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by jmopp 3y ago
I don't know about that; it's been around 50 years since market reforms happened in China. Add to this that China considers the century it was dominated by western powers as an abberation, and you've got a recipe for the curr
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by jmopp 3y ago
Before I had clicked the link I thought you were not referring to Proto-Indo-European but to Standard Average European — how many of the European languages (particularly the western European languages) have peculiarities in grammar and synt
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What is very interesting is that prior to the separation of the races around 1950, whites and coloureds spoke the same Afrikaans. I read a paper from 1948 which only looked at the white Afrikaans context, but which mentioned that most white
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by jmopp 3y ago
Why is it that whenever people suggest any kind of nudge that might be helpful to society, the immediate response is to take it to a totalitarian nightmare. Don't get me wrong; I think the government should leave people alone as much a
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The prime minister of Ethiopia is Abiy Ahmed. When he won the Nobel Peace Prize, he was referred to as Mr Abiy, which is his given name. Ahmed is his father's name, and it would be incorrect to refer to him as Mr Ahmed. Likewise, many
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...yes? Have you looked at Indian names? Or Indonesian names? Or Ethiopian names
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The magician Teller just has 'Teller' on his passport, and if you refer to 'Raymond Joseph Teller', people won't know who you're referring to.
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by jmopp 3y ago
This is one of my long-term goals with my home country, South Africa. We've got the legal starting point with a progressive constitution and a reasonably independent judiciary/media. The economy could be doing better, though, and
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In order for a language to be used for science, it has to be made that way. For instance, 150 years ago Afrikaans was considered nothing more than corrupted Dutch. But the Afrikaner nationalists - for all their faults - did put a lot of eff
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by jmopp 3y ago
Computers are already better than humans at a wide variety of tasks. Text generation just happens to now be one of those tasks. But if you look at the prompt -> output -> prompt feedback loop, it's clear that the human submitting
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That subreddit is known to be run by trolls. The actual subreddit for detransitioners is actual_detrans and the discussions are a lot more nuanced.
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That's not what happens. The waiting lists are incredibly long, and treatment is often withheld by clinicians - to a trans kid's detriment. If there were thousands of girls undergoing life-changing surgeries they would later regre
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It's almost as though being trans is not an ideology but something genuine that people are becoming more accepting of.
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The difference is that people want to be entertained. The shop-owner would rather not spend money on replacing a window.
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The middle of winter in Europe, North America, and Asia is the middle of summer in South America, Southern Africa and Australia. Yes, global transmission of electricity is a problem. But the problem is not a global lack of sunshine.
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The article spends a great deal of time explaining why streaming services can't be relied on to preserve the history. Not to mention that a lot of early hip-hop might not have its samples cleared. These songs would not likely be on str
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What it would have done was taken the reproduction number below 1, making contact tracing effective. It's the distinction between 'elimination' and 'eradication'. TB is a classic example of a highly contagious respi
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It's an interesting game-theory problem. If everyone locked down, the virus would have been contained. But global cooperation is pretty much impossible, and every choice had its cost.
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Consider the Great Migration of African-Americans from the Jim Crow south to the industrialising Midwest. 1930-1940 is also the height of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, so people would be migrating from the Plains areas down to Cal
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by jmopp 3y ago
This is not impossible. 2^600 is approximately 1e19. Considering there are 92 strands of DNA in a single cell, and around 37 trillion cells in a human body, a quick calculation means you need to dig up around 3000 bodies. Of course, this is
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by jmopp 3y ago
Why would they do that? Would it not make more sense to focus on existing customers instead of chasing new leads? I mean, sure, don't put all your eggs in one basket. But when an existing customer is asking you to take their money, why
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by jmopp 3y ago
Relevant Wendover video: https://youtu.be/ggUduBmvQ_4
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by jmopp 3y ago
I don't know, Indian religious traditions made their way to the West in the 60s, and today things like yoga are pretty much mainstream. There is also the effect that Indian culture had on British culture in the 19th century: shampoo wa
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by jmopp 3y ago
The average person is reasonable and could probably be trusted to do the right thing. It's the 50% below average whom I'm worried about. You'll probably find a Pareto-like distribution on littering, i.e. ~80% of the litter is
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by jmopp 3y ago
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treibs&Chlorophyll... On the right is a chlorophyll molecule. On the left is a molecule found in oil shale. Their structure is far too similar to be coincidence.
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They can be whistleblowers and still part of the conspiracy without being in on it. I can buy the Pentagon working on some advanced technology outside the purview of Congress. I can also buy that it's so secret that the response to suc
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Don't forget about people who got long-term illnesses due to the pandemic, and those family members who now have to care for them.
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At least when I listen to death metal, the vocals are simply another instrument in the mix. And as such, the lyrics add to the ambience rather than being a focus of the song.
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You can purchase spirulina culture online and grow your own protein source.
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Consider that during the first ice age, humans had not left Africa - and during the second ice age, much of North America and Europe were uninhabitable

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