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by frenchy 10y ago
> I don't mind an occasional brutalist building as contrast in a skyline. Sort of how it's nice to have an ugly friend around to make your own attractiveness more palatable?
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by frenchy 10y ago
This sounds so ... American ... to me. I've spent over a 100 days camping in the backcountry (and many more day trips) and never once carried a gun. Only once have I seen someone carrying firearms and it was a ranger specifically taske
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by frenchy 10y ago
As a person who almost never drinks alcohol (that stuff tastes nasty) an alcohol-lock would just be a big annoyance.
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by frenchy 10y ago
Perhaps Selenium doesn't use an existing profile when it loads because that could subtly change its behavior every time it is run (for example, which links are visited).
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by frenchy 10y ago
It's easy to assume that a word has some sort of underlying notion, and that an Italian might think of "largo" slightly differently because it also means "generous" or "free". However, in practice, words o
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by frenchy 10y ago
Those trees are not a terribly good metaphor, though. English is more "descended" from its Germanic roots, but it also has enough in common with Romantic languages that I think it is reasonable to say that it descended from both.
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by frenchy 10y ago
I think it's a little extreme to say that the current popular way of quickly assessing large numbers students is "horribly broken", but I think the most interesting part of this has nothing to do with student assessment and m
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by frenchy 10y ago
I have no particular side on this debate, nor am I an expert, but wouldn't the current state still be possible if the recipients of the gene transfer out-competed all the other variants in its lineage?
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by frenchy 10y ago
I've always figured an HTTP 410 response would be sufficient for that.
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by frenchy 10y ago
> Not sure why improving this state of affairs would require a change in underlying patent laws. The problem with this is that there will always be someone who will happily say "Sure, I'll call your patent a 'standard&#x27
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by frenchy 11y ago
Back in the day when I was just learning to program, I wrote a BBcode library in JavaScript. Not knowing any better, I made very liberal use of globals throughout my code. I later went to go port my code to PHP 4 (that was current at the ti
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by frenchy 11y ago
I think the gp just doesn't like this liberal usage of the word "poison". Most medication is "poison" to people who are otherwise healthy. NSAIDs are bad for the stomach, pills for insomnia will make you fat, narcot
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by frenchy 11y ago
It's not 100% objective, but for simple things, it mostly is. If you hop on the mailing lists you will find all sorts of people bickering about whether it should be `shop=ice_cream` or `amenity=ice_cream` or `restauraunt=ice_cream` as
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by frenchy 11y ago
This is like paying for "unlimited data" and the telco reducing your bandwidth to dial-up speeds after you download 1 GB.
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by frenchy 11y ago
A lot has improved in the last century as a result of feminism, and the necessity of marriage laws is not as significant as it used to be. Still, I think they serve an important purpose. A simple civil contract is not good enough for severa
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by frenchy 11y ago
In English, I think this form typically implies that Ishmael is not the speaker's usual name, but just a name that the speaker wants the listeners to use. E-prime runs in communicative problems because of linguistic marked-ness.
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by frenchy 11y ago
One could say "I call myself Stephen", but does make it sound like there's something a little weird going on upstairs.
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by frenchy 11y ago
> still believe that the pyramids were constructed to store grain, for instance. But, in civ 2, the pyramids gave you a granary in every city, so obviously they were for storing grain!
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by frenchy 11y ago
Are you ESL (or bilingual)? I'm curious because word-initial [ŋ] is unpronounceable to most native English speakers.
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by frenchy 11y ago
I'm not the gp, but I think I can explain. Emoji isn't your prototypical "what you learn in school" language, but there is a huge amount of language that you don't learn in school. Emoji is kind of like non-verbal c
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by frenchy 11y ago
Did it ever strike you that maybe the physician recommended against the pharmaceutical treatment, but the patient still went for it anyway because "I have to do something "?
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by frenchy 11y ago
> I try very hard, everyday, to practice my pronunciation, and I still fail. This is the sort of thing makes me feel sad. I don't feel bad for ESL university professors who are impossible to understand because they won't bother
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by frenchy 11y ago
If Africa is anything like the Philippines, it was ruled by "witch doctors", but that was before exposure to Europeans (i.e. 400 years ago). Perhaps esaym just meant a really long time ago. In the last 50 years the only place you&
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by frenchy 11y ago
Here's some examples: * Telnav Scout: a typical GPS/navigation app. I guess figure using OpenStreetMaps is better than their proprietary data, and they don't want to be competing with Google and depending on Google for data a
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by frenchy 11y ago
> There is no reason for new information to be more important than old information. New information is often more entertaining than old information, particularly if the old information is already known to the reader. For better or for wo
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by frenchy 11y ago
Not necessarily. This is a bit of an issue now in Canada because with have 3 (or more) left-wing parties, and 1 right wing party This has led to a lot of ABC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_But_Conservative ) vo
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by frenchy 11y ago
I don't know much about the American medical system, but in Canada, once you get into palliative care, you basically get put on narcotics, so your father probably would have been okay. For most people, this works well (there are some k
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by frenchy 11y ago
There some much healthier options in there if you know where to look, but unfortunately its not easy to identify them, and even things like granola which are colloquially thought to be healthy are often jam packed with sugar.
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by frenchy 11y ago
I think "vital force" is the term you might be looking for. While almost any scientist would just chuckle at the idea, remnants of it are still quite common in modern philosophy.
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by frenchy 11y ago
> Even native speakers of a language need to be taught the formal rules if they're to speak well. Native speakers are taught some rules, but many are rarely taught unless a student has learning difficulties. The adjective ordering t

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