I try to contribute to things getting better, with sourced information, OC and polite rational skepticism.
Disagreeing with a point ≠ supporting the opposite side, I support rationality.
Let’s discuss to make things better sustainably.
Always happy to question our beliefs.
The only trustworthy solution is for your son to date some distant little cousin of Trump. Then he’ll get an Ivy League diploma for free and maybe some government position.
I know.
And for 1000000 times the cost of normal extraction probably.
It is a real river, but it got suffocated by the Japanese concret folie. Here’s a 1847 view of the river, ukiyo-e by Hiroshige.
All the Tokyo parks will have blossom in a prettier setting but they will be overcrowded for the peak of Hanami. Big temples and castles will also have pretty gardens with blossom. If you get there before cherry blossom, you can also see plum and peach blossom which is pretty too, but not as spectacular in volume. I don’t think there’s much natural about cherry blossom, it is a deliberate thing. For more nature, look for the popular mounts and mountains, some are very accessible by public transportation like Mount Takao or the various mounts in Hakone.
Kind of agree, and so are modern cities in Japan in general, everything is asphyxiated under concrete, including river, and there’s no attempt at regulating construction to create an aesthetic.
Only if they come from Wink, Winkler County, Texas. Otherwise they are just sparkling eyelead carrier and receiver.
Agreed, especially if you’re writing to someone who’s not completely fluent in the language. Also use short sentences and common vocabulary.
I read a lot of tech bros saying what they did is easy because they used (illegally?) the chatgpt API for part of their model training. But it seems this kind of performance actually means better engineering, doesn’t it?
I’m glad a different country is able to challenge top USA tech, but I wish EU could do it together too. For now it seems we’re mostly able to duplicate American products with added GDPR compliance.
I don’t think the hardest part would be teaching the difference between historical socialism and social democracy, as used in Europe. Social democrat parties in Europe are often just called the “Socialist Party” (ex: France, Spain, with recent elected country leaders) and nobody associates them with the Soviet Union.
I hope you will manage to build an actually-social democrat party.
It was sold to Ebay in 2002. You can see it on their official website. https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/history-and-facts/default.aspx
Limestone pavement is made up of clints (the blocks) and grykes (the fissures or cracks in between). If you peer into the grykes, you’ll discover a rich, hidden world of plants, such as baneberry, green spleenwort, lesser meadow-rue, wood sorrel and herb Robert. The site is rich in ferns, including rigid buckler and hart’s-tongue. https://www.ywt.org.uk/nature-reserves/southerscales-nature-reserve
The geology of the Yorkshire Dales is predominantly of limestone, which gives rise to many spectacular and scenic surface (as well as underground) natural features. One such type of surface feature are the “limestone pavements” - plateaus of bare and weathered rock often being found at the top of the limestone cliffs (known locally as “scars”) running along the hillsides. These were originally formed by the scouring action of glaciers during the last ice age, excellent examples being seen at e.g. the top of Malham Cove, White Scars and Southerscales (near Ingleton) and on the plateau of Moughton (near Austwick).
Due to the mildly corrosive effects of slightly acidic rain water on the limestone (a process which also leads to the formation of caves and potholes in the dales) deep crevases slowly develop in the rock so that the limestone pavements are actually a “mosaic” of interlocking “clints” and “grykes” https://www.yorkshire-dales.com/limestone-pavements.html
Isn’t it obvious that people working at a for profit company would earn much more?
We are not in the 2000’ anymore, there are people with 30 years of experience in tech in many other places. Furthermore, internet nonprofit could champion remote working.
Interestingly, it was worse the year before.
2023
2022
Checking the Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc, my cool t-shirts provider. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43091431
Revenue $17,954,838
92.7% from contributions
7.4% goes to Executive Compensation with the top earner being for Cindy Cohn (Executive Director) $336k, 58% to other salaries.
7% doesn’t seem too bad, but I still wonder if an international free web defending non-profits requires being in SF, one of the most expensive cities in the world. It could probably move to a normal city and cut compensations cost by 2 or 3.
Similar situation for the Wikimedia Foundation Org https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703.
I made this FOSS template for easy reuse.
def describe_nintendo_creativity(nintendo_game_name, new_version_number):
print(
f"Hm, {nintendo_game_name} {new_version_number} seems to look pretty similar "
f"to {nintendo_game_name} {new_version_number - 1}."
)
describe_nintendo_creativity("Mario Kart", 9)
describe_nintendo_creativity("Pokemon", 21)
That’s the most convincing explanation I have read, thank you!
The point is to better match the current pronunciation bəl, not change the pronunciation.
