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by hcayless 5y ago
At a quick glance, it looks like it’s giving plural forms as alternatives. So the document can refer to a person or a group.
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by hcayless 5y ago
Guinea is the only recent coup I know of https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58461436
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by hcayless 5y ago
Niches can certainly be profitable and stable, but I feel like being a generalist may actually make it more likely that you’ll stumble across a niche or two, simply by being exposed to more ideas.
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by hcayless 5y ago
When my father (who had a Midlands-ish English accent) met my father-in-law (strong NC Appalachian accent), they could not at first understand each other. It was pretty funny.
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How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body(vice.com)
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by hcayless 5y ago
Sound recordings Parry made in Yugoslavia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_disc
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by hcayless 6y ago
The big money’s going to be in cancer treatments. If they can use this to target tumors, they’ll do quite well.
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by hcayless 6y ago
The archeologist quoted, Eric Poehler, tweeted about it this morning: https://twitter.com/Pompeiana79/status/1365692315407441926 It's pretty spectacular.
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by hcayless 6y ago
That’s certainly the hope of some in the government, though I’m not sure if I’d count on them to execute in supporting it. A lot of services based in the UK/London were there because it was a natural gateway to Europe, and that will no
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by hcayless 6y ago
More to the point, two of the four countries in the union voted to stay, but are being dragged out anyway against their will.
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by hcayless 6y ago
The fragments may or may not be fake (consensus seems to be that the poem is probably genuine), but the provenance was certainly covered up. See https://eidolon.pub/the-murky-provenance-of-the-newest-sapph... . It's all
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by hcayless 6y ago
I’m interested that this is getting downvoted. It seems perfectly fair comment to me. Newspapers can not afford to massively alienate their readership, and both of these cases clearly did just that. That calls into question the editors’ fit
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by hcayless 7y ago
The thing with babies is that they are, from the start, individuals. Some like a lot of contact, some don’t; some are very active sleepers, some aren’t; some will do fine by themselves in a crib, some won’t. You have no choice but to figure
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by hcayless 8y ago
That’s a pretty fair assessment I’d say. Things like improved diet and exercise (and going on Aricept) will almost certainly improve things for a while, but they won’t alter the overall trajectory of the disease. So this all might have some
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by hcayless 8y ago
Sure. XML is not in any way an evolution of HTML. XML DTDs are there because one of the original requirements was backwards compatibility with SGML. You can’t (well, really shouldn’t) parse an XML document without the DTD if it has one , b
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by hcayless 8y ago
This is wrong in almost every detail, and superficial where not wrong. But the underlying point, that we get useful things out of hype cycles even if they’re essentially side-effects is true. I feel like there’s more skepticism about blockc
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by hcayless 8y ago
I think you’d have quite a hard time finding one. Maybe at a specialty rental place, but not one you’d likely find at an airport.
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by hcayless 8y ago
I dunno. They have families. I’d be up for throwing a brick or two, knowing what I know about it.
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by hcayless 8y ago
Better hope you’re able to do it for yourself when the time comes. I’ve thought the same after watching my parents deal with my father’s Alzheimer’s.
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by hcayless 8y ago
This can actually be done, but only over the course of a few years, or the government will insist on their cut (or deny you benefits). I honestly don’t know why there aren’t riots over the state of healthcare (and elder care is the worst pa
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by hcayless 8y ago
Worth noting too that he can probably stretch the defense out just because he’s Messi . As a defender you’d be a fool to take your eyes off him.
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by hcayless 8y ago
The shift in pronunciation wasn’t a simple and straightforward process. If you’re trying to argue that the reconstruction is faulty on the basis that the shift was >50% complete, I’d respond that nothing like that level of precision is p
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by hcayless 8y ago
It's a pretty good rendition. Greek pronunciation has shifted a lot from ancient to modern. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism . Among other things, the accentuation has gone from pitch, which comes
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by hcayless 9y ago
Seconded. It really is a terrific book. Bit of an eye-opener if you're into sci-fi.
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by hcayless 9y ago
Sandbaggers was a great show. Watched it on PBS as a kid. The ending is absolutely gutting. I hadn't realized it was supposed to be a cliffhanger. Emotionally, it works very well.
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by hcayless 10y ago
GF has been tearing up our neighborhood this week and last laying cable (I'm in Chapel Hill). AT&T did the same about 6 months back. I was holding out for Google, but this makes me think even when they get it up and running, the su
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by hcayless 10y ago
Not a good analogy. I'll put it another way: People who believe they can make decisions for themselves act differently than people who don't. Are the former not exercising some level of control over their actions? The belief itsel
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by hcayless 10y ago
Doesn't the observation that people who believe in free will act differently than people who don't demonstrate that free will exists? I'm perfectly willing to accept that we have less free will than we think we do, and that t
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by hcayless 11y ago
Just about the worst handicap a manager can have is insecurity. And unfortunately this is something I've seen in most of the people I've seen promoted to management when young. The best managers don't assume they need to be &
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by hcayless 11y ago
For most grad programs, the whole point is to train you to be a professor. So, yes, there is at least an implicit promise you'll be able to become the thing they're training you for.

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