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by bloak 6y ago
I wouldn't really expect to see such a correlation because there are certainly other factors that have a significantly greater effect on suicide rates and there aren't that many independent countries (so you can't accurately
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by bloak 6y ago
I'm not sure how you'd distinguish them, particularly in a consistent way for different countries.
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by bloak 6y ago
And this is true specifically for humans and babblers because ...?
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by bloak 6y ago
So many people in this discussion seem to think that "attractiveness" is a scalar value. This makes no sense to me. Quite apart from this being highly subjective (different people having different opinions) I couldn't even st
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by bloak 6y ago
Yes, it's even worse than the one that goes a bit like this (with "//" denoting a change of voice as audio samples from different recording sessions get combined): We apologise for the late departure of the /&#
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by bloak 6y ago
I thought the oldest surviving texts are in Sumerian rather than Akkadian.
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by bloak 6y ago
The author started off by relexifying Toki Pona (substituting the vocabulary) and then modified the grammar to make it less ambiguous, ending up with a new language, which is given the ungooglable name "Mini". The relexification m
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by bloak 6y ago
> How often do English speakers use non-English-based acronyms? Not every often, but LSD is a notable example: the S is for "Säure", German for "acid". Also names of foreign political parties: the full names of politi
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by bloak 6y ago
Is the author's use of "Portrait of Dorian Grey" instead of "Picture of Dorian Gray" deliberate?
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by bloak 6y ago
Don't you mean 10,000 cores?
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by bloak 6y ago
And young children (and occasionally their parents jocularly imitating them) talk about "hooving" the carpet, because a "hoover" is obviously a machine for "hooving", right?
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by bloak 6y ago
There might be an edition of "Fathers and sons" that comes in under 200 pages. It's one of the shortest Russian novels I've read. From English literature: "Animal farm", "Three men in a boat". Try som
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by bloak 6y ago
I would have thought it's possible to pass the Turing test without being "in the world". But you'd have to be much more intelligent than an average human to do that, because you'd be successfully imitating somethi
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by bloak 6y ago
It sounds like you need a fourth language there, perhaps something from Russian, Italian or Spanish literature. Unfortunately, everything I think of has too many pages.
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by bloak 6y ago
An epic journey could also be accidental: someone gets blown off course and survives because they had fishing equipment with them.
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by bloak 6y ago
Long before home computers were affordable, in a magazine for electronics hobbyists, I saw a design for an analogue circuit that could, it was claimed, remove advertising and DJ waffling from radio broadcasts. I think it just looked for
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by bloak 6y ago
Nit: The expression "physical altercation" does not make sense because an "altercation" is an exchange of words. Perhaps what you mean is something like "unwanted physical contact", if we can interpret that exp
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by bloak 6y ago
You're probably right. They would only be infringing your trademark if they were doing business in the same category of goods and services. What they're doing sounds much more like some kind of defamation than any kind of trademar
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by bloak 6y ago
That article has one of the most inaccurate uses of the word "exponentially" that I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them.
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by bloak 6y ago
When has GitHub used the term "slave"? (Not a rhetorical question: there are many aspects of GitHub that I am not familiar with.)
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by bloak 6y ago
I don't know whether it's "racist"; the term "racist" is highly ambiguous. It might also be "sexist". In any case the expression is nasty and should not be used, in my opinion.
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by bloak 6y ago
I've heard that law firms in England put terms in employment contracts that prevent an employee from working for another law firm for 12(?) months within 10(?) miles. They're called "restrictive covenants", I believe. Si
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by bloak 6y ago
Cool. But now I'd like to see the corresponding report from India, say. https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings#
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by bloak 6y ago
I like the way this piece is written. A bit of gallows humour make reading about such horrific things just about bearable.
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by bloak 6y ago
I certainly got the impression that "Das Leben der Anderen" was made by West Germans. If it had been made by East Germans I'd expect to have found in it something surprising, something exotic, something I hadn't seen bef
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by bloak 6y ago
I think it's misleading to refer to a "third gender". If there were a "third gender", why wouldn't there be a "fourth" one and a "fifth" one? According to an international standard there&#x2
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by bloak 6y ago
I thought the whole point about "unlawful combatants" is that the concept does not exist in international law. It's just something that the US government made up as a bad excuse for ignoring international law.
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by bloak 6y ago
I remember ghosting being a practical problem in the 1980s when people used the keyboard as a game controller. The other keyboard problem was debouncing. (Glad to see the spellchecker knows that word.) The proper way to debounce would be to
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by bloak 6y ago
Yes, perhaps they could come to the UK and protest against the way the British government allows its citizens to be extradited to the USA. The existing British population seems a bit too meek in that respect.
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by bloak 6y ago
Perhaps you're right. Perhaps we need to replace JavaScript with something that can be more easily constrained. There seems to be something wrong with a world in which it is in some ways easier/safer to run an untrusted binary, by

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