dorchadas

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by dorchadas 9y ago
And that's _exactly_ why I will likely never have kids. I'm a millennial myself, caught up in all that (doubly so, if they remove the student loan forgiveness for public workers), and I don't want to make any child of mine gr
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by dorchadas 9y ago
Is it best for society, though? The earth is already massively overpopulated. Perhaps it's best if some populations decline. And is it the best for himself if, for instance, the kids grow up to hate OP because of, say, global warming
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by dorchadas 9y ago
> Side note: Before you demand someone provide a citation, try googling it for yourself. This result isn't hard to find. Or the person making a claim can actually provide a citation for their claim. It's not on a person challen
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by dorchadas 9y ago
Yep. I went to Notre Dame as a non-legacy. I knew several people who got in off the wait list simply because they were legacy.
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by dorchadas 9y ago
And only one of which offers reasonable speeds at reasonable prices.
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by dorchadas 9y ago
Except it was a disaster. The only reason the rule got put into place was because Verizon was found to be throttling Netflix. There's no reason to suspect they won't go back to it as soon as they can.
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by dorchadas 9y ago
Honestly, that's the same kind of issue that Duolingo is running into. They're talking about offering the languages for free, but they're trying to run as a Business and make profit. Now it's led to a marked decrease in
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by dorchadas 9y ago
Ain't that the truth! I tried just messing around with it a while ago to make my own airfare searcher to check a few things for me and it was a mess. Ended up doing the Amadeus sandbox, but the cheapest flights aren't necessarily
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by dorchadas 9y ago
> Fewer on both accounts than you would in early settled agricultural societies. Especially because they had fewer children, since the human child is dependent on the mother for so long. So they focused more on getting each child to an a
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by dorchadas 9y ago
The thing is, someone needs to firmly prove that it is -language- and not -culture- that causes the influence. To me, Occam's Razor would almost force the latter, unless you can find a way to explain why Quebecois culture is different
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by dorchadas 9y ago
You wouldn't call linguistic relativity a settled matter? Because it pretty much is, especially the strong form. And evidence for the weak form is quite lacking, relying mainly on the work of Boroditsky, whose main article has never be
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by dorchadas 9y ago
Except you could still perceive the differences. You'd just have to resort to other modifiers, i.e. 'light', 'dark' or 'bluish', to describe them. And you could easily invent a word if you needed to. It re