throwawaycuriou

There is more than the most recent Iraq war. There is Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin) and the Spanish-American War (USS Maine sabotage). Several others.

It's not disingenous and it's not discrediting _any_ future allegation, but to appropriately raise the threshold before belief.

It wasn't until flying into Seattle that this east coaster learned of oreGONN. Which is surprising because I'd always pronounce the game title that way. In any other context I'd say oreg'n. In general east coasters lean on the 'schwa' much more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing? I remember an Amiga version which had a mode where had a crude visualization of racing other cars as you typed.

The irony you manufacture doesn't hold. Yes, these products are cheap (currently free) no small part due to the market aberration caused by the tracking and advertising. But it's not certain that they would go away if advertising had to revert to a model less driven by privacy intrusion.

I welcome the day such intrusions are rendered illegal or impractical, so that the market can price these offerings appropriately. Until then, why not use what exists?

If you've access to a virtual reality headset, you might enjoy SynthVR: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1517890/SynthVR/

The author's reflections after stopping using emoji:

"In the end, I found myself adding a lot of exclamation marks, "hahaha", and writing more sentences to better communicate my mood. The need to better convey my messages forced me to have a deeper understanding what I was trying to communicate in the first place. Sometimes, a heart means “I love you”, “I miss you”, “I hope you’ll feel better soon”, “I love what you’re saying”, etc. Was I expecting my interlocutors to guess the exact meaning? I’m happy that it forced me to phrase my thoughts, look deeper into them, better identify and express them. I had to write "Thank you" or "That's great!" instead of adding a reaction emoji under a Slack message, Twitter DM, or Discord message, and I like to believe that those words carried more value than one more thumbs up added to the pile."

This helped me make a connection to a larger phenomenon in changing speech, something which I struggle with. Emojis a way of communicating with loose precision. There are also analogous ways to do so while using words. And there are speakers in their daily speech which greatly lean into the saftey of loose precision to the point of subterfurge and agression.

A 'like' softens all opinion. A 'you know' coerces the listener to agree. A 'whatever' implies others' priorities are misplaced. An 'uh' or 'um' is a don't interrupt me! Overreliance on ambiguous prounouns. 'Stuff' or 'Thing'.

I find these mechanisms off putting. They sometimes correlate with paranoia, esteem issues, or sociopathy. So I try to avoid such speakers if possible, since I feel like an asshole to point it out.

It's ok to wait until your thoughts are formed. It's ok to be incorrect. Pick your target and try to hit it. If you communicate with loose precision or emoji you inhibit building knowledge together.

Related charting and analysis of this going awry: https://wolfstreet.com/2021/07/05/todays-unicorns-have-bigge...

Did we learn the wrong lesson from Amazon?

Slow down for this. Every word worth savoring. Is, or was, getting at savory.

Thanks for the source.

Something I'm confused by: this article seems to credit Maoris for discovery of Antarctica long before Europeans, but they didn't arrive in Aotearoa (now-New Zealand) till the 14th century, and the paper claims 7th century contact. Wouldn't that mean their Moriori predecessors made this journey? Do Maoris consider themselves part of Moriori lineage?

Edit: looks like my knowledge on this came from old textbooks no longer deemed true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-M%C4%81ori_settlement_of...

Even that aside, isn't the evidence a bit thin? Finding oral records of snow or ice doesn't mean a lot when icebergs pass by Aotearoa all the time.

Thanks for the full context. Much of the reaction here is due to his mistake of placing 'If I were a Jew' when based on the rest of the essay I'd estimate he meant to say 'If I were Israeli'. Had he done so the tea shop would still have all its crockery intact.

is it plausible humans initially hated the taste of alcohol and suffered worse hangovers, but in a manner of a few thousand years descend from ancestors who selected for high euphoria and strong livers.... all because alcohol was healthier than water?

JavaScript is not a scripting language for Java.

Not perpendicular, just unaligned.

first I've seen it but my initial thought is that he does not think probable as much as I do that a great filter may exist in the practicality of interstellar travel. if so, it's not a buzzkill to find pangolin skeletons on mars. we're all in this cul de sac together.

Yet the regime that regardless of sexual orientation prevents free travel without checkpoints suspecting terrorism of all...

And the maximal delta between all 7 billion humans and the minimal version of many, let's say 3, makes such a statement unhelpfully limited in scope, while implying a controversy of thin air

the excellent writing style feels anachronistic. like a form that wouldn't be done quite so if it were done today.

You are correct about its inclusion but how home asset inflation is measured is arguably faulty - more akin to an 'implied rent'.

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/11/house-price-inflation-in-c...

The red stapler that won a bronze medal.

Whatever value you think you are finding on LinkedIn is negative value. Anyone of value is too busy producing value to give an eff caring about the epitome of a dead social network.

You may be getting thrills out of this disclosure but like sibling comments I recommend you delete these submissions. It is not painting you in a good light.

if I can ask something specific to an accordian player, I fell in love with a band called Swap. swedish fiddles with British guitar and accordian. do you recommend anything like it?

I understand the confusion around Stadia pricing tiers, but if you buy a game on the service you can play it without any monthly fee.

It's comparable to the lease you make with Valve with the expectation of Steam being around forever.

how has that silver been spent?

try privacy.com one off credit cards with fixed limits. use them for each service that may bill you again.

Fascinating that you could also read that as executing, as in putting to pasture, said misguided strategy. Not sure that reading would be very true though.

Thanks for that scenario. Those potential ramifications are significant. In that specific case, one could imagine ponying up for a steep same day ticket from Thailand to keep up the ruse. One would expect there would be innumerable psychological tolls to live this way.

What about a subtler case? You begin working as a US based employee, but after enjoying your work and proving your mettle, you take the risky choice to move abroad without informing your company? Or, you have a US based apartment but periodically for a month here and there operate abroad unannounced?

Additional wrinkle: while the expectation is more clear informally, it's not clear to me what US based employment is from a legal standpoint. Is it merely filing your taxes from a US based address?

Related question I've always been too shy to ask until now: assuming you work whatever US hours expected and perform at a high level and are regularly reachable, in this situation what are the stakes and implications (as a US citizen) of lying and saying you're US based when you're not?