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people have all kinds of crazy theories about castile soap but I suspect this is what people historically were after. Most other soaps made from other kinds of fat are yellowish, whereas olive oil turns white and won't yellow your clothes
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Anyway you can have a really thick accent and your english will still be heard as "correct" by english speakers because nothing about the rules depend on accent. I suspect this is not how native mandarin speakers hear an english speaker fumbling through a mandarin sentence
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spelling isn't really part of the language. English spelling is goofy because spelling didn't become standardized until movable type and
1)english pronunciations were changing rapidly at that time, and
2)most of the printers were dutch at that time. Blame the dutch
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English has strong word order and almost no tones or inflections, those seem like qualities that make it highly learnable.
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A nice thing about the real blog era is people could just be like "don't read the comments" instead of discoursing about whether their blog is an echo chamber that hates them
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video games stopped being art when the internet ruined them imo
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fourth possibility is that the painting was sold at auction but for one reason or another (donation or law enforcement action) made its way into the government collection in the past decade
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"Smarter than thou" is kind of funny when you step back and realize that the jaobins themselves seem to have confused phrygian caps with liberty caps
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when the cops try to bring charges against a guy who was gassed by ICE at the cheesecake factory they're going to come up against some juries who feel strongly that you shouldn't gas people at the cheesecake factory
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BLM was about systemic racism is a complex topic and no clear agreement about what should be done about it, this drove a lot of the frustration. Today's protests aren't like that. ICE wasn't doing this last year and there's no reason they should do this this year
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yeah but I mean these applicants didn't know language concepts at even a high level, stuff that would apply to lots of languages
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half of my friends already thought I was a vampire before this happened
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I think there's an extent to which a lot of greek myths are people trying to explain to children why these mythical beings don't seem to exist anymore. Athenians greatly preferred the story of the trojan war to the golden fleece, but the older stories of the argonauts are largely the same thing
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I hired a programmer before AI and a programmer after AI. Before AI all the applicants knew at least stuff like SQL or Javascript pretty well. After AI I interviewed so many CS majors from elite universities, who interned at companies at amazon, and did not appear to know how to code in any language
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I think what happened with data science jobs is they just automated their own jobs away. It initially seemed like an inexhaustible source of jobs but it turned out there was just a finite amount of work to do
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the austerity one is the one that did it, imo. Without the excruciatingly slow recovery politics would not have radicalized as much (though social media would still have taken its toll somewhat)
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It's crazy how much of Newtonian physics, general relativity, and quantum physics was deduced from very few axioms and almost pure reason, but this doesn't seem to work in any other domain, you need more empirics
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I don't think this is very plausible with the polling data I've seen in this race, but yeah it is a theoretical possibility with RCV which is not a condorcet method
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round here we just call that "living beyond your means"
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yeah, reminds me a bit of how the press used to use SPLC as the definitive source of what a hate group is, but then there was controversy and now they're not cited at all ever
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I'd say it is already the case that the top schools would prefer to just drop out of the accreditation process, the only thing stopping them is the collective action problem. If the admin starts forcing it, the accreditation system will simply be abolished
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seems like someone did a perjury or at least contempt of court