lIl-IIIl

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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
I recommend reading a book called "Permutation City" which exposure that feeling.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
Bu isn't it s property of matter (mass) that curves space?
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
We do the same for plants (e.g.trees).
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
Probably because of this website and whatever algorithm is choosing news stories for you knows that you're interested. This comet probably won't make the news in the New York Times, for example.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
"Company that has already lied in the past lies again, and everyone eats it up, again" - what are you referring to?
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1732
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
The moon appears textured to the naked eye?
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
The birthday paradox would only apply if we are interested in one group replicating the result of any other group, not the result of the original paper. It's the difference between "do any people in this group share a birthday&quo
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
I thought of that too, but the difference is that faster than light travel is impossible according to our understanding of physics, but nothing says that room temperature superconductors are impossible.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Must_Be_Jelly_(%27Cause_J...
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
They would have a better product, but they'd be out of business since without lobbying against it, the government product would actually be built.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
>"I studied art in university, am an artist myself" Garbage argument. Why? I would assume "what is art?" is a subject on which much time is spent in art school.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
The exact opposite happened to me in math - math went from hard to easy. I attributed it to brain changes during puberty.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
Why isn't that a reasonable thought? If the virus was less contagious (e.g. SARS) it would have worked, no?
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
There's 10 hours of Ron Swanson drinking whisky: https://youtu.be/MPY_EuvimH0
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
African hunter gatherers have been hunting elephants for ages without guns or steel, who are maybe fearless but definitely not stupid. Search for "Pygmy elephant hunt". Also many people think that mammoths were hunted to extinctio
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
This is not a good example of what happens in America in general, since the position of the Bush administration was that Guantanamo Bay was outside of US legal jurisdiction. It was considered a alternative to the US court system.
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
It is a consensus reached by the Wikipedia editing community, or the edits wouldn't be so overwhelmingly accepted. There are probably more than 90k typos in Wikipedia that doesn't mean they are correct. "Standard English&quot
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
In "Reaction to the project" the author links to a "semi-vandalism" charge. You can read the discussion among Wikipedia editors there if you're interested (spoiler alert - most found it valuable and nobody thought i
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
It is objected to in some writing. "Inflammable" is taught to be avoided. So are things that mean opposite things depending on locale, like "tabling" an issue. It may be ok within a local group, but would be avoided in w
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
"I go house" is not standard English. When they said 'There are many other ways to say what the writer means by "comprised of"' it is implied that those other ways are standard English. >The author could hav
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
The problem is Wikipedia. OP's approach is perfectly natural. Textbooks are designed for OP's approach because that's how people learn. If I want to learn about topic C which requires knowledge of topics A and B, but C can al
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by lIl-IIIl 3y ago
I was originally thinking about names that have intended meanings "Target", "Burger King", "Taco bell", "Pager Duty", "DuckDuckGo", "Texas Instruments", "Aperture Laboratories
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
That is very true. It does seem to me there's a subtle "personality shift" among some people when they speak a separate language. Sometimes you see people become warmer and more affectionate because either they know how to be
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
I would think that the cognitive load is there because you are speaking a foreign language (whether one or many). I don't think it's debatable that speaking a foreign language day in day out with no one to speak your native langua
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
It's much much much easier to cook up a solution for internal use than to create a product for external use that you can sell and that caters to your customers whims and that reasonably easy to use without requiring direct access to th
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
I wonder if they can combat that by only incorporating the user data once they posted 5 reviews or so.
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
There's something to that argument in Japanese. According to [1] Japanese has 643 distinct syllables, while English has about 6949. There's a lot more context in speech and video games and long-form writing than in random writing
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
"-ough" vs "-ought" are not a problem since they are different, and this there can be a consistent no-exceptions rule distinguish a them. Same as "sch" and "tsch" are pronounced differently in German
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by lIl-IIIl 4y ago
Start small, and use compromises. Don't try to be completely phonetic, which won't work for the reasons you mentioned. You can start by undoing misguided spelling reforms of the past. "Debt" used to be spelled "det&

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