. Are those numbers normalized for inflation?
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The date after which I perceived a change in the coverage of Saudi Arabia in the US was September 11th, 2001, but I don't know whether the coverage changed or my awareness of it did. Similarly, that you perceive a change in coverage ma
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by DFHippie 4y ago
You don't need to put "externalities" in quotes as though it's a suspect concept. It's fine to be suspicious of any entity. But it's not easy to hide externalities. Your suspicion should lead pretty directly to
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by DFHippie 4y ago
In a certain sense this is true. Giving to charity is a self-interested machination because the giver gets something out of the transaction: satisfaction, a belief in their own goodness and self-worth, the esteem of others, maybe a ticket t
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by DFHippie 4y ago
There are different words in English, too. You yourself have used a few; e.g., "plans". It's just that the standard term for the night hallucination is "dream" and a standard metaphorical use of this term is roughly
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by DFHippie 4y ago
As a native speaker of English, when someone asks me that I do try to express how I am, but I know my response is being interpreted relative to a baseline of how people answer this question. If I'm having a rough day I will answer di
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by DFHippie 4y ago
For understanding the correspondence it's useful to know that Welsh "pump" sounds more or less (more in the south and less in the north) like "pimp". "Un" sounds like "een".
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by DFHippie 4y ago
A different version has them needing to meet with no possibility of communication, only knowledge that each has the same map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)

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