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by Zuider 5y ago
So it looks like a perceptual thing, the result of how your physical brain has been wired, where you cannot perceive the phenomenon directly despite having a solid analytic understanding of the matter. This reminds me of Frank Jackson'
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by Zuider 5y ago
It can be very frustrating when someone you are trying to instruct just bails out on something that appears, at least to you, very simple to understand just by following some easy, clearly defined steps, and they exclaim: "No, I can&#x
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by Zuider 5y ago
DADEAE is another tuning that is good for resonant melodic playing without straining the neck. As you can see you have the D,A,E strings tuned in 5ths like a banjo or fiddle.
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by Zuider 5y ago
Or playing partial tones, which is often used to get those very high notes.
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by Zuider 5y ago
With apologies in advance, because you probably have already done this... Just count: 1 2 3 4 along with the pulse. First you hear the audience clap on 1 and 3, then some instrumental magic, and the audience is clapping on 2 and 4. Is it po
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by Zuider 5y ago
Bad actors are why we can't have nice things. Think of how simple, clean and efficient computing would be if we didn't have to keep criminals and idiots at bay.
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by Zuider 5y ago
> Tell the sender it failed... But if the sender is a bad actor, they can just keep testing until they succeed, which will make fraud worse.
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by Zuider 5y ago
By the same token, it is strange that one of the pioneering visionaries of computing is commonly known as Ada Lovelace, even though her actual surname was 'King' (née Gordon) Her full title was 'Ada King, The Right Honourable
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by Zuider 5y ago
There were long delays in delivery if you ordered a Sinclair QL, to the point that people speculated that 'QL' stood for a long 'Q' and an 'L' of a wait!
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Amstrad did bring out an IBM-copatible Amstrad PC which had moderate success.
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Not quite true. If you wished to be addressed by the title of 'Sir' or 'Dame,' you would have to be a British citizen, but a non citizen can add letters after their name, e.g. Bob Geldof, KBE, remains a citizen of the Re
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by Zuider 5y ago
Formal surnames attached to a family are a later invention than aristocratic titles. In fact, surnames were originally introduced for the sole purpose of identifying individuals for the purpose of taxing them. When the English tried this on
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by Zuider 5y ago
Sir Roger Penrose was investigating non-computability versus computability in brain behavior. I am not sure he even mentions free will. This highlights some of the unfortunate tensions in this debate, where people may feel obliged to hold t
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Doesn't the governor of a state have the power to grant pardons?
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https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=tosser
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James II entertained the same delusions as Charles of being absolute monarch. He had a kinder fate, being carefully allowed to escape twice on his journey to France.
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Giving 'free rein' comes from the pragmatic practice of allowing a horse to chose the best path over difficult terrain on the grounds that the animal would know better than the rider.
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A national news outlet such as the BBC is obliged to be accurate and clear, factually and in its use of legal terminology. Both the BBC headline and the amended one above encourage a partisan interpretation of the case that is not clearly s
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by Zuider 5y ago
Or they wish to extend the powers to detain, arrest and issue fines so that they can be based on over-broad and ill-defined premises.
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by Zuider 5y ago
Even though the vitriol may be directed at an inanimate object, it may be distracting and obnoxious to the person who is reading.
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Surely a global government constitutes a monopoly that cannot be busted. The aspiration above seems to be assuming as a premise, without argument or evidence, that a global government is not just a necessary condition for a post-scarcity Ut
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by Zuider 5y ago
Why is this a bad thing?
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by Zuider 5y ago
Previous attempts to unify the world have been somewhat unedifying, to say the least, but let's not go there... The main problem with removing boundaries and autonomy, whether this happens on a small scale such as a family group, or on
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by Zuider 5y ago
>No, it is not. It is supposed to be protected from the government punishing you over it, any other requirements are purely made up. The United States has an unusually robust legal protection of free speech in its constitution. It is the
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by Zuider 5y ago
On the small reddit clones, the far-right takes on the same role as the far left does on reddit. The Daily Stormtrooper gang, who comprise at most 10 people, will flood those sites with relentless racist material and will attack and deplatf
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by Zuider 5y ago
Reddit has introduced a policy where you can be banned merely for upvoting an offending opinion. You may have fallen foul of that.
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>Will it be illegal at the point where one is purchasing a product or service and determines where their money will go based on an opinion they hold? But we are not talking of a personal choice to boycott, or even to persuade others to b
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Here is a Guardian article on the subject, submitted to HN four years ago https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/07/theft-bike-ap... The video information provides quick navigation. The proposed sol
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There's a proven way to prevent bike theft. So why are so few cities doing it?(youtube.com)
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by Zuider 6y ago
I agree with you, but given that hypocrisy, indirectness and dissimulation are the norm, an approach to speaking characterized by directness, literalness, and lack of guile can easily be misinterpreted, assigned false motives, or cause upse

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