JimTheMan

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by JimTheMan 5y ago
A lot of these examples seemed to reduce the word count when making the sentence simpler. I would argue that you would want to increase the word count. For instance, you would swap out a word like 'superfluous' instead for 'm
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Emergent is my favourite. Perhaps it has been poorly described to me, but it doesn't seem to add anything to the ideas it gets applied against.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
You can already see the stats you mentioned. The unvaccinated get admitted to the ICU at staggering rates compared to the vaccinated. And given the spread of omicron, odds are that almost everyone will get exposed. I've had two near mi
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
We generally can't get fixed term mortgages that are greater than 3 years. Most of us have variable mortgages with less conditions placed upon them.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
In Australia the amount you can overpay a fixed mortgage before you incur fees is relatively low. (Ie if you pay beyond an additional $20,000 per annum you start incurring fees.) Is it the same in the states? Do people just pay the principa
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
If you can name some things you like, I'll try to name some Netflix originals that might match? I think you could be pleasantly surprised
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Why would you like to see it? (Assuming any such thing exists, which I can't imagine)
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Video date?!? Please tell me that's not a thing...
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
It's always astonishing to find that the envelope of cutting edge knowledge is sometimes far closer than you think. IE, jaw muscles hadn't been figured out yet.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Probably. And if you could accurately predict the lack of function after learning something, you'd probably dump that subject no? And you can do that with language instruction in most cases. Hell, maybe make language instruction more h
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I'm advocating for language instruction where it is likely the person will use it. Not the end of language instruction. Most people don't have fun learning a language, especially those forced through school. 98% don't learn i
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
We waste a lot of time trying to teach teenagers languages in high school. I learnt French, very poorly. Have retained almost nothing to this day, what a waste of time. I believe Latin is still offered in my high school system... A guarante
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Does anyone have a way through the paywall? I'm not made of money unfortunately and it looks interesting.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Nothing quite like eating food from the civil war. Oh, and he loves to smoke old cigarettes. The joy is palpable.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I'd tend to agree with you and have perhaps leaned in a bit too hard on the doing for emphasis.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I'd argue that 95% of all learning, is learnt by doing. Merely listening to something without properly interrogating your understanding of it.. you will end up with a bunch of shallow and untested knowledge. At best, a boffin. It'
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
They lower your chance of getting covid by about 50% if exposed and lower your chance of spreading it if you get it by about 50%. So.. It's not perfect at stopping transmission but you can see how it would definitely reduce the R0 enou
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I'm advocating switching energy sources very rapidly and shrinking the population gradually. The alternative is literally the death and famine that you are afraid of.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
There are simply too many of us and 'growth' will ultimately doom us unless we act fast. It won't matter if the percentage of clean energy is 50% if we are still emitting greenhouse gasses at 1990 levels. We need carbon zero
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
While we're transitioning percentage wise to cleaner energy, our sheer growth means we are burning coal,oil and gas at record rates. It's depressing honestly. The earth is only going to care about the absolute number.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I feel number 3 in my bones.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
The tech community here is pretty good around software and a limited amount of hardware. Once they venture into the world of biology, health etc they are only marginally more adept than the general public. It's also predominately Ameri
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Has there been a single case where a backdoor by a state actor has been found in a chip? I've often thought that if they were going to do it, we would have heard about it by now.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I suppose they could always go back to school, or do their final years at an adult learning centre? Life doesn't have to end because you dropped out of highschool, especially if you now have the finances to support your future choices.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
At every calorie level above starvation, there is an equilibrium weight associated. (Metabolism (which drops with less weight) + Exercise - Intake) -> over time -> equilibrium weight. So assuming you pick a low calorie diet for now, e
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Our system elects Members of Parliament (MPs), who then choose the Prime Minister(PM) from the pool of MPs. However what that means is that at any point the MPs from the majority party can oust the PM and change them out with another MP. Th
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
The last guy who tried (Turnbull) got knifed. It's a sad world we live in.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
Or you can do the real deal. Aren't futures dependent on storage capacity anyway? Like at some point at scale, it's got to be better to do the physical rather than contract equivalent.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I think it shouldn't be objectionable to protect the public from decisions so bad, they might as well be scams.
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by JimTheMan 5y ago
I have a book from the 1700s on my bedside table I can read just fine... My lived experience is I can read texts from hundreds of years ago just fine. Old mate is struggling with 50s tv. The only tip is to use stable language. IE don't

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