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by mabub24 5y ago
In general, the death rate of wild dogs/abandoned dogs is very high, especially as puppies. Dogs evolved to have a willingness to essentially eat almost anything. They are obsessed with food sources out of necessity of survival. Wild d
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by mabub24 5y ago
The trick with English and French names is to move outside of Anglo-Saxon sounding monosyllables towards more Anglo-Norman names. Henry (Henri), Michael (Michel), Oliver (Olivier), Julian (Jules), Anton (Antoine), Bernard (Benoit, ou seulme
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by mabub24 5y ago
This has been in the works for years. I had high hopes for a limited series. A feature film sounds simply awful for the structured narrative style in Hyperion. Warner Bros will not make a Pasolini style Cantebury Tales. This movie will prob
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by mabub24 5y ago
For a lot of these things, the steps to finding something that works should start with seeing someone who is a specialist of some sort, and, if at all possible, getting them to actually look at whatever you need help for. For skincare, see
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by mabub24 5y ago
So, cut through the brand/marketing-speak and this is just like Alphabet, right?
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In many ways, the concept of "printing money" is too simplistic to describe how the banking system and monetary systems interact with each other, especially once you get your head around the fact that money is (almost always) &quo
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by mabub24 5y ago
Not to say it can't happen, but there are quite a few new institutional and regulatory safeguards that (in spite of the attempts by some to neuter them) exist now that did not exist pre- and during the great depression that make such
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by mabub24 5y ago
You have to be careful with this line of reasoning. In the absence of a social safety net, being "not skilled" or "not valuable" from the perspective of an employer easily becomes being not valuable as a person , they &
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I only lumped them together because in America all forms of worker organization outside of the dominant system of employee subservience is deemed suspect in a hilariously uniform way. Farmers co-ops, for instance, have been described as &qu
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by mabub24 5y ago
You've kind of shifted the debate towards over whether any large institution or organization should be allowed to finance or donate or "fund" political campaigns to the degree that they can at present in the US. I would say
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by mabub24 5y ago
That a union can lead to negative outcomes is not an argument in favor of no-unions, I think, it's an argument that that union should be improved. The basic gist of unions (or "collectives" or co-ops), that they offer emplo
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by mabub24 5y ago
Specifically for HN: this is a forum made up of predominantly young, hyper-mobile, extremely well compensated, white collar workers with an often unstated belief in meritocracy as the key determiner of success. Many of them do not understan
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by mabub24 5y ago
I think it's important for people to realize that even if your employer treats you well, a union is also still important so that workers can have a seat in the table where decisions are made. Blanket trust in your employer is a bizarre
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Parajanov's works are also incredible. A lot of his stuff was not "acceptable" in the U(kr)SSR because of their regionalism and stark non-realist aesthetics, but Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a fascinating and gorgeous
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by mabub24 5y ago
Some of the words in music theory are just straight latin, or directly descendant from latin and old. A lot of people struggle with music theory until you "translate" it to using modern language (though you do lose some specificit
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by mabub24 5y ago
That was my immediate impression of his music. It feels strangely cold and extremely "produced", especially when he has made stabs at jazz, a genre that is in many cases "music for musicians". For a genre that prizes fre
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by mabub24 5y ago
The Foundation series is a fascinating thought experiment stretched over an extremely barebones story with some very 1-dimensional characters. The recent TV adaptation is pretty interesting, though. It's more of a loose adaptation and
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by mabub24 5y ago
This UI style reminds me of the jitterbug phone UI.
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by mabub24 5y ago
> The question is IMO as valid as "if I poke you with this pen, do you feel it different enough than what I feel if I poked myself?" Funnily enough, Wittgenstein also famously looked at pain as well [0] in the context of his fa
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by mabub24 5y ago
> There is no way to find out that our perception is different. Wittgenstein's point is more that there is no way in which a distinction of that kind could even be intelligible in the way that you have presented it. What is intell
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by mabub24 5y ago
There is a very fruitful line in philosophy of mind and language that addresses the colour qualia question: anti-cartesianism and anti-skepticism. Wittgenstein's arguments on seeing-as is the best example of this line. He argues, quite
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by mabub24 5y ago
I think you're under-estimating how much this is just the governor cravenly trying to save face. He's a just a spineless politician who is afraid that this "hack" will be used against him. Because the public was notified
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by mabub24 5y ago
Completely guessing, but I wonder if they designed the "spoke" baffles to pinch in under the load and thus expel any stones that might fit between them, like a pebble squeezed between your two fingers and shooting out.
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by mabub24 5y ago
Even beyond attending school during Covid-19, which by itself has been disruptive and challenging, I've heard from a number of friends who emigrated from Japan that the Japanese school experience can be pretty dismal. I also think some
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Sure, but then we shouldn't rely on them to save us either. (I don't know who does, probably just them tbh.) Character assassination doesn't make the argument less compelling for either group. If you want to discuss the ideal
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by mabub24 5y ago
I think there are 2 questions that do deserve discussion and debate: 1. Whether a society should be structured to allow billionaires at all; and, 2. Whether the existence of billionaires is actually helpful/creating a net benefit for e
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If you interact with some top tier wealthy people, 0.9% wealthy to the 0.01%, you really quickly see that they have very little understanding of a number of issues that "middle-class" people face (let's ignore that "midd
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Scandinavian countries also have diverse and differing cultures depending on where you live. Just because everyone calls themselves "Swedish" doesn't mean they all agree. I suspect the answer is somewhat different. Just look
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A lot of guitarists have no problem with playing open tunings because they can pretty seamlessly transcribe the notes along one string to the whole tuning, like how the 2nd fret of the low D string in open D is an E note so thus a finger ac
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by mabub24 5y ago
Non standard tunings can be very interesting for song writing, in particular the use of droning notes, or when using playing styles like travis picking. Some of the American primitive players like Fahey, or Rose, and more recently players l

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