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by panglott 9y ago
It doesn't sound like a complaint so much as an elegy. I still regularly use an original iPad nearly every day. It can't update past iOS 5, and it's been pointless to try to install new software on it for years. At this point
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by panglott 9y ago
Yep, my early-2011 Macbook Pro is still a daily-use machine that works great, the SSD upgrade really helps. The main thing I wish I could do on it is play Civ VI.
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by panglott 9y ago
They're still available on the secondary market, and I still use mine almost every day.
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by panglott 9y ago
Possibly even a single partner was defrauding the business. If the other partners were not aware this was occurring until now, that might be a more benevolent explanation of why the agency has gone dark.
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by panglott 9y ago
They linked to the Kickstarter, which says the campaign raised about $35k.
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by panglott 9y ago
I cycle in a mid-cized American city that has had a "Bicycle Friendly America" Silver ranking for several years now, and the Google Maps bicycle directions have been extremely iffy since they were introduced. I just checked how Go
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by panglott 9y ago
Data for the US is still extremely sparse. Many US towns don't have addresses. But it is improving rapidly; mid-sized towns have been getting building outlines for a while. OSM Europe is far, far ahead of the US in what is mapped. But
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by panglott 9y ago
Intercity rail in the US was destroyed by an Iron Triangle. At present the passenger rail infrastructure is pitiful, since it hasn't had significant investment since about the 1950s. For example, back in 1999 Amtrak tried to resume pas
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by panglott 9y ago
Having sex or being sexy are not things that you should shame other people for. Sex is normal, and it's not right to punish women for not being virginal.
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by panglott 9y ago
Some ancient cultures trained children as engravers, who, after a lifetime of peering at tiny details, probably developed eye disorders and inability to see normally. This wouldn't be permitted today.
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by panglott 9y ago
Right, that's the problem he's identifying. Search for "peppa pig bacon" take you right to that parody video, which is widely pirated...and given the weird, machine-generated examples he cites earlier, how much of that e
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by panglott 9y ago
Yea, as nightmare fuel some of that is fantastic. But the larger problem is YouTube autoplaying and automatically recommending it to a naive audience. And the larger processes that incentivize people to make this stuff for children.
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by panglott 9y ago
Yes. Peppa Pig looks OK. The problem is if YouTube recommends or continues on to a video where a machine splices Peppa Pig with parody videos and gross-out videos and genuinely weird and disturbing stuff. The problem isn't merely that
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by panglott 9y ago
Yes. Reading a story to a child is an inherently moderated experience. If the child gets scared, you can stop reading. You can also filter out inappropriate content in real time—some of the Andrew Lang fairy tale collections for example hav
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by panglott 9y ago
YouTube has tons of great videos that are awesome for watching with children. My 8-year-old loves the PBS Digital Studios series like Eons and It's Okay to Be Smart, and Crash Course. Even I like some of the better nursery rhyme videos
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by panglott 9y ago
The web app only supports NYC, DC, Chicago, LA, and SF? No NOLA or other mid-sized US cities? EDIT: Also, funny to see the Brooklyn Bridge is priced at one dollar sign out of four. It'd be useful to see free attractions, although I sup
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by panglott 9y ago
If the referendum has no legal weight, then going to such lengths to quash it instead magnifies its importance, since the Spanish government clearly views it as being more dangerous than it is.
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by panglott 9y ago
Why do you think that the BBC is pushing its own agenda here, rather than accurately quoting the concerns and views of the person that they are profiling?
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by panglott 9y ago
The key point for me was when Spain announced that they were going to remove Catalonia's autonomy and dissolve its parliament. What did they expect Catalonia to do? This seems like an iconic example of what NOT to do when faced with an
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by panglott 9y ago
"more common" may just mean "more common in US English". There are good reasons for the term to have a different meaning in the US and other English-speaking countries with parliamentary systems. As an American, though i
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by panglott 9y ago
This is a game that is of interest mostly as a historical artifact, anyway, rather than a a game that people should be playing for its own sake.
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by panglott 9y ago
Writing involves a couple of different metaphors; the main one is the correspondence of a written symbol with an oralsound. Another one is that a linear sequence of glyphs matches a linear sequence of sounds. Obviously there are mechanical
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by panglott 9y ago
Even in the adgricultural midwest reforestation is notable. One factoid I recall is this: At the beginning of the 19th century, Indiana was about 85% forest and 15% barrens (prairies). By the 20th century it had become 20% forest and 80% op
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by panglott 9y ago
I think the problem with this view is that academic linguistics has a limited amount of useful information to tell people who are trying to learn a language. Absolutely people learning a language need informed linguistic advice. And our und
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by panglott 9y ago
Learning a language (or any skill) will always take a lot of personal work and commitment. But this is a problem where we need better tools and solutions, even as our tools and solutions have been improving rapidly. More people trying to in
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by panglott 9y ago
https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
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by panglott 9y ago
One of my favorite essays about this is Brad DeLong's "our Economic Appetites" http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/01/we-are-live-at-the-wee...
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by panglott 9y ago
Surely the Yamato people are indigenous to southern Honshu. And surely the Ainu are indigenous to Hokkaido. Certainly the Ainu are not not indigenous to Japan. "Indigenous" is frequently used in a context where a people's rig
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by panglott 9y ago
How does one play paper tetris? Most of the links I'm turning up use cut-out tretraminos or origami boxes. Is it like Blokus Duo?
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by panglott 9y ago
Interesting. There were a lot of Cold War-era abstract strategy games produced in the Slavic countries that just seem to be invisible these days, and many of them are quite interesting. Here's a draft English Wikipedia page for this ga

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