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> 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…
> 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…
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155
> How Xi can "manage" Kim when Pyongyang already is a telephone government? North Korea is a Chinese proxy. If you have nukes, you aren't anyone's proxy. If north korea was china's proxy, they wouldn't have nukes to…
My personal motto: "Be the Change You Wish To See on HN".
> 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,…
> 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…
> 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…
"UNIX: A History and a Memoir" - Brian Kernighan
> 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…
> 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,…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
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 disagreeing with…
> 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.'…
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 issue?…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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/Bell_test
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> 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…
> 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…
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155
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> How Xi can "manage" Kim when Pyongyang already is a telephone government? North Korea is a Chinese proxy. If you have nukes, you aren't anyone's proxy. If north korea was china's proxy, they wouldn't have nukes to…
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My personal motto: "Be the Change You Wish To See on HN".
> 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,…
> 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…
> 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…
"UNIX: A History and a Memoir" - Brian Kernighan
> 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…
> 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,…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
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 disagreeing with…
> 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.'…
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 issue?…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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/Bell_test