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by wnscooke 4y ago
I suppose one difference is that the pieces from Perserverance were _supposed_ to land on Mars. Whereas this object ended up floating around uselessly, like so much other "space junk". And because they suspect it's origin as
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by wnscooke 5y ago
I teach English but I rarely call myself The Teacher. I'm there to help them on their journey. I explain at the start of every class that their final grade (the uni currency) will rely more on the effort they put in than an actual note
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by wnscooke 5y ago
Funny reading ppl criticizing the "promise". I decided to Google Svbtle as I recalled liking their default theme "awhile ago"... And there are results from over 10 years ago! I'd call that a pretty run in terms of p
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by wnscooke 5y ago
Not clear from which side you are speaking!
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by wnscooke 5y ago
Have you seen their demands? If Ukraine agrees, they get what they want - more land, won't get pounded by more fighting, etc. Seems like a crazy calculation but tit might be what they wanted. If Ukraine agrees, it also has the side eff
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by wnscooke 5y ago
There was once a Kazakh translation of Faust, by Goethe, that I found in Almaty in the late 90's, made some photocopies, then lost those. How in the world could I ever find this book again (now that I'm not in Kazakhstan, much les
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by wnscooke 5y ago
After one particularly stressful period of life I started having bloody stool (TMI, sorry). Bright red and scary looking. I went to the doctor, had lots of tests... no results. It wasn't cancer. Nothing odd physically. Diet was examine
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by wnscooke 5y ago
I’m curious about your stated reason for being there. Dubai gives Humanitarian visas to foreigners? To work in its own country (which then means it’s admitting it needs help)? I guess the host company is Dubaian? With all sincerity, I’m cur
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by wnscooke 5y ago
Mailpile.is
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by wnscooke 5y ago
There are some who think that if the First Nations weren’t “the first”, that diminishes modern day claims and grievances, making it easier for modern day Canada and the USA to ignore legitimate claims, and treat us as they’ve always wanted
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by wnscooke 5y ago
Yeah, I think it’s about time to stop using that phrase, “low on the totem pole”. Remarkably ignorant and insensitive. You already even used the word “hierarchical”… we get it.
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by wnscooke 5y ago
Uighursoft had an OCR app that did all kinds of ltr texts. Give that a try.
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by wnscooke 5y ago
It probably stems from the well-known history of the start of the company. Who knows who started Dell, McDs, any number of SSD manufacturers, Lenovo, BlackBerry, etc.? I guess we all know about Microsoft and Bill Gates, but their story traj
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by wnscooke 5y ago
The best would be to learn the nation’s name. And then use that. In English I guess; in their own tongue would be cool. It’s like if I want to talk about Germany, or Luxembourg, but only and always use the term European. But because most (?
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by wnscooke 5y ago
The answer was good, but just to clarify a touch more... The software inserts the space, not the French speaker. I teach in a university in France and repeatedly instructed students to stop typing that space until a few told me they literal
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by wnscooke 5y ago
“treat current lands as sovereign nations that have an equal standing with the rest of the nation” This isn’t as radical as you may think. It’s been a stated goal for a long time. I’m always surprised how the actual meaning of these words d
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by wnscooke 5y ago
But even saying “the Kazak name ‘Almaty’” is still not correct because it gives the impression that the final sound is like an English -y, like happy. For those who know Cyrillic it is still inaccurate because the Cyrillic -y sounds like an
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by wnscooke 5y ago
I had never heard of this, so I googled it. Very interesting. The drawing aspect is heavily pushed, but it looked like it also runs Windows 10 Pro... can you comment on how it runs as a computer? Could it be used to make videos, with say, D
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by wnscooke 5y ago
I would love that.
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by wnscooke 6y ago
You know why I like mushrooms? Cause I’m a fun guy!
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by wnscooke 6y ago
Could you suggest any particular book by either TH or DB?
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by wnscooke 6y ago
It’s cool, the tech behind it all, but I’m in the process of closing my WhatsApp account, so I don’t need a bridge. For some reason my initial reaction was joy that this could be a WhatsApp replacement, somehow. And at the moment, I like ke
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by wnscooke 6y ago
KFC actually released a KFC phone in China a few years back. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanwhitwam/2017/07/12/huawei-a...
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by wnscooke 6y ago
In Seoul I watched Avatar at 3 am, and the theatre was almost full. When I came out the morning crowds were already on the the move. Another night, at 1am, I wandered by an eyeglass store and they whipped me up a new pair of glasses for me
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by wnscooke 6y ago
I do the same, but the reason, as I’ve thought about it, is that it is of course a song I like, with a nice groove, and when I press Repeat for hours, the effect is that whenever I have a momentary lull or break in my work, what I hear is a
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by wnscooke 6y ago
One-way, so pick a slope where the one-way is downhill.
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by wnscooke 6y ago
Don’t rely on twitter. Build a presence on an open source and self hosted option like Mastodon.
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by wnscooke 6y ago
Fearing death oft-times seems similar to the fear that accompanies any act which you’ve never done before. About to be married, going to finish school, going on a trip... fear is part of all of these experiences, at least until you’ve done
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by wnscooke 6y ago
Not true. The Han were not being murdered by Uighurs regularly. And every housing development has a gate and guardhouse, almost always has been like that since the danwei days. What is true is that the Han have been scared into fearing the
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by wnscooke 6y ago
If only the other side felt the same way.

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