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> distances that would overheat other animals

what other animals? I used the dog example because it fits perfectly here: they don't sweat yet it's impossible to catch up to them if they are running away. Even if they overheat they don't just drop dead, they slow down to a human's walking pace.

And what about running animals that do sweat like horses? makes no sense. What makes more sense is to approach from multiple fronts and spear/arrow it down. Plus, all remaining hunter-gatherers hunt with the help of dogs. Sure, you do have to run, a lot. But the endurance side is the least important.

this somehow always comes up when anybody mentions human sweating or how good we are walking large distances. But whoever thinks it's feasible to hunt any animal worth its calories just jogging behind it has never chased a playful dog. A furry mammal with no sweat glands has way more endurance than any fit man and let's not talk about top speed. You'd never catch it.

It's not that unique, really. It's quite the same as India. I guess it's harder for us westerners to appreciate Chinese diversity because they don't broadcast so much English content about themselves.

If the European Union had been more successful and had a couple more generations totally immersed speaking English, you could imagine some Chinese people in the year 2123 saying 'wow, Europe is actually a whole Civilization politically unified as a nation. Who would have thought".

That'd be true today in a timeline where Napoleon won.

> Svelte just changes the relevant bit of the DOM,

Because Svelte is mutable state galore. I thought we all agreed to say no thanks to that.

  People laugh at web development, especially the frontend, for changing libraries every week

that's a 2016 meme. Things have been remarkable stable since.

But that's not a real conversation between a group of actual humans. Nobody talks about easily checkable facts.

An actual group conversation I had last week:

- Remember early 2000s when that team had that insane defense?

- Yeah, what was that other team they lost against one time for that other tournament?

- X team. Yeah back when PlayerX was still playing. Remember that guy?

- Ah yeah. Lol, remember that time that dude posted a picture of his fridge with his pictures on the beach printed on the panels?

- What? I need to see that.

*checks phone* *shows it around*

[conversation goes on for another hour about the logistics of getting your pictures printed on the panels of a refrigerator]

just checking something gives you something to keep the chat going.

"Infiltrating animal rights groups" sounds like a plot by the cops to rake overtime and get laid in the meantime. I can't even begin to imagine how they sold it to their superiors. They all must have been in the scam.

  According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in the year ending June 2020, an estimated 673,000 people emigrated from the UK. This includes both UK-born and non-UK-born individuals. Of the total emigrants, approximately 316,000 (47%) were UK-born, and approximately 357,000 (53%) were non-UK-born. The non-UK-born emigrants included both non-British citizens and British citizens who were born outside the UK.

So it's almost 50/50. Looks actually worse than I'd imagined.

Maybe, many of those natives leaving every year do so because of the extra competition with the immigrants: bringing people over causes lower salaries and higher costs of housing.

What's worse is that, those leaving presumably are capable of making it in "better" economies. So in pure GDP-per capita-producing terms, you just exchanged some natives for worse performers.

That's what happens when you're not in the top of the totem of the immigration market.

Well that makes more sense. Having a couple of senior-looking people come once, drop a bunch of fresh grads "taking notes" to rake up the billable hours, then come back to deliver a "report" -and by come back I mean just forward the email- is more believable, at least in the plausible deniability sense.

I was responding to this quote by OP here:

  ultimately only deliver a slide deck and some recommendations so they don't have any real liability , a 21 year old grad can't navigate a lay off round properly and can only provide these 'happy path' recommendations

And the thought of a 21 year old dispensing some recommendations just like that was hilarious. "you should like, synergize some more, you feel me? okay bye!"

  a 21 year old grad

I hope this is hyperbole or using the term "consultant" when really meaning "pawn from a staff enhancement agency" (as is often done). Because the accusation seems to be that consultancies sell merely the appearance of expertise and nobody would buy into the appearance of a 21 year old.

Interesting, it's the other way around for me with screens. Glossy screens have better colors and text looks crispier to me, something about the lack of diffusion around character's borders. I honestly don't know how matte screens are still a thing: you can always turn a smooth surface into matte with a screen protector, but not the opposite.

