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by msla 3y ago
Plus, The Winnowing: We don't listen to most music from decades ago. We don't listen to most hits from decades ago. The Winnowing removes most works, in every medium, from the popular consciousness, leaving only the consensus favo
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> another (in)famous aspect is the increasing use of auto-tune (both the software itself as well as the general principle after which it was named) This is mostly subjective, not objective. (Is it being used more? Objective. Is that rele
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We're doing a lot less of "society as babysitter" now. The ability of people to be open about being gay, trans, non-religious, Jewish, mixed-race, and left-handed are all examples of society no longer caring about things it o
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That can be infuriating. Want to host videos on a laptop (which has a big SSD) and stream them to a Pi (which is attached to a big screen) over a LAN? Hey, here's a post about how to host videos on a Pi and stream them to a laptop! Upv
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by msla 3y ago
This is because VM means two different things and has for a long time: IBM's VM was and is a hypervisor. It dates to the mid 1960s, in the form of CP-40, and it didn't run opcodes in software, but in hardware. https://e
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by msla 3y ago
Good thing nobody asks you, then, because you have no idea what you're talking about.
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It's also not replicable. (A Universe may violate baryon number conservation once, as a treat.)
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They make supplement companies richer. Other than that, "more studies are needed": https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-coq10/ (Every solid potential benefit is larded through with how inconclusive the
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Yes, it definitely beat the OSI standard for one thing.
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Then don't go to the UK.
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I think we all know that doesn't occur. Retractions are printed in small type on an inside page, if at all. That's been the rule for decades, if not centuries.
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by msla 3y ago
> American hyper compettyness is well known, despite it leading nowhere worth visiting. And you're saying this on the Internet. I'd be amazed, but I suppose Twitter seeps in even here.
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Do you have any actual reason to believe what you just posted?
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This might be a better cite for the "oil shock" thesis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24808741 Assuming JSTOR still works for anyone. Regardless, my thesis wasn't that the USSR collapsed entirely becaus
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> The expectation in the industry is that there will eventually be interoperability between these systems Why? Why would the companies presumably making good money with Zelle interoperate with something that's stealing their custome
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The USSR had massive internal contradictions and inefficiencies. By the end it was brittle, and it couldn't weather shocks, like the late 1980s to early 1990s oil shock, very well, and attempts at reform magnified internal dissent unti
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The supported Windows version is WSL. Everything else is weirdo legacy crap. /s
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> All of the consonants (b d f g j k l m n p r s t v) are pronounced exactly the same as they are in English. Phew! "T" as in "Trent" is the same as "T" as in "butter" for this person? "S&quot
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The PRC bet on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and got burned. Their constant whining about Taiwan and childish insistence that Tienanmen Square never happened makes them the laughingstock of the world. Their continued support for the dem
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> Most people wouldn’t argue against considering artists’ portfolios and musicians’ performances in admissions. I would, unless it was an arts college. The point is, schools are institutions with a purpose. For most of them, that purpose
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> Who benefits from removing those who actually develop a physical competence and commit to training and competition? The people who are there for academics, as opposed to being there to play a game. There are only so many places in a cl
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> At the end of the day, their system can more efficiently organize national production around some shared goal. That sounds like propaganda. Oligopolies are historically hilariously inefficient, and China's brain drain hardly seems
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Continuing tangent: The Optum RX mail-order pharmacy has caps where both sides can be the "bottom" and screw onto the bottle, but one side is childproof and the other is just a normal screw attachment. Since they come with the chi
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by msla 3y ago
Everything is biased. Everyone, every single human being, is aligned. That said, bias towards, and alignment with, verifiable reality is possible to achieve, and getting there partway is better than not at all: https://hermiene.n
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I doubt there's enough enforcement behind that to make it plausible.
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> I hate on anyone who's different for the sake of being different. Being unable to accept differences is a mark of immaturity.
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If you go back far enough, autism wasn't distinguished from schizophrenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism > Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist who was the director of the Burghölzli mental
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No. Web 3.0 is only defined in terms of marketing buzz tied to crypto. It has zero use outside of that.
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> You think it's not problematic for people not to date black women because they are black. Only racists agree with that. Not date. Have sex with. That's the whole crux. Engage with it.
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> The author doesn't say "not wanting to have sex with me is problematic", they say "not wanting to date someone based on their ethnicity is a political stance and it's problematic if it's the only factor in

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