mariodiana

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by mariodiana 4y ago
I tend to agree with you, if only for that fact that in the span of a single lifetime an individual, as a child, could have stood and watched man fly for the first time, and then as an adult see man land on the Moon.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
The problem is called co-rumination. It's engaged in more often by adolescent girls than adolescent boys, and far more often in adolescent girls it leads to anxiety and depression. They bond over the sharing of (and obsession with) one
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Yes. I understand that. For some reason, most of my fellow Americans don't.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Yes.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I'm going to propose something crazy. Government shouldn't be allowed to do whatever isn't illegal. Government should not be allowed to do anything unless specifically authorized by law. With respect to electronic surveilla
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Alex Jones may indeed be a terrible person, but so what? Government has no business censoring him or anyone from making spurious claims.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
My knee-jerk reaction would include adding the sentence the accused was threatened with as a "bonus" to the standard sentence the rogue law enforcement officer would receive as punishment. That might add sufficient disincentive.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
This is what I can gather about "fewer versus less" and "myriad" from my Garner's Modern English Usage. Fewer emphasizes number; less emphasizes quantity. So, I would ask myself if I prefer saying the number of
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by mariodiana 4y ago
It's very sad. Basically, we're transitioning to Mad Max on the highway.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I believe I found the part you're referring to, in Apple's transcript of the talk, and I'm afraid I have to agree with your assessment. What I've found starts like this: > But designs evolve, hardware advances, and w
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by mariodiana 4y ago
> They also dedicated some time on the state of the frameworks session, to put it clearly out there that Objective-C is done and it is time to move on. Is that the "Platforms State of the Union" session from the first day of WW
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by mariodiana 4y ago
A variation on this story was the plot of the very first Star Trek novel: Spock Must Die! (I think there is a beaten up copy buried in my old closet at my mother's house, from when I was a boy.) https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Yes. I wasn't aware of that, so thank you. The Uncanny Valley is still there — right now. That won't last forever though.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I'm going to guess that the purpose is to use the data to eventually build life-like, AI-generated social media influencers. The data will show what kind of faces, voices, inflections, word choice, etc. is most influential. I don'
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I understand what laissez-faire is.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I'm pretty sure this comment won't be appreciated, but the amount of government intervention in the market with respect to healthcare in the United States makes it one of our most highly regulated industries, if not the most highl
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I myself am not a believer; but with the way things have been going in this world, I'm tempted to ask him to add a "Fork me on GitHub" to the end of the list.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
tl;dr – The Delta Tau Chi house has been closed and renamed "THX 1138."
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by mariodiana 4y ago
> Create a simple end-of-workday routine (like reviewing your calendar for the next day and clearing all of those used coffee mugs from your desk) to signal to your brain that it’s time to switch out of “work mode.” I think this is key.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
> In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan […] was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees began spreading disinformation […] That is not journalism. That's editorializing — and in th
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Get sleep. Eat proper meals. Don't skip meals. Talk out loud when analyzing a problem, if necessary. Try to laugh to relieve stress when faced with a knotty problem that you're making no progress on.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
If you want to de-polarize America, bring back meaningful federalism. The government in Washington is no longer federal in its character. It has become the national government our founders warned us about. The individual 50 states ought t
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Should it cure erectile dysfunction, I see a little poo pill in people's future.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I recall Ross Perot saying, "If your wife can't trust you, how can I."
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I'm traumatized merely from reading the Wikipedia entry!
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by mariodiana 4y ago
It's not a question of being an objectively awful person; it's a question of being an "awful" person in the eyes of rabid ideologue activists looking to dox and cancel anyone who blasphemes their beliefs.
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by mariodiana 5y ago
I believe after Margaret Thatcher died, "Ding-Dong, the Witch Is Dead" hit Number 1 on iTunes UK. Should everyone who purchased the song have been sentenced to community service, too?
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by mariodiana 5y ago
Objective-C? Are you hiring?
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by mariodiana 5y ago
I ultimately decided to scrape directly from other Instagram feeds […] I stopped reading, right there.
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by mariodiana 5y ago
If there were a new "Bretton Woods," what would countries tie their currencies to, this time around? Are the people who have ridiculed "gold bugs" going to readopt specie and pretend like nothing happened? I find that ha

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