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by retrac 3y ago
You're probably on to something. I frequently get impressions like, good Lord, can't you tell this person is schmoozing? Or that they're trying to hide their agitation? Same with people prone to black and white thinking.
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by retrac 3y ago
The inability to really control background processes on stock Android is one of the main reasons I will not be buying any more devices like that. It's my device. The applications all run in sandbox. But I can't reliably stop th
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by retrac 3y ago
Conceptually similar, there was also the ANS synthesizer [1] designed by the Soviet engineer Evgeny Murzin. Unlike the Mellotron, it was opto-electronic, giving the composer more direct access and control over the "samples". Wa
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by retrac 3y ago
A similar process is currently ongoing in some English dialects with initial t/d. "Tuesday" and "choose day" are homophones for some British speakers. It may well morph into "shoes jay" within another ce
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by retrac 3y ago
How many people are still unfamiliar with Coca Cola? Yes, some advertising is like you say. Inform a consumer about a product. Most of it isn't like that. It's often emotionally manipulative, pressing heavily on social engineer
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by retrac 3y ago
All of the above. But I do have another perspective: Both the companies and the government are reacting to the genuine public will. Maybe not reacting in a forthright and effective way, but public opinion is surely a major factor. The maj
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by retrac 3y ago
The Georgian script is of uncertain origin. It's very old; at least 1600 years. It does seem to have influence from Greek. It was common for Christian missionaries to invent an alphabet for the language of the community they meant to
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by retrac 3y ago
They are used in niche applications. All in a somewhat similar way, in my opinion: precision technical work. Where you need free movement of your head but also need urgent real-time updates, or a diagram or secondary view, of what you&#x2
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by retrac 3y ago
The protest was cleared out physically with some ruckus, with around 200 people arrested in the final weekend after the emergency orders. The degree to which the protest was actually some coordinated plot of a small group vs. distributed ma
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by retrac 3y ago
Sum types. In C they can be constructed out of unions and structs with lots of checks (and possibility for error) but it's painful. There's really no excuse for C not having them, other than C being designed before algebraic type
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by retrac 3y ago
That reminds me of this contemporary Chinese world map: https://priorprobability.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/img_536... It's meant for shipping lanes, mostly. So it puts China in the centre. The shortest ro
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by retrac 3y ago
I think the concept we're looking for here is not actually "bland" but somewhere between inoffensive and without surprise . If something is being sold as a creamer for coffee, for example, most people want the product to
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by retrac 3y ago
> Regular expressions are equivalent to finite state machines, which cannot count arbitrarily high (any state machine that can count arbitrarily high needs an infinite number of states, since there are infinite natural numbers). The mach
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by retrac 3y ago
"Tankie" is a term mostly used by leftists - democratic socialists or neo-Marxists, etc. Liberals usually do not bother to distinguish between them.
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by retrac 3y ago
Canada also allows 17 year olds to be enlisted (16 for the reserves). They cannot be deployed in combat per international convention. As I understand it, it's basically a legal historical quirk at this point; it almost never happens -
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by retrac 3y ago
Taking the premise rather literally, it would mean, for example, that the DNA of the organism would be typical for a member of its species on Earth. The odds of hundreds of millions of bits of genetic information coincidentally being the s
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by retrac 3y ago
The Cajun accent of Louisiana sounds a lot to me like southern American English as spoken by a French speaker, which historically is its origin.
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by retrac 3y ago
These days chips with different amounts of cores or cache may derive from the same mask. If one or more of the cores or banks of cache are defective, they're disabled.
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by retrac 3y ago
Industrialism is still in exponential growth. For example, globally more plastic is now made annually than all plastics manufactured cumulatively up to approximately 1980. Similar story with pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, or anything else,
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by retrac 3y ago
Relative perceived contrast is important in vision. Most displays are backlit LCD and their black is actually a mid to light grey; it only appears moderately black in contrast to bright white. The white of white text on black isn't e
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by retrac 3y ago
I imagine it's neither. It is the psychological aspect of the violation. Just as why many women dread vaginal exams, or even having their breasts examined. Necessary but clearly undesirable. I think it may actually be more violat
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by retrac 3y ago
Taiwan and modern mainland China have about a century of separation at this point, with very different historical paths. China: civil war -> WW II -> civil war -> communist rule -> several decades of int'l isolation. Taiw
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by retrac 3y ago
I'm not sure there's any short quote that summarizes it. But as I read him, thought is composed of ideas, which are themselves "no more than the compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing" of other ideas. And
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by retrac 3y ago
> but I assume I have no privacy (as does the law) when I am in a public space. I think we may need to slightly retweak our concept of public and private. There are very few truly private spaces, from the perspective of an entity that c
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by retrac 3y ago
It would be unusual if it wasn't real in some cases. Fatigue is common following viral infections, in general. It's not that unusual to be left very weak for months after a severe bout of influenza. The herpesviruses can do i
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by retrac 3y ago
It's not clear it's acting as an antiviral, in the classic sense of directly interfering with the virus, by directly bonding with and neutralizing viral proteins, or supplying lookalike proteins for the cells to make defective vir
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by retrac 3y ago
Given the context, it is clear "drugs" here refers to psychoactive substances.
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by retrac 3y ago
> People cannot understand this mixed message. If drugs are bad and shouldn’t be consumed, why is there an official channel for “safely” consuming them? Most people do seem to manage understanding such a mixed message with alcohol. They
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by retrac 3y ago
As a Canadian I was tempted to use my own experiences of people spouting stuff that made me think I had fallen in a time warp to the 1950s. But that's subjective. And the above thread was about the southern USA. I was not trying to p
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by retrac 3y ago
Alabama had a ban on interracial marriage in its state constitution. Struck down in the 60s by SCOTUS but still on the books after that. When they put it to a referendum to repeal it from the text of the law - the vote was surprisingly cl

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