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by panglott 10y ago
Honestly I don't find much difference. I think the quality of the books and the writing matters quite a great deal. A brilliant book is memorable whether you read it or listen to it. Audiobooks tend to be more tied up with my memories
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Podcasts were my gateway to Librivox, Librivox was my gateway to Audible. Librivox is fantastic; however, our copyright laws are just too restrictive. Librivox is the kind of thing that shows the immense value of a robust public domain.
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The article states that this would affect travelers on tourist visas from visa-waiver countries. Madness. Hopefully this is just a trial balloon that will get shot down in a normal policy process—these are just ideas being considered.
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There's at least one scene that's similar to the premise of this book in one of the Mars Trilogy books—but set in London, where the Thames is flooded.
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False confessions are in fact pretty common. They're most common with juveniles and the mentally ill, for example, or when people are being interrogated for 12-16 hours straight and just need to leave, or when the police lie to suspect
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"Public broadcasting" means a lot of different things. But one of the great values of radio-based sound delivery systems is that they are very local. And local radio cultivates niches that translate well into interesting podcasts.
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tl/dr: Thanks to Serial, podcasting has acquired a snobby cultural cachet among the NPR set, but it has surprising origins 10 years earlier among nerds. Still, it can't entirely replace public broadcasting. What a weird take on po
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by panglott 10y ago
Calling him a "racist hick" makes several claims. One is that he is a racist. Another is that he is a poorly-educated rural dweller. These are frequently paired because some people think that rural dwellers or the poorly educated
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The simplest reason is that Australia has a higher inflation target and is willing to average that target over the business cycle. Whereas the US has a lower inflation target and treats that target as an upper bound. So in the 2007 recessio
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The prices for print copies of this on Amazon are just out of control, hundred of dollars. Fortunately they are available online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang#Works
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My first thought was: are they edible? The venom is in the skin and shoulders. & apparently the answer is yes, if you kill them in the freezer and skin them. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634736/How
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When I've seen his website in the past, the crazy religious stuff has always been there, which I can look past, but now it seems like the crazy racist stuff is way way more prominent, which I just cannot.
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The source cited in Wikipedia lists only 11 states that have anti-mask laws. Sometimes there are religious or medical exceptions. Many of them are targeting the KKK or bank robbers, but most of the litigation against them has been state civ
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Copyright is just about the rights to copy, reproduce, or publish something. You need the technology to physically copy faces in the first place before even talking about things like copyrightable faces.
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"We don't know yet" is the whole point of science, and of research. Over the past 30-40 years progress in our understanding of this field has been rapid, and there's no reason to think that won't continue.
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It just falls apart when you try to define mass nouns in terms of number. Different languages handle mass and count nouns different, just as Japanese where nouns have no inflection for number and you use conventionalized counter words to in
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I think the musical metaphor makes more sense to us, with the obvious analogy to the length of a vibrating string. "This part is D-flat long, when it needs to be C-sharp!"
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Also, those in here arguing that numbers are fundamental, basic, and universal might appreciate Ted Chiang's story "Division by Zero", also in "Stories of Your Life". http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/M
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AIUI, the controversy was generated based on definitions within generative linguistics that were ambiguous; the Chomskyans clarified what they meant by "recursion" for their purposes, and the controversy should have evaporated. Th
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The layout is good, but the "grey on light grey" thing is not very visually accessible.
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I think you captured it with "1. Certain political parties have their base in rural areas and want to subsidize their life style." The suburbs are politically very important in the U.S. because a lot of people live there. The ques
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The older Web wasn't much harder to use, but it was overrun with spam and content farms and the threats of anonymous communication were far more visible.
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In the short term that may be true, but over a timespan of decades or generations, social attitudes about the roles of women more generally are more important. It is only very recently that the kind of constraints you mention are influentia
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Construction and garbage workers may have lower status, but these are generally good-paying bluecollar jobs. Construction in particular has a wide range of skill levels.
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Those were secretarial jobs because the men designing the hardware thought that was the hard stuff, and that designing software was basically secretarial work. When they discovered that designing software was hard, they forced the women out
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This stuff, like catcalling, is mostly invisible to me as a man. But at some point, you read enough stories, you realize it's the norm, not the exception.
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Yea, reading this comment just a week after Susan Fowler's post on her experiences at Uber is surreal. It's not the ones complaining about this stuff who are "dividing the genders".
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Language shift occurs when mothers stop talking to their infants in the language. Not being able to access government services in the language may indicate a decline in the language's vitality, in its prestige and influence, but it is
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Deep ocean may be an unusual case because species and individuals can relatively easily move between different layers. Unlike caves. But marine creatures have many different adaptations. Cetaceans IIRC have relatively good visual acuity, bu
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Obviously the general statement "some people don't take responsibility" is in this context not a neutral general observation, but rather a personal implication of the driver.

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