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by aaaaaar 7y ago
It's already on there. Only 2.4 stars though :)
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
That's not a sign of bad bread. If you bake your own bread, you may find it also molds in 4 days, depending on your climate and how you store it. I'm more leery of manufactured breads that keep forever.
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
That's what I thought of when I read this in George Orwell's "1984": "Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdo
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
You can literally learn most of Esperanto grammar in the time it takes to learn the difference between "soy/estar" and "por/para" in Spanish. Those are just two Spanish concepts that students spend days learnin
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
I think it is. -phonetic spelling -no exceptions, no irregular word forms -simple grammar, few conjugations -much faster vocab acquisitions due to correlatives These are all huge advantages. Even if word stems are 100% new, the amount of t
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
Does it have to be? Planet Money had an episode about "revenue-neutral carbon tax", where all the money collected is returned back to the tax payers, to spend however they want. The point of this tax is not to raise money, but to
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
There is another example of this occuring, linked from that Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
"it can be hard to tell if they studied it or they actually know." What is the difference? If they studied it, they now know? Is it because as an interviewer, you are looking for knowledge by experience, not via book-learning?
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
They are very active in progressive causes. Perhaps when they sold the company to Unilever they negotiated some deal that allows them to continue to use Ben and Jerry website for their activism?
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
Another fun one is the Lexicon by Max Barry, except it exploits the auditory language processing. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158596-lexicon
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
You play it casually just like you read a fiction paperback casually. In the annual interactive fiction contest, the judges get 2 hours to evaluate ba game. So many new games aim for that to be the playing time. From what I remember some o
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
Thank you for posting this - I took this quiz a few years ago in a team exercise and all of my answers were off. Since then I wanted to find a copy of this test, but didn't know where to look. I think out of 15 people nobody got more
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
I thought "slowly" was a reference to the reduced typing speed on the phone.
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
I wonder if that's how they developed Cornerstone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_%28software%29 Just rip some code out here, change some there, until it looks like a relational database :)
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by aaaaaar 7y ago
By what power vested in the senator can they slap NOAA's wrist? Is it just the importance and influence by being a senator? Or is there some direct control? Or via a threat to cut funding?