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by bazoom42 2y ago
It is an elaborate joke on works with lots of footnotes and editorial commentary. If you are familiar with this kind of text you migt enjoy it. Otherwise it will probably fall flat. If you like Borges or Gödel, Escher, Bach you will enjoy t
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by bazoom42 2y ago
> Perhaps the hobbits enjoy a bit of work. Well the workers, farmers etc seem to largely be content with their lot in life just like the leisure class enjoy their life of leisure. The Shire represent Tolkiens ideal society where everybod
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by bazoom42 2y ago
The Shire is idylic but not exactly utopian or paradisic. Clearly most people have to work - they are farmers, gardeners, millers etc. There is a clear social hierachy but nobody is exploited.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
The “smoking gun” is they (allegedly) reached out to Johansson, which shows it is her voice they were interested in. If they wanted to use the character they should have reach out to WB, but it is likely Johansson still have som say in ho
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Probably part of the contract with Wilson. Actors usually don’t own the characters they play and producers have the right to recast.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
That is not how it works. See: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Nobody stops anyone from suing, but the less-famous actor would have to make a plausible case that the big-budget movie intended to copy the voice of the less-famous actor.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Maybe try https://nandgame.com - goes from logic gates to adder to a programmable computer, presented as a series of challenges to solve.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
It is a classic geek fallacy to think you can hack the law with logic tricks.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Are you suggesting disparities in material wealth did not exist in neolithic times? Why would you think that?
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by bazoom42 2y ago
But what is their definition of “combatant”? The IDF massacred a group of escaped Israeli hostages because the IDF didn’t realize they were Israeli before too late. The escaped hostages had stripped down to thir underwear to show they where
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by bazoom42 2y ago
A bit hard to belive they would toss types in the water out of laziness given these types would be relatively expensive and the typesetters would need them to keep their job. The particular case seem to be a deliberate act of sabotage which
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by bazoom42 2y ago
So you have enough insider information about the decision making process to know they plan the strategy based on media propaganda rater than military intelligence. But you dont have information about why.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Are you saying Ukrainian military base their strategy on media propaganda rather than basic military strategy? Why would they do that?
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by bazoom42 2y ago
How do we know this story comes from China? Couldnt there be shared origin?
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by bazoom42 2y ago
My rule of thumb: If an interface only have a single implementation, it is likely superflous.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Yeah, unnecessary abstractions are just bloat. Generalizations should be introduced when necessary not when possible . I don’t think your opionion is an outlier among people who have experience in maintaining software. But a lot of teach
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by bazoom42 2y ago
This is really interesting research but I do have some misgivings. Whole languages does not just randomly jump from one population to another - but stories can, it just require a single travelling storyteller. And what they track is not ful
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Sure, we can’t know about stories which have been lost without a trace. But what does this have do with the research described in the article?
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Why can’t something be younger than we think?
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by bazoom42 2y ago
You call bullshit, but you dont provide any actual argument. What does that make your comment?
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Well the Brothers Grimm themselves let politics ruin the good stories, e.g by removing sex and turning evil mothers into evil stepmothers. It is probabaly unavoidable that a retelling of a folktale will reflect the biases of the storyteller
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by bazoom42 2y ago
Disney only adapted a single Grimm tale, Snow White, in 1937. Other Disney fairy tale moves were based on other sources like Charles Perrault (Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty). Grimm also have variants of these tales, but they are significan
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by bazoom42 2y ago
They revised the stories themselves. The initially publication was an anthropolical work collecting folk tales but it became succesfull as childrens litterature. So in subsequent editions they revised the stories to be more child friendly (
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by bazoom42 2y ago
I also prefer C# to Java, but there are reasonable arguments for Java. While the language is inferior, the Java ecosystem is superior to .net, and this might be more important.
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by bazoom42 2y ago
How did you learn your first language? Most people learn to speak before they learn to read and use a dictionary.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
How does divinity feel? According to the bible you drop dead instantly if you gaze upon the face of God. These church spaces eschews color and decoration and instead shape the light and the space itself to give you a feeling of the divine.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The name attribute can be an arbitrary string, so a number is a valid name. Even if you dont link to the anchor yourself, adding a name will make it possible for others to link to it in the future. I belive anchors were initially designed t
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by bazoom42 3y ago
How about having sql statements default to “dry run”, only executing if an additional keyword (like “execute”) is added.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I think Typescript need nominal type aliases for primitives.

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