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one project, RedHat/Fedora or something, was a pattern like "word A", "word B related to word A", "word C related to an alternate meaning of word B", etc.

You are over indexing on "brain".

The brain and eye are built from two sets of stem cells that connect, akin to normal mammalian development.

> . “In the mammalian brain, nerve fibers of retinal ganglion cells reach out to connect with their brain targets, an aspect that has never before been shown in an in vitro system,” Gopalakrishnan says.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/925127

How so? The "process" of getting PhD is writing up his proof and getting it reviewed by the university, and verifying via oral defense that he knows the proof and didn't just plagiarize it.

Goldbach's Conjecture is not the Prime Number Conjecture , because there is no such thing. There are several prime number conjectures.

Why does it have to be zero sum? Why can't society educate everyone who has potential to learn, and grow the pie? It's an investment in our future.

They are not political up until the moment an important enough issue comes up to make them political.

> He was a scammer, in particular he posed as a human-rights lawyer targeting victims of torture to get their secrets and extort them. Tried to do it to me, but you can't con an honest John.

You are calling victims of tortures liars?

How can you lend your miner to a neighbor for heat? You all need heat at exactly the same time. Are you going to move the rig to a different home every hour?

> A major use case lauded by supporters is the amount of money that would stay in the hands of El Salvadorans rather than money gram companies. Remittances account for 20% of El Salvador’s GDP.

What exactly is a remittance? Does it mean money that is sent, but not for a purchase? How are international remittances (in both directions) counted here?

is it ADD or is it just a common pattern of human nature?

Is eating sugar when it is offered a disease, or an environment that is toxic to instincts that usee to suit us well?

Saving a click: Generala is an ancestor of Yahtzee.

Yes, same as paper.

This is way beyond what a high schooler needs for getting started in life.

This is personal finance, for all, not professional accounting for optimizing cash flows. it's far moren important to learn the basics of not getting robbed by predatory businesses, so that they can have a chance at saving some money to turn into capital gains later.

the fundamental problem with cryptocurrency is that it requires being your bank and all that entails for IT security, or else you need to rely on a thrid party and there defeats the purpose and meaning of it being cryptocurrency.

It's impossible for a layperson to use crypticut effectively without becoming an expert, so the only broad education you can give is "stay away, as with day-trading stocks, and options, and any fast money schemes".

Not changed: Rent-seeking is good for people who collect, and bad for people who pay.

What's changed: automation creating value automatically, different from rent-seeking.

Starting a long game from scratch on every mistake is from an era was when content was incredibly expensive. Forced repetition, especially of the early part of the game, is a cheap gimmick.

> Why such people should be tipped is beyond me.

Because that person is paid $2.50/hr for their work.

If you don't want to tip, you should boycott the restaurant until they implement a fair wage policy.

Not really.

Babies show sex differences in spatial skills.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209100948.h...

See tom7's portmontout

http://tom7.org/portmantout/

an extension of portmanteau:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau

De Bruijn sequence is more restricted: a cyclic portmontout over a "complete" lexicon of fixed sized words, where every possible string is a valid word.

They aren't "just" pair reprogramming -- they are practically married. They pair only with each other, forever, and they are best friends. It's not an arbitrary or rotating matchup.

Eh, Retention and Deletion are both pain for devs. Not having to care is the happy state.

What does finality mean?

When I get paid by credit credit card it's "final", because that transaction can't be cancelled, only a new transaction can be created to undo it without my consent.

Patrick loves to write coyly, but his point is simple: If the government can find the money they can take it back from you.

What he misses is that it only works if they can find the keys (or the next best thing -- your body).

It doesn't have to be in the book, it can still influence the book to make it internally consistent and well motivated.

> Her description of her process was that she made it up as she went along but because of her characters or locations

That is a very "local" view of causality and story logic, which could lead to an inconsistent world (like a location being both a rainforest and a desert), which might not matter for the small lart of the world history that is the story, or one that leans heavily on defaults inported from the aurhor's experience (which might or might not be same as the readers')

Workspace already solved that by embedding every app in the sidebar of every other app.

Currents (G+) is over 10 years old.

TV shows stopped doing season cliffhangers, which is good.

Food production is extremely subsidized and that is why it is cheap.

PANGOLIN, because biologists are funny

Binodality appears in feedback loops: bad sleep makes good sleep harder to get.

Not true. There is no onus on the site owner or anyone else to prove they own the material before filing a counterclaim.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/responding-dmca-take...