TeaBrain

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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I've recently eaten at several restaurants where the menus were only available via a link reachable from a QR code. At the last place, I asked if the 13 page menus were available in physical form and the waiter explained that they did
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Once again, this absurdist interpretation of what I spelled out, based on taking one word out of context, is in bad faith.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I'm referring to how genes modulate development according to their set of instructions. The way that these genetic instructions are set to be executed can be considered their intention. I'm being liberal in my use of the word &qu
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
The comment was more farcical and off-topic than it was cynical or subtle.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Genes are what define the instructions guiding biological development and so could be considered to be what defines the intention. With Morris syndrome, factors prevent the genetic instructions from guiding development as defined by the ge
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
As a former competitive tennis player, moving the weight to the balls of the foot is recommended when in a ready stance, or when actively shuffling. It isn't something that would be expected when walking.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Whatever you may wish to call it, simile or metaphor, it's a little silly to complain about it being referred to as a metaphor, considering that similes are a subset of metaphor, even if they often aren't taught this way to childr
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>are you saying the market was so small that it might as well not have existed? They're saying that the space these companies are competing in literally did not exist. It didn't in the US, maybe not 15 years ago, but 20 years
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>In the 70s/80s, the jobs that were available to you were basically what your family member could "get you in" Perhaps this may have been true for those who didn't have a university degree. Otherwise, this experience
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
It doesn't work for this use case, as they tried to explain, as it breaks the entire point of the system as a messaging platform that doesn't require the internet.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>This behavior became common in the Indian market after the newer HFTs (Edit: hedge funds. Thanks for the callout avvt4avaw) You weren't wrong. All market making is now electronic and all electronic market making is done at a speed
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Bubble in this context means a unique environment that is unlike places on the outside of said bubble. It's not referring to a bubble like in the sense of a inflating market bubble.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I think there's little chance it won't be changed back. Changing the name was probably motivated by someone in management pushing the name change so that they could list it as a personal achievement as one of the "new" A
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
It's not a new idea. The posted article is just about Voyager apparently observing the phenomena more closely. Voyager 1 had already reached the termination shock of the heliosphere in 2004 and Voyager 2 in 2007. The heliosphere contai
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Many of the Northern European countries have capitals that are north of the northernmost point in the US, but those places are significantly warmer than similar latitudes in North America due to the North Atlantic Current.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>It is know since a long time that morning glory seeds contain LSA This is one of the givens they were working off of. The finding of the research is the fungus that produces the LSA in the seeds.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
As they said, you can skip the opinion columns.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>Everyone else? Well, they (and you, in fact) didn't answer a fairly simple question, and then got pissed off. You can draw your own conclusions. I did see the question you spammed around the thread. Most people likely didn't
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
You aren't as extraordinary as you think you are by finishing the book. It is long, but it isn't incredibly long. By making this insinuation of others' lack of honesty in their claims of reading the book, it's as if you
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I don't think this is pertinent to their point at all. They were just referencing the quality of one of the scores Reznor has done. Reznor has continued to score movies nearly every year since. I'd agree with them that Reznor&#
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>NASA could have done everything SpaceX does if they were given the same conditions and funding This may have been hypothetically possible, as are many things that never came to be, but it is impossible to know whether this really would
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
It's a small temporary art installation that takes virtually no space on the town square.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
You aren't describing a situation where there is a lack of capital controls.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Peer review does not necessarily make a paper trustworthy nor does the absence mean there's necessarily a lack of trustworthiness. It just means it has the approval of some reviewers, who can be of varying quality and may not have eve
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>prone to corruption and subjectivity of representatives The political assembly of Venice recognized this, which influenced their decision to introduce randomness via sortitions into the process of selecting both the electors and candida
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>The reserve currency thing is irrelevant. The little "thing" or status of having reserve currency has allowed the US to enjoy lower international borrowing costs than anywhere else in the world. This has immensely benefited th
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
I'm aware, and I'm not contesting this, but this is besides the point. What I'm getting at is that Walter seems to think that prosperity has a 1 to 1 correlation to market freedom. If the GDP of the US started diverging fart
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
Yes, it does happen to be a point, but it's completely besides the point of the subject in question existing as a privilege in the current day.
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
You are getting two things confused here. The original question was what privileges the US had that others do not. The USD being the reserve currency is unquestionably a privilege. That it is not the original cause of American prosperity
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by TeaBrain 1y ago
>Significantly less free than in the US, and correspondingly less prosperity. Which measures of freedom became restricted in the EU following the GFC that led to the prosperity of the EU diverging from the US?

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