> fundamentally the incorrect claim that banks lend out their depositors funds

Typical arguments against this always end up in "they do lend out their depositors funds" with extra steps.

deposits go to their balance sheets as assets and a liability towards the depositor. Banks do business with their assets and some of that business might put their balance sheet in a position where they can't or won't honor their debt to depositors. At that point whether they "lent out depositor's funds" is philosophical.

the automobile didn't make horses more productive, it (almost) totally replaced them. Maybe this time, we're the horses.

"Here's a very weak pattern" is the base of lots of modern memes like /r/starterpacks or 90% of twitter.

> Only apple nailed it.

it used to be true, but sleep sucks now in the M1 line. When I leave my 14 inch mbp on sleep with 20% battery before bed I wake up to a dead battery.

Rioplatenses, then :-)

> I'd say English precisely excels on how well it handles ambiguity and certainty.

I'm curious about this. I mean, English doesn't even have different words for singular/plural "you".

what's cool is that regional dialects have different vowel/consonant pronunciation but the differences are almost completely consistent internally and between the dialects. Like, Peruvians pronounce anything with "y" or "ll" like an English "j" and Argentines like "sh", always. Everything maps 1 to 1.

The point is that would be illegal and prosecuted. A competitor could also shoot them with guns but we don't worry about that, don't we?

Grids have more parking because there's more streets and therefore more curb, it's not a matter of width. Also getting off the arterial road and into the grid neighbourhood looking for parking is more feasible because in a non-grid you have to track back your steps all the distance you traveled back to your destination, while in a grid it's way more likely there's a shorter path back through the grid.

> streets are certainly wide enough for street-parking but a lot of them don't allow it for reasons.

If I had to guess, because they're hostile to non-residents and they are optimizing for residential property values.

Grids with free parking are welcoming to non-residents and optimizing for business revenue.

> four-way stops are really inefficient at processing them

This is a non-issue. Where I'm from, grid neighbourhoods are the norm and stop signs are not a thing. First, the grid spreads out traffic inside it. Then, you're supposed to drive at around 35 km/h. Last, narrower/streets with more traffic tend to be one way. Most of the driving takes place at arteries, still part of the grid. Those have semaphores.

Also, grids add A TON of public street parking. Get off your arterial road close to your destination and into the neighbourhood and look for parking. That also means there's street and sidewalk space for bus stops and space for laying out utilities (electric, water and sewers).

What I'm trying to say is that grids are meant for cars among all the other things. The thing about non-grids is they are upscale: less public surface means bigger lots and worse transportation means leans non-residents around.

vote for Genghis Khan of the Green Party!

it's the other way around.

Grids are made for cars. And buses, trucks (garbage trucks too), semis. They are ok at moving vehicles from houses to the highway, but you can walk them too.

Non-grids are for people and (few) cars. They are intentionally designed to discourage non-residents from driving through them. They optimize for selling the maximum amount of land and delivering the minimum conveniently drivable surface so other people don't drive near your house but you can go drive through theirs.

>Still, we earn 1/3 in dollar terms per Capita compared to the US or Germany.

How could that be if Germans already make 1/3 dollars compared to the US.

> Cooperatives aren't nonprofit entities – they can be, sure, but many of them are profit-driven.

A tech consultancy cooperative works exactly like most non-profits: they don't post a profit and distribute everything as salaries. The "non-profit" part is for the entity, not the people running it.

it's true for everything. You can even more so control the lighting and orientation of a desktop. Matte screens are the industry's worst mistake and I just can't understand why everybody hadn't ditched them already.

I think this comes from the fact that we give a lot of leeway to the definition of "supply" and "demand" in common economic talk. "I'd totally buy a Ferrari for $500" says nothing about the supply or demand for Ferraris.

Economists pull demand curves out of their asses when the only verifiable facts are actual, concrete sales.

Anything that prints its own money can be "like a central bank". If FTX had all its assets AND liabilities denominated in FTT they'd be like a strong one. But their assets are in their token and their liabilities are in real money so they're weak one. We've just seen the exchange rate of the FT-peso/USD go to nothing.

At this point everybody is pretty competent at identifying pyramid schemes. Now people enter them willingly hoping to cash out on time, no different than gambling. The scam now is making people believe they are higher in the pyramid than they really are.