Tar90

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by Tar90 3y ago
It's probably Mbabaram. > When Dixon finally managed to meet Bennett, he began his study of the language by eliciting a few basic nouns; among the first of these was the word for "dog". Bennett supplied the Mbabaram transl
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by Tar90 3y ago
Degrowth is really about scaling back on the over-the-top way we live. It's about finding a sweet spot where people live well but not at the expense of everything else. It’s cool and useful that solar is cheap, but degrowth means chill
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by Tar90 9y ago
Could it be the prevalence of ophthalmologists instead? I assume it was really hard to get good medical care100 to 200 years ago, not to mention the cost of glasses.
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by Tar90 9y ago
The signals propagate at the exact speed of light, but you're on point on the risk being minimal. Space is big.
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by Tar90 9y ago
Destroying and replacing are very much orthogonal to each other.
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by Tar90 9y ago
How does that work? Never heard of traffic arbitrage before.
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by Tar90 9y ago
Plus, these games are deterministic, whereas everything in life is a stochastic process.
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Visionaries solve the problem of interstellar slowdown at Alpha Centauri(m.phys.org)
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by Tar90 10y ago
Cold war indeed.
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by Tar90 10y ago
For those interested, there's a nice discussion on the topic of Eichmann and the book on Yale's course Moral Foundations of Politics, in coursera.
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by Tar90 10y ago
The infamous tyranny of majority. That's why we have mechanisms in place in society to ensure fair representation.
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by Tar90 10y ago
I see. I prefer to view it as the apartheid deserves to be viewed: as racism.
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by Tar90 10y ago
"Left wing" in the US means at least center/center-right in the rest of the world.
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by Tar90 10y ago
The link gives a 404 error. Could you post it again?
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by Tar90 11y ago
He made a joke.
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by Tar90 11y ago
Very interesting, are you the author? If so, any chance of publishing the raw data afterwards?
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by Tar90 11y ago
This is the most ignorant piece I've ever read in this site. Ignorant about music, ignorant about philosophy and even architecture gets its fair share of ignorance. His comments about the music of the past are completely off ("the
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by Tar90 11y ago
He's probably Brazilian. For some reason, some Brazilians seem to viscerally hate their country and assume that everything about it is wrong, all the while believing that all other countries in the world are magically superior by natur
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by Tar90 12y ago
Why should this be on HN? I can hardly see how some guy boasting about killing someone - "bad" as they may be - is in any way related to hacking.