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krisoft
2y ago
> Source? https://pressbooks.pub/psycholinguisticsfall2017section2/cha... > I’ve never heard of babies learning English or French or whatever in utero. Don’t expect a baby jumping out and saying “a lovely day to
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2y ago
> I am not especially found of tattoos How much? Is it an “all things considered equal i prefer someone without tattoos” or a deal breaker for you? Because that is the beauty of the system. Depending on the weight you put on the question
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2y ago
> Agreed he could have searched for the spelling Or just not qualify it. People make typos, nothing wrong with that. But the qualification means they felt they don’t know the spelling but couldn’t be bothered to do the 1 second thing and
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krisoft
2y ago
> Shundar (or however that is spelled). You could perhaps google it? And then you would learn that his name is spelled Sundar. Also, “that” is not how one refers to human beings or their names. But at least we can know how much to trust
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2y ago
Hmmm. I see what you say. You convinced me! Thank you.
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2y ago
> not a Content ID claim. That is my understanding too. We do not have a disagreement on that. > he got a copyright strike, which means a DMCA takedown Here is where we disagree. A youtube copyright notice / copyright strike is n
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2y ago
> Did ChainPatrol have to file an actual DMCA takedown notice to take down 3Blue1Brown's video? Probably not. Youtube has their own system which is not DMCA claim based.
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2y ago
> You win by the grade earned, however it was obtained. That's not really true. At least in my experience. Since I graduated nobody cared about my grades at all. On the other hand everyone cared if I can do stuff. When I was applyin
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2y ago
I don’t know how Duolicious does it. With okcupid you could not just answer the question, but also mark which answers you would “accept” in a potential partner and how much you care about that question from “not at all” to “very much”. For
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2y ago
> In the video it looked like the plane was only running on the rear landing gears, Are we talking about the same crash? In the video I have seen[1] the plane appears to be on its belly dragging on the runway. 1: https://www.y
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2y ago
:D all of these super cool and highly professional uses of SPICE kernels and here I am using the same thing to point an arrow to where the planets are as a room decoration :D https://www.youtube.com/shorts/32BGeJav2OQ
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2y ago
Always possible. I’m not a native speaker.
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2y ago
> You interpreted it as “Socialism is discussed in the novel therefore it was in the air,” Yes. I still read it that way. > but that’s not what was said. If you say so. I re-read the comment and I interpret it the same way still. If w
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2y ago
Between 1991 and 1998 there was an undercover war waged in Great Britain between two warring factions of a secret cabal. At various points one faction or the other controlled the so called "Ministry of Magic" main function of whi
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2y ago
> This is a truly bizarre and random attack. It is a discussion, not war. Nobody got attacked. That comment is not an attack, this comment is not an attack. > it's the widely known history, and are we attempting to contradict tha
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2y ago
> Socialism was already in the air in 1870s Russia such that it's often discussed by characters in the novel. That's not necessarily a valid conclusion. It is a work of fiction. You can't use it as evidence of what was goi
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2y ago
> Those same people would still give the cut to them wouldn't they? It is a very different proposition. In the current practice you get the product for the same price as everyone else and the creator gets a small slice of the shop&#
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2y ago
Wait what? :) Are you proposing that amazon should have a “give me a discount on my purchase” check-box on their checkout page? Why would anyone not click that? And if people would click it why would anyone share affiliate links of amazon?
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2y ago
Totally sentimental view on my part, but I consider the JPL ephemeris files one of the crowning achievements of humankind. On par with other things like a modern microprocessor, the pyramids, or the electric grid. You of course know this, s
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2y ago
> if you believe parallel construction was needed, I suppose you are also acknowledging the intel was good. No. It says if the information was good (which we don’t know) it can still be explained by the program being a facade to launder
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2y ago
I would recommend the Skyfield library: https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/ It does the same thing, uses the spk files to compute planetary positions, but it does so with a beautifull API which is a pleasure to use.
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2y ago
> pretty much everything had a similar quality level (pro-tip: no!) But presumably they all had adequate quality level. As in they all met strict requirements. > so us providing them with White Papers attesting to high quality didn&#
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2y ago
I'm not sure if you are sarcastic, but your definition of "ideal world" feels very different from mine. What you describe sounds as close to the scifi concept of wireheading as I can imagine to get without brain surgery.
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2y ago
I'm not sure if it is the companies who "trained" anyone that. I think it is more correct to say that many wants that and companies recognised this desire and are offering what the costumers want. The companies do this simply
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2y ago
> I have to not say a word to them as I talk to them or else I could ruin the whole peer review thing! In what sense would it ruin peer review to reveal your role after you already wrote and submitted the review?
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2y ago
> Too bad the everyone lost interest and now robotics is the hot new thing. Self driving is robotics. Simple as that.
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2y ago
> What's cheaper If you don’t have the second how can you trust the first? Without the dataset to test on your human experts will deliver you slop and be confident about it. And you will only realise the many ways their hand finesse
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2y ago
> Perhaps your perspective is distorted by survivorship bias Have you considered that perhaps it is your viewpoint who is suffering from survivorship bias? For a civilisation to be considered “great” many many things has to go just right
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2y ago
> I am not wondering how to build rope bridges You were just a few comments ago. You were specifically asking how bridge construction and maintenance is communicated over great distances and time. Let me quote your very own words to you:
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2y ago
> It's not like military-issue fatigues would even be hard to come by. That is exactly the point the linked comment makes. It is in agreement with you on that. Fatigues like the one on the image he shared are easy to come by. This i
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