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by statstutor 6y ago
My point is that there is a difference that creates a category of error in bilingual speakers. French speakers are likely to use the word fairly commonly; whereas, people with English as their first language are unlikely to know it. So, via
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by statstutor 6y ago
> In that sentence, the article hasn't defined hieratic or quotidian I suspect the author is a native French speaker? Where "quotidien" is an every-day word.
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by statstutor 6y ago
This might misunderstand how science authorship works. I was once congratulated for publishing a paper I had no idea existed , after I gave someone permission to use my research work in exchange for credit. It took me some effort to view a
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by statstutor 6y ago
> That's a point of view, and a pretty cynical one. Twitter can and do ask for user feedback all the time, without making a press release about it. I don't find it cynical to ask why they are doing this in public - it seems lik
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by statstutor 6y ago
I understand "credibly neutral" here to mean the idea that you appear neutral, whether or not you are actually neutral. Compare with: plausible deniability. The goal of credible neutrality is to convince people that you have acted
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by statstutor 6y ago
> But the betrayal at the end just makes zero sense It's more surprising than we expect from Disney: there's no 'villain song' explaining the villain's private intent. I liked it that way. It felt real to me. I f
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by statstutor 6y ago
Electricity in the UK is provided in two ways - some pay at the end of the month on a contract basis, some pay via a pre-payment meter (on different terms - more expensive and more dependent on regular servicing). Wealthy people typically g
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by statstutor 6y ago
> I've also noticed that even fact-checking is being weaponized for political reasons. I don't think fact-checking exists for any other reason. People like fact-checking that confirms their beliefs. Even if objectivity is possi
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by statstutor 6y ago
I feel sad about Snopes, which used to be about exploring urban legends. It had a good sense of humour; it was delightful . I spent countless hours exploring it. From my recollection, it previously had no explicitly political content (unfo
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by statstutor 6y ago
I imagine my consciousness as a communion of all my cells... a central decision-making council, if you like. If my cells are in conflict or disagreement about what action to take (which I presume they often are), my consciousness resolves t
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by statstutor 6y ago
Governments have taken the decision to pause vaccinations with AZ, on the basis of this emerging information. It's only right that we, the people, can see what our elected representatives are basing this decision (to pause) on. It make
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by statstutor 6y ago
Living in London (specifically Haringey, which is mentioned in the article), I was amazed - positively - when my residential street switched to directed, white, LED light. It lit the street and not everything else. I could see a few stars i
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by statstutor 6y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_hypothesis
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by statstutor 6y ago
I appreciate these points, which are well-considered. > But it's interesting why this is the case. Why us, and not chimpanzees. As you admit, we could ask about exceptional adaptations in other species, e.g. "why do birds rule
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by statstutor 6y ago
> If that isn't scientifically provable exceptionalism, I don't know what is My point is that it isn't scientific at all. Any person can declare themselves exceptional - I have observed consistently that if a person has to
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by statstutor 6y ago
I often find it "justifying human exceptionalism" presented as science. The unstated assumption is that humans are somehow better than chimpanzees (here, it is almost literally stated), and therefore that we must reverse engineer
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by statstutor 6y ago
Labour accounts for about half of world income, from memory, with capital accounting for the other half of world income. If wealth centralises, then so does income. Besides, you replied to try and refute a comment which was quite unambiguou
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by statstutor 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq... World Gini coefficient for wealth has increased from 0.804 to 0.904 between 2008 and 2018, where 1 means that a single person holds all the wealth .
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by statstutor 6y ago
> That's what the video is arguing, but it won't be the case unless we've fully satisfied all of our desires. If we haven't, there are, by definition, still things to do. If wealth continues to become increasingly cen
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by statstutor 6y ago
Valencia (the region) literally has a part which locals jokingly call "Little Britain", where residents primarily expect to speak and conduct business in English.
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by statstutor 6y ago
> Available resources (internet, libraries, universities) (mentors, support from authority, sufficient time/financing to be able to use the available resources) If a professor believes consciously or subconsciously, by looking at yo
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by statstutor 6y ago
I hope and expect that you did learn more in hours than what you could have learned in two minutes. If you had spent those same hours after two minutes of support, you might have learned even more.
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by statstutor 6y ago
> But there are other effective ways of learning that are not frustrating and that allow people to explore and be creative. Like... asking for help and having a chat with a mentor who has relevant experience. (Most) people don't do
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by statstutor 6y ago
I don't believe that letting someone struggle for a day is a better learning experience than just telling them what they need to know. Sometimes it might be, but I feel it is more likely just unnecessary struggle - resulting in the sam
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by statstutor 6y ago
Not really. Islington (London)'s population is around half what it was in 1914, but rents are out-of-control.
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by statstutor 6y ago
The fact that you needed to check for a particular rule suggests that it is perfectly suitable for a style guide.
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by statstutor 6y ago
> plus all the bad things that can happen: mutations, animal transmission, etc... I believe that no significant mutation has been sourced to any country with less than a million cases. That's not a coincidence. Increased cases = inc
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by statstutor 6y ago
> would just not be acceptable. Why not? Just because a bunch of people hold that opinion? Political change happens despite groups of people not wanting it - that's almost the definition of politics. Scientists working for the UK go
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by statstutor 6y ago
You've moved the goalposts to the ball, and you still missed. Europe has far less unemployment than the US. Please stop.
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by statstutor 6y ago
> As always companies like Lenovo only act like this way because we passively allow them to do so. Also because their total penalty for this behaviour, three years of legal time-wasting to avoid their responsibilities, is $20,000.

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