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by mcv 1y ago
Because everybody knows that politicians are immune to the temptations of child porn...
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by mcv 1y ago
Clearly computer have introduced a lot more symbols to the keyboard, but for whatever reason, the em-dash wasn't one of them. Not, at least, as part of the original sets of unmodified and shifted keys. There are more symbols hidden und
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by mcv 1y ago
I think my last sentence does a pretty good job explaining why most people don't use em-dashes online.
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by mcv 1y ago
> no one is denying that humans have always used dashes in their books. I am. Em-dashes, like all punctuation, were invented at some point. Even the space didn't always exist, and the em-dash is a lot more recent than that. And if i
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by mcv 1y ago
I'm not a professional writer except of software, but both there and in my non-professional writing, I'm a lot more likely to use semicolons than em-dashes.
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by mcv 1y ago
It seems to me that the article is missing the point somewhat. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the em-dash, but most people never use it (I don't think I've ever used it), because it doesn't appear on most standard
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by mcv 1y ago
You don't have to make the bags our of recycled paper. You can make them out of new, unbleached paper. Still much better than plastic.
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by mcv 1y ago
I'm not saying it's intentional, but there are a lot of mechanisms like these that make it more expensive to be poor, creating a vicious cycle of poverty.
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by mcv 1y ago
Negative cost? Why? It still needs to be produced and transported, right? I don't understand the business case behind this.
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by mcv 1y ago
I doubt the advice would be to throw them in the organic waste if it was plastic.
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, the issue is of course that the supermarket sells both kinds of cucumbers, and they need to be able to distinguish between organic and non-organic cucumbers, which is why they wrap one type in plastic. And of course it's better f
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by mcv 1y ago
Still a much better deal than new, and more accessible to people without technical car knowledge. This is how my wife buys our cars.
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by mcv 1y ago
I live in Amsterdam, and we can absolutely afford to buy new (especially if we were to choose not to live in Amsterdam), but there are reliable car dealers where you can buy a good second hand car for a decent price. I really don't see
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by mcv 1y ago
Ah, so this is really just another way poverty is punished. I can afford to save up $8000 for a second hand car, but people who can't, have to buy more expensive cars on a (predatory?) car loan.
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by mcv 1y ago
I'm pretty sure my tea bags are paper, and have always been paper. It's the more recent "pyramid" shaped tea bags that I think are made of plastic. The most recent change to my tea bags was to remove the staple so they c
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by mcv 1y ago
Interesting thing is, the non-organic cucumbers at my supermarket don't come in plastic, but the organic ones do. I never know which ones to get.
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, I still don't understand why brown paper bags aren't more standard for everything. I do see some manufacturers reducing plastic, fortunately. For example, my box of tea bags used to come wrapped in plastic, and now it sudden
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by mcv 1y ago
Ruling nuclear as green is something I can understand (though I still vastly prefer solar), but I've read elsewhere that natural gas has also been ruled green, and that just makes no sense. Personally I see gas and nuclear as transitio
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by mcv 1y ago
I'm immediately thinking about Sapiens, by Harari. One of the big points of that book is that much of our reality is made up. Countries, laws, corporations, property, -isms, marriage, and many other things only exist because we all agr
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by mcv 1y ago
I would say yes. But is it more intelligent than an ant hill?
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by mcv 1y ago
Intelligence has been a poorly defined moving goal post for as long as AI research has been around. Originally they thought: chess takes intelligence, so if computers can play chess, they must be intelligent. Eventually they could, and late
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, but this is a corporation. They don't go to jail. They're only people when it's beneficial to them.
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, super thin phones that require bulky cases have never made sense to me. Why not make tough phones that don't require a case?
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by mcv 1y ago
The author does have a point that you need to specify what you think the bubble is. Obviously AI is real technology with interesting applications. The tech itself is not the bubble. The bubble is (as always) the inflated expectations. From
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by mcv 1y ago
> (and revocation of my Prime account and a lifetime ban from AWS and cancellation of any other services I might otherwise run there) Also a vital lesson from the big tech companies that sell a wide variety of services: don't get yo
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by mcv 1y ago
> "Only cladistically" is a bit like saying "only in reality" imo. In the sense that "imo" means "in my opinion, not necessarily in reality". Clades are just a view on biology. It's not the on
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by mcv 1y ago
Not only do we have options to deal with it, we understand that it's a vision artefact, and not something real. We understand objects don't vanish or appear out of nowhere. We understand the glare isn't reality but is obstruc
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by mcv 1y ago
But why is Elon so opposed to Lidar? I don't get it.
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by mcv 1y ago
So politicians are reptiles after all?
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by mcv 1y ago
Only cladistically. There's a better argument that there's no such thing as a tree or crab. As far as I understand, at least the common ancestor of all fish was still a fish. I mean, do reptiles exist? Fish exist.

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