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by hirundo 5y ago
As a boomer I had to do a visual search to translate the meme. Apparently it is a magic conch shell on SpongeBob and my cultural literacy is deteriorating.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I walked into a Verizon shop last week, held up my old (large) Samsung S9+, and said I was looking for a smaller phone. They said nope, we don't have anything smaller. The S9+ was one of the larger options when I bought it. Now they&#x
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by hirundo 5y ago
Shogun
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by hirundo 5y ago
"After the decline of traditional faith, the ensuing churn of political religions makes me believe that total religiosity is largely conserved; we’ve just been shuffling it around between better or worse vessels." The conservation
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by hirundo 5y ago
The amputation epidemic is a diabetes epidemic that's a horrible standard American diet epidemic.
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by hirundo 5y ago
The article doesn't mention using Starship for point-to-point transport on Earth. It would seem to make sense for fast long distance commercial travel, and for high value -- like military -- cargo delivery. I'd guess that such ter
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by hirundo 5y ago
> Mr Musk’s development philosophy is that “if things are not failing, you aren’t innovating enough.” My boss used to keep saying "move fast and break things!" Then a new guy seriously messed up and almost lost us a valuable cl
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by hirundo 5y ago
Nice! I'd like to have an option to save a list of sites and terms to exclude by default. Google would be so much nicer if I could tell it to "ignore these 57 sites and all things Kardashian unless I say otherwise".
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by hirundo 5y ago
Bryan's boss weighed in on this today: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/02/no... He says the education researchers who might audit this don't because Bryan is an outsider in th
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by hirundo 5y ago
That's brilliant. Some fiction can't be contained by paper.
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by hirundo 5y ago
That's why the topic is a political football. The scope of that volition is a constraint on the scope of effective governance, particularly as fueled by blame.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> you would have to reduce vast portions of the conscious decision-making matrix to the epiphenomena of a genetic teleology. You have put your finger directly on the issue. How could it be possible for sequences of amino acids to influen
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by hirundo 5y ago
This problem has significantly limited my night time mobility. As I've aged the headlight glare has become bad enough that I've almost entirely stopped driving at night. Unfortunately at best this remedial technology would take de
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by hirundo 5y ago
> This exception alone would seem to fly in the face of the notion that romantic love can be conceptually-modeled as a mere epiphenomenon of genetic sovereignty and autonomy. Biologically romantic love between same sex partners is more o
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by hirundo 5y ago
I left Firefox for political sentiments that most of you do not share, judging from past conversations here. There are enough people like me that those events likely continue to put downward pressure on their market share. But not all that
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by hirundo 5y ago
"War is the health of the state." - Randolph Bourne s/state/media See "Yellow Journalism" and the Spanish-American War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Origins:_Pul...
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by hirundo 5y ago
A former coworker of mine was a convicted "hacker" who did time in federal prison for it. Part of his story was told in Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. The coworker told me that he had stuck at the current company for
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by hirundo 5y ago
It's funny that they don't report which spending cuts the senators are proposing to compensate for the lost revenue.
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85-Mile-Wide Comet Is Largest Ever Observed(livescience.com)
2 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
The average grocery store profit margin is around 2.2%. If additional shoplifting amounts to a substantial fraction of that, then there's no reason to keep the business open. Grocery stores aren't pro bono. https://theg
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by hirundo 5y ago
I think people who can compose complete well ordered arguments in their head are like those who can play chess well while blindfolded. It's an extraordinary talent.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I sleep much better in real dark. I used to work night shifts, so have years of experience struggling to sleep with too much light. I never did adjust well to it. Now I probably take it too far, taping over the power light on the phone next
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by hirundo 5y ago
This is particularly evident in creation myths. In answer to "where did we come from, how was the world made", instead of a shrug or some unsatisfying facts, we hear a story. And our need to understand is such that we cling to tha
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by hirundo 5y ago
The light pollution is also a problem. 17 years ago I bought a lot in a rural subdivision and have lived there ever since. I consulted a light pollution map before buying here, as I'm an amateur astronomer. This is one of the darkest a
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by hirundo 5y ago
"Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard has argued that the destruction of the bison was a form of genocide, since their slaughter was partly designed to render Native Americans and their cultures extinct." It was indeed part of the genocid
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Macron announces France is to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors(independent.co.uk)
7 points by hirundo 5y ago|1 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
The Gumball Rally (1976) was an earlier and better movie than The Canonball Run (1981). At least better to this pre-teen. We would set the alarm to watch it in the wee hours of the morning on the super-late show, before video stores. I st
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by hirundo 5y ago
Can a gun commit murder? Same answer. HAL killed people in the course of following its human written program. It would make as much sense to charge autopilot software with homicide.
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by hirundo 5y ago
At the top of the article, in italics: > Caveats: ... “if the correlation is causal”
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by hirundo 5y ago
Diverse results on a word comprehension test probably correlates with cultural diversity better than ethnicity does. It could be easier and more reliable to assemble a culturally diverse workforce via word comprehension clusters than by per

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