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by gerbilly 5y ago
Well in isolation it worked, but if you plant that corn back in it's original environment it would eventually revert back to the wild type. It would do that because it would be in a community again and not in a mono-culture farm field
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Thanks for replying. It's always a privilege to receive such a well thought out answer to an off the cuff post like mine above. I believe we are both arguing from two orthogonal axes. You are responding from the rational perspective a
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Ugh, I want to be positive about this, I really do, but I just seems wrong to me on so many levels. We didn't even understand basic things about trees till like a few decades ago leading to stupidly counterproductive practices like spr
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I agree that the verb gathering is misleading. It makes the requirements sound obvious and salient, like you're picking up fallen apples under a tree. To me requirements aren't gathered, they are 'elicited'.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> who is going to interpret an ambiguous problem so as to make more work for themselves? I did. In fact I always tried to find a unique or novel solution to my problem sets, ambiguous or not. (If the problem set contained a hint I tried
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by gerbilly 5y ago
One of the first types of communication that develops in infants is communication via gaze. Basically a kid looks at an item he wants to draw attention to it. Even animals use this form of communication with us. I had a cat once look at h
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Dodemus.nl: Condolences for a Dead Sparrow (2005)(web.archive.org)
1 points by gerbilly 5y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> The universe does not owe you anything. You do not owe the universe anything. Being grateful for how we have been taken care of , by our parents, our teachers our friends, by the biosphere, and figuring out what we 'owe' them
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Je trouve ça comique qu'une discussion qui traite de l'apprentissage du Français ne contienne pas un seul commentaire écrit en Français. J'avoue que je ne les ai pas _tous_ lus, mais....
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Winter surfing taught me to tolerate the cold. That movie endless summer has it backwards. Surfing almost everywhere is better in the winter. It's just that winter in Hawaii is pretty warm. Where I live we surf in the great lakes in
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Yeah, the article. :-)
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> Speaking slowly and loudly in english at someone in a small french village asking for the bakery isn't something that we should mourn losing. So don't shout then, and god forbid, maybe learn some French? English isn't my
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Why are young people having so little sex? (2018)(theatlantic.com)
92 points by gerbilly 5y ago|292 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I've been following this thread and I have to agree with noduerme. Despite the truisms that each generation tends to think things are going to hell, this time they really are going to hell. A life unmediated by machines is qualitativel
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> the mess The mess is because it was raided in ancient times, then hastily cleaned up and re-sealed.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
While I don't think that consensus can bend the laws of physics, I believe that humans largely construct their social reality. Buddhists often refer to things which are 'conditioned', i.e. dependent on conditions for their co
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Yeah sure, if you say so. How about this. Let's restrict it to the Pacific islands only and see what's been happening in reggae since the 80s. There's a thriving scene in Hawaii with great music coming out to this day. This
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> Finally, am I the only sick of these stereotypical images of 'native indigenous cultures living in simple harmony with nature' a la Avatar? This is a valid criticism of the depiction of aboriginal cultures. But I've co
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Preach it brother! Also, you should consider renting out space on your cube. You could even design APIs around the internet protocols so they can create their own DNS records, mailboxes. Wait...
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> being on the cloud means downtime is correlated with downtime of other services. That's usually a good thing. A long time ago, I used to circulate snarky little emails at work. One of them was responding to this very concept. My
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I'm not moving anything, just augmenting my point. Reread my comment and do s/serverless/cloud/ if you want, I still stand behind it either way.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
The whole thing reminds me of the early nineties. There was a whole mature infrastructure built around UNIX and open standards at the time. We were told to scrap that and replace it with Windows NT and its descendants. While UNIX wasn'
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by gerbilly 5y ago
False dichotomy, if you say so. I haven't found it too helpful when dealing with AWS and the serverless trend, whose popularity is really just based on price and economics, not technical superiority. Serverless turns every simple syste
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Well at least you said please, however: I have built and run my own infrastructure from the ground up, and I've been made to transition to the cloud. The experience hasn't been great. It may simply be sour 'grapes' beca
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by gerbilly 5y ago
He's probably just thinking of openness to experience."
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Glad you liked it. Also just to add one point. When you are an employee you will never get to be more than a sharecropper, growing your crops on someone else's land. I find it's best to always remain clear about this. Do good wo
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I think that the success of the 'British invasion' groups in America is that it provided a safe way for mainstream Americans to listen to black musical genres. The British musicians—who weren't as queasy about it—took R&B
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I'm not going to tell you to 'learn your place' like other commenters, or even suggest you change your attitude. Employment implies a power gradient between you and the employer. The thing that sucks is that income is tied to
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Yeah exactly what I was going to say, you have to consider the chord voicing, the strum pattern, and whether the sequence of chords makes sense for a human to comfortably play. Someone above mentioned: "Here comes the sun", which
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Ultimately, your argument is a troll because you are trying to tell people what they should value in a programming language.

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