iisan7

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by iisan7 4y ago
An authoritative digital address increases the power of the private sector. At present, I think it will always be easy to find a new ID-card provider if your current one locked you out for your cat-video-hating ways. Having a permanent auth
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by iisan7 4y ago
The full twitter thread is worth a read ( https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1628776107301273601 ). Brings to mind the story in December 2022 about confirming the B-21 hangar location from the night sky in a press
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by iisan7 4y ago
grass is always greener =) I remember watching the movie Good Bye Lenin! ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/ ) and thinking how nice things would be if we had just one choice for every product in the supermarket
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by iisan7 4y ago
right? And some ads did just that... case in point... all kinds of snake oil medical cures. I think the US FDA did a good job of this for food and medicine, where false claims can have really serious consequences... but I for one am not sur
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by iisan7 4y ago
I'm not so sure about that. I don't think it will be practical and easy to regulate. How to distinguish commercial speech from other opinionated free speech? Advertising from informing? I can't think of an easy legal fix here
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by iisan7 4y ago
See also the BBC documentary series, "Century of the Self". The article starts out by basically admitting that there is some informational role that is needed: "In the early 20th century, advertisements served a clear purpose
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by iisan7 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Intermediate level speaker interested in having a review method since I no longer use Chinese in daily life but don't want to lose it all either. I have never quantified the N characters I know since I never learned
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by iisan7 4y ago
Nice read. I wish we had train configurations like those I took years ago in Europe: cabins with with 6 seats that converted to bunk beds in the evening-- even in coach class. I would guess maybe in American culture, people would not be wil
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by iisan7 4y ago
Valid points, although risks seem to depend on the scale. A worldwide conflict would have different risks than two-state conflict. I don't see any reflection in the article or linked materials on the lessons from Ukraine, and the poten
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by iisan7 4y ago
Interesting point, re the pauses to take a drag on a cigarette. The only thing I can think of like that now in a workplace or chance social encounter is taking a drink of water or coffee, but I suppose it hasn't really replaced smoking
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by iisan7 4y ago
UN Declaration of Human Rights: Article 16 1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. [...]
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by iisan7 4y ago
Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again. With buzz about moving to Mastodon, I was just thinking about why usenet couldn't be a viable social media platform as it represents so much of what people like about the fediverse,
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by iisan7 4y ago
Some of the discrepancy is semantics. Global maximum lifespan is improving, but that's across societies taking the best survival rate at each age. Within many societies, net longevity gains have stalled.
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by iisan7 4y ago
Currently a big fan of https://clcalc.net/ . I went through calculator withdrawal after I left Windows XP and the great (for its time) Powertoy Calculator at https://www.rarst.net/software/powertoy-calcu
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by iisan7 4y ago
There's an interesting discussion in the book The Sum of the People which argues that the disorganized recordkeeping in France was a ruse and a deliberate attempt by Rene Carmille to embrace the concept of population registry but to
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by iisan7 4y ago
would be even better if it had the ownership/trackage rights that the other map had, though, that's quite interesting.
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by iisan7 4y ago
we learned that it's incredibly hard to model changes in complex systems over time and especially to anticipate disruptive technological change. Systems science is an attractive strategy for modeling at fixed points in time, and is a f
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by iisan7 4y ago
What do folks think about these document types as a corpus for comparing tools? It's missing images and handwriting samples, but those types of documents might just be too variable to make conclusions about. I remember Baidu's OCR
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JURN: Open access arts and humanities journal aggregator(jurn.link)
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by iisan7 4y ago
a curated search engine for open access research papers, with focus on arts & humanities. filters out predatory journals, scams, and junk links. Many interesting & odd research pieces to be found here. I found an article discussing
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by iisan7 4y ago
I don't think it should be privilege to receive an education that challenges you. Punishing the kids for the sins of being born to "privilege" doesn't seem fair. And if kids of privilege are the only ones in the gifted p
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by iisan7 4y ago
sometimes that can work but I have my doubts as to it being a good general policy. not at all guaranteed that it promotes camaraderie, over, say being called arrogant, teacher's pet, and ostracized by the others as 'too good'
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by iisan7 4y ago
reminded me of this captivating tale of tracking down wreckage from a destroyed A-12 Oxcart in the Nevada desert. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
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by iisan7 4y ago
First used it as background music for a 60s secret agent themed party. Since then it's been a holiday tradition to listen to the Christmas stations. Every year when I find out it's still online it's like a nice present.