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by leafmeal 5y ago
More about language, apparently, not all languages have that "ideas within ideas within ideas" property you were talking about. The Pirahã language of an indigenous people in Brazil is the counter example. This New Yorker article
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An expert on civil war issues a warning about America, but exaggerates(economist.com)
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Anti-depressants aren't like a "happy pill". It's not like soma from a Brave New World.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Here's the link if you're as curious as me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Britain's move to representative democracy from a monarchy is somewhat of an example, although one could argue that power is still concentrated.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
No, there's no evidence in science of reincarnation or an afterlife.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
It's impressive to see the difference between the dagger as it was discovered and as it's been restored, but I'm really curious to see what it would look like in "like-new" condition.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but if a city is composed of city blocks and by induction then a whole city is surrounded by roads.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
This is a strong claim, without any evidence to back it up. There may be some truth here, but against most metrics, UCs are among the top research institutions in the world with amazing contributions to science, medicine, etc. etc. Could
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I think part of it could be the 9% guarantee[1] which mandates that the top 9% of California high school students be offered a place at at least one UC. [1]: https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
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by leafmeal 5y ago
If you're sick of Roku's ads and constant conflicts like this, consider a device such as https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/ which runs Android.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
The terminal in JetBrains apps is smart enough to know when ctrl-c means copy and when it means abort. It's definitely a solvable problem.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I watched a well-made documentary recently that talks about fire management and controlled burns in California. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in forest ecology, fire, etc. https://www.amazon.com/Not-If-But-Whe
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by leafmeal 5y ago
If the reason they do these things is for money (which I think is fair to assume) then money is clearly an effective incentive. The fines just have to make it unprofitable.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Google assistant does this. You can hum a song, or sing and it will recognize it with decent accuracy. Though humming camp town races lead me to this gem... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFykQIrPCk
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Thanks, this is inspiring to read. Booking my ticket now... ;)
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I appreciate you taking the time to write something so thoughtful and sincere, and I really hope OP takes it to heart. Love and empathy is the only way to healing in my book.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I guess I was imagining a conflict as the result of a race condition. Two concurrent changes are made where if they were ordered, there would be no conflict.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
So like a branch that automatically rebases on another branch? I think the issue with this is the inevitable conflicts and race-conditions. While nice in theory, often you need manual control to sort things out.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I'm dying to know if this post is satire.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Hopefully this isn't what you meant, but behavior like that isn't acceptable regardless of how common it is.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Am I being naive? I think it would be pretty absurd to lie about this. I don't think anybody want this to be career ruining. It is really hard to check assholes with authority. The least we can do is take this person's complaint s
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by leafmeal 5y ago
In case OP shows up, we believe you and support you! Speaking out like this is hard but it's the best way to help the community you love.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I always wondered if this happened in the middle east, with essentially the same cause. It seems hard for me to imagine that the "cradle" of civilization began in such an arid place, though it would be quite fitting if civilizatio
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by leafmeal 5y ago
Grain bins and silos aren't the same thing https://ilfbpartners.com/farm/the-difference-between-grain-b...
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by leafmeal 5y ago
My team does something similar to this. We write our Terraform configuration as Python literals with list comprehensions, conditional expressions, etc., then use a script to dump it to JSON which the Terraform command line can parse. Here&#
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by leafmeal 5y ago
I'm confused, do you not believe there is "political organizing" outside of the guise of astroturfing? And even when political organizing is just astroturfing, isn't the motivator just the same as Google's profit
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by leafmeal 5y ago
At least with government we have the powers of oversight and political organizing. It seems like a better bet then a corporation who's accountable to a bottom line, or owners.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
> because water used to be much harder to sanitize They actually addressed this in the article, but sanitizing water is as simple as boiling it which is much less involved than the process of making beer.
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by leafmeal 5y ago
This sounds really interesting and would love to learn more about this. Do you know of any resources, articles, books, etc. that talk about this?

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