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+1 for Grav
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The centralized login is part of Sandstorm for Work, which is also open source: "The code for Sandstorm for Work is maintained in the Sandstorm open source project, under the Apache License 2.0. Feel free to read the code in GitHub.&qu
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Title should start "Snowden".
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Sandstorm now supports RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Arch, and more(sandstorm.io)
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Both real-world examples and simulations say it's possible, by combining different renewable energy sources, spreading them out geographically, and using large distribution networks, among others: http://reneweconomy.com.au&
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I've occasionally checked on Eve's progress since I first saw it mentioned here on Hacker News about two years ago - nice to see all the progress you've made! A question regarding the centrality of data: when I first read abo
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I can recommend this one: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009) by David Grann. "It tells the story of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking
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Maybe you'll be interested in https://github.com/restic/restic . It does deduplication (with content defined chunking) and client-side encryption, and is actively developed. It does also use its own pack format, bu
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For those who won't read the whole thing, here's the relevant part regarding sentences like "I was exhausted": > The term ‘adjectival passive’ is often applied (perhaps not very felicitously) to active clauses with pr
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> Semantically, the passive voice involves action being done to the subject. This is not correct. It happens to be true if the verb is transitive and denotes a physical action, but that is accidental. The passive is defined in syntactic
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Here the episode: http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s19e05-safe-space
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by ar-jan 11y ago
t͡ɬ is a phoneme in Nahuatl [0] (Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate [1] if you care to hear it), which explains why many Nahuatl words have sequences of "tl". I don't know if there's a specific reason why these words e
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by ar-jan 11y ago
The article uses both the terms reproduce and replicate, but doesn't go into the difference, and seems to use the them with just the opposite meanings they've had in academic use - roughly speaking: Reproduce - to verify a study&#
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Here's the actual study, sadly not linked to in the article: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150645
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You're right, it's not a static site generator, but a (very fast) dynamic flat file CMS. I guess I got this mixed up because I found it while looking into static site generators.
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GravCMS perhaps? http://getgrav.org
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I meant that Nisbett's name was mentioned in the column (regarding the farm animals, yes), and that this allowed the study with underwater scenes to be found, namely http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11708567 .
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I haven't read much of his writings, but recurring themes are "youth today" (e.g. people used to be more humble than they are today), or how western culture is doomed. He seems to be very careless with how he handles the fact
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The critique is of how Brooks handles reporting facts in general. The joke I quoted is based on a specific example Brooks gave, which is traced to its original source (Brooks mentioned one of the authors, Nisbett - see http://lan
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Indeed. Here's a Radio Yerevan take on Brooks' writings, from Language Log: > Question to Language Log: Is it correct that if you show an American an image of a fish tank, the American will usually describe the biggest fish in
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Last week linguists issued Elsevier an ultimatum, demanding fair open access for the journal Lingua [0,1]: > We asked for the following: 1) The journal is transferred to full Open Access status, 2) Article Processing Charges (APCs) cost
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Nice quote. I just looked it up and it looks like it's not Bertrand Russel's: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
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> This article (and book) seems pre-occupied with trying to tell you that everything we've learned up to this point is entirely wrong Not at all. It's trying to communicate that everything we've learned has/had been c
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Yes, they're related in a well-established family. [0] gives a good view of the family tree. And the reason they're so far apart is that they must have migrated there from the north. From Wikipedia [1]: > The Apachean languages
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It's a little sad to keep seeing such approving references to Strunk & White's Elements of Style. To see why, read Pullum's The Land of the Free and The Elements of Style. http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum&#x2
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Hm, the article several times says "required not to be indexed", while robots.txt is more like "request not to be crawled ". An important distinction, because a page may well be indexed without being crawled, typically
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I suppose the title of this submission is correct, but I would like to note that it's not "a new world record in the number of words in a paper". I believe that honour goes to: Fiengo, Robert, and Howard Lasnik. 1972. “On Non
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I wonder if it would make sense to package a kind of "standard" version of the app, with the most-used / most important extensions, content types and whatever configured, as a Sandstorm [0] app. That way you could even make t
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While ASJP is used to explore potential relationships, it should be noted that it cannot reliably determine language relatedness by itself. The gold standard for that is still the comparative method. [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.o
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The research behind that article is extremely problematic. See e.g. [1] and [2]. The WP article adds its own overinterpretations to it, such as as the nonsensical "But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gathe

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