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by robocat 7d ago
> It might be that having english as your native language puts you in a uniquely difficult position Personally I suspect English has some great advantages. The main disadvantage is defaulting to superiority. The natural disconnect betwee
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by robocat 7d ago
> social aspects of learning another language Maybe if you are near the native speaking country, or potentially if there are significant numbers of immigrants. But knowing Spanish adds nothing social within New Zealand. I had a Spanish g
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by robocat 9d ago
Diesel has limited shelf life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_contamination_of_die... Fuel companies state that untreated fuel will remain usable for only one year, after which fuel contamination ("th
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by robocat 9d ago
If saturated brine is pumped in, then salt is not dissolved from the walls. See better comments further above.
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by robocat 9d ago
The sankey chart refers to her birthday: https://aella.substack.com/p/my-birthday-gangbang With my approval, organizers rejected anyone associated with e/acc, because we don’t need to give nice things to peopl
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by robocat 9d ago
You don't know how that is deployed. Some of their treasury (Non-Current Marketable Securities) could be bonds that are invested with targeted contracts for trade-secret benefits. Say TSMC needs capital, and say Apple has spare capital
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by robocat 9d ago
You believe signatures by engineers matter. That is your belief, but I've never seen that belief backed by fact. Most open source software disowns liability in CAPS in the license. Yet somehow FOSS like Linux gets used for safety criti
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by robocat 9d ago
Also read this comment by a real biologist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734849
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by robocat 9d ago
How greedy you sound. It is so easy to rationalise the idea of taking everything off someone who has more than oneself. We've got political phrases to justify it. But beware because you are the wealthy: that person living on the stre
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by robocat 10d ago
Do you feel like an inadiquate imposter or something? I'm assuming you work in software. Watch some engineers in other disciplines and you soon recognise that many of them have about the same responsibility as a software engineer. Desi
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by robocat 10d ago
Do you happen to live in a country where your government departments are known for rapid processing? (not weeks of delay like we're talking about here). I generally see my legal system create severe delays (regardless of how much that
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by robocat 10d ago
I try to record many specialist professionals (after asking first). Experts know what they are saying, and they often rapidly download dense technical information. I first noticed the problem after asking a friend for advice on handling a p
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by robocat 10d ago
Sounds like we mostly agree. I dislike scammers, and when travelling I practice my skills at recognising them. I'm okay at avoiding getting targeted (using a variety of techniques). If scammers are feeding their families, and relativel
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by robocat 10d ago
> learned French at all, I got to my current level of ability quite quickly You probably have some natural ability - or even just drive given your interest. Interests and abilities often hold hands. The the other major issue with languag
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by robocat 10d ago
Not even close. Evolutionary selection pressures don't usually act directly on genetics. Perhaps you are incorrectly attempting to rely on intuition, and over-simplistic phrases like selection pressures. Intuition is incredibly misle
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by robocat 11d ago
> crosswalks And their a11y/internationalisation is horrid. We have pedestrian crossings, not crosswalks. We don't have fire hydrants (instead a different solution). We don't have yellow schoolbuses. Our traffic lights loo
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by robocat 11d ago
You're being extremely dismissive and you're denying somebody else's reality. Demand varies a lot by location, type of contracting, price, etc.
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by robocat 11d ago
>> You know what kind of customer this pushes away? The kind that They are saying their belief about how other people act. I'm guessing they themselves do care. People typically underestimate others. All too often bosses do. It&#
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by robocat 11d ago
> most) consumers don't even have a clear idea of what "quality" looks like I think it just requires too much work. Your cynicism is unfair. Also cheapest is just the simplest option, even though you know it is crap. I som
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by robocat 11d ago
I suspect the underlying issue is that we are all terrible at unthreading cause from effect. Words matter. Talking about "species level" is misleading because talking about an effect (blue phenotype) distracts us from the cause (a
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by robocat 11d ago
You are suggesting that people should illegally hide their crypto from their government and taxation. I assume if you live in say Argentina, then you really have little other choice. But they don't have the knowledge to be safe, even t
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by robocat 11d ago
Yeah, why you want to know the language strongly matters. My natural bent is strongly focused on reading and words. Learning by talking and mimicking is not my strength at all. I suspect that is why I've noticed the pattern that natura
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by robocat 11d ago
Nothing about evolution feels sensible or right: and the vast majority of people have severe misunderstandings about how it works (for example the Darwin awards are highly misleading). Even science reporting is often highly misleading[0]. I
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by robocat 11d ago
I'm no polyglot, but talking and reading are very different skills. My personal working theory: Native speakers learn to speak first, then they learn to read and write. From talking with high-level ESOL speakers, those that learned fro
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by robocat 11d ago
I spent months in South America and tried to use crypto in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. I was motivated because of this pro-crypto article: https://devonzuegel.com/inside-argentina-s-currency-exchange... People in
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by robocat 12d ago
One of the hidden jokes of the hitchhikers books is that they never ask Marvin what "the question" is. Chapter 11, Marvin says: "Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge". Also
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by robocat 12d ago
Some of those videos are misleading. They sometimes slide a finger off one key onto another: taps need to not move. Personally, I use the slyde to type rather than tapping to type and have gboard installed for when slyde doesn't work (
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by robocat 14d ago
Yeah, and adverts only work on other people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect Fortunately I'm from Wobegon and I'm above average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobeg
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by robocat 15d ago
You don't know what contracts he has signed. VCs typically include clauses to be able to sack CEO and retain board control under specific circumstances. I've seen this happen in a small company I was at, to a CEO that didn't
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by robocat 16d ago
Yep - meant to be on parent comment sorry.

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