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by Veen 4y ago
I'll second that recommendation. Shadowlands is a superb film. It's very much worth watching even if you have little sympathy with Lewis's religious views.
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by Veen 4y ago
There is a big blue information box in the article that explains this. It's called "Hardware vs. software pixels".
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by Veen 4y ago
The important change is that it used to be a low-status activity, but now it's becoming a higher-status activity — at least until middle-class people get bored of instagramming their thrift-shop finds. Although, the upper classes have
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by Veen 4y ago
Discussing this topic with tankies is a waste of time, so I'll just refer you to my previous comments.
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by Veen 4y ago
The communist famines were primarily caused by forced collectivization which disrupted the agriculture industry, incompetent centralized administration, and poor economic planning. They were literally caused by communist policies. The Gre
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by Veen 4y ago
Because more female plumbers isn't something that middle-class college-educated women in the media and industry care about—and those are the women in a position to be heard and to influence policy.
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by Veen 4y ago
> Capitalism also results in famine Capitalist societies experience famine , but that's not the same as causing famine , something which has happened numerous times in communist societies: - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Veen 4y ago
If they aren't sufficiently prevalent to demonstrate the advantage, then on what basis is the claim being made?
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, because to sell it you need someone to believe it works. That's independent of whether it actually works (although this does answer my initial question).
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by Veen 4y ago
Does that work any more? I thought everyone put nofollow attributes on comment links.
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by Veen 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of this quote: > I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious
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by Veen 4y ago
I have a Compact Edition—a micrographically reduced two-volume edition of the full dictionary—and it's one of my favorite possessions. Unfortunately, I don't think I could justify the space or the money for the full multi-volume v
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by Veen 4y ago
The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary. It aims to be a complete lexicon of the English language over time. It doesn't aim to reflect modern usage, except by adding new words. In contrast, the Oxford Dictionary of Eng
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps it's worth thinking about why we want communities to grow big at all. I think things go wrong when two different sets of incentives are muddled. The first are those that lead to a great community. The second are those that lead
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by Veen 4y ago
The novelist Will Self wrote about a similar experience when he was out with his children. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396222/Branded-pae...
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by Veen 4y ago
Your comment refutes itself.
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by Veen 4y ago
Hungary gets 60% of its oil and 85% of its gas from Russia.
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by Veen 4y ago
No idea, but it's worth keeping in mind that documentation isn't always written and edited by developers (because developers aren't always good writers). Maintaining the separation between code and content is a good idea if a
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by Veen 4y ago
They explain the difference in an FAQ. https://markdoc.io/docs/faq > The key difference is that MDX supports arbitrarily-complex JavaScript logic (think: docs as code) while Markdoc enforces a strict separation betw
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by Veen 4y ago
Conservatism isn't a hard-right ideology.
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by Veen 4y ago
That's not true. As British copywriter working mainly for U.S. tech companies, I often have to manually change autocorrect from British English to U.S. English and back again. Every laptop and phone I buy is initially configured for Br
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by Veen 4y ago
It was hardly a surprise, though. They must have known about the bells before they bought the property.
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by Veen 4y ago
I used to enjoy listening to the church bell practice sessions on summer evenings when I lived by a church (not so much being woken on Sunday mornings though). Annoyingly, they eventually shortened and lessened the frequency of practice bec
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by Veen 4y ago
It annoys me too for similar reasons, but I think it's a lost cause for the moment. For reasons that escape me, most in the industry don't have a similar reaction.
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by Veen 4y ago
So why don't you explain what they do mean instead of these mysterious repetitions of "you don't understand" and references to concepts (Chesterton's Fence) that aren't obviously applicable to what's being
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by Veen 4y ago
That's a little over dramatic. All that's happened is that British people can't visit Russia Today or Sputnik unless they use easily available methods to bypass the block. Nations have been blocking access to certain websites
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not really sarcasm (which usually connotes contempt or mockery, which I suspect the blog writer didn't intend). It's irony, and irony has been widely used in written communication since we stopped using writing exclusive
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps no one has anything to say about it. If you're eager for an opinion: I was already familiar with D-Notices—they've been around in some form since 1912—and I think they're a necessary tool to stop the UK press publishi
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, I can stuff a sack with straw for $2 and call it a mattress, but it's not going to be as comfortable. Making a better product—for some measurement of better—often makes it more expensive.
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by Veen 4y ago
I suppose the writer is asking why the people behind these companies think they will succeed in the first place. Or why the market will bear it. Why do people buy very expensive socks when cheap socks are readily available? It's a conv

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