dorchadas

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by dorchadas 2y ago
I used to use Shreddit and other tools and the same thing has happened. Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out), but I c
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by dorchadas 2y ago
They're quite regular - look at the Wikipedia page for Irish orthography to get a good set of rules.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
I worry it's going soon after the IPO.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
I'm leaning more and more towards this myself, except for the fact I hate the look of most of them, and love my traditional watches. Maybe I could just keep it in my pocket. But it's ideal for what I want - GPS, WhatsApp, telegram
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by dorchadas 3y ago
This sounds so tempting. I really wish I could have a phone that does a few simple things: Maps, Spotify, WhatsApp, Telegram, GPS tracker for running. That's really all I want on my phone. Does the Nokia allow for all of those? If so,
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by dorchadas 3y ago
That's not how I interpreted it at all. I interpreted him as basically saying meaningless pub banter is now killed entirely. Because someone is going to pull out their phone and check, and that ruins the train of thought and the co
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Exactly. The instant someone turns to their phone to check something, it ruins the conversation completely. The whole point is the conversation, the banter, the talking; not on the factual accuracy of some trivial thing.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
From what I understand, it's not passed yet. They've just reached a deal on the amendments that need to be added so it will be passed.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
This is honestly what scares me the most. Our biases are built in to AI, but we pretend they're not. People will say "Well, it was the algorithm/AI, so we can't change it". Which is just awful and should scare the
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by dorchadas 3y ago
We're getting there already. I taught for years in a poorer, rural district in a southern State. It was quite bad about many couldn't perform outside a very basic level in those skills.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
That's part of it, but it's not the entirety of it. Which, as a former secondary teacher and now university teacher, I would agree with. They found, for instance, that higher leisure phone use correlated with lower scores. I also
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Notice on the graph that the drop pretty much starts around 2012. Quite interesting, and it definitely probably needs to be investigated more. They also mention the correlation between lower scores and higher leisure phone use.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
The dichotomy between 'philosophical' and 'religious' Daoism is ahistorical, and stems from the influence, especially, of the Jesuits. They were tied together and mixed together from the beginning, especially neidan trad
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Oh I forgot to mention Coutinho's An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies , which looks at the three early Daoist texts -- the Laozi , the Zhuangzi , and the Liezi . I haven't read it yet, but have heard decent things. He speci
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Personally, if you're interested in the early 'philosophical' side (which I don't think can - or should - be disentangled from the 'religious' side; the separation of religion and philosophy is inherently a pos
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Sadly the Tao of Pooh does not outline the basic tenets of Daoism. As van Norden says in the chapter on the Daodejing in his Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy : > The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff ... is a charming work that
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by dorchadas 3y ago
I feel it's pretty clear he's aiming for the Nobel if it's true. It can only be split three ways, after all.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
From my perspective as a former secondary teacher, it's parents. At the least sign of their kids being in trouble (or failing), many parents will come up to the school (that they often never visit otherwise) and proclaim that the teach
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by dorchadas 3y ago
As a former secondary math teacher, you'd be surprised how many kids can't do basic arithmetic without a calculator. This doesn't even just include kids with learning disabilities or those at the lower end of the grade spec
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by dorchadas 3y ago
No, it'll rely on exploitation of workers. That's what's happening in Dublin -- they're exporting the English language students as in Ireland you can work (legally, many work more) 20 hours a week on a student visa and t
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by dorchadas 3y ago
It doesn't change the underlying issue. The issue is every single one of those rooms available on AirBnB is a room/house not available for long-term rent. And that's the problem. It's just as big an issue that there&#x
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by dorchadas 3y ago
There is room - in the hotels. Tourists aren't entitled to live in local houses . And I never said to not build more. I said it's only part of the answer.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
It has nothing to do with tourists visiting. It's tourists taking up the local housing . Tourists are planned into any good urban planning -- but they're not expected to stay in the residential areas, especially while the local
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Just go to AirBnB and check -- right now, there are over 1000 open rooms for one guest in Dublin. Going to daft.ie, Ireland's main rental site, there's only 200 one-bed places to let (and that includes one room open in otherwise o
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Yes, 10x more rooms on AirBnB than open rooms to rent in Dublin. At least with single bedrooms; I haven't looked into more rooms as I'm only searching for a new place for myself. > though I'm still unsure how much of this
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Living in a city heavily impacted by it, I couldn't agree more. People love it, because they feel entitled as tourists to live like locals, at the expense of the actual locals. It's literally all about entitlement, while forci
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by dorchadas 3y ago
It's definitely impacted Dublin, where I live, and the rest of Ireland. There's 10x more rooms on AirBnB than there are long-term rents in Dublin; in other parts of the country it's 100x.
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Airbnb is making life hell for young renters in tourist hotspots(dazeddigital.com)
89 points by dorchadas 3y ago|198 comments
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by dorchadas 3y ago
One that seems to pretty much throw ethics out the window.
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by dorchadas 3y ago
Not the populace, that's for damn sure. The uber-wealthy who capture even more of the wealth and then use whatever legal tricks they can to avoid paying taxes on it, all while weakening the power power of the other classes.

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