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by bloak 5y ago
Also the "sharing". Is the article about "sharing"? Perhaps a normal human would have used the title "An evaluation of our image cropping algorithm".
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by bloak 5y ago
Except that human life is causing many other species to be extinguished here on Earth so perhaps it would be better for the universe if humans would go extinct, in a gradual and humane way: see vhemt.org.
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by bloak 5y ago
There are not many words ending in "eng", but there's one starting with "eng", and it happens to be pronounced like "ing": "English".
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by bloak 5y ago
This one ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Samsung_Series_3 ) with the Exynos 5? In terms of value for money it was, in my opinion, the best computer ever sold. One of those cost £229 and was in constant use for
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by bloak 5y ago
> It's not just Russia but anywhere that is outside the reach of US court orders and extradition treaties. Extradition is not a requirement. France, like Russia, will not extradite its own citizens, but you don't see so many cr
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by bloak 5y ago
Wikipedia says in the article on "Languages of the Soviet Union": "After 1937, all languages that had received new alphabets after 1917 began using the Cyrillic alphabet." If you've got a bilingual society I can ima
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by bloak 5y ago
Part of this discussion has got me thinking. If I were setting up a laboratory that does research on infective diseases I would definitely set it up as a small separate company, which would then apply for a research grant from the governmen
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by bloak 5y ago
I am constantly seeing references in The Economist to things they've changed their mind about. Often the wording is something like this: It was often claimed (including by this newspapers) that ... However, ...
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by bloak 5y ago
aɪ ˈwʌndə wɒt aɪ piː eɪ wʊd lʊk laɪk ɪf ɪt wɜːr ɪnˈvɛntɪd təˈdeɪ ˈprɒbəbliː nɒt laɪk ðɪs
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by bloak 5y ago
I don't think it makes sense to compare interactions between, on the one hand, different groups of primitive humans on Earth and, on the other hand, interactions between interstellar intelligences, which might be (and in my opinion pro
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by bloak 5y ago
"History shows that 80% of women reproduced compared to only 40% of men!" That doesn't necessarily imply polygamy, and it doesn't necessarily imply "incels". Imagine a society in which women get married at age
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by bloak 5y ago
I'm not saying it's untrue, because I certainly don't know for sure, but what evidence is there that "tiger" was pronounced like "tigger" in America at a time that overlaps with the appearance of the child
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by bloak 5y ago
The article has some interesting data points, where the author reports his own experience, but it doesn't really answer the question in the title, and where the author goes beyond his own experience he makes some claims that need furth
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by bloak 5y ago
In general, percentages are confusing: depending on the context, "30%" can mean a ratio of 0.3, a ratio of 0.7, or a ratio of 1.3. Of course a large part of the general public doesn't understand that if you make something 10%
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by bloak 5y ago
IQ is, by definition, how well you perform at solving a particular kind of puzzle. "Success" means fulfilling whichever criteria you have defined for a particular goal/objective. IQ results are of some use in predicting how w
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by bloak 5y ago
That sounds plausible to me. I don't have a definition of "cleverness"/"intelligence", but I could believe that in many species most of the neurons are working on processing sensory data or controlling muscles,
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by bloak 5y ago
In England you can write almost anything you like, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Walker , which resulted in a "not guilty" verdict but lots of trouble and expense for the writer.
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by bloak 5y ago
And for astronomers an order of magnitude can sometimes be 100^(1/5) =~ 2.512. I hate it, too, when people call a quadratic curve "exponential".
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by bloak 5y ago
Also, the development of writing in Egypt seems to be independent of the development of writing in Mesopotamia, though that's just 2000 km away. It's possible that the Egyptians got the idea of writing from Mesopotamia and commiss
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by bloak 5y ago
This is the shortest thing starting with that doctype that I can get validator.w3.org to accept without error or warning: <!doctype html><html lang=""><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>x<&#x2F
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by bloak 6y ago
If that were the reason, then surely the compensation ought to be paid directly to the lover or lovers rather than to the estate of the person who died, who might have left their money to charity, not to the lover or lovers. They almost cer
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by bloak 6y ago
Interesting... The document you linked to says they are "protected under trademark law", not copyright. I would guess they are "certification marks", which are a bit different from a normal trade mark like "Apple&qu
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by bloak 6y ago
I can't decide whether I agree or not. For an extra level of weirdness, imagine the person who caused the accident collecting the damages. It's not very improbable: you could be driving a car with your parents as passengers and yo
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by bloak 6y ago
Interestingly, in Germany at least, when someone is killed in an accident, in determining the damages payable to the person's estate (i.e. other people) they take account of how much pain (it is speculated that) the person suffered in
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by bloak 6y ago
Hausa is a strong candidate for the hardest language to learn, and perhaps Indonesian for the easiest.
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by bloak 6y ago
That sounds like the notorious "cut and shut" thing where criminals create a dangerous vehicle for the second-hand market, except that it's from a different era. Seeing as a 1965 Mercedes is built rather differently from a ty
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by bloak 6y ago
Let me try to summarise. Tell me if I've got this roughly right. A journalist has waffled about someone tweeting that an out-of-date 80-page draft from January of ... something ... the journalist can't be bothered to tell us its p
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by bloak 6y ago
It will definitely be mispronounced if they misspell it without the accent (Coquí). I understand they don't want non-ascii in the GitHub project name that turns into a directory name, but the one-line description contains an emoji so I
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by bloak 6y ago
It's a good question. It turns out that linguists can discover quite a lot about how some languages were pronounced before audio recording existed. I got some insight into this by reading the first chapter of an academic book on the pr
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by bloak 6y ago
Taking out the Archduke Franz Ferdinand went well, didn't it? That wasn't even done by another major power, I think. (I'm no good at history.) Presumably there's a reason why major countries don't usually murder the

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