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by ppur 6y ago
The article is indeed hard to find without a nyt subscription; if you do have one, it's at https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/01/09/851...
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by ppur 6y ago
As "feeling precise" goes, lojban is pretty good - it feels more like coding an idea than speaking
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by ppur 6y ago
I think you might be looking for https://youtu.be/bKqO6gdJIz8 (at about 0:33 in) Shows a 747 banking at an incredible angle (though I feel like that hovering thing may just be an optical illusion)
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by ppur 6y ago
Also see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apology Covers the apology "step" in detail and treats it as "a form of ritual exchange between both parties, where words are said that allow reconciliation&quot
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by ppur 6y ago
In high school right now; my calc teacher links to this all the time when the textbook's explanation/examples are unsatisfactory
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by ppur 6y ago
Especially with the way innovation works now, one person's "megalomaniacal fantasies" can easily lead to scientific progress.
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by ppur 6y ago
I think another thing that contributes to that last problem about "computer" brands is the lack of knowledge of the distinction between operating system manufacturer and hardware manufacturer - I just moved recently, and in the pr
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by ppur 6y ago
Three is two, two is one, one is none.
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by ppur 6y ago
The podcasts-over-time statistics remind me that podcasts are like the new blogs.
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by ppur 6y ago
It's also interesting to note that, already, bots on some Wikipedias are the largest contributors of articles in that language. The Swedish, Waray, and Cebuano Wikipedias already have an estimated "between 80% and 99% of the tota
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MIT 2006 Integration Bee(youtube.com)
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