ownlife

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by ownlife 3y ago
If you need to know if a number is even or odd then you should convert it to an int natively anyway.
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by ownlife 3y ago
Psychology is a bigger field than Freudian psychoanalysis.
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by ownlife 4y ago
Are you suggesting something nefarious? Topics blow up all the time for one reason or another; this is just another meme.
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by ownlife 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. One argument Postman makes that I find compelling (if not wholly convincing) is that advertising has increasingly replaced "propositions" (testable statements of truth) with images and emotional claims (attract
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by ownlife 4y ago
The gender system in German is something Mark Twain poked fun at in his famous essay "The Awful German Language": "Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be le
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by ownlife 4y ago
I love this perspective. That it's aberrant for a man at his age to pursue further education reflects our society's out-dated view that education is something to be pursued one time and when young.
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by ownlife 4y ago
Cool TED Talk on LiDAR - "Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR" https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_fisher_let_s_scan_the_whole_... YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rIUxHZ9f
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by ownlife 4y ago
Fair enough.
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by ownlife 4y ago
A democracy is not a system of government in which the government's power derives from the people who know calculus. It a system wherein power comes from the people, period. Also, literacy tests were ruled unconstitutional in Oregon v.
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by ownlife 4y ago
To your second point -- I assumed that there would be an exception for government content, but my cursory reading of the bill (as a non-lawyer) suggests that... maybe there isn't. The only exceptions are for "law enforcement activ
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by ownlife 4y ago
My guess is that the mother was removed from the child not as a punishment to her, but in order to ensure the safety of the child. In other words, deterrence rather than retributive justice. FWIW, I do agree that this is a huge overreach on