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by cvoss 8mo ago
Mixed in with all this, and possibly preceeding all this, is declining marriage rates. It's significantly riskier, financially and relationally, to have kids without getting married.
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by cvoss 8mo ago
> all information that exists could be stored in a storage medium big enough Why is quantization necessary for information storage? If you're speculating about a storage device external to our universe, it need not be constrained by
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by cvoss 8mo ago
What could be causing these large-scale grid lines to show up in the heatmap in Florida? https://map.alltheviews.world/longest/-83.1653564346176_29.8...
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by cvoss 8mo ago
Indeed, it was a hot topic for Shakespeare. https://theconversation.com/shakespeare-by-numbers-how-mathe...
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by cvoss 8mo ago
I'm old enough to consider TV ads as scams too. "For only 6 payments of 19.99!" The "mute" button on my parents' remote control was worn off. I still mute ads that I get through low-tier streaming subscriptions
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by cvoss 8mo ago
> people might overuse them ... cliffhangers and sequels I once heard some try to understand pornography addiction by asking if it was comparable to a desire to eat a lot of lemon cookies. To quote Margaret Thatcher, "No. No. No.&qu
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by cvoss 8mo ago
I'm so embarrassed to say that I read it and didn't notice. But now that you pointed it out, I reread it and you are so right. It is clearly generated. I have flagged this article on principle. Idk if it it's in the spirit of
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by cvoss 8mo ago
I once programmed my TI-84 calculator to do exactly this! The only missing thing was a circuit to convert the audio jack output voltage into the needed form for an antenna. I had the CS know-how but no EE know-how, so I never got it to work
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by cvoss 9mo ago
Guessers don't believe Askers are asking in bad faith at all. If Guessers did believe that, it would be way easier for them to say no to Askers. It's precisely because the Guesser believes in the sincerity of the request that it b
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by cvoss 9mo ago
The issue is really focused on the grammatical function of the word. The researcher is arguing that it's not ever used as an interjection, which "whoa" always is.
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by cvoss 9mo ago
Yeah, weird to see a couple of linguistic mistakes like this in an article about linguistic mistakes. Another is the misuse of "latter-day". The article uses it to refer to an old thing that is analogous to a modern thing: "[
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by cvoss 9mo ago
The article references a forthcoming publication that I can't find a draft of. Here's an older publication on the topic by the same author: http://walkden.space/Walkden_2013_hwaet.pdf Edit: Oh, the PF article is f
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by cvoss 9mo ago
It's a great example of (effective, apparently) passive aggression, and, I would guess, is motivated by all the same reasons as any other kind of passive aggression. E.g., fear of open confrontation, or a desire to create a situation t
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by cvoss 9mo ago
Likewise. Thought it'd be pronounced "slang", and thought the semantics would be you define LANG=<name of a language> at the top of the file (like a hashbang) and then write in whatever language you please. $LANG is a n
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by cvoss 9mo ago
These are photos of the Indiaman service, operated by Garrow-Fisher starting in 1957. The Wikipedia article conflates details of this service with another one, the Albert, operated by Albert Travel, which started in 1968. I noticed the disc
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by cvoss 9mo ago
And Haiti was not, which was a weird inconsistency.
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by cvoss 9mo ago
The SCOTUS ruling I think you are referring to was about crimes commited by the person who happens to be president, and whether they are punishable. (So not stuff like "you need to undo that bad thing", but "you will go to ja
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by cvoss 9mo ago
The quote you gave is not the conclusion of the article. It's a self-evident claim that just as well could have been the first sentence of the article ("take-home exams are dead"), followed by an opinion ("reverting ...
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by cvoss 10mo ago
Oof, I couldn't stand to make it through one episode of Strict Scrutiny. It was a political podcast dressed up as if it were a legal podcast. Not interested.
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by cvoss 10mo ago
> any future > any user
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by cvoss 10mo ago
You are explaining exactly why the headline is clickbait: The article does not support the conclusions implied by the headline. > just in case the reader jumped to conclusions The author is correcting a problem of his own creation. He ha
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by cvoss 10mo ago
Any headline which reads "X after Y" is clickbait. Such a headline is constructed to imply that Y caused or led to or is in some way related to X. But then you read the article and find no connection at all. In this case the artic
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by cvoss 10mo ago
My actual first thought was "Is this a hoax?" precisely because the website did not identify itself as a US government website in the usual way for executive branch sites.
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by cvoss 10mo ago
> we must fight back to protect the internet that we know and love. This is not compelling. The internet I know and love has been dying for a long time for unrelated reasons. The new internet that is replacing that one is an internet tha
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by cvoss 10mo ago
The quality of this article is par for the course for Quanta Magazine, sadly. I do not need to accuse the author of using AI to explain the data I'm seeing here. It feels like every submission on HN from Quanta garners the exact same d
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by cvoss 10mo ago
What does your (dubious) example have to do with the quality of post-secondary education? If it has any relevance, it's for the quality of secondary education.
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by cvoss 10mo ago
Another option is endo/exocytosis. No rule that says the path between ingress and egress has to be open all at once.
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by cvoss 11mo ago
The article addresses your concerns directly. > In one of our early fixits, someone picked up what looked like a straightforward bug. It should have been a few hours, maybe half a day. But it turned into a rabbit hole. Dependencies on ot
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by cvoss 11mo ago
Are we talking about bringing your cart all the way back to the store entrance, or about placing your cart in one of the cart corrals located out in the parking lot? At a large store in the US, the latter are typically provided, and they ar
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by cvoss 11mo ago
It's true of beer, too. In a lot of states (decreasingly so), breweries cannot sell beer directly to consumers, or even retailers. I once paid for a tour of a brewery, where the price of admission also covered a souvenir glass. The bre

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