deadbeeves

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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Ah, my bad. I thought you were saying there were words where the "th" digraph stands for an "s" sound.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Fun fact: That scientist does that instead of simply using a neural interface like the Major and other cyborgs because he's an old-fashioned computer scientist and doesn't trust his brain to computers. Seeing as they live in a wor
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
The thing is, everyone who has ever said or done anything stupid can say the same, that they were only doing it to troll people. Pretending to be stupid isn't trolling, it's making yourself look stupid.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Dogs are already mandated to be leashed. That doesn't mean they will be leashed. That's my point.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
"With correct pronunciation" and "without an accent" are not equivalent qualifiers. There's no such thing as the null accent. Obviously I will have an accent relative to any speaker, since I don't live in an En
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Interference doesn't matter if all you're doing is copying what people do with their mouths. You might have more or less trouble performing the movement at the mechanical level (for example a lot of people have trouble doing the F
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Not that I can remember. Therefore...? What's your point?
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I struggle to understand how an adult does not realize that leading a normal life requires taking in some amount of risk, unless the person has some kind of learning difficulty. If you want to go outside, there is a non-zero chance that you
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
"Quid" is longer. >You can't copy something you're not aware of. If that was the case, babies would not be able to learn how to speak.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That's not true. I use stress timing without even realizing that I'm using it nor understanding what it means, but I can realize when someone doesn't use it. I learned it purely by ear, by mimicking the sounds other people ma
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I'm not saying they shouldn't live, I'm saying that if off-leash dogs scare you and you don't want to be scared, you shouldn't be outside. Even if every last dog owner kept their dog on a leash at all times, there w
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
"Sociopathic" is not just another word for "selfish".
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
If just seeing a dog without a leash is enough for you to feel in danger you probably shouldn't leave your home, let alone go to the park. That aside, you don't have a right to not feel in danger. You don't even have a right
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I think what the GP means is that if you speak in grammatically correct sentences and are intelligible, people are less likely to complain or look down on you. I.e. that's a deliberate choice on the listener. If your pronunciation is s
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I believe it's supposed to be like "erasure" without the "er".
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Such as in?
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
It's actually not apple seeds by themselves. Apple seeds will pass through the digestive tract intact. However, the seeds contain amygdalin inside them, which will react into cyanide in the stomach. So what's toxic is chewing and
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Nah, that's never going to happen. Rockets are inherently dangerous. Loading tons of people onto one is gambling with a 1 in 20 chance (possibly higher) that all of them die. Even if nothing goes wrong with the rocket per se, how do yo
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
You don't? It's machine-readable.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
It seems odd to me to arbitrarily restrict the alphabet if the only requirement is that the data has to be readable by a machine through an OCR system. They could have easily used the Latin alphabet to encode arbitrary bit strings.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
What if the computer isn't binary, but it needs to talk to a binary computer? Then you definitely can't go "oh, this text is binary anyway, I can just push it on the wire as-is and let the other end figure it out".
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
The daylight and the contrast with the trees don't help, either.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Not solely for it, sure. But I didn't say it was solely for symbolism either.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Sure, but that doesn't make it a subjective adjective. It just tells you something about what the person who uses the word thinks about what the word is being applied to. It seems weird to me to refer to wilderness as "underdevelo
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I think you're being unfair. >The volume of people making the crossing doesn’t signal that it has somehow become less treacherous. All this shows is that the reward for crossing outweighs the risk of dying along the way - both of wh
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
The point of such a road is not to traverse it from one end to the other, it's to be able to get on and off it anywhere along its length. It also has symbolic meaning.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
No, "under-" means "below some baseline". If that baseline is objective (e.g. "the mean development of the most developed country") then "underdeveloped" is objective, just relative.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
No, that's wrong. Even if my actions are criminal unknowingly to me, what puts me in jail is those actions. That my actions had consequences that were unknown to me (in this case, breaking the law) doesn't change the fact that the
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Let's start over. You say that if a genetic database didn't exist you wouldn't have been made a suspect, so I reply with a random example where you could be made a suspect without the assistance of high tech. To keep the hypo
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
If only you hadn't worn that hoodie that made you look exactly like that guy that robbed that convenience store. Honestly, some of these responses are so strange. It's like these people don't understand that they don't l

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