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by marzell 7y ago
I find this whole scenario kinda interesting - I don't expect to be able to explain why anything from Douglas Adams should appeal to someone... they can only read it and see if it clicks for them. It definitely clicks for me. On the ot
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by marzell 7y ago
This is all true.. However what I meant is that the way gerrymandering can indicate a winner that is not the majority choice, is quasi analogous to how the Simpson's paradox exemplifies a weighed average that disagrees with the subtota
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by marzell 7y ago
Seems to be the statistics equivalent of gerrymandering.
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by marzell 7y ago
Yeah I agree. This is another example of our own biases/errors being injected to the data, thus poisoning any models we try to build with it. On the surface it seems unlikely there's much of a way to compensate for that, and if th
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by marzell 7y ago
I like how there are some standout musicians whose catalogs could put a serious litmus test to any definition of 'classical' that one might suggest. People like Bela Fleck and Chris Thile... Some of their music is definitely class
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by marzell 7y ago
I wonder if this if at all related to the news about Sackler transferring funds to offshore accounts https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/09/13/us/sackler-family-purdu...
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by marzell 7y ago
Does anyone else feel it is an interesting coincidence that his name was Reis? Until 1911 that was also the name for common currency in Portugal, then replaced by Escudos at a rate of 1000:1. Is/was this a common name in Portugal?
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by marzell 7y ago
Shpongle is psychedelic, but is it Psytrance? Posford also did Hallucinogen which was properly Psytrance.
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by marzell 7y ago
Shame because Hallucinogen was great (Shamanix and a few other tracks were truly awesome) and Celtic Cross was a ton of fun. I wish there was more like this, but Posford is pretty singular in this arena IMO.
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by marzell 7y ago
Alhambra is another example. This is also the origin of some definite articles in romance languages - el in Spanish and l' in French. So Alhambra in Spain might have been called Al Hambra or similar instead. Interestingly, in Persian (
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by marzell 7y ago
Coders can and should use remote systems for heavy lifting tasks IMO. A laptop should be setup more like a thin client and not have any ip on it that can be lost/stolen.
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by marzell 7y ago
Additionally, in order to be 'ethical' by any means, they still have to collect the data in the first place. Regardless of actual intentions around ethical/defined practices, that always leaves the possibility for someone els
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by marzell 7y ago
hmm ok so it seems similar to essentialism v existentialism.
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by marzell 7y ago
Short, but interesting, article. I can at least relate to this notion of 'materialistic pantheism'... interesting to describe what seems to be essentially a mystic perspective as 'materialistic'.
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by marzell 7y ago
I really don't understand your argument FOR the electoral college. Yes, more than half did not vote for Clinton, but there were more than 2 options. The majority still voted for Clinton, and he had a fairly large lead over the next pla
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by marzell 7y ago
FYI Hundstage literally translates to dog days. Hund = hound, tag = day.
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by marzell 7y ago
It's Clippy for your entire OS! I'm very familiar with the monkey image, although I instantly recognized what it was and what the experience was probably like, and luckily never touched a computer that had it installed. Now we&#x2
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by marzell 7y ago
I agree.. it sounds like he was socially anxious (not arguing that he should/shouldn't be so) and had lashed out emotionally in the guise of a holier/more intellectual-than-thou snip. Cultural historical differences be damned
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by marzell 7y ago
I was a little confused by the layout and amount of exposed concrete. Not that it sounded bad, but I prefer a bit more damped sound and maybe they intentionally went for a more live sound with the room itself being a major presence. They do
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by marzell 7y ago
Can you explain your position here a bit? It seems rather aggressive and somewhat demeaning, although I'm not sure if you intended to come off this way. Do you mean people who haven't been to Brazil literally have no right to disc
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by marzell 7y ago
Doesn't that only matter if you use the same password for more than one account?
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by marzell 7y ago
AFAIK Google account activity exports are limited to JSON and HTML. There may be a way to convert the JSON to GPX somehow.
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by marzell 7y ago
I have a hunch that the internal management of the image by the application you've described is similar to the case of another comment where the logo could be seen in Windows after saving the file in MS Paint.
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by marzell 7y ago
Perhaps not practical, but I could see this as one actually useful example of how a blockchain-style distributed ledger could be used. Have two accounts, one posts the binaries, another posts the checksums. That way one account breach doesn
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by marzell 7y ago
I'm not getting that - in Photos, looking at the full size flat-red version, and taking a screenshot, I don't see the logo flash at any time during that process. Nor on the edges when I resize.
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by marzell 7y ago
So this is interesting... I did this, and it only shows up in the preview/thumbnail view. Once I click on the thumbnail tile to view the image in full screen, it goes back to flat red with no logo.
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by marzell 7y ago
I'm on a Pixel 3. It's just solid red - no faint logo.
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by marzell 7y ago
I'm on an up-to-date Pixel 3 in a 'vanilla' state using Chrome, and it does not work for me as well.
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by marzell 7y ago
I don't see in the article where it says the word hasn't changed, or anything about 8k years as claimed in the post title. It does say that "lox" happens to be composed of sounds that "haven't changed in Englis
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by marzell 7y ago
This is interesting. In the US, my 'signature' is always a picture or a doodle, sometimes I write famous people's names in sloppy cursive. If it was like an important contract or something, I might try a bit harder... but to

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