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by ocschwar 6y ago
So many of the traits that are bundled into the label autistic are on par with lactose intolerance. Lactose intolerance in adults is something that the majority of our species lives with. It's only the Indo-European minority that can k
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by ocschwar 6y ago
In the source material (Geoffrey of Monmouth), Cordelia successfully rescues Lear and secures a dignified life for him. So something had to make him change the story.
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by ocschwar 6y ago
In 2011 I was a novice and got that bag of tools dropped in my lap, and I did struggle with how to put them together, but safely was not. problem. It was considerably better for a novice to play with those tools than to have to do it at the
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by ocschwar 6y ago
> "Whenever I play with the kid I think he is pretty normal, except for that he is a lot smarter than anyone else. Like a smart boy stuck in a smaller childs body." Classic sign of Asperger's syndrome. The rules for intera
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by ocschwar 6y ago
She's old enough to know the tradeoffs, and she can probably make the choice for each occasion. She can be eye contact averse, which will be deemed off putting by people who don't know her personally just yet, and may make bad fir
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by ocschwar 6y ago
> As such, we, as humans, generally have zero idea what is going on in someone else's brain when they do something unexpected (it is unexpected after all). The thing is, we don't do unexpected things in front of each other all
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Germany is already starting to administer antibody titers. We will know pretty damned soon how many of us have obtained immunity to the virus.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
And now Massachusetts has several buildings ready to serve as makeshift hospitals should the need arise.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
It's bad PR to obsess about PR. It's bad karma to obsess about karma.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
I was not trying to disparage or praise them. Just being concise.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
That's why there is no alternative to activism in meat-space. Which reminds me it's Friday, so I'll be taking some food to the Greta fans down the street.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Normally I'd resent the $2.4 billion tax dodge, but given who receives the money right now, I'm okay with.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Are we? I mean, we're constantly driving every software organization to take on more and more complexity in their projects all the way to the point that they reach their cognitive limits. Yes, a lot of the progress we've made is j
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by ocschwar 7y ago
NOte that most of the work this guy is talking about was done decades ago. As in, 8 iterations of Moore's Law before the present day. If there were problems in those models, you could show them today with just a few EC2 instances on Am
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> I interpret climate inaction not as science ineptitude, but as defecting in a prisoners dilemma sense. I interpret politicians not doing the reading as politicians not doing the reading.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
The chasm between politicians and science is staggering. For a truly terrifying example, there's the 2018 IPCC report. It's under 600 pages. The summary for policymakers is 25 pages, with the following 5 chapters each with an exec
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Copper was available so long as firewood was available. Copper ore without firewood is of no use.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
We don't know exactly why the Bronze Age collapse happened, but it's likely that copper was what was disrupted, because copper smelting results in deforestation.So a perfectly functioning and open tin trading route meeting a socie
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Britain and Wales don't have a lot of evidence for a Phoenician presence, but interestingly, some place names on the west of the island have Semitic names, and those places make sense as locations where Phoenicians would be allowed to
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by ocschwar 7y ago
I keep it limited to "oh, how nice!" as that does not take live birth as a given.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
My wife and I went through this more than once. This is why I don't offer women congratulations on learning they're pregnant. I don't go to baby showers. And I don't ask "are you excited?" I know I didn't
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by ocschwar 7y ago
The South's own declarations of secession make pretty clear just what impositions from DC were bothering them. A bunch of English-aristocrat-wannabes afraid they'd have to give up their aspirations on account of the whole owning-p
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by ocschwar 7y ago
America got great by sending the children of the elite to Holland for college.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
I'd say the US's first total loss was the Civil War. The North didn't really win. 100 years of Klan terror should be enough proof, not to mention the continuing rule of the South by landowning oligarchs who keep the place a f
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> I do not believe that the "political route" of taxation and violence is the best way to "avoid the mess" The reason I have clean water in my tap is that the eco-fascist goons of the Massachusetts Water Resources Aut
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by ocschwar 7y ago
2nd law of thermodynamics: it's always cheaper to avoid a mess than it is to clean it up. Ergo, better to use the political route.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Initially it looked like their idea was only feasible in river mouths and not the open ocean. Definitely more efficient to put them in rivers, but now it looks like the ocean is fair game too.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
I bet some younger HN readers are looking at this and wondering if the popularity off Perl at this point is primarily sentimental associations that older devs have with the early days of the Web when they could find artsy ways to explore a
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> Fact 1: The earth has been warming since the last ice age. The Milankovitch cycles have crested since that warming. Without the CO2 we would be cooling. > Fact 2: Solar output has increased recently Citation needed. Furthermore, if
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Worldwide, by the most respected outfit in this field: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019

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