zhte415

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by zhte415 3y ago
A fine question. I feel this quote > “The app right now is really just the first building block in a much larger vision for how we want the social web to work,” Graber said. Highlights a difference in ontological approach.
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A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now(mstdn.social)
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Where now for academics on social media?(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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by zhte415 3y ago
The 'oldest' Wikipedia article you linked isn't the 'oldest'. Should you want to go by Wikipedia for a 'truthyness' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inflation&oldid=2...
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What happened to Vivaldi Social?(thomasp.vivaldi.net)
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by zhte415 3y ago
I just asked my rabbits this question for you. Do they count as who? They continued chomping down celery tops and coriander. One of them likes to watch planes. It sits on its hutch in the afternoon watching planes from a local airport fly
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by zhte415 3y ago
Your post reminds me of three things - The nature of what's being learnt. Some things require a continuity - to understand B, prior A is needed (or helps, to understand faster). The method of learning. Book/theory-based, or prac
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by zhte415 3y ago
Heads-up: You might want to email dang as your account seems to be shadow-banned. Your recent comments of the last couple of hours show as [dead] (logout and see).
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by zhte415 3y ago
Continued innovation in financialisaction. Walls represent, indeed are, non revenue generating assets with recurring operational costs. It makes sense to release tied-up capital by selling them off, then leasing back. The operators of the w
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by zhte415 3y ago
Aluminium's also more expensive than steel but experiences sufficiently less breakage to justify the price.
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by zhte415 3y ago
> the question of whether historic emissions somehow entitle a country to future emissions As a national of a developed country, I am entitled to make more greenhouse emissions than the poor. As a national of a highly developed country,
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by zhte415 3y ago
Apologies, dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881814
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Sinéad O’Connor dies aged 56(theguardian.com)
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Why are there no sea snakes in the Atlantic?(floridamuseum.ufl.edu)
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by zhte415 3y ago
Fascinating, thanks. Not just for the salt, but the trail and narration. Saved, and saved the old.permalink... to the Wayback Machine just in case.
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by zhte415 3y ago
Your [citation please] got me looking. https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/7159/etymology-of-... ; Google Scholar seemed to provide some references in a search for 'salt salary etymology'. It is s
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by zhte415 3y ago
The article also mentioned the beer ration could be passed to families. Which had me thinking of various pecuniary benefits armies pass and why. Salt -> salary is well documented, on the opposite side slightly less so but still somewhat
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by zhte415 3y ago
Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter’s rebranding to ‘X: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/owner-of-x-twitter-handle-...
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by zhte415 3y ago
Plenty of reasons. Is to consider consumption of alcohol a norm a problem?
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by zhte415 3y ago
If a quiche is not a pizza, is french bread pizza a pie? Indeed, this submission was inspired by the Antarctic Panini Press.
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by zhte415 3y ago
They're a different epistemology. Tools of storytelling - video vs. book in this case - are being conflated with their use. They are tools not exclusive to a single epistemology, many ways to explore many perspectives of 'what&#
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by zhte415 3y ago
They still have regular commits on Github. https://github.com/dimdenGD
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Is a Hamburger Considered a Sandwich?(english.stackexchange.com)
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by zhte415 3y ago
US 30 year mortgage, fixed rate as they are, are risk subsidised by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's a regulatory subsidy of the mortgage and ex-mortgage home owning class. That 'problem' is caused by regulation, structural
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Web Environment Integrity(rupertbenwiser.github.io)
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New Project Turns Project Gutenberg Texts into Free Audiobooks, Lifelike Voices(techdirt.com)
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by zhte415 3y ago
It didn't even ask for an email address!
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It was also a time of DIYing shopping carts in cookies, forums all about getting payments working, and what's HTTPS?
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by zhte415 3y ago
Does it matter hugely that it takes one second to open a terminal? Not three, or five, but one? I assume when a terminal's open that it's reasonable responsive. It takes less than a second on my 13 year old ThinkPad running Debian
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by zhte415 3y ago
A lot happened around the time of Google+. Whether because of it I cannot say, but it was in nothing but a pipe dream a substite for: Google Wave chaos collaboration brilliance vs the conventional Google+ was killed prior to Google+. Free G

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