batrachos

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by batrachos 4y ago
You've made a lot of arguments itt: 1. Closures, all two years of them, were fully justified from a public health perspective. 2. Learning losses weren't all that bad. 3. The tests are arbitrary anyways. On point 1, it would be he
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by batrachos 4y ago
> I am...glad you were able to afford expensive private schooling to shield your kid from the effects of the deadly pandemic that led to more than a million deaths in the US? I'm another poster who did the same thing and I'm al
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by batrachos 4y ago
StackOverflow seems to have a new/shiny bias.
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by batrachos 5y ago
> There’s no space for that kind of behaviour in a university debate. Setting the present question aside, I think this is a very time-bound point of view. There used to be riots in Harvard Yard over theological questions. Now we're
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by batrachos 5y ago
> I'm sure they have an honor code at the school Why are you sure about this? Honor codes tend to be a thing at Southern schools.
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by batrachos 5y ago
> Also I disagree about "democratic leaders have to dole out public goods to maintain their power". Disagree all you want. This is why certain ideologies that tend to be rule-following and cast aspersion on the spoils system of
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by batrachos 5y ago
> free money causing the gradual degradation of food, housing, standard of living, etc. is not without merit. First, you have to establish that degradation has taken place. Considering that for most of civilizational history, the vast ma
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by batrachos 5y ago
Maybe it's not useful? Or not as presented here? I mean, Malaysia and Japan have both been ruled by basically the same party for all but maybe a few years since the end of foreign occupation. One is ruled a democracy here, thee other i
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by batrachos 5y ago
> Ideally, the Linux desktop world would just split in half, so that there can be a clean separation between these two ideals. Isn't that basically what's happening already? ChromeOS and Android Linuces on the one side, GNU&#x2
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by batrachos 5y ago
'Google kills' is the information technology equivalent of 'Florida man'. Always a fount of disappointed amusement.
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by batrachos 5y ago
I dislike the phrase 'dynamic language' and especially dislike the phrase 'static language'. We should say 'dynamically typed' or 'statically typed', because 'static' languages are the site
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by batrachos 5y ago
Low-quality post.
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by batrachos 5y ago
> The insurance company doesn't know what you are discussing in your sessions That's not true. From what I understand, sessions are coded e.g. "Intake" or "Meds check" when billed to insurance. They know rou
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by batrachos 5y ago
> What do you think it cannot do (apart from running Androis apps)? Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
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by batrachos 5y ago
Interestingly, 1977 is also regarded as the definitive year of punk rock.
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by batrachos 5y ago
Different language though. Greek poetry was so conservative it can be hard to tell what is a living form and what is a clever pastiche, especially as the Hellenistic era goes on.
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by batrachos 5y ago
We have the notation for a small amount of Hellenistic and Roman era music, and I think a tiny little bit of Euripides. We'll never know what Sappho sounded like, though.