knolax

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by knolax 7y ago
A major in philosophy is not required to have a conscience.
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by knolax 7y ago
> it seems a little grotesque to be focusing on creating people trained in STEM solely for the purpose of keeping an "economic edge", as if they were troops that we need to keep us safe But the reality of the situation is that
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by knolax 7y ago
Social Studies majors systematically overrate the epistemological integrity of their fields.
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by knolax 7y ago
> Seems intended to be read by spy satellites... That seems like a stretch. If it was meant for spy satellites wouldn't it be in English and have a message that's a little less generic?
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by knolax 7y ago
What about the agency of NPM to not accept packages that are objectively inferior because they contain ads? If I submit purposely crappy code to a public repository should I be outraged if it gets rejected?
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by knolax 7y ago
> When you "talk to yourself" you already know what you are going to say, you might as well just stop as soon as you notice doing that. Why? I'm good company.
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by knolax 7y ago
The word you're looking for is a "public good", a good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. In economics it is well known that businesses operating in the free market will always underproduce public goods if at all. We&#
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by knolax 7y ago
To be fair I don't think I've found the exact book I was looking for in any library before. As book dispenseries libraries are inherently inferior to just downloading off of Libgen. However they do function very well as a place fo
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by knolax 7y ago
So only around ~1/8000 of the people who need to speak it actually speak it. It doesn't show any signs of dying but it doesn't show any signs of growth either.
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by knolax 7y ago
He did good but not good enough for a true international language.
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by knolax 7y ago
> A child might know the names of the letters but not know that sounding out words letter by letter is a good idea. The article discusses in some detail that apparently the strategy of sounding out unknown words letter by letter does not
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by knolax 7y ago
From the pictures in the article his handwriting seems to have an uncanny valley effect to them where the letters are extremely uniform but still clearly handwritten. It kinda produces the same response as seeing Comic Sans if I'm comp
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by knolax 7y ago
> If you don't assign sounds to words that you read, how would you speak them? If somebody asked you to repeat what you just read, what would you say? I didn't speak them. I didn't need to. If I actually needed to read it
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by knolax 7y ago
English's primary strength over other European languages is its use of logography. It's sad to see how most English speakers see that as "BuT iT IsN't PHoNeTicALlY rEgUlaR!". This is despite the fact that phonetic s
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by knolax 7y ago
I'm not sure sounds are needed to link to the language system in the brain. I remember as a child that there were certain words that I never bothered assigning sounds to until long after I internalized them. Even if sound is needed, I
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by knolax 7y ago
I understand the point but personally I think law-enforcement is equally useless in both situations. With the latter the bar for entry is higher. Argal I'll have the peace of mind of knowing that the shooter isn't an amateur and t
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by knolax 7y ago
The flawed idea in question are the following strategies: > memorizing words, using context to guess words, skipping words they don't know Personally I think the phonics vs. sight words debate in English pedagogy misses the point en
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by knolax 7y ago
It seems that you don't even need something as complicated as a ladder, a sufficiently long and sturdy plank could act as a ramp. Make the wall ADA compatible.
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by knolax 7y ago
A Hon-Hon is a Ha-Ha where the incline leads directly into a tunnel.
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by knolax 7y ago
Look, I don't know about you, but if I die in a shooting I would prefer that the guy who did it didn't plan it on the same knock-off imageboard that people go to for obscure fetish porn. It's the principle of the thing, I wou
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by knolax 7y ago
Presumably, that all-powerful creator judges not just the individual but entire societies by their actions, so by allowing such films to be made the religious might become guilty by association.
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by knolax 7y ago
> States, however, are an important part of the United States of America The current system claims to be a Union of States, but the current system also defines a goal of a more perfect Union . The Constitution was meant to be a living
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by knolax 7y ago
Why should 'rural' be a protected minority as opposed to any other minority? Should African Americans ger 3.6x the vote as White Americans because there are fewer of them?
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by knolax 7y ago
You're arguing semantics like a Humanty's major. Your exact definition of "advanced" or "brilliant" have barely any relevance to the topic at hand.
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by knolax 7y ago
I'd like to interject for a moment and say that imho this entire subthread is off topic and weirdly passive-aggressive.
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by knolax 7y ago
What's the benefit of this over growing high-protein plants like lentils with grow-lamps? Presumably CO2, water, and electricity are also the only resources consumed for the latter. Is is a difference in efficiency? Also, how do they a
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by knolax 7y ago
What would the benefits of NFC cards be? To me it seems more insecure given that anybody walking closely by could theoretically communicate with the card.
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by knolax 7y ago
I remember in that short story The Thing begins to call humans "living cancer" because of how specialized human cells were to the point that cells in certain structures like the brain wouldn't be able to support themselves
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In this case they weren't mutually exclusive, both the needs of the few and the many could've been met.
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by knolax 7y ago
vehicle autonomy requirements for a scooter are a lot lower than for a car. For one a scooter can't run somebody over so.

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