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by prewett 1y ago
Sure, but at some point you miss something. You could summarize “The Lord of the Rings” as “Frodo journeys with much effort to destroy the One Ring at Mt. Doom, but in the end claims it himself and Gollum accidentally destroys it for him.”
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by prewett 2y ago
According to the linked Wikipedia article, he did not go broke from the gold rush. He went broke because he invested the pickaxe windfall in land, and when his wife divorced him, the judge ruled he had to pay her 50%, but since he was 100%
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by prewett 2y ago
The first company I worked for out of college did that, as it was a technical position that hired people out of university who studied science and engineering. They had two of us and an interviewer. The other guy gave his presentation on Ru
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by prewett 2y ago
A lot of the complexity is because HTML, as a document language, is unsuitable for the purpose of making apps, but because the browser is the only cross-platform environment we have (and pushing new versions is easy), that's what gets
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by prewett 2y ago
I sort of knew the story, but the way Gates presents it in his article makes it pretty blunt. There is no contrition; rather it is a story of glorious success, a story of hard work to be proud of, all started by the lie. In fact, the lie is
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by prewett 2y ago
In all their cities they could see buildings that they did not know how to build. And before that, public services would have broken down. It would have become impossible to find people who knew how to repair your heated floor (if you were
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by prewett 2y ago
+1, definitely. Social workers are there for exactly your situation. There are generally state programs for housing, housing assistance, food, and health care, which they can help you locate. You paid for this previously with your taxes, ta
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by prewett 2y ago
While I find the Russian invasion of Ukraine appalling, as a counterpoint to all the "Trump is destroying the US' reputation" mono-point that I've read so far (although I agree with that, too): John Maersheimer [1] gave
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by prewett 2y ago
> folks of other sexual preferences and gender identities Since Jesus was an observant Jew, who explicitly said that not a letter of the Mosaic Law would pass away, I don't think he would be support of sexual "preferences"
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by prewett 2y ago
There was an article here, I think, some time ago where an artist responded to a letter a young guy wrote asking about the conflict between art and income. He said that pretty much all professional artists (musicians, etc.) do art part-time
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by prewett 2y ago
I was part of a group people that tended towards artsy (and definitely not rationalist). This was when everyone had an idea for a new app, and I kept getting people trying to get me to work for equity. They seemed to have these same kinds o
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by prewett 2y ago
> The shareholder / capital ownership class isn't exactly known for their desire to spread that ownership across the public broadly. This seems like a cynical take, given that there are two stock markets (just in the US), it&#x
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by prewett 2y ago
Communism is functionally societal-level Taylorism, which I believe is the dominant corporate management style. Hayek said that the reason Communist economies failed was that the center could not get accurate information on what the leaves
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by prewett 2y ago
Check out https://www.centauri-dreams.org/ , it's a blog dedicated to interstellar travel. It's on hiatus at the moment, but there are plenty of back articles to read! However, I recommend you figure out how to red
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by prewett 2y ago
I believe that back when the church was the center of English village life, they would ring the low bell when someone died. Being a village, you'd know when someone was ill. The bell was audible throughout the village, and probably to
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by prewett 2y ago
It started in the 1930s, so I think the answer is no, they weren't expected to do those things. I expect it would have been very difficult to get hired as a reporter (Tintin's profession) as a women in the 1930s. Even the detectiv
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by prewett 2y ago
That's sure a lot better variation than "those Other people are just Bad" that seems to be current on both the left and the right currently.
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by prewett 2y ago
The book "American Nations", whose basic idea is that the US + Canada is composed of 12 cultural "nations", also observes that the Puritans were rather intolerant. The Puritan culture influenced what he calls "Yanke
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by prewett 2y ago
But #1 is wrong and #2 is abusive. There is no such thing as "society", just relationships between individual people. To get a better "society", you need people to act better. However, all of recorded history suggests th
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "imprecise types", but if you mean something like using an `int` for an array index instead of `size_t` or something, I can tell you why I do it. Using `int` lets you use -1 as an easy invalid in
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by prewett 2y ago
> The China subsidiary went rogue Expecting to get something out of the China market is unwise. I think there's plenty of evidence that this sort of stuff is de rigeur. Until recently you had to have a Chinese partner with 51% of th
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by prewett 2y ago
> Who's to say a quasar isn't just a lovely time clock for signals encoded in the noise Apart from a) quasars are broad-spectrum, not narrow frequencies (at least I assume that is the case), and b) the power required is too lar
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by prewett 2y ago
I've tried that, and there are two problems. One is that water has a tendency to superheat and then boil all over the place when you put the tea in, or it suddenly produces a big bubble and water goes everywhere. The other is that it i
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by prewett 2y ago
The Bonavita kettle lets you set in 1 def F (or C, if you prefer) increments, with some common presets. I've used it for making Chinese tea for years.
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm sure you're aware of Prohibition, but yes, we did ban that. Didn't work very well, though, and we unbanned it (with a minimum age limit). When smoking's health problems became well-known we only banned advertising (a
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by prewett 2y ago
I like the idea, but I don't think today's fragment works. "ETC" isn't really a word, it's an abbreviation. "AF" also isn't a word. The "CH" down block isn't a word. The "AGO&
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by prewett 2y ago
Dogs can talk with words, too, although they need technical help for that. A speech pathologist trained her dog to talk with buttons that play recordings of words: https://www.hungerforwords.com/
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by prewett 2y ago
> Consumer audio can go up to a 192kHz sampling rate, which can't even record 100 kHz sounds. That's probably because the Nyquist frequency (the maximum frequency that can theoretically be reproduced) is 96 kHZ at 192 kHz sampl
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by prewett 2y ago
The stone likely may have been painted, originally too. I asked a tour guide at Chartres about the why the floor was so rough and the walls so perfectly aligned. She said that the walls were not perfect, they painted over the stones and dre
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm guessing it's because of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", which if I recall correctly, Victor Hugo wrote to (successfully) stimulate desire to repair/restore the cathedral around 1800. For me, personally, I think

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