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by aqsalose 5y ago
I think the bookshops with fake bookself printouts on the wall look a bit silly.
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Genocide might be pushing it, but DuckDuckGo [1] first result is a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company Some entries in the table of contents sound a bit embarrassing, like "Banana
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>Many young people were upset when upload filters were introduced after the politicians responsible had explicitly and publicly promised that there wouldn't be any. I beg your pardon, upload filters?
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Mailing lists are nice to use, but quite difficult to set up.
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I think it kinda needs to be noted that the article linked ( https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/72/2/285/57416... ) does not consider cases like yours (a quickly administered booster shot a
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>Now if people are worried about employment practices, why not look at Walmart, Amazon, Target, and most retail stores. They intentionally staff people with erratic weekly hours, keeping shifts to 4 hours (no breaks or lunches required)
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by aqsalose 5y ago
So, did the US win in Afganistan?
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>He told me to never forget, and I never will. Genuinely curious: How do you think these experiences have influenced you and your outlook on world?
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by aqsalose 5y ago
I thought the picture Threads painted was silly at the later parts. After the nuclear war, the next generation loses grammar and ability to speak coherent sentences? Just because it is gritty, doesn't mean it is realistic. WW1 and WW2
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by aqsalose 5y ago
From the article: >The firm's privacy policy, which was updated yesterday, now says: "If you are breaking Swiss law, ProtonMail can be legally compelled to log your IP address as part of a Swiss criminal investigation." Th
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> I found very large improvements in working memory from taking 20-minute afternoon naps Sure. My ability to do anything also drops to near zero if I don't sleep enough. Yet I have not found unlimited increases in capability if slee
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>Right, while hurtling down the freeway I can always dig the 500 page manual out and dig through it. Note that I can't use the index to find those icons, because icons have no alphabetic order. Like I said, going backwards 2000 year
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by aqsalose 5y ago
The laundry washing pictogram symbols are an Europe (French) thing from the 1960s. edit. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20201001165119/https://www.ginet...
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Question. I can believe Communicator didn't change "the world". However, Deutsche Welle is German broadcaster. How prominent Communicator was in Germany?
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Here is link to author's previous blog series about Europa Universalis IV: https://acoup.blog/2021/04/30/collections-teaching-paradox-e... Vic II was the first paradox game I played seriously. Later I bo
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by aqsalose 5y ago
> but if you ask those in 1991 what the good old days were, they wouldn't say "right now!" Is this sourced? In Europe, 1991 was when the Soviet union fell. Sure, in many now-ex-USSR countries 1991 wasn't the best of t
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>you bet your welfare on a hope that in 40 years time, there will still be enough cash flowing through the system to support you. Yeah. Finland has a system similar to Sweden in many ways, in general it has worked great. Though during la
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(Unsounded is not the best fantasy story nor the best fantasy story told in graphical medium, but it is one the best fantasy webcomics around. But yeah, magic as a secret language (or version where knowledge of the "true names" of
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by aqsalose 5y ago
First time I heard about this book I was young and thought I was good at maths and (naturally) dismissive of it because of its title. Surprised it is quite good! Never used it for serious study though.
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Population network structure impacts genetic algorithm optimisation performance(dl.acm.org)
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... left and right vote in addition to up and downvote? Do not specify any rules nor instructions about when to vote left and when to vote right, but too much votes in either direction and the comment starts getting hidden. If you disagree
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by aqsalose 5y ago
There are reviews and then there are reviews: Rubber stamp security reviews happen. I don't know much about this particular case, but I think, in general, a trustworthy review needs to be conducted by an independent body with genuine p
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by aqsalose 5y ago
>it would just be a different kind of society We are allowed to rank them by our preferences. I do not wish males to be treated more expendable than necessary. I wish they would live fulfilling life. Catholic church was around in Europe
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>is that there isn't really a lot of unexplored ground My take is, there isn't a lot of obvious unexplored ground. Where "obvious" includes many things fresh graduate student would come up thinking about some logical
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by aqsalose 5y ago
Also, what is special about American fridge-freezers or dishwashers? Garbage disposal unit sounds like a questionable idea (more unnecessary things in waste water for the water treatment plant to sort out), and not compatible with the domin
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I have understood that Swedish housing is a specially bad case, or at least in Finland we like to tell unbelievable horror stories of Swedish housing (Stockholm rent-controlled apartment market where one either waits on queue for years, ex
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by aqsalose 5y ago
I think Mercedes is still Mercedes of cars?
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Despite downvotes, I think this is a reasonable concern, especially concerning all morally grey areas of surrogacy and black areas with current organ harvesting and past forced sterilization programs. Reproductive organs and rights to have
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It is more like, I lose confidence in whatever claims (if any) the links were meant to support and confidence that the linked-to site can be linked to as a source.
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by aqsalose 5y ago
The Swiss seem to be doing remarkably well as a country, and also on the specific point concerning matter of "government expenses financed by taxes". According to Wikipedia's table [1], the Swiss have a better debt-to-GDP rat

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