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by enkid 4y ago
You also have the problem that metaphors and euphemisms are less pre use than plain language, leading to misunderstandings.
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by enkid 4y ago
I'm curious if other languages have similar issues. Does French suffer from too many metaphors, or Russian from euphemisms? The relationship between party slogans and Chinese always seems interesting and seems to often be an attempt t
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by enkid 4y ago
He's quitting when he "finds a replacement" and will still own the company and run the "software and servers" of the company. Yeah, that's not really quitting, that's getting a fall guy.
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by enkid 4y ago
I'm going to own the typo and leave it.
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by enkid 4y ago
It seems like an awful idea to say it out loud though, right?
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by enkid 4y ago
The data is poorly worded, but it does give insight into the fact that shooting isn't as effective as a goose deterrent
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by enkid 4y ago
Not everyone who was disgusted by this behavior is on "the left"
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by enkid 4y ago
All internet companies at this point are doing "mass warrantless surveillance" at this point then. Google makes money off matching people to advertisers by learning what they search, post, and how they use their computers.
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by enkid 4y ago
I mean, it doesn't leave much room for the rest of the novel, but maybe that's the point.
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by enkid 4y ago
They are purposefully bad, as it's a contest where people send submissions. Most of these are "bad" because they try to pack too much into a single sentence, and the concepts are so over the top the reader would be having a
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by enkid 4y ago
Because he's not a business genius, he's just a guy who has made a few big bets and they've happened to work out (specifically PayPal and Tesla, and maybe SpaceX eventually). After that, he thought he had a magic touch and s
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by enkid 4y ago
To be nitpicky, the OODA loop is an Air Force thing, as Boyd was a fighter pilot.
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by enkid 4y ago
There's a big difference between Elon and the average public.
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by enkid 4y ago
Limited liability protects against financial loss, not criminal indictment. If you are an employee or owner and you do something to enable fraud the company as a whole is doing, you are still criminally liable.
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by enkid 4y ago
No offense, but how? It just seems way more economical to grow plants in the environment they were evolved for.
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by enkid 4y ago
A single variable being different for each galaxy isn't a problem per se. If a bunch of other factors work out with just that one adjustment, that's pretty good validation that that one adjustment is meaningful. If, on the other
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by enkid 4y ago
If anything, the correlation between low birth rates and Individalism (at least the way academics use it) goes the other way. Asian countries have some of the lowest birth rates of the developed world and are culturally the least individual
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by enkid 4y ago
Having fewer children is certainly heritable.
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by enkid 4y ago
The average heritability is 49%. This would imply heritability and environmental influences would be about evenly split, no? So, all human traits are influenced by heritability, but they're also influenced by the environment. This f
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by enkid 4y ago
Is the conspiracy theory racist? If so, shouldn't be cancelled?
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by enkid 4y ago
But your original reply didn't say "he didn't call himself a victim," it tried to argue why he was a victim. The gp to this reply was pointing out how absurd your definition of victim is. It's not making an argumen
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by enkid 4y ago
Isn't the entire elections system built to reinforce regime legitimacy? All of the candidates have to be approved by the Guardian Council which is controlled by the Supreme Leader, so it's not like they have any threat to the regi
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by enkid 4y ago
Encouraging people to rethink their political position isn't intolerant unless it cross over to some sort of coercion. There has to be an ability to argue what a best policy is, or there would be no reason for democracy in the first pl
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by enkid 4y ago
This is true, and one of the great tragedies of modern US society, but doesn't lessen the immorality of what China is doing.
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by enkid 4y ago
Wait, are you saying because China isn't rich, workers shouldn't have rights? I'm legitimately asking, because when you boil down your argument, that's what it sounds like.
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by enkid 4y ago
You get a lot of tourists in the US at the top parks as well. It's gotten so bad, many national parks are requiring reservations to get in, something they've never done before.
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by enkid 4y ago
The US has supported Taiwan's defense long before chips were made there. It's unlikely this fundamentally changes Taiwan's defensive position.
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by enkid 4y ago
Thanks for answering!
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by enkid 4y ago
Ok, but what do you mean by a "still life" of 21 cells? Is that a rectangle in a larger field or is it an arbitrary set of cells?
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by enkid 4y ago
21 cells would be a 3 by 7?

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