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by fifnir 8y ago
Because after decades of capitalists whining about the large and bloated state and trying to cut down from every possible angle, there is probably noone left to do these jobs. This is the market sorting itself out.
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by fifnir 8y ago
>If you need to make deliveries along the whole path from NY to Chicago to Philly, the path makes sense. Come on man seriously? No, what makes sense if you are designing this is to make one direct connection between Ny-Philly and ano
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by fifnir 8y ago
> On the recurrent laryngeal nerve in mammals: A direct route to the larynx already exists through the superior laryngeal nerve. A second path provides redundancy if one is damaged (e.g. by disease or developmental defect) > The nerv
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by fifnir 8y ago
> The counter-argument to many "design flaws" is, as a sibling comment mentioned, they may be "artifacts of the complexity of reality," [...] I've been trying to answer to this for about 5 minutes and I don'
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by fifnir 8y ago
So more or less you are hitting all the points from this bit: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laryngeal_nerve#But_it_is_desi... so I'll answer from there myself: Make no mistake, as an explanation this achieves
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by fifnir 8y ago
You are equating your kids' reaction to your code to scientists who have spent their whole life doing science on a topic. Why does everyone have such strong opinions about biology in particular, there's never doubts about what the
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by fifnir 8y ago
Are you hiring?
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by fifnir 8y ago
I have a really hard time believing this 70% I appreciate that we all live in a bit of an echo chamber since we choose our friends, but I don't know anyone who is not okay with the "two names" solution What more could anyone
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by fifnir 8y ago
Macedonia is a broader geographic region which is shared by 4 states.
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by fifnir 8y ago
That's exactly why I poked him. Only nationalists are displeased. source: I'm Greek and I think this is a great deal
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by fifnir 8y ago
Which will of which people was ignored?
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by fifnir 8y ago
I think search is not only not solved, but a failed concept overall. It's too hard to find relevant information from the gazillions of pages based only on a few words. I think search needs to be replaced by some kind of indexing/o
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by fifnir 8y ago
Great, I get redirected to " https://canalhistoria.es/" instead of the article. Smart devs who can read IPs strike again...
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by fifnir 8y ago
What a thirsty site... asks to send notifications, content-covering social media bar with bright colours that follows you around, subscription box that follows you around, and of course the good old WAIT BEFORE YOU GO thing when you scroll
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by fifnir 8y ago
"Why do we keep accepting this ridiculously bad thing if we are now conscious of bad things?"
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by fifnir 8y ago
How is it entitlement? This is an american company, so default language is in english. Which I went to the trouble of learning in order to "join the rest of the world", out of my tiny homecountry. They have their content avai
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by fifnir 8y ago
I'm sorry for the out-of-topic rant: I got the "we care about your prinvacy" note, in spanish. What do I have to do to convince the internet that I don't speak fucking spanish? Yes my ip is in spain because I live h
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by fifnir 8y ago
The unavoidable suggested answers in gmail make my skin crawl. I dont want it and i dont want to be reminded that you can read my emails despite my consent for it I guess it's a good reminder that i need to change services
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by fifnir 8y ago
Does google allow manufacturers to ship a FOSS version of their phones?
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by fifnir 8y ago
They get their return, they don't need to force it down our throat.
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by fifnir 8y ago
Hi, are you saying this with a some linguistic expertise ? As a Greek without much background in linguistics etc I noticed a some pretty strong mistakes (to my ear) and since the original is pretty understandable to me I assume (potent
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by fifnir 8y ago
did Obama control all the government?
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by fifnir 8y ago
Well there's some noise like in everything else in life, but I don't think there's any empty studies (okay there's even a few cases of lying which is sad beyond words but thankfully they are very few i think). Why does t
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by fifnir 8y ago
How about doing some academic work? With the explosion of NGsequencing there's no shortage of data or data-magician positions, and there's many challenges with social impact
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by fifnir 8y ago
How about the inability to repeal obamacare, a main goal of theirs for many years, while having 100% control of the government?
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by fifnir 8y ago
Read it again: it's his clients that are using google
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by fifnir 8y ago
Don't appropriate open mindedness to promote your bullshit.
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by fifnir 8y ago
Is it that people don't second guess everything a philosopher says ?
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by fifnir 8y ago
I think there's a 'balancing game' between "I need my DNA to be as compact as possible" (no waste of energy, faster to duplicate, less chance for errors) and "I need space in my DNA to allow new things to evolv
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by fifnir 8y ago
Check out these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element

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