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by ar-jan 9y ago
A more interesting zero-word article than the writer's block one is "On Nonrecoverable Deletion in Syntax" (1972) [0] 0: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmLQjz0CMAA-l28.jpg:large
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by ar-jan 9y ago
They also offered misleading interest swaps, for which they're getting sued.
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EU countries have agreed to privatize state companies in order to have competitive markets. If some companies can take loans at negative interest rates because of being (part) state-owned (while private companies pay market rates), and then
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by ar-jan 9y ago
> Bpost [...] has been on an acquisition spree Illegal, state-funded acquisition spree. Bpost is 51% state-owned, using negative interest loans (ECB policy) for its acquisitions.
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Article says it's due in January.
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Then why refuse the possibility to disable it?
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No, all he's saying is that you cannot ignore genetics, and that genetics is more reliable than fragmentary historical records. And that those Roman auxiliaries would have been Mediterranean, not sub-Saharen Africans.
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Also, even if you disregard the "pop risk books" qualification, her argument comes down to "what did you publish on Roman Britain", instead of engaging with Taleb's argument.
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by ar-jan 9y ago
+1 on the Ancillary trilogy. Will check out the rest of your list. Another one I really liked: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. Very interesting writing style (it's not about Japan).
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by ar-jan 9y ago
And why would the people making this list have to provide that diversity? Either they want to on their own, without anyone telling them, or the reader of the list can go looking for it themselves. Note, I'm in favor of all kinds of d
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by ar-jan 9y ago
I recall an interview with Valter Longo in which he said the fasting-mimicking diet was just because patients were more comfortable with eating a special diet than with a full water fast, and doctors were also more willing to recommend the
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by ar-jan 9y ago
And still is a very cool project, just moving a bit slower now. I just moved my calendar from a large email provider to a self-hosted Radicale server on Sandstorm (syncing with Thunderbird, and DAVDroid on my phone). Small steps, but it was
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by ar-jan 9y ago
I used to use GridMove [0], which looks quite similar. This was certainly prior to 2008, though I can't find a version history right now. 0: http://jgpaiva.dcmembers.com/gridmove.html Edit: first alpha version May 30 2
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by ar-jan 9y ago
A recent book called The Plant Paradox argues exactly this (among many other things). (But, also see my question about the author of the book elsewhere in this thread).
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by ar-jan 9y ago
Can I ask your opinion on a (somewhat) related recent book? (specifically, it has examples about succesfully using diet changes instead of surgery, for people who were already scheduled to have heart surgery). Namely "The Plant Paradox
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by ar-jan 9y ago
I think it's reasonable to object to the casting, especially for those who enjoyed the originals. People form an emotional attachment to stories. What I find striking in this whole culture wars thing is how asymetrical it is: there&#x2
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by ar-jan 9y ago
They say the technique used on the bones was for extracting marrow. I don't know if there could be any reason to break bones already more than 100k years old, but it seems unlikely?
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by ar-jan 10y ago
Here's an interesting read [0] about making inferences about such questions. Story of someone who deduces audio fingerprinting must have been responsible for a particular promoted tweet (before audio fingerprinting was known to be used
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by ar-jan 10y ago
No, this is Larry's response to Dries, the DA and others (following his first post https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing ).
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Pedantic note: I'm sure under 1. Technical Skills, the "I think this is out of the question here" should read "I think there's no question about this" or something along those lines.
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by ar-jan 10y ago
Indeed! Linguistics is doing pretty well in increasing open-access (e.g. with journals like http://www.glossa-journal.org and publishers like http://langsci-press.org/catalog ), as well as open data (e.g. http:&
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by ar-jan 10y ago
It's true that cognates in basic vocabulary are very important. But the beauty of the comparative method is that you don't need the know earlier forms in order to infer cognacy (although they can provide further evidence).
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by ar-jan 10y ago
I haven't heard of neural network approaches, but people are using and working on improving automated comparisons to detect relationships. A recent article discusses its application to word lists: The Potential of Automatic Word Compa
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For rolling your own, I would also highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic
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> after brushing Before brushing, I'd say. Then the fluoride in the toothpaste can better reach between the teeth.
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by ar-jan 10y ago
It's for a 5-year period, so about 165,000 per head per year, on average.
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by ar-jan 10y ago
Sorry to hear this! :( I use a self-hosted Sandstorm instance almost daily, and I'm very happy with it. I don't really agree with some of the critiques posted here regarding the UI and UX. Sure, it could have used further improvem
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A great write-up, but I'd say at least as much credit to the person who reported the issue to the RTL news, who then contacted Sijmen to investigate further. According to [0], the original reporter had already enumerated all the flaws
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by ar-jan 10y ago
Not necessarily. IIRC, people trying to decipher Mayan glyphs with cryptanalytic methods were set on the wrong track and got nowhere, because a script is actually meant to communicate language, not to hide the message.
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by ar-jan 10y ago
I hope it doesn't pass, it's a move in a very wrong direction. > The state isn't invading your corporeal sovereignty Basically, that IS what's happening. The obvious sane solution would be to force people to make a ch

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