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by briga 6y ago
In this case, the most obvious explanation is the fact that they've been breathing in poisonous air (smoke) for weeks on end. Anecdotally, I've heard very little bird chirping in the past few weeks while the smoke was at its heavi
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by briga 6y ago
Both are true. Fires are a natural part of the environment. When you constantly put out fires around urban areas a lot of the excess brush just builds up, inevitably causing the mega-fires we see today. Huge fires are not as common in Europ
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by briga 6y ago
Interesting that they don't measure arguably the most important metric of language learning: speaking. I don't think Duolingo will ever be able to compete with in person classes when it comes to actually speaking the language
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by briga 6y ago
Is there any point in learning about cybernetics these days? It certainly sounds very important. But does it have an impact on software engineering as we know it today? Side note: I find it interesting that Weiner's book, which was fai
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by briga 6y ago
The history of modern Alberta doesn't go back much further than about 150-200 years. When you compare it with all the civilizations that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years it is certainly still in its early stages.
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by briga 6y ago
You better believe the interior was dangerous before railroads and highways and air conditioning, especially the mountains and deserts of the American southwest. It's only comparatively recently that many of these places have been able
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by briga 6y ago
Half the province is still uninhabited wilderness. The parts that are developed are rapidly expanding--certainly nowhere near what they will be 50 or 100 years from now. Compared to Europe or China there is still a lot of room for growth
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by briga 6y ago
Moving across the country ain't what it used to be--now pretty much anyone with money for an airplane ticket can do it with little to no risk. Calgary is a very cosmopolitan and modern city today, but I imagine it was pretty wild pre-1
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by briga 6y ago
The early settlers of North American were in some sense selected by personality. It must have taken a certain sort of risk-taking personality to give up everything and climb aboard a crowded rickety passenger ship for a month-long journey t
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by briga 6y ago
Would the precedent be less dangerous if the contract had been awarded to Amazon?
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by briga 6y ago
Technically true for all moments in human history
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by briga 6y ago
Can't they do both? I personally find Google Assistant very helpful. I'm sure Google finds my personal data helpful. Seems like a fairly reasonable trade-off for me
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by briga 6y ago
Events similar to this are fairly common in the Earth's crust. This definitely isn't the first time that some noxious fumes rose up from the Earth's interior. I bet this is how a lot of lakes in the northern hemisphere were f
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by briga 6y ago
In my hometown I've seen about half of the used book stores disappear within the last 10 years. There are a few still hanging on, but with rising rents and fewer people reading it seems like their days are also numbered. Which is a sha
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by briga 6y ago
What's to say we live in a world without paradoxes?
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by briga 6y ago
The brilliance is how Andrew never mocks or judges his interview subjects, no matter how outwardly insane or ridiculous they might be. Obviously the videos are edited for comic effect, but I don't think he could have gotten half his ma
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by briga 6y ago
I guess the algorithm doesn't know about Stanislaw Lem
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by briga 6y ago
It's a little baffling how monstrously big Amazon has become over the years. Pretty soon there won't be an industry left untouched by Amazon's tentacles. Hard to see how they can continue down this path without getting broken
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by briga 6y ago
Just like how wearing Air Jordan's makes you run faster and putting on glasses makes you a better reader
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by briga 6y ago
So many bands lose their creative spark after the first album or two, and it's exactly because of this mentality. I'd rather have one album of music carefully curated over 4 years than four albums than have 4 albums rushed out ove
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by briga 6y ago
Well sure, that's one reason they might not be learning well--all I'm saying is there is a larger context outside of the classroom that influences reading
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by briga 6y ago
Why "probably not"?
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by briga 6y ago
I think the real problem here is systemic, rather than being linked to any one cause. Reading is an active process, it's something you have to want to do. Kids mimic the adults around them, so if a child lives in a household or neighbo
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by briga 6y ago
I love it when two disciplines come together to find new solutions to scientific problems, but something seems off here. An artificial neural network is incredibly simplistic compared the the messy complexity of the brain. Generalization se
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by briga 6y ago
Smaller file sizes, less bloat
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by briga 6y ago
Delete your unused code, people
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by briga 6y ago
I'm not saying that North Koreans cant be good engineers, I'm saying that it's going to be an uphill struggle for NK to compete for tech talent when US/Chinese companies have so much more of the capital required to build
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by briga 6y ago
But it might be hard to attract talented AI engineers to live in, say, North Korea
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by briga 6y ago
New ideologies have always formed as thought bubbles like this, but now they're forming fasting than ever. Question is: are thought bubbles OK, or should we try to pop them? This forum itself is a thought bubble, surely they can't
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by briga 6y ago
If this is possible, is it possible that people got to the Americas by sea routes as opposed to crossing the Bering strait?

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