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by lebuffon 5y ago
One difference that I notice that no one has mentioned yet is that Americans like to "go ahead" and do something. Example: "So now I'm gonna go ahead and put the cake in the oven"
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by lebuffon 5y ago
This is just an observation but the Australian and some British pronunciations of "no" bear an interesting similarity to the sound of "nij" (no) in some Dutch dialects. Perhaps the have a common source? Old Saxon?
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Here is more background about the nature of the pivots at WU. WU had already pivoted once in the 1970s to become a satellite communication company being one of the first companies to have five birds in orbit. (Westar series) Sometime around
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by lebuffon 5y ago
IMHO Forth has a longer learning curve than other languages and requires a significant mental model shift if you are use to conventional languages. It does not suit everyone. It seems more like learning a new human language with a large num
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by lebuffon 5y ago
In many religious traditions it is in the practices that you experience the divine. In many religious traditions it is what you do, not what you believe that matters. These concepts are very foreign if you come from a reform era Christian t
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by lebuffon 5y ago
These attitudes come in cycles in the Roman church. There was a 50 year period of liberal thinking. The current has era has swung back to the conservative. When an organization has a 1600 year life span you can expect things like this. Just
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by lebuffon 5y ago
"Two nations separated by a common language" Winston Churchill
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Could we say that they are re-inventing the human mind architecture by enhancing "fluid intelligence" with "crystallized intelligence". As humans age we apparently lose the former but compensate with the latter as best w
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by lebuffon 5y ago
This seems to be a thing now. Overt rejection of the authority of laws. Makes me wonder how long a civilization can continue if that attitude is widespread.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Where does this obsession with the external come from. Russia has the largest national landmass yet still they look outwards despite the many improvements that they could make internally. It's bizarre to me.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
If you want to use heat for storage liquid metal batteries might be better. (?)(Ambri) From what I understand they have ~80% round-trip efficiency, functionally unlimited lifespan and no moving parts required. Electrons in/Electrons ou
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Interesting that Americans commonly say "The fourth of July". Is that a carry over from 1700's American parlance?
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by lebuffon 5y ago
For happiness: "Do more, want less" Dali Lama
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by lebuffon 5y ago
It has merits for sure. It is higher level out of the box. Forth is low level by design for hardware level coding. However as the paragraph states, both begin at a level X but both do not stay at that level in the hands of one who understan
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I find it interesting that I can re-write this paragraph from the article and replace Lisp with Forth and it is still true. "Forth takes a far different and far more pragmatic approach. The Forth designers do not assume what syntax, fe
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I am referring to this feature: 4.4.4 Architectural features <snip> The NC4016 allows combining nonconflicting sequential operations into the same instruction. For example, a value can be fetched from memory and added to the top stack
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Probably worth noting that many of these applications used the Harris RTX2010 CPU. This was based on Charles Moore's (inventor of Forth language) work on two-stack CPU design ie: CPUs based on the Forth VM architecture. These machines
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Yes, especially in a disease with as much as 40% asymptomatic infections. So if we correct by that 40% factor the USA goes to 1% death rate or roughly 10X influenza. Mexico becomes 4.5%. Not insignificant.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
This whole area might fall into the Sam Clemens quote: "There are lies, damned lies and statistics" Since 30 to 40 percent of humans experience no illness with this thing the denominator can be quite different depending on what yo
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by lebuffon 5y ago
So they are doing banking, lending deposits at interest, without any regulation or oversight. I think we know from history how that story ends.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
MPesa, Kenya
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Yes but beyond transaction speed there is the fact that people need/want the money immediately in a form that they can spend. These are not wealthy people. The remittance is for real goods. The last mile with money is "can I bu
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Not true anymore. Moneygram and Ria Envia have been growing very fast to Latin America and there are numerous smaller firms stealing market share in the digital send space.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
The actual take on remittances has been falling for 20 years. Western Union struggles to maintain a "premium" price now due to competition. The actual take on an average transaction from USA to El Salvador is way lower because El
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by lebuffon 5y ago
I can't prove this but I suspect this comparison is reflecting the relative price of goods and services which is a hyper-competitive market in the USA. Other differences between the USA 20th percentile group and the Euro 50th percentil
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by lebuffon 5y ago
Interesting. Looks like Forth. :-)
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by lebuffon 5y ago
The difficulty I would think, is determining what is the real activity and what is just a side-effect. For example old CRTs gave off RF signals that could be decoded to read the contents of the screen but the CRT display was not designed to
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by lebuffon 5y ago
"A real brain can and likely does have self stimulating loops" This is what I understand causes epilepsy. At least when they are out of control.
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by lebuffon 5y ago
So did Russell Peters (comedian) "In the future there's gonna be a little brown in everybody"
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by lebuffon 5y ago
For perspective the first commercial radio station in the USA went on the air in late 1920. It was a societal revolution in information speed versus the telegraph->newspaper mode which was in itself a revolution. I often wonder how many

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