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541.
by soperj 3y ago
It was wooded before the clear cutting.
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by soperj 3y ago
I was excited about a number of those things, but the production values on some of them (leaving the solar system, helicopter on mars) was pretty bad.
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by soperj 3y ago
Why?
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by soperj 3y ago
They should breed them... I'm sure we could select for language geniuses.
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by soperj 3y ago
This is nonsense, people give credit to their influences all the time.
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by soperj 3y ago
In Alberta, one of the original French Canadian communities with a number of families that have lived there for generations. Accent differs considerably, and use of slang in France seemed significantly greater. We definitely learned things
547.
by soperj 3y ago
I did years of French immersion in Canada, only to go to France a few years after i had finished and realized I didn't know French as well as I thought I did (I felt like I was nearly bilingual). A few years after that, with zero pract
548.
by soperj 3y ago
headline says "open" and libreoffice opened it with no problem.
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by soperj 3y ago
I don't know that the dams in Canada are any better in terms of sunk organic material Williston reservoir in BC and the Manicouagan Reservoir are nearly as big and they didn't clear either of them. The Smallwood Reservoir is 3 ti
550.
by soperj 3y ago
It's continuously releasing methane, and methane degrades into.... CO2. > So the impact of the methane release from hydro is basically static rather than an ever increasing problem. You can also say the same thing about the coal pl
551.
by soperj 3y ago
Produces methane, not CO2 because the plants decompose in an oxygen free environment. Because of the cycling of water throughout the year, during the dry seasons plants grow along the shoreline (which varies considerably because of the use
552.
by soperj 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbina_Dam "As a result of the methane released from its vast reservoir, proportional to its output, the Balbina Dam emits ten times more greenhouse gases than a coal plant."
553.
by soperj 3y ago
Not to mention some of it's hydropower is dirtier than coal in terms of methane & co2 produced. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7046-hydroelectric-po...
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by soperj 3y ago
I wonder if that includes dental floss.
555.
by soperj 3y ago
They do the same thing with temperature readings.
556.
by soperj 3y ago
> Mozilla Developer Network is somewhat ambiguous MDN is less ambiguous?
557.
by soperj 3y ago
> A machine can be told that something is interesting, where humans need to innately find something interesting or spend a long time sort of learning to find something interesting. Humans seem to be the same way. Lots of people learn so
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by soperj 3y ago
Wasn't his work based on Lilienthal's though? edit: "Chanute was too old to fly, so he partnered with younger experimenters, including Augustus M. Herring and William Avery. In 1896, Chanute, Herring, and Avery tested a desig
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by soperj 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AZjozlvyZ4
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by soperj 3y ago
I tried mate. Couldn't find shit.
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by soperj 3y ago
Wouldn't the "open source ones like SCIP for the small ones." be public by design?
562.
by soperj 3y ago
> the books and author literally says the opposite Should be easy to find a quote then.
563.
by soperj 3y ago
Only because we've killed most of the whales already.
564.
by soperj 3y ago
I don't see any additional information, only your opinion on the subject.
565.
by soperj 3y ago
It's kind of ignoring the history of cannibalism within the human race. It's tempting to say that we're past that, but most stuff comes back into vogue at some point in time.
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by soperj 3y ago
Pretty one-sided view. Elves and Men both feast and eat living things as well.
567.
by soperj 3y ago
Yes. They get a subscription fee or are paid by advertising. No one pays to advertise to an AI.
568.
by soperj 3y ago
I'm literally replying to the quote: > Intelligent spiders prevent expansion into Mirkwood. Doesn't sound like targeting non-aggressive travelers.
569.
by soperj 3y ago
It's just defence, same as what the humanoids are doing.
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by soperj 3y ago
> Intelligent spiders prevent expansion into Mirkwood. How is that evil?

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