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Colors Associated with Vowel Sounds(link.springer.com)
1 points by azeotropic 7y ago|0 comments
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Sounds like the NYT is preparing for the Democratic party primaries. I presume Wikipedia must contain unflattering facts in the articles for one or more female candidates. Now these can just be dismissed as harassment by bigoted male wikipe
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by azeotropic 8y ago
You should switch banks or join a credit union.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
woosh Most public transit riders in the U.S. don't travel much and don't try to navigate different public transit systems. This is not a problem that affects the real users of public transit in the U.S., and it's not what&#
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by azeotropic 8y ago
We have this. It's called a Federal Reserve Note. You may have seen them before. CityLab is beyond parody. Yes, sure, the real problem with public transit is that jet-setting tourists have to install new apps on their iPhoneX in each c
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by azeotropic 8y ago
I don't see how bringing the activist into a bar full of hunters and then announcing that you're his protector is anything like trying to diffuse conflict. Acting like a macho tough guy and flippantly giving a library card as a pr
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by azeotropic 8y ago
I think the fact that the journalist is pushing the warring tribes narrative is part of the problem. I should have listed that among its flaws. The journalist here is egging the two sides on, deliberately setting up confrontations, and root
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by azeotropic 8y ago
I disagree. This shows some of the worst flaws of modern journalism: The smarmy tone, writing the story about personalities rather than facts, the narcissistic urge of the journalist to insert himself into the story. It's a travesty.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
The U.S. has 9 such metro areas. NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington DC, Miami, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. You could profitably run high-speed rail between NYC and DC, hitting Philadelphia on the way. Amtrak does run a sort of hig
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by azeotropic 8y ago
In the early days of the U.S., privately funded roads run for profit definitely existed. There are government-run toll highways that make money in excess of their maintenance costs, which suggests it should still be possible, if the governm
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by azeotropic 8y ago
I always assumed it was because teatotallers replaced alcohol with sugary drinks.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Nobody knows. But most crop pollination is performed by wild bee species that are common, not threatened or endangered. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8414 For an acerbic look at the "... but wild bees&quot
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by azeotropic 8y ago
It is for his honeybees
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by azeotropic 8y ago
The original article is about Morgan Freeman keeping honeybees, in case you didn't read it.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
That's nice, but the honeybee population is not declining. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/88117/err-246.... http://time.com/4885569/honeybee-population-increase/
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Exactly; it just requires some psychological trickery -- advertising the small form factor as a premium item. MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros are a reasonable analogy.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Google is doing a reasonably good job of making their search useless on their own. I rarely have to switch from DDG to find anything anymore, and when I do I'm frequently disappointed.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
The U.S. Navy seems to operate a bunch of floating (and some submersible) nuclear power plants in the ocean without too much trouble.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
When it's possible to predict the winner from an arbitrary board position, given optimal play by both players. Checkers, for example, is solved. Chess and Go are not (even though computers can outperform human players). https:/&#
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by azeotropic 8y ago
The U.S. is more wealthy and has a large private aviation community because private individuals can afford to buy and are permitted to fly their own small planes. As s result, it is easier for Americans to build up experience as aviators be
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Like what? I run with JavaScript off whenever I can. Most of the time when I enable it to access a site, it's obvious the site could be made to work (for the visitor) without JavaScript.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
I find the assertion that NYC didn't sprawl somewhat odd. Weren't all the city's parks on the frontier of the city when Olmstead laid them out? (and, in the process, invented the "parking space") "Slightly? I c
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Of course SpaceX and Blue Origin, etc. are working off of pre-existing rocket technology -- that's why I'm comparing to the SLS (which was supposed to be assembled out of mostly existing space shuttle parts). I don't think it
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by azeotropic 8y ago
It doesn't sound silly at all? The NIH is pretty poor at allocating research funds, and extremely bloated. The grant application process is kafkaesque, to the point where most investigators must hire an FTE just to deal with NIH paperw
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by azeotropic 8y ago
The NEA spends 1 out of every 5 dollars on its own bureaucracy, rather than art. Is the NEA good enough at 'investing' that they can justify a 20% management fee? That's laughable. Nobody seems to appreciate the central contr
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by azeotropic 8y ago
I think we can legitimately differ on whether it's clever or not.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Gosh, if it's such a vibrant economic sector, maybe it doesn't need a government subsidy.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
Especially since it has a bunch of (local) government-granted monopolies. Let's eliminate those.
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by azeotropic 8y ago
As a consumer, I'd say search is Amazon's weakest link. It's often easier to find products on Amazon through Google or DuckDuckGo than through Amazon's own website. Product metadata is so poorly curated that Amazon'
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by azeotropic 8y ago
This is a net benefit to consumers, not something they need to be protected from.

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