aomurphy

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by aomurphy 2y ago
Zompist is a bit unusual these days: one guy working on one project (his Constructed World Almea) for over 40 years now, with 30 of those on the web. It's a beautiful relic of the early web. Most of the sites from my old "conlang&
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by aomurphy 2y ago
Pretty likely! You can often see ones that follow the same format in the same hand, but with different names subbed in. Presumably some people went to a specialist who then followed mostly the same format varying for your own needs (a bit l
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by aomurphy 2y ago
There's a very active historical debate about whether a schedule like this, often called "biphasic sleep", was more common in pre-industrial societies. There's a historian called Roger Ekirch who thinks it was, starting
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by aomurphy 5y ago
Various environmentalists have tried this in the US. Here's a reason article about several attempts: https://reason.com/2019/11/18/why-dont-environmentalists-jus... Kind of frustrating the OP's arti
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by aomurphy 9y ago
I don't quite agree with the author about modernity. I argue that the modern Ultra-Orthodox are modern, specifically in the way they justify their beliefs. Most of what I'm going to say is just a summary of this lovely paper by Ha
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by aomurphy 9y ago
This has been predicted in higher ed for the past ~2 decades. It's relatively easy to look at the number of students in the pipeline, and you can see there were two big peaks in the last half century: baby boomers in the 60s-70s, and t
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by aomurphy 9y ago
I'm not Swedish, but I find this area relatively interesting. The idea is fairly straightforward: Sweden's model created low income inequality between the poor and the rich, but did not create low wealth inequality. A large pr
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by aomurphy 9y ago
It's worth one day finding a printing press class and setting some type by hand. For one thing, what you'll produce is beautiful, and it really gives a sense of how much art, work, and mastery goes into type.
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by aomurphy 9y ago
Empirically, this does not seem to be the case. Labov at UPenn has been studying American dialect formation for the past ~50 years, and has found several ongoing changes. In some ways the Midwest is getting more divergent, with the Northern
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by aomurphy 9y ago
This has an interesting perspective on why the number of CS grads in the US seems so cyclical. The author argues they aren't, and the 1980s crash was a capacity crisis, totally different from the 2001 dot-com bubble crash. He also argu
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A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science [pdf](cs.stanford.edu)
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by aomurphy 9y ago
Could you link to some of them?
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by aomurphy 9y ago
Yes, absolutely. I think LeGuin is the last "great" Utopian writer we've had. The Dispossessed is a beautiful work, and one that doesn't have a dark heart. It has bad parts, it might not last, but it's not Omelas. Y
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by aomurphy 9y ago
Also, the work on Easter Island is widely disputed. Easter Islanders probably did not purposely cut down all of their big trees, but the trees were devastated by the release of rats which ate their seeds. See "The Statues That Walked&q
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by aomurphy 9y ago
One of the best books on the subject is Prof. Mark Noll's "The Civil War as a Theological Crisis". The first part is a discussion of how different American groups understood Slavery as Christians in antebellum America. Broadl
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by aomurphy 10y ago
Lovecraft's racism was significantly more extreme than for his time. He constantly called New York "Jew York", even while married to a Jew. He was a complicated fellow, but explicitly wished not to be a product of his time, b
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by aomurphy 10y ago
These figures are similar from 2009: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fpt.2009.5 from Population Trends March 2009, Volume 135, Issue 1, pp 20–28 by Amy Ellis Office for National Statistics. What figures do y
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by aomurphy 10y ago
No, the point of the stay is that he cannot. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigratio... See: 8 U.S. Code § 1152 - Numerical limitations on individual foreign states See this analysis
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by aomurphy 10y ago
I think that being a student here is hardly catering to their whims. She was let in by the University, works there, and studies there. It seems fair to let her continue to do that. Also, why do you think immigrants are always going to be no
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by aomurphy 10y ago
A majority of Americans want to allow refugees from Muslim countries, including Syria: http://www.voanews.com/a/poll-americans-divided-along-party-... Democrats (who voted 89% for Hillary) are strongly in support. Over
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by aomurphy 10y ago
I think, usually, hard work is necessary, but not sufficient. You won't succeed without it, but if you're not lucky, you won't succeed either.
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by aomurphy 10y ago
And many were raped. Repeatedly. In a culture where this was thought of as normal. How can a relationship be consensual and loving when one partner literally has the right to order the other, to harm the other in any way, to literally kill
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by aomurphy 10y ago
If you look at the linked study they're careful to point out that they're only looking at what happens when you're already stopped by police. Blacks in America are much more likely to be stopped overall, so it's not defi
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by aomurphy 10y ago
The situation for salarymen of the same year in big corps. at Japan is kind of similar. Wages are only from tenure, so two people who have been at the a corp. for 10 years have the same salary, even if one's a total duffer and the othe
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by aomurphy 10y ago
It's path dependent. Many things happened in the SF Bay area that led to this. Here are factors in a rough order of importance. 1) Most people's savings are in housing. I do not know if this is the case in Switzerland, but in Angl
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by aomurphy 10y ago
Cultures experience mental illness in very very different ways. http://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-... People tend to think their talking to spiritual things in some sense, but Americ
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by aomurphy 10y ago
If you read the article there's a whole section on how Seattle had a similar problem. That's why all the new condos look so similar, there are very few materials that don't leak.
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by aomurphy 10y ago
Being part of a small dedicated group fighting for a cause absolutely leaves you open to this, even when the ideals you are fighting for are against that very goal. You can see it all the time in far left groups, there are often similar sor
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by aomurphy 10y ago
!0,000 Years ago was ~8000 BC. Nobody knows what languages people spoke back then. Our oldest reconstructed languages like Proto-Uralic and Proto-Afro-Asiatic are hypothesized to have been spoken around then, but they are very rough guesses
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by aomurphy 10y ago
There's certainly never been a shortage of protectionist economies, it's pretty much the default of countries for obvious reasons of protecting vested interests. The best explanation I've ever read for the rise East Asian exp

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