shanhaiguan

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by shanhaiguan 4y ago
Well, I feel like I said it, but for the same reason that a student learning French has not invented French, or even a new language, if he has come up with his own equivalent for each French word
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by shanhaiguan 4y ago
I don't like the word invention for this. The grammar is laid out by the author who has to teach the AI and correct it several times. If the AI had then proceeded to generate something similar on its own with different grammar and lexi
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by shanhaiguan 5y ago
I understand your appeal to democracy here, but the US had no problems imposing sanctions on Russia and Iran and I don't recall there being an overwhelmingly popular campaign from the people for those. After the fact, sure, maybe
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by shanhaiguan 5y ago
Tangentially. As someone who has only read the old Signet version of Les Mis, I find it interesting that you think it isn't as good. When I read it, I was very impressed with Hugo's prose (or at least, filtered through the transla
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by shanhaiguan 5y ago
Modern English doesn't have the thou-you singular/plural distinction. My preference is to keep these details in reading translations of religious texts, and I personally prefer to keep "thou" over having to say "you
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by shanhaiguan 5y ago
I don't think so. Supporters may think Bloom's conservative position stands 'above' insufferable woke politics or something like that. In fact the politics has already been brought, so to speak, and is now inescapable. P
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by shanhaiguan 5y ago
Perhaps, but I would be cautious in saying that even present-day Sufis from traditional orders are especially representative of a normative ideal of 'Sufism', especially those who have exposure by social media and the internet to
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by shanhaiguan 6y ago
Words have meanings.
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by shanhaiguan 6y ago
Hello! A question: I assume a college student should apply to the SDE1 listing, but is it a full-time or intern position?
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by shanhaiguan 6y ago
What's the distinction?
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by shanhaiguan 6y ago
It seems that your claim of infinite harm is based on the idea that the future is infinite. If the current subpar healthcare situation continues indefinitely, is the harm that it inflicts on its victims not also infinite? Is the benefit pro
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by shanhaiguan 7y ago
Indeed, it isn't your employer's business what or whom you donate to. But the more straightforward answer is that they are likely required to ask by law (possibly subject to other criteria).
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by shanhaiguan 7y ago
I was under the impression that this is exactly what peak oil is: the end of our current levels of oil production, not (necessarily) the disappearance of the oil itself.
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by shanhaiguan 7y ago
That’s not a PDF issue though: it’s just an issue of most content being the same dimensions as real world paper sizes. No idea how responsive PDF would work but I agree that would be cool.
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by shanhaiguan 7y ago
Successive Chinese governments have of course had many periods of great instability over history. But the Chinese nation as a people (or at least the Han conception of it) has existed for far longer than any one government, and stability, u