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What do you mean? There's $1370 earmarked for the lease.

What does reading a great novel or starting a garden specifically accomplish? People do some things for reasons that aren't easily quantifiable. It seems to me that you are starting from the viewpoint that everything has to prove its worth before you accept it, even if millions of people before you have found it fulfilling and worthwhile, which does not seem productive.

If you had never read a book before, and someone was trying to convince you to try it, what could they point to that would fulfill all your criteria? Would it be enough to say it makes you smarter? That's not very specific. It sharpens your thinking? Makes you more empathetic? That would all seem like 'vague undecipherable gibberish' if you had no experience with it. They might resort to saying that it can connect you with a great dialogue that has been occurring for over two thousand years, but as you say, the fact that people have been doing it for thousands of years doesn't make it interesting or valuable.

Seeing a study that some part of the brain responds more quickly for up to 90 minutes after reading or that people with gardens live 0.28 years longer on average would not make me want to do those things more, because those are NOT the benefits of doing those things. You have to figure out what you're supposed to do with your one human life. Science is one tool, culture is another. Neither of them makes the other superfluous.

As mentioned in the next clause of that sentence, the aperture ring does not work on Olympus bodies.

"Our first priority is to minimize sylliness, but I think our second priority should be to maximize silliness. And 'thirty squared twelfths' is certainly sillier."

Maybe printing the first (last?) line of a file whenever a terminal is opened would work

Is there a collection of type theory axioms anywhere near as influential as ZF or ZFC?

If 1% of the last 10 billion people to live were academics and published on average 5 papers (many only had one, i.e. their dissertation/thesis, but a small fraction will have had dozens or hundreds), that comes to 500 million.

I'm curious, do you think it's an order of magnitude too low or too high?

I think it's a brilliant example of how to use data to make a point.

https://xkcd.com/1162/

Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now

Saying something and doing something are different. They claim it is true, but they haven't demonstrated it by doing it.

If a company says they've built the fastest car in the world, a reasonable response is "ok, let's see it drive faster than any other car can", even though they already said that it can do that.

The vast majority of readers won't get any information from anything in the article. Why not pseudonymize everything and scramble the place names? I at least appreciate that in principle, I could research the people mentioned. Romanian happens to be intelligible with diacritics removed, but I bet you'd feel differently if you read an article about Mr Ccsrtr and Em Cnr.

It's not a transliteration. What supposed writing system are Vietnamese originally writing in, before they transfer it to Latin script?

as opposed to what? human editors?

...yes? If I go to a website called "_ News" (present company included), I expect to see either news stories aggregated by humans or news stories written and fact checked by humans. That's why newspapers have fact checking departments, but they're being replaced by something with almost none of the utility and its proponents are framing the benefits of the old system as impossible or impractical.

There's even a 'perspectives' section that tries to contrast two of the sources, but they're the same article.

His Master of Arts is in economics. His master's thesis was "Fiscal Triumvirate: Examinations of Federal Deficit Spending and Interest Rates, State-Level Taxation and Domestic Migration, and the Irrelevance of State Credit Ratings to Investors".

So his background in economics probably got him into an economics PhD program.

No, they sound like Socrates' friends begging him to properly argue for himself in court, in order to not be condemned and killed.

I don't think Stallman is abrasive out of a sense of respect and duty to the system of public debate.

That's the systemd article, and this is the forum post explaining why arch moved to systemd: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530

It's not a digraph, it's pronounced /gm/

Wow, this really makes me think. Thanks for making that up and commenting it.

Christ, what an asshole!

It simulates CRT pixelization and low resolution

In addition to case, it's testing tense (went to have seen) and plural vs. posessive (ducks cousin)

And yes, if I was telling someone a story, I might say "cast your mind to the snowy wastes of Canada..." as a fairly standard rhetorical flourish for someone who doesn't think of their country as the default location.

Only if you think there's something wrong with play.

If I read something that isn't in my native language and don't understand it, I don't claim that it's poorly written.

Thank you o wise one, may you rest and gather enough mana to dispense your wisdom next time you comment.

Today, for us Latinx to even briefly step in the USA, if we don't have an always-on handheld device with spyware “social media”, its absence is taken as proof of criminality. I will never visit Arizona again

This part is talking about VISITING ARIZONA. As in, they are not from nor do they live in Arizona.

One day one of the AdSense people asked me for a little meeting. They sat right by my desk, all sleek and confident, and said that they had heard I was a Gaygler™ and were wondering if I could help with one of their clients. “Can you tell me some words that the Brazilian gay community uses? like slang, popular media you like, names of parties, that kind of thing?”

Nowhere does it say that they're not Brazilian. Is this because they asked for Brazilian gay slang specifically? I assume they just wanted to be specific, to get terms used in Brazil. If I ask someone to name some Canadian foods, that doesn't mean I'm not Canadian.

I'm not in love with this article or anything but I am baffled by the number of people on this website, who I assume have rudimentary reading comprehension, getting confused by the fact that a different location is mentioned, even though the article opens by specifying exactly where and when it's set.

It does start out by saying they worked in Brazil for Google.

The fact that Google fired me...

Normally you have to work somewhere to get fired. I suppose that's an assumption I made upon reading that part.

let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007…

This article is set in Brazil, in 2007. Did you skip the introduction and then complain about the lack of an introduction?

The two-paragraph introduction explicitly places this article in Brazil in 2007

Why the (sic)?