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by mikrl 3y ago
Ah my mistake. But still, two radically different food producing paradigms meeting an established hunter-gatherer population could lead to some of the traditional foraged foods from the region being ignored. I don’t know if seaweed is eaten
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by mikrl 3y ago
Could it be evidence of cultural change? Most of the ethnicities we associate with Europeans are Indo-European in origin: pastoral, patriarchal nomads who swept down from the steppe in the distant past. If the pre-Indo-Europeans disappeared
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by mikrl 3y ago
- you are prodigious in some area, and higher education would be a waste of your time versus self directed work and study - you are well connected and affluent, with an implicit path to success already laid out, and higher education would b
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by mikrl 3y ago
Also tech house like ‘Hot in it’ by Charli XCX and Tiësto from last year.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Trance Pop has been big for a few years. Career Boy by Dorian Electra comes to mind but there are more. Happy hardcore had a resurgence in 2021-2022 which is still going.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Won’t somebody please think of the children!!!? Those children over there… sending each other lemonparty (oh wait that was us) Nah the kids now are watching cartel and Ukraine videos while going “bruh on god based uhuhuh”
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by mikrl 3y ago
My previous employer was so top heavy it was unreal. I counted maybe 4-5 managers with some variation of Director/VP of Software/Engineering/SWE/SWEProject and yet more kept getting promoted into that echelon over my tim
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by mikrl 3y ago
Thanks desmos, for making my calculus assignments enjoyable.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Canada specific, but… Diagonal crossing is a thing in Quebec City at certain intersections which stop the traffic flow in every direction. Otherwise I only ever do it when I cannot see any cars which is fairly common at night in rural areas
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by mikrl 3y ago
Presumably the crime factor. Walking around drunk at night is risky for anyone, but males of our species tend to be more tolerant of the risks and better equipped to GTFO.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Detroit used to be (and still is) the motor city, but is the auto industry anything like it was in the 1920s-1950s?
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by mikrl 3y ago
I don’t think the background is really that important tbh. From physics I have a good theoretical grounding in how ML works (optimizing a cost function over a high dimensional manifold to reconstruct a probability distribution, then using t
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by mikrl 3y ago
If I ‘flex my ear’ (the tensor tympani [0]) I can make the noise cancellation produce a mic feedback ringing sound. [0] https://www.sciencealert.com/some-people-can-make-a-roaring-...
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by mikrl 3y ago
‘Chad’ is common across the whole cyberculture and I’ve seen it used by many of my IRL friends: male, female, cis, trans, left, right and none of whom hate women or are incels. It was popularized in the 2010s by ironic image macros like “th
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by mikrl 3y ago
I bought a jar of some new Nutella type spread and while the lid is round, the jar footprint is lozenge shaped. From the front it looks like a normal jar, from the side I actually started laughing at this skinny little thing with a giant ov
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by mikrl 3y ago
And who rouses the rousers?
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by mikrl 3y ago
>Because they don’t want you to budget in realtime? I’ve seen lots of technological progress in my day, but nothing towards making this process more efficient in-store. In a way, doing groceries is one of my few remaining financial uncer
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by mikrl 3y ago
How are the bordering regions of Czechia and Poland? Do they have the same issues? I assume the open border facilitates travel somewhat.
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by mikrl 3y ago
>given the issues with the far-right in Saxony What does that have to do with anything? California has plenty of neonazis itself. The western world in general has no lack of far right extremists.
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by mikrl 3y ago
>Nonetheless, this is better than having no empiricism or scientific method at all and having models built based on some logical axioms treated as the ultimate truth Like theories built on mathematics or logic? Don’t get me wrong, I’m no
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by mikrl 3y ago
If economics is a science, how do you run an experiment? Let’s say you want to see how phenomenon X scales as a function of population, and create a model X(p) How do you set up N identical scenarios and, ceteris paribus, vary the populatio
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by mikrl 3y ago
Economics itself is a reduction of human behaviour to resource allocation. The underlying field of study of human action in general is called praxeology and was only seriously investigated by: - Austrian school economists (1900s-present) -
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by mikrl 3y ago
>In the case of a national security incident, the US gov/military would have popular apps cracked open ASAP But it just doesn’t work like many people think: the policeman says ‘open it’ and it gets opened by the company. Imagine a b
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by mikrl 3y ago
Last time I was in the Netherlands in 2022 I bought a pack on the ferry (duty free baby!) and I’ve been quit for 10 years or so. Most people I passed in the city were smoking and I loved walking in the evening sucking down the my pack. Cert
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by mikrl 3y ago
How do foreigners / non-Hindus fit into the caste system? Are there caste equivalent attitudes towards Arabs, Euros, East Asians and so on? Or from a different angle, Muslims, Christians, irreligious, etc. Or does the framework not app
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by mikrl 3y ago
Soon! Soon the twolegs will irradiate everything and our time will come! chitters maniacally
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by mikrl 3y ago
The parent was confusing ‘the planet’ with ‘humanity’ which is (IMO) more egregiously obtuse.
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by mikrl 3y ago
The planet will be fine, it survived asteroids and much worse. Even if everyone starts lobbing nuclear weapons at each other, cockroaches and many plants will persevere among the ruins, the untended fields, the forests and hills. Humanity t
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by mikrl 3y ago
(is some race) -> (won’t fit in on team) -> (don’t hire) Is transitive racism okay in your worldview?
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by mikrl 3y ago
You: >what are some good reasons to allow Me: >what are some good reasons to ban

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