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knolax
7y ago
> It's more like hunter gatherer hunting for bushmeat embedded in an agricultural and livestock raising society where such hunting is unnecessary so the hunt is more about status It seems like you just described "the hunting cu
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knolax
7y ago
Literally every culture hunts wild game. This is such a weird thing to consider unique to China.
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7y ago
> English is also unable to avoid the issue of having multiple semantically distinct and unrelated words being spelled the same, for example "stock" or "light" or "scale". Fair point. > Regarding your sec
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7y ago
I actually count English spelling as a strength and not a weakness, otherwise we'd have the situation of multiple semantically distinct and unrelated words being spelled the same[0] while at the same time having to maintain distinct or
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7y ago
> archaic writing systems with something more modern The Latin alphabet is an archaic system that barely worked for Latin and doesn't work at all for English. There's a reason English dictionaries have to include IPA. > Phon
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7y ago
> Learning to spell isn't memorizing lists of words, it's learning the rules of English and how words are actually put together Learning those rules involve learning the orthographies of French, Latin, and Greek, etc. as well a
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7y ago
If the headline says that the CDC confirms something, shouldn't a CDC press release or paper be used? Article seems to be from some third party citing this paper[0] and claiming they predicted it before. Title seems a little misleading
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7y ago
> The brick needs to be completely dried out to attain the maximum structural capacity (i.e., strength), but at the same time, drying stresses the bacteria and compromises its viability. To maintain structural function and ensure microbi
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knolax
7y ago
Sounds like forced IP transfer to me.
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7y ago
Be warned that one of the worst ways to learn a language is through translations. Most translations leave out a bunch of information because between connotation, denotation, and grammatical correctness you can really choose one or two of th
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7y ago
Until another computer system denies him service for not spelling his name exactly as it is on his ID.
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7y ago
A new HID will replace keyboards+ mouse/touchscreens.
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knolax
7y ago
Sorry my bad.
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knolax
7y ago
Junior year ToK?
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7y ago
It makes me wonder, if the Second Amendment can be expanded to include modern weaponry, could the Eighth be expanded to include modern forms of communication, eg. make access to internet a Constitutional issue.
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knolax
7y ago
TBF from the ~luigi part of the url you can tell that it's probably one of those "web sites" allotted to each user on a university server or something similar, eg. go to http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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7y ago
> 9/ We will finally move on from the Baby Boomers dominating the conversation in the US and around the world and Millennials and Gen-Z will be running many institutions by the end of the decade. Age and experience will be less valu
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7y ago
Has there ever been any case studies on people who have deliberately consumed large quantities of plastic?
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7y ago
To find the current day of the week, look at the row corresponding to the day of the month and the column corresponding to the month. There's a typo for the days 18-21 where there's two 18s.
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7y ago
> get off his horse and push the uncommon vernacular out of the text Is using slang pretentious now?
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7y ago
> bizarre racial proclivities. What is that even supposed to mean?
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7y ago
Somebody needs to burn down the soft "sciences" and start over. As the other commentors pointed out this a mockery of empiricism and will do real harm when it gets parroted by law enforcement world-wide.
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7y ago
> Random Audited Truths (I smell a rat!) – We have begun reaching out to external auditors and, in tandem, are opening up our operations to review by our users. This allows you to verify with your own eyes, whenever you want. WYSIWYG.
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7y ago
> The aircraft's lower fuselage will be assembled on the A330 final assembly line, and then be moved to another facility for the year-long process of assembling the upper fuselage and the lowered nose fuselage. They do use Beluga XL
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7y ago
I swear software's biggest problem is that developers prioritize their own ergonomics over actually producing functional code. Imagine if auto engineers just decided "safety is hard, let's just make deathtraps". I know t
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7y ago
I once had an Amazon delivery to an Amazon Locker in an Amazon Store fail 3 times before they gave up.
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7y ago
> As horrible as it is, gangs are somewhat consenting to this level of violence by initiating it. I'm going to preface this by saying I have no opinion on gun control. Gang members don't live in neighborhoods inhabited exclusi
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7y ago
Self driving cars, barbers, why can't they test their experimental robotic control systems on things that don't kill/maim people so easily?
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7y ago
In practice, without access to Google Play people just use third party app stores like F-Droid or just download the apk from the web like on a normal computer. It really doesn't seem like that much of a loss for Turkey.
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7y ago
> I don't approve of extorting all of Twitch for one companies corporate copyrights including blocking Twitch across an entire country. This is a scorched earth corporate authoritarian/oligopoly approach. I'm not saying th
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