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imjustsaying··on GitHub CLI is now in beta
I didn't know this. I thank you both.
imjustsaying··on DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration
>I wonder if consumers could use forced arbitration in the same way.

They can. Patreon is about to be hit really hard for playing thought policeman.

https://www.cernovich.com/patreon-mandatory-arbitration/

imjustsaying··on GitHub CLI is now in beta
Has anyone made a customizable URL bar CLI like Duckduckgo's shebangs (which is not customizable)?

This is the new CLI i want most

imjustsaying··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
>pseudo-science

I'm not sure why you mention this as a contrast. Macro evolution also does not follow the scientific method as there is no repeatable experiment you can design to falsify the hypothesis. This is well-known among evolutionary biologists.

imjustsaying··on Language Learning with Netflix extension
In practice, the foreign subtitles do not line up with the foreign words as well as the native subtitles line up with the native words. It took me years to figure out why this was.

In a conversation I had with someone who knew the business, the new language subtitles don't line up with the new language audio because the new language subtitles are translated from the original language subtitles, not the new language audio.

Why? This saves a step from someone having to rewatch the final new language dialogue and transcribe the new language as it is exactly spoken. That step can be skipped and the new language subtitles can still be translated from the original language subtitles, although they will be quite off much of the time.

imjustsaying··on The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)
You may put that memory at ease, he was just acting.
imjustsaying··on Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free
As an American public school student who was forced to listen to this arrangement in multiple music and history classes, over the years I've begun to find this startling and anxiety-producing piece suspect on multiple levels. The copyright squabble is kind of funny though, they just couldn't help themselves.
imjustsaying··on Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered
Any translation has a profound impact on the way the bible is perceived, so perhaps it is worthwhile to look directly at the source.

Take this famous opener in the KJV bible for example:

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Well just what does it mean by Word? Turns out this is Koine Greek λόγος, logos.

Logos not only means word, but it importantly also means reasoning, order, and logic. Logos has multiple senses that don't translate well into a single, word. This was a big revelation for me.

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Logos

imjustsaying··on End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
>free market

just a nitpick but land ownership-based industries, in which you get a license from the government to own and lease out monopolies on land, are inherently far from free markets. ive always wondered if land ownership could be made to be more free market-like.

imjustsaying··on End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
the same thing as when it happens with your airline
imjustsaying··on Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Valley (2015)
Galen Winsor, who worked on the Manhattan Project and at GE, eating uranium on camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqwYHmgB3Xc

imjustsaying··on Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself
I see what you're saying about the journal contributing to the legitimacy of what they are purporting to be illegitimate, it's an interesting point.

I would like to add separately however for people unfamiliar with sci-hub, I am unaware of any copyright infringement issues of linking to or downloading from sci-hub. Sharing or downloading links has never been copyright infringement. Distribution is, which is why sci-hub is based in a separate jurisdiction (Russia I believe) that does not recognize US copyright claims.

imjustsaying··on Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)
Can anyone recommend some stacks for hosting video streaming?

For 10k concurrent stream receivers in the US and Europe, what would you be looking at to get the stream under 30 seconds lag time?

I realize this is a hard problem but would like to explore it.

imjustsaying··on YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
Thought experiment: would 'sci-fi AI' seek to ban humans from learning about disabling its computer security?
imjustsaying··on Cold-war-style suspicion of Chinese-American and Chinese academics
Wernher von Braun and the 1600 Germans who were taken out of Germany by the US in Operation Paperclip to do 'ICMB and NASA rocket development' were also (and it seems you're implying exclusively) 'Jewish and non-Aryan scientists'? That's not what I'm seeing in the wiki, correct if it's wrong instead of downvoting please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

imjustsaying··on Finland’s weekly news show in Latin cancelled after run of 30 years
>The vowels of English are pronounced as narrow diphthongs.

All of them?

imjustsaying··on Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
Nice work.

Want another challenge? Try one with the azimuthal equidistant projection. Would be quite interesting to watch the comparison.

imjustsaying··on Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review
That's the thing that really made me wonder. Peer review implies reviewed by multiple people, a review committee. Between the authors and the committee, multiple people read this and said it was ok.

Thanks for the link. If thats the commonly used translation there, then that makes much more sense, and I see why they went with it. Learned something new today.

imjustsaying··on I’m not really a good web developer, I'm just good at Googling things
This is also partly why specialists exist. An infectious disease DO/MD would know both what the alternative would be and possibly even the appropriate dose calculation off the top of their head because antibiotic management is their bread and butter.

If the physician you were at felt unable to make the right call, he could have referred you to or consulted with someone who could. An 'irritated look' might instead be a flurry of such treatment paths going through their mind.

'Can I figure this out on my own? Should I consult? Should I refer out? Should I just check UpToDate? What does the latest literature I read say to do? What was done for the last patient who had this? Has the literature changed since then? What is the hospital policy on this (if any?)? What did my microbiology class say to do for this? What do the boards think is right to do in this instance?'

imjustsaying··on Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review
Fascinating article.

>puppy husk

This was mentioned at least twice as something the example snake bite recipient used to use. I'm pretty sure they meant 'poppy husk', unless puppy husk is another novel analgesic. This puts the quality of the journal's peer review in doubt.

imjustsaying··on Get an Acme Klein Bottle
Ok, I'll bite. Zero volume, one sided, non-orientable, what is this?
imjustsaying··on Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later
I read this three times and still don't understand. What was the point or thesis of the article?
imjustsaying··on All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massive Outage
thanks
imjustsaying··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
>A smattering of nonprofits, which didn’t have to pay the $10 million entry fee, also populates the consortium to make sure not everyone can be corrupted by financial incentives.

Is this a euphemism for 'stuffing the ballot box with nonprofits your wife and friends and are on'?

imjustsaying··on All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massive Outage
parts, not the whole island. correct me if im wrong
imjustsaying··on The average person’s reading speed is slower than commonly thought
>You comment seems a bit defensive about your teacher inspiring you to improve your reading performance skills.

It was stated that the only thing she inspired me to do was slow down my expression of reading speed. Reading faster than my peers and entertaining them is not something people get embarrassed about.

Her telling me to slow down was not a magical way to get me to add inflection out of the void. Being scolded for deviating from normal speed only reinforced the standard school mentality that any deviation = bad. It would have only discouraged me from adding inflections without first being instructed to do so.

>(other classmates) weren't ready to add inflection.

I don't recall my classmates even adding inflection by high school or beyond, let alone by the end of the trimester. At least where I'm from, elementary teachers do not try to add inflection in their students. I'd imagine being able to read itself is more than sufficient to send them on to the next class.

Teachers focusing attention on illiterate students probably took precedence over tinkering with subjective inflections in kids who were not only going to pass their K-5 standardized tests but were already reading at a high school level.

imjustsaying··on The average person’s reading speed is slower than commonly thought
I read words aloud in my head. However, I remember reading words as fast as possible almost like an auctioneer when we would break up into reading groups in elementary school. My classmates thought it was hilarious but when the teacher came by, she would tell me not to read so fast.

So I switched the extra processing power to making context-appropriate inflections, dramatizations, and intonations instead of the monotone my classmates were doing, which the teachers seemed to tolerate.

imjustsaying··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
thanks for pointing that out.

now i too am unsure what the advantage is.

imjustsaying··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
the advantage is you get to be part of the token pyramid before the next guy.
imjustsaying··on I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project
Lawyers do not have the sole ability to answer such questions. I learned contract law from a business professor who wasn't a lawyer.
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