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by ajuc 1y ago
Quote from the article: > Slavic peoples were considered to be people of an "inferior race" who were unable to assimilate into American society.[4] They were originally not considered to be "fully white" (and thus ful
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It didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment#United_S... At various points in time Italians, Jews, Slavs weren't considered "white" in US. See the above joke. It's seriously h
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Because of the founder effect, white people have way lower genetic diversity. It's like we've split the encyclopedia into three books: A-S, T, and U-Z.
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Russians are Slavs too. They are the last remaining colonial empire and historically one of the worst bullies ever. Poles are Slavs, and they colonized EE before Russians took over. It's just a pointless subdivision within a pointless
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by ajuc 1y ago
"White" in USA means "Anglo-Saxon Protestants + some groups we accept as close enough". Makes no sense, but the whole idea of races is dumb from the start (same skin color is a very bad proxy for DNA similarity), so it&#
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It's like speed of light in different mediums. It's not that photons slow down. They just hit more stuff and spend more time getting absorbed and remitted. Better developer wastes less time solving the wrong problem.
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> Making invalid data unrepresentable simplifies so much code That's the dream. Error handling is what crushes it :)
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I like to make truth tables for understanding piles of ifs. Like there's 5 ifs with 5 different conditions - so I make 5 columns and 32 rows, and enumerate all the possible combinations of these 5 ifs and write what happens for each. A
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Txt files are hard to beat
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> the principle that there is more reality in a cause than in its effect What a weird idea. Why would that be?
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Huh, interesting. Doesn't happen much in fusional languages.
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I think it's a traveling tip like "always ask for halal option - they have better ingredients" or sth. People know beer needs specific conditions or it doesn't sell. So they are careful about that. If you ask for water y
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I walked for average 7km per day for the last 4 years. About 3 km before work + 20-50 km on weekends. My back pain is gone, I lost 25 kg (also with diet change of course - but from my estimates about 300 kcal daily is just from walking). I
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by ajuc 1y ago
Or you know just get audiobook on your phone and walk.
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Wouldn't space be more expansive in Europe with 100 people per km2 than in US with like 40 people per km2? How come it's the opposite in practice?
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I bought Lenovo laptop back in 2016. It's still working - now as a media Control center. The only problems with it were LCD screen showing "deglueing" like there's a drop of transparent liquid behind the screen in 1 corn
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You don't know you have problems with X if you aren't using X. If you do nothing for 20 years and then go for a 20km walk - you'll be in pain. But it's the 20 years that caused it, not the 20 km.
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by ajuc 1y ago
World would benefit greatly if EU went ahead with tech tax. It's crazy how much IT companies get away with that would be the end of any other business.
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Disney camouflage will happen.
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You don't need to memorize to understand. You can rederive it every time. You need to memorize it to use it subconsciously while solving more complex problems. Other ways you won't fit more complex solutions into your working mem
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> without language, your thoughts are just emotions That's not true. You can think "I want to walk around this building" without words, in abstract thoughts or in images. Words are a layer above the thoughts, not the thoug
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by ajuc 1y ago
Why bother with these commie Europeans, let's start with US, shall we? Ever tried to walk naked in the middle of your city? What is the reason it's not allowed?
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Yes, it did. Despite all its shortcomings the invention of law has had a pretty obvious positive impact on our civilization. Instinctive dismissal of government regulation like it could never solve any problem is a bias. Pretty common in te
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When languages use order property, object - it's usually because they treat the properties as functions. name(object) makes as much sense as object.name
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I have asthma, a few times I got an attack when I left my drugs at different home. Usually in such situation I have to go to a nightly doctor office (it always happens in the middle of the night on weekends). But several times this happened
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So there's 2 thesis in this article. 1. joke quality is how much sense the punchline makes as a completion of the setup minus the probability of finding the punchline given just the setup 2. jokes are subjective, people disagree wildly
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Answer what they want and finish with "but in practice it doesn't matter for this much traffic and would be wasted effort". People ask for fizzbuzz in parallel not because it's practical.
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It also doesn't mean they can. LLMs may be the steam-powered planes of our times. A crucial ingredient might be missing.
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There's new research that infrared radiation (mostly experienced when it's sunny and you're outside) helps mitochondrial function and boosts the immune system. So there's at least 4 mechanisms: - warmer = less likely to
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In early 00s my university in Poland had all computers at the campus connected to the internet with public IPs :) Thousands of computers - every lab, every room at dormitories and some for public use standing at the corridors at campus, all

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