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by jeofken 5y ago
This is an original thought to me. I wonder how grammar evolves now that most language is typed rather than handwritten.
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by jeofken 5y ago
Let’s keep in mind how crazy the average citizen is. Half are even crazier
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I disagree that “älvdalen” could not mean valley of the älvor.
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by jeofken 5y ago
What a humourus coincidence that it was in Australia the upside-down walking beetle was found.
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by jeofken 5y ago
“Älv” can mean either river or elf, I think depending on tone? En älva = one “elf” (Not like elves in Anglo fantasy novels) When conjoining the a can be removed depending on dialect, thus älvdalen could mean elf valley. I don’t know the tru
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by jeofken 5y ago
There certainly is a difference in harm between forcing sex and sending unique user IDs, and it’s not unreasonable to make a contract about the latter if one wishes, is it? This is rather a reason to prefer free software licenses. Culture h
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by jeofken 5y ago
“Selected” doesn’t imply “better”, just that it was included in the set.
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by jeofken 5y ago
The similie fails since software tracking in programs you run are agreed to by you when you accepted the license agreement. Yet another reason to prefer free as in freedom software, which can be forked.
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by jeofken 5y ago
State leaders have no incentive to create value, but rather to keep power. Companies must create valuable things people want, or be out of business in a very short time.
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by jeofken 5y ago
Competition in economics is the incentive that has brought the majority of westerners from <$1/day to what we are today - with washing machines, cars, and water toilets no king could previously dream of. Companies compete for shareh
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by jeofken 5y ago
When people say “we” must “distribute”, it usually rather means that the state should take with force from owners - where oneself is often excluded. The most well known example of implanting land redistribution on a large scale is known as
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by jeofken 5y ago
It’s easy to say “ban this”, but what does it mean? Government laws are nothing without enforcement, and enforcement ultimately means sending armed men to people, and if they resist and protect themselves, ultimately threatening to kill the
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by jeofken 5y ago
Even without a time machine to witness it, we can be certain that the evolutionary process has sorted away ancestors who failed to reproduce, leaving only those fit for the environment. But like machine learning, we can never know why life
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by jeofken 5y ago
How would you make money of templates? With this model, you can profit on the value of every trade. I assume the exchange makes more when people invest more.
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by jeofken 5y ago
They also did a trial of a highway with power lines above, like a city tram, but I don’t know the search query to find anything about it. Was ~5 years ago
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by jeofken 5y ago
Volvo did a trial of this. Not sure how it ended up. https://www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-media/news/2018/sep/v...
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by jeofken 5y ago
Tesla too would be cool to program - if only even the navigation and entertainment systems.
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by jeofken 5y ago
What then would the incentive be for users to leave Facebook? The conflict is why social media companies come and go. Most young people don’t even use Facebook anymore, or hardly any
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by jeofken 5y ago
When working in that industry, the cope is thinking people are ok with it, because it’s the “price” of free web content, and consumers are choosing it over anything with a paywall. I hope free software micropayments payperview can be part o
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by jeofken 5y ago
You are correct in that this difference between settler and immigrant is a gradient, but outside of programming few things are simply yes/no
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by jeofken 5y ago
Can’t fix the comment now but meant that SV: hjul is pronounced like the vape brand
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by jeofken 5y ago
Thanks! It reminds me of how western Norwegians (Bergen, Stavanger etc) say a hard K sound when I think a H sound would be “normal”. Maybe they just never changed?
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by jeofken 5y ago
Some Americans I know make a big difference between being a settler nation, like those who came to where there was no civilisation but hunters/gatherers, vs immigrants who move into the blooming civilisation
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by jeofken 5y ago
To clarify the point, when other Swedes act a little “unswedish” it may be cosmopolitan cool, but it is limited to the national/ethnic in group. When Arabs, Somalians, or Nigerians, or other foreign peoples act unswedish its expected,
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by jeofken 5y ago
“Unforgiving” and “misogynistic” are words unrelated to whether something is true or false - just something to keep in mind
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by jeofken 5y ago
How does “wheel” relate? In Sweden/DK/NO we call it “hjul” which is pronounced like the American nicotine vape brand juul, quite similar to English
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by jeofken 5y ago
I’m not sure they would want Malmö back
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by jeofken 5y ago
I agree with you - Firefox does not help you keep cookies out without private mode or addons afaik
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by jeofken 5y ago
Alice sends Bob a message: “please GET me /coolpage” Bob replies, and adds a code, with which Alice can send to Bob to identify herself if she wishes. Alice is free to include it, or not, in any subsequent message. Asking to “store a c
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by jeofken 5y ago
Let me know if you want a hand in setting up a private key on a normal computer

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