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by lainga 5y ago
Isn't UBI supposed to be funded by taxes and thus not as inflationary as giving new money where it's most likely to be spent?
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by lainga 5y ago
Compare to HN's sentiment the last time this was posted! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777562
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by lainga 5y ago
I find the "childlike" quality of it oddly appropriate for modern corps, but not in a good way, more like "we know we're infantilising you. Drink up!"
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by lainga 5y ago
The name refers to how it resembles the work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
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by lainga 5y ago
Or it leads to a situation where the 2nd LT is reciting in his head "3-69 The process of listening is composed of Listening, Receiving, Attending and Understanding... 3-70 Speaking is the call to listen, the speaker has not communicate
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by lainga 5y ago
In a way it seems like they were doing exploratory data analysis. Put all the facts you know in a regular form and see if you notice any new patterns. These days we do the same thing but with SQL and PCA.
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by lainga 5y ago
Maybe that's what I'm thinking of! I associate just 't' with 'tʰ'.
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by lainga 5y ago
well 't' specifically... it doesn't sound like I'd say it. almost like the tongue's not being puffed forward hard enough.
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by lainga 5y ago
The 't' and 'd' (dental & postalevolar plosives) sound so close together.
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by lainga 5y ago
When you have the luxury of telling someone that in software, it's called consulting!
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by lainga 5y ago
To encourage the others, maybe?
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by lainga 5y ago
The "who can apply" - should be "entrepreneurial"
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by lainga 5y ago
I think the point of GP is - water won't hold it against you for being an absentee parent (imbiber?).
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by lainga 5y ago
It's possible! Adolf Galland (Luftwaffe fighter ace) used to greet pilots with "Hals- und Beinbruch", the equivalent of "break a leg", which descends from the Hebrew -> Yiddish blessing "hatslokhe u brokhe&q
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by lainga 5y ago
Well, if you see any pasty Englishmen with pith helmets and Martini-Henries show up at the dock, just turn them away. Britain's power projection isn't what it once was.
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by lainga 5y ago
Is there an active or other ingredient in tobacco that makes its smoke more harmful than cannabis? Or is it the method of ingestion?
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by lainga 5y ago
2001:ASO's villain is named HAL execute the cipher on it and see :)
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by lainga 5y ago
And he won an Emmy for it!
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by lainga 5y ago
Thus far I have seen screenshots of it flagging the phrases "I would like to buy 4 watermelons" and "I just broke my 8 year old laptop". Regardless of your opinion on the ethics of this feature it seems to need a little
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by lainga 5y ago
Well, I am not lactose intolerant, and I don't don't miss cow milk.
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by lainga 5y ago
I could... take my travellers' cheques to a competing resort...
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by lainga 5y ago
maybe it's a regularising "the", like "the Moon" vs. "a moon"... "the" regular pentagon, vs., etc.
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by lainga 5y ago
>otherwise costs blow up as you go back and forth I've seen that and it's apparently a viable business decision. I don't know why - I'm not an MBA
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by lainga 5y ago
>If you do the same things engineers do, you are an engineer A very American perspective! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Council_of_Profession...
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by lainga 5y ago
Has anyone noticed that almost all mammals have the same "disgust" expression with the wrinkled snout?
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by lainga 5y ago
I might suggest a few of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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by lainga 5y ago
It seems some of the boards are out-of-order with respect to the captions. See the one on natural language - the referenced scribblings on hom(top) and functor existence are two pictures up
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by lainga 5y ago
I don't know, expert systems haven't been so hot lately...
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by lainga 5y ago
Considering they use Cellebrite, do you think they were aware of the Apple assets being bundled but decided to say nothing as long as it wasn't made public? (i.e. as long as they did not have a copyright to defend or lose)
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by lainga 5y ago
Well, in Keynesian analysis, the private enterprises are supposed to create money. The gov't manages how much they create though reserve requirements.

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