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by linearrust 2y ago
> Microsoft Edge is now the most used member of the Chrome family Doubt it. > and Microsoft Edge is moving towards implementing their own equivalent of uBlock built into the browser (thus, not Javascript, runs much faster). Isn't
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Many details of this particular experiment made me greatly reduce my confidence and interest in social science. There is a reason why many scientists diplomatically classify social "science" as a soft science. Less diplomatic
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by linearrust 2y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155
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by linearrust 2y ago
My personal motto: "Be the Change You Wish To See on HN".
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Is there any evidence of any tribes whatsoever existing over 20,000 years ago? Hunter gatherer tribes. > There was no tribal violence 47,000 years ago because there were no tribes! Unless you are arguing semantics, yes there were. T
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by linearrust 2y ago
> but we don't find anything like signs of a struggle at an inhabited cave or post battle burial pit or stolen artifacts that would be loot, or attempts at creating defenses like fortifications or armor, or cave paintings depicting
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by linearrust 2y ago
> For anyone curious, there is absolutely no evidence of coordinated violence between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens [0] 'coordinated'. > and it is believed that war developed during the Neolithic when well defined territorie
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by linearrust 2y ago
"UNIX: A History and a Memoir" - Brian Kernighan
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by linearrust 2y ago
> It’s the difference between drilling vocabulary flashcards and actually reading, listening, or talking to someone. You need the 'flashcards' before you can read, listen or talk. Go try reading a book where you don't know
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by linearrust 2y ago
> We're good at focusing on our long-term greed and hunger over short-term greed and hunger. If that were true, the modern world centered around consumerism wouldn't exist. We wouldn't have the obesity epidemic, environmen
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by linearrust 2y ago
> DNA evidence tends to favor the Steppe hypothesis. There you go. > There are in fact some instances where Archaic Rome is closer to Vedic India than it is to Greece But you weren't talking about archaic rome. Also cherrypicking
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Well, okay, but rote memorization is neither necessary nor sufficient to internalize concepts. Of course it is. It's how every human child learns initially. By rote memorization. How does a toddler learn how to say mama? By consta
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I agree with the other counterarguments raised in the article about sound shifts etc. With more DNA data, we wouldn't necessarily need linguistic characteristics to chart language ancestory, we could also look at the DNA evidence.
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by linearrust 2y ago
Yes I know. 'Local' as in 'localism' aspect of deterministic classical physics which got 'disproven' by bell. It's why modern physics is a nondeterministic quantum physics variety. It seems like you are di
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by linearrust 2y ago
> It makes me want to ask Putin to just launch those nukes already... What's with accounts here wanting Putin to use nukes all of a sudden? 'If I could have one wish it would be for Putin to nuke Warsaw.' https:/&#x2
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by linearrust 2y ago
I remember seeing this posted a few days ago. When I hover over '8 hours ago', it shows '2024-07-22T15:59:19'. That's not 8 hours ago. Why is a post from 4 days ago showing as a recent post? Is it a title change iss
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by linearrust 2y ago
> FTA (or at least a link in it) - Macrinus was born in Africa. Just because he was born in africa doesn't mean he is black or 'african'. Elon Musk was born in africa too but nobody would claim he is a black man.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The conventional wisdom for getting job leads as a new grad and early career is to go to job fair, have a portfolio and open a LinkedIn account. Conventional wisdom isn't very wise. For college grads, the best thing is contacts. I
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Just a layman here, but isn’t it pretty well established that there is no hidden variable? It's been repeatedly experimentally 'proven' that there are no hidden variables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by linearrust 2y ago
You people never fail to disappoint. Shouldn't you be ranting about the deep state or china IP theft or taiwan?
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The point wasn't "you can do takebacks in chess so this is exactly the same!!!" That wasn't my point either. My point is that if chess allowed white takebacks ( as in tennis ), the white advantage would skyrocket to
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Wooopdeeda a strawman setup leading to yet another insult. Go learn what a straw man is. Amazing how moronic it sounds to claim that biden is the one that decided to withdraw from afghanistan. Huh? > anyone with different views Not
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by linearrust 2y ago
> People get hung up on the unfair White advantage in chess, but actually it's not large enough. It's fairly significant given the 'theoretical' assumption that perfect play always ends in a draw. However, in practice
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Thanks for calling me dumb for thinking the POTUS has influence. Of course the office has influence. But my point is that the person in that office doesn't make important geopolitical decisions. > Anyway, Speak for yourself, I
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by linearrust 2y ago
> If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Meta, Alphabet, Bytedance, etc (possibly twitter/x) individually have far greater reach and
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Are hundreds of thousands of people taking Taxis and Ubers? Probably. Not just the tourists, but business folks. I remember people would regularly take a taxi for a business meeting only a couple blocks away. I guess if the company is
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by linearrust 2y ago
Considering the hegemon occupying japan and the philippines committed acts of genocide against them, they have no choice but to feel 'comfortable' with it.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Why do we not do the same to Israeli companies? AIPAC. When the israeli leader can visit congress at his leisure and nearly everyone in congress claps at the israeli leader like trained seals, do we really have to ask? Besides, it&#x27
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by linearrust 2y ago
> How about a rational number? All rational numbers are real numbers. > Why not a complex number? What? > That you especially like the real numbers is particularly unfortunate It's not a matter of me liking or disliking real n
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I think it's fair to consider Poland the birthplace of the modern computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography) "The first machine was built by the Poles and was a hand operated multiple e

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