Grustaf

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by Grustaf 5y ago
Wouldn't a large braille display be very useful for getting an overview of something? When consuming a big chunk of material, audio is very convenient, but being "linear" seems to make it quite impractical when you need to ju
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Almost every sentence you can produce will contain some kind of metaphor, or metaphorical use of an originally concrete word. And since vision is one of the most salient senses for almost everyone, it's not surprising.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Close your eyes and try to produce a complex sentence in your head. It's not that hard, it's easy to imagine being able to do it with a little practice. Especially if you have a screen reader, or play it back with text-to-speech.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
You're right, they do show the leg glyph in the sidebar, but then in the text they write: "The Egyptian hieroglyph for the consonant /b/ had been an image of a foot and calf ⟨ Leg glyph ⟩, but bēt (Phoenician for "h
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yeah, in most, if not all Semitic languages. Most letter names are very similar across the Semitic languages.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The connection between the letter beth and the house character (which beth means) is pretty well established, it's by no means my theory. It might not be 100% certain, but it's the only one I've heard over the years. When it
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by Grustaf 5y ago
No, this is something different. This glyph may be a "B", but not in the same sense that our Latin B is a B, or even in the same sense that Hebrew bayt is a B. Remember, most Hieroglyphs had two or three consonants, and there was
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Almost none of this is true.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
English speakers. (If you think about it, we are writing in English here)
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Most Chinese characters consist of a radical (out of 200 or so) and a sound part. So it's not like Hangul or some other systems where you can definitely break them up into many smaller parts. It's true that visually speaking, some
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by Grustaf 5y ago
This is very fascinating stuff, but it's not really that relevant for the question posed in the title. Our Latin letters got their shapes from the Greek alphabet, by way of Etruscan. Greek in turn is based on the Semitic abjads (conson
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by Grustaf 5y ago
We all understand the first part. Storing information on the blockchain, that's easy. But where almost all use cases fall down is in interfacing with the real world. In this case it sounds like that is solved though. I know very little
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> It's literally whoever owns the keys listed as the registrant owns the domain. Sure, but even so, how is this implemented? Presumably some organisation needs to uphold this connection. Simply "owning" a domain, in the se
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by Grustaf 5y ago
How would you be able to get rid of the organisation? So many people talk about various crypto use cases but they can almost never explain how it would work. From land deeds to insurance to domain registration to in game assets etc etc, peo
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Obviously the NFT would "keep track of", but you have to be more specific. And changing the organisation is a completely separate question from which database technology they use. IF you just switch from SQL to NFT the organisatio
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Sure, NFTs and crypto in general may be get rich schemes at the core, but a lot of people do believe in them, so a charitable view would be that HE saw it as a scheme, but he thought that perhaps SHE believed in it. And FWIW I'm not su
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by Grustaf 5y ago
How would it work and what aspect would it improve?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Perhaps they are using an outside firm to do the actual harvesting and storing, and Anja is just handling marketing and financing? I think that would explain a lot of the comments, including this one.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
If someone else is offering the same service cheaper, then you know it's not a good deal.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Surely it's even more illegal in Europe?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
That's the silliest argument I've ever heard. If this is not helpful, then clearly it's a bad idea for low income families to spend 3k on it. They could spend it on something that actually helps. If it's quackery, the fa
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by Grustaf 5y ago
It seems to me that lowering the monthly cost is precisely what they'd prefer. 8 years later both parents are probably back to working full-time, and with promotions etc they will have better economies. Why would a young not so well of
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by Grustaf 5y ago
She didn't say anything about targeting, or not excluding, people of colour in their marketing. She just said having a brand is beneficial for them, and that confused me. Perhaps she said somewhere that they are targeting that group, i
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by Grustaf 5y ago
thanks
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yeah you have to wait a minute or something until you reply. No need, I believe you. It's just that it seemed others here pay less than that. But it's a bit confusing that you only pay for the first 8 years. That makes it look mor
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Which tiktok is that? I only found these: 2173 followers (personal account): https://www.tiktok.com/@kathrynjc7 699 followers: https://www.tiktok.com/@anjahealth 10 followers: https://www.tiktok.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Well, you're much more expensive in the long run. But that's pretty typical for companies targeting poorer people. So you're essentially a very expensive financing solution.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I don't doubt that it's a good way for you to quickly get customers. I just would never use it myself. But it's getting pretty clear that the only innovation here is to target lower income families than your competitors, by u
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I don't necessarily feel that having a large tiktok following is a plus for a medical service provider.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yeah I googled it quickly and that gives me prices around 100 a year. Random example from NBC News below. Perhaps Anja's initial costs are lower? "Private cord blood banking can be expensive. Depending on the bank, current promoti

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