including household terms such as “emetic,”“gimp,”“chiffonier,” and “poultice,”; industrial terms such as “magneto” and “adz”; urban terms such as “jitney” and “linotype”; and rural words such as
That’s unsurprising—Mat’s been very online for a very long time, meaning he has a bigger online footprint than I do. It might also be because he is based in the US, and most large language models are very US-focused. The US does not have a federal data protection law. California...
PISA 2022 is the first large scale international assessment that claims to capture the impact of Covid-19 on school systems worldwide. Learning loss is observed in many countries around the globe and Estonia is not an exception. However, Estonia is still
I.A.1 - What does “anarchy” mean? The word“anarchy”is from the Greek, prefixan(ora), meaning“not,”“the want of,”“the absence of,”or“the lack of”, plusarchos, meaning“a ruler,”“chief,”“person in charge,”or“authority.”Or, as Peter Kropotkin put it, Anarchy come...
They tend to be motivated by feelings more than facts, by what they want to exist rather than what actually does exist. Extremists do a lot of wishful and fearful thinking. 5. ADVOCACY OF DOUBLE STANDARDS. Extremists generally tend to judge themselves or their interest group in terms of ...
board crosses over to the dark side, it can mean serious consequences for not only its members, but every owner or shareholder in the building or HOA. Infighting, backstabbing, loss of funds, declining property values, and even legal consequences may well ensue if the ship isn’t righted. ...
What Normative Frameworks in Myanmar Reveal About Inclusivity 5.1 A Moral Touchstone? The Concept of "Unity" Among Myanmar's Conflict Parties In this chapter, I explore the "cognitive prior," or the existing normative framework around the concept of "unity" in Myanmar politics and...
it only in response to specific events.>It’s possible, though I’m not certain, that the future Houdini Layout module>will provide a way for us to achieve what we’re trying to do here off the>main thread in a much more performant way. It does, at least, provide a simple>way to...
With these words in mind, it should be highlighted that while the BTC network currently has its fair share of scaling-related issues, it does not mean that in the future these problems might not be rectified completely. For example, there already exists something called the Lightning Network (...
Which means that while anarchists and Leninists both use the expression "All Power to the Soviets" it does not mean they mean exactly the same thing by it. In practice the Bolshevik vision simply replaced the power of the soviets with a "soviet power" above them: "The success of the Bol...