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At a quick glance, it looks like it’s giving plural forms as alternatives. So the document can refer to a person or a group.

Guinea is the only recent coup I know of https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58461436

Niches can certainly be profitable and stable, but I feel like being a generalist may actually make it more likely that you’ll stumble across a niche or two, simply by being exposed to more ideas.

When my father (who had a Midlands-ish English accent) met my father-in-law (strong NC Appalachian accent), they could not at first understand each other. It was pretty funny.

Sound recordings Parry made in Yugoslavia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_disc

The big money’s going to be in cancer treatments. If they can use this to target tumors, they’ll do quite well.

The archeologist quoted, Eric Poehler, tweeted about it this morning: https://twitter.com/Pompeiana79/status/1365692315407441926

It's pretty spectacular.

That’s certainly the hope of some in the government, though I’m not sure if I’d count on them to execute in supporting it. A lot of services based in the UK/London were there because it was a natural gateway to Europe, and that will no longer be the case since the new deal just struck doesn’t include them from what I understand. I see more downsides than upsides at the moment.

More to the point, two of the four countries in the union voted to stay, but are being dragged out anyway against their will.

The fragments may or may not be fake (consensus seems to be that the poem is probably genuine), but the provenance was certainly covered up. See https://eidolon.pub/the-murky-provenance-of-the-newest-sapph.... It's all quite scandalous and is connected to the theft and sale of biblical papyri to the Museum of the Bible. See also https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-ox... and https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/16/oxford-profe...

I’m interested that this is getting downvoted. It seems perfectly fair comment to me. Newspapers can not afford to massively alienate their readership, and both of these cases clearly did just that. That calls into question the editors’ fitness for their jobs.

The thing with babies is that they are, from the start, individuals. Some like a lot of contact, some don’t; some are very active sleepers, some aren’t; some will do fine by themselves in a crib, some won’t. You have no choice but to figure out what works for that kid. That’s not to say there aren’t some general procedures you should follow. I think most kids do best on a regular schedule, for example. But you’ve got to take them as you find them.

That’s a pretty fair assessment I’d say. Things like improved diet and exercise (and going on Aricept) will almost certainly improve things for a while, but they won’t alter the overall trajectory of the disease. So this all might have some benefit, but you’re better off saving your money for long term care, which is expensive.

Sure. XML is not in any way an evolution of HTML. XML DTDs are there because one of the original requirements was backwards compatibility with SGML. You can’t (well, really shouldn’t) parse an XML document without the DTD if it has one, because, thanks to entities, parts of the document might be in the DTD. There wasn’t just one standards committee behind the whole W3C XML activity, there were many. Some of them did indeed go out of control, but it’s not fair to label them all that way.

JSON hasn’t, and won’t kill XML. it’s a simpler solution for most of the things XML ended up being used for, but it’s pretty bad outside its comfort zone. Companies that use it aren’t necessarily dinosaurs.

All that said, the author isn’t totally off base, just enough to annoy me on a Saturday morning :-).

This is wrong in almost every detail, and superficial where not wrong. But the underlying point, that we get useful things out of hype cycles even if they’re essentially side-effects is true. I feel like there’s more skepticism about blockchain than there was about XML, so maybe it won’t have the same sorts of impact. On the other hand, maybe there’ll be a blogger writing pseudo-history in 15 years arguing that we got Git’s versioning system because of blockchain, so that’s nice.

I think you’d have quite a hard time finding one. Maybe at a specialty rental place, but not one you’d likely find at an airport.

I dunno. They have families. I’d be up for throwing a brick or two, knowing what I know about it.

Better hope you’re able to do it for yourself when the time comes. I’ve thought the same after watching my parents deal with my father’s Alzheimer’s.

This can actually be done, but only over the course of a few years, or the government will insist on their cut (or deny you benefits). I honestly don’t know why there aren’t riots over the state of healthcare (and elder care is the worst part) in the US. It’s not like this isn’t going to happen to all of us who aren’t lucky enough to die quickly.

Worth noting too that he can probably stretch the defense out just because he’s Messi. As a defender you’d be a fool to take your eyes off him.

The shift in pronunciation wasn’t a simple and straightforward process. If you’re trying to argue that the reconstruction is faulty on the basis that the shift was >50% complete, I’d respond that nothing like that level of precision is possible. Moreover, I’d expect funerary songs to be a bit conservative in their pronunciation.

It's a pretty good rendition. Greek pronunciation has shifted a lot from ancient to modern. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism. Among other things, the accentuation has gone from pitch, which comes out nicely in this version (though we don't know precisely what it sounded like), to stress. So while it may look quite familiar to you reading it, it would have sounded very different. There was a Modern Greek speaker in the intro to Ancient Greek class I took in college, and I remember him remarking how disorienting it was.

Seconded. It really is a terrific book. Bit of an eye-opener if you're into sci-fi.

Sandbaggers was a great show. Watched it on PBS as a kid. The ending is absolutely gutting. I hadn't realized it was supposed to be a cliffhanger. Emotionally, it works very well.

GF has been tearing up our neighborhood this week and last laying cable (I'm in Chapel Hill). AT&T did the same about 6 months back. I was holding out for Google, but this makes me think even when they get it up and running, the support will be nonexistent. So maybe better to go with the devil we know (we already have AT&T U-Verse, just not gigabit). At least they lasted long enough to force AT&T's hand...

Not a good analogy. I'll put it another way: People who believe they can make decisions for themselves act differently than people who don't. Are the former not exercising some level of control over their actions? The belief itself is neither here nor there. It's the fact that it makes a difference that I think argues for the ability to control one's impulses to some degree. Is that not free will?

Doesn't the observation that people who believe in free will act differently than people who don't demonstrate that free will exists? I'm perfectly willing to accept that we have less free will than we think we do, and that there's a physical basis for our mental processes. But why should that mean we have no free will at all?

Just about the worst handicap a manager can have is insecurity. And unfortunately this is something I've seen in most of the people I've seen promoted to management when young. The best managers don't assume they need to be "better" than the people they manage.

For most grad programs, the whole point is to train you to be a professor. So, yes, there is at least an implicit promise you'll be able to become the thing they're training you for.

It really isn't. Food service jobs don't require that you spend years and lots of money in order to qualify for them. Academia has really become a sort of pyramid scheme: lots of people going to grad school to support a few faculty who educate them to do faculty jobs that are increasingly scarce. A couple of decades ago, the deal was that you might have to adjunct for a year or two after grad school, but if you stuck it out, you'd have a decent chance of getting a proper job. Those days are gone, but somehow the folks going into grad school haven't gotten the message yet. The only way the situation will improve is if people insist on being paid what they're worth and otherwise withhold their labor.

Basically, don't go to grad school unless you have a plan to do something other than becoming college faculty with it. And don't take adjunct jobs unless you're doing it for fun as a side gig.