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They could neither fix the problem with the policy tools a country with its own currency would have, nor did they have the automatic support from a central budget a region or state of a country would have.
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Its more accessible nowadays, as everything is on the web for free, but the Catholic Church has a long history of publishing its doctrines. I agree the Latin mass was an impediment, but everything else was very open and public. > If the
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JWs do i as a matter of policy, but I would not call them mainstream. Not my experience of the Catholic Church at all, having left it myself (and getting married in a registry office etc.), and having friends who have done so in more than o
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Depends on where you live (lots of countries have no tuition fees or far lower than the US), what funding you have, how good a university you go it, what you want to do (some careers require a degree), whether you will enjoy it, and whether
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Historically people lived very different lives, required different skills, were poorer, had different opportunities etc. A lot of people will make better decisions with a few yeas more maturity, and spending a few years developing themselve
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> And yes, I'd call several mainstream religions cults because of this Which ones ? Not something I have seen myself I do like your definition. Its a pretty clear and meaningful distinction and linked to other cult behaviours such a
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Not all websites are businesses.
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There are plenty of cheap and better alternatives.
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That is something that should concern those countries. It means their economies are extremely vulnerable to even light US sanctions.
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Its a nice demo of advances, but its not hugely significant in the way some comments here make it out to be. We have had machines faster than humans for a long time. We have had animals faster than humans for longer than there have been hu
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A lot of GUIs can be muse driven. The problem is discoverability. You need to go out of your way to learn shortcuts.
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This is true, but it is an entirely different problem in a different place to what the article is talking about. The optimisations the article is talking about would help even with this problem if backends responded faster - although not as
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Claude not only writes verbose comments, it also writes comments about how things used to work when refactoring. That might have a place in version control comments, but not in the code.
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There was a decline in brain size that greatly predated widespread literacy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240517-the-human-brai...
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> Yes, using a calculator leads to worse outcomes in your learning. Does it? https://www.jstor.org/stable/749255
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Its not new. its been a question for centuries, probably millennia.
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I was nearly 40 when my younger daughter was born. No problem. Kids helped keep me fit.
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by graemep 2mo ago
Thank you. I really appreciate how well you have explained a perspective very different from my own. Not only am I a man who has had children, my younger daughter turned 18 today, and will be off to university in less than two months so my
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by graemep 2mo ago
I think the other comment was in answer to me too. I think you are right about the polarised opinions. I think in real life (at least for people I know) pregnancy is generally fine, with maybe a few horrible bits (i.e. if there are any medi
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Birth control has been around for a long time now. The oral contraceptive pill was invented 70 years ago. Fear of pregnancy to the level of putting people off having kids is much newer. I think its very likely that social media plays apart.
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Does the birth rate discourse put pressure on you as an individual? I had expected that to also be more of an online than real life push. There is more pressure on women to have kids than on men. That is not new. What is new is a more negat
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Pregnancy is never going to be easy (and its one part of parenting I am glad I did not have to do!) but it can definitely be made easier and more pleasant. it varies a lot though. We were quite lucky in many ways. However, why is pregnancy
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Yes, I am not claiming they are an alternative explanation by themselves, but an example of changes other than the ULEZ.
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Different generations, different places, exactly where you are in your society, religious influences, your immediate social circle, how much time you spend on social media.... Certainly in the UK there is a group of people who have become v
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Much smaller place and starting from a better baseline so they would not have experienced the same changes.
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1. yes, but there was probably a bigger gain before. Confirmation would be good. 2. does the study separate impact during lockdown from after? 3. my question is whether it had the same impact everywhere. I would guess very much not. 5. the
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Are those regulations adequately enforced? Lots of smaller developers out of jurisdication, and lots of bigger ones treat it as a cost of doing business: the data is worth more than the fines.
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A few things standout to me from the article. 1. London when the ULEZ was brought in was already a lot less polluted than historically.Are there gains from that? London was not that bad by global standards. 2. This was followed by the benef
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A cheaper alternative is Argos for a lot of things.
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Notes on pen and paper do help retention, but there are pros and cons. I know people who write on touchscreens or take photos of handwritten notes for portability to get the best of both. One to one teaching and self teaching are much bette

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