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by benpbenp 2y ago
I just finished the sublime Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset, in the Tiina Nunnally translation. If you have any interest in the medieval period or specifically medieval rural Norway, it really brings that setting to life and
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Nobody Cares about the Doom of Númenor(theamericanconservative.com)
4 points by benpbenp 4y ago|0 comments
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by benpbenp 4y ago
Your global figure includes both donations and value of time donated ([2], pg.8) Your US figure ([1]) doesn't say anything about value of time donated so I'd assume it is not included. Finally, the metric where Netherlands and Swi
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by benpbenp 5y ago
I'm not sure that ruling really has the impact you say it does here. That ruling held that of the 8,000 plaintiffs in the class action suit, only 1,853 had standing because their incorrect credit reports were actually sent to businesse
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by benpbenp 5y ago
It is a joke based on Aquinas' style of answering questions. He begins with a handful of "objections" that take the opposite position to the one he eventually lands on. To take a random example, "Whether a man is bound t
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by benpbenp 5y ago
> Very well summerized. Actually, in Sumer, they used an intercalary month every three years or so, much like the leap year in the Gregorian Calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
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by benpbenp 7y ago
That quote is from the Bluetooth standardisation group’s response. They are clearly trying to downplay the seriousness with their choice of language here. “All within a narrow time window” is, generally speaking, something computers are cap
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by benpbenp 7y ago
Well, by my Maths, 10^18 would require close to 7,000 trees for every square meter of dry land on the planet Earth. Even if we allow the use of Bonsai, that would be a stretch :)
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by benpbenp 9y ago
There are distance-bounding protocols[0], but I don't think anyone has implemented them in something as small as a car key yet. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-bounding_protocol
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by benpbenp 9y ago
Except for the "realism in the depiction of human figures" bit.
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by benpbenp 9y ago
> and also unambiguous to future-me. Ex: "Your worst encounter with bees occurred in what place?" Optimistically assuming your worst-bee-encountering days are behind you, of course.
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by benpbenp 9y ago
First thing, you have to teach them the phrase, "Explain it like I'm five."
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by benpbenp 9y ago
> But the potential of the end goal might be enough to keep people working on it perpetually. Working on it perpetually, you say? If only we could somehow harness that energy...
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by benpbenp 10y ago
The tendency to use "fancier" vocabulary has actually been noted as a tendency of the non-Upper class. Cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
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by benpbenp 11y ago
Not sure if you are aware of this or not but Form 8938 is different from FBAR. FBAR is filed with the department of the treasury and the threshold is only $10,000.
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by benpbenp 11y ago
Ugh, regarding the lack of such a twentieth century visionary, look up Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin for an idea of what such a thing might have looked like!
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by benpbenp 11y ago
Ha! I got my own name when I first landed on the site. For a second there I thought the real story was that they'd somehow exploited a third party cookie but it appears to be a coincidence.
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by benpbenp 11y ago
Well, and I don't think this is a nitpick, a recession is not the same as a depression. It would be good to get the original source for both of these facts to compare. Perhaps during recession, the number of "failures" is not
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by benpbenp 12y ago
Honest question, what problems do you think this would solve? Is it that you don't want people to have children until they are financially capable of supporting them? It is indeed a grave responsibility to provide for one's offspr
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by benpbenp 12y ago
For this kind of transfer I recently discovered and have saved tons of money using TransferWise. Their model is to charge a moderate upfront fee (0.5% for £200 and up), but then after that they complete the currency conversion always at the
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by benpbenp 12y ago
On the contrary, as Ambrose says (De Offic. iii, 10): "In all contracts the defects of the salable commodity must be stated; and unless the seller make them known, although the buyer has already acquired a right to them, the contract
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by benpbenp 12y ago
This is very very good. Thank you for taking the time to make that comment. I have often struggled to make this same point but find that many people today are so deeply committed to a worldview of scientific materialism (the objects of phys
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by benpbenp 12y ago
What if you wore a band around your back and sides, that would vibrate at a certain location to communicate angle, and intensity to communicate distance?
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by benpbenp 12y ago
This is pretty great. I am convinced there is lots of room in this space for services that cater to people who aren't quite in the Bloomberg terminal crowd, and yet would benefit from easy access to financial data for whatever reason.
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by benpbenp 12y ago
What I'd be interested in, if anyone has a perspective to share, is whether we should be worried? Will the job market change? Will our salaries stagnate or fall?
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Archive.org Console Living Room(archive.org)
3 points by benpbenp 12y ago|0 comments
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by benpbenp 12y ago
Could you please go into this a bit more and explain why machines thinking would prove any kind of materialism, and specifically eliminative materialism? I am an anti-materialist and I think machines can almost certainly be made to exhibit
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by benpbenp 12y ago
I really don't think these types of experiments tell us anything about the fundamental question of consciousness. The question being, why am I here experiencing it all? Why is it not just, well, "automated", without me he
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by benpbenp 12y ago
There is a gigantic mystery which you are sweeping under the rug. Sure, a purely materialistic conception of the universe is very neat and appealing. But you are at risk of missing something of fundamental importance to the overall nature o
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Amazon RDS Pricing Effective April 1, 2014(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by benpbenp 12y ago|0 comments

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