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It is also the consensus position for a lot of bad reasons though.

There is an assumption that belief in, or even reasonable agnosticism towards, any other theory can only be motivated by racism.

There are many people that believe OOA because they want to believe it, because they want to believe we are all more similar than we are different, etc.

Multiregional hypotheses are perfectly plausible. We have very limited information one way or another. Out of Africa may be more likely but it is far from certain.

In what sense are domestic car manufacturers "important"? They're inefficient if they're being outcompeted by China.

Don't be ridiculous. You don't need to be computer savvy to use electronic banking. Cheques haven't been used in most countries for over a decade and the only actual difference is that you get transferred the money immediately instead of banking a cheque.

None of what you said is true. The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords was renamed the Supreme Court and moved to a different building (but otherwise essentially unchanged) in 2005 under Tony Blair's Labour government.

This is incredibly ignorant. The Church didn't kill anyone for being good at art, and in fact did more for the development of fine art than any other institution in human history.

No. IDE-specific ignore lists should go in $CONFIG/git or .git/info/exclude (or whatever the path is).

(git config --global core.excludesfile "$CONFIG/git/ignore")

.gitignore is committed to the repository and should be for files created by the repository that shouldn't appear in 'git status' like build/, etc.

They are safer, more fuel-efficient, less polluting and quieter.

Nobody said it isn't debt. The difference is that it is debt that makes sense: you can't realistically buy land without it, and houses tend to appreciate so the interest costs are less of a problem - they just represent the time value of money.

Most other debts people incur personally are to buy things they could save for, which go down in value. Like cars.

Writing like a wanker isn't funny.

Please don't quote the entire comment you are replying to.

The structure of the markup is dependent on the semantic structure of the content that is marked up. The CSS is styling that structure.

The markup shouldn't need to change over time in a way that makes the CSS layouts not work because it just reflects the semantic structure of the document, which shouldn't really need to change. If it does you have quite a different document and so of course it will need CSS changes too.

I was always much more afraid of touching ad-hoc CSS that was written alongside HTML, because it ends up having all these classes and elements that have no semantics and it becomes very unclear what anything actually means. The very worst is the "tailwind" styling where classes etc mean nothing, just styling.

Do you have any evidence?

Also it makes no sense to say there is no evidence of them existing, given that we are discussing precisely that: evidence of them existing.

Why would the sources that were put together to form the Bible be discounted when the whole point of putting it together was to collect the best evidence into one source?

How is it misogynistic for more than one woman to have the same name? They aren't made up characters that people decided to all call Mary in some fit of misogyny.

There is no question that Jesus existed and was crucified. Nobody seriously questions that. If we can't accept that happened then we can't accept most of history. It is one of the best-documented events of history and nobody has any reason or means to make it up.

I find it very effective.

Why is this written so poorly?

I agree. It also means you likely need some way of sorting replies. And that means upvoting, which is a horrid system.

Automating jobs away is good for workers. Not bad. Don't you start repeating ignorant socialist nonsense. You are better than that.

Plenty of incorrect code compiles. It is a very bad sign that people are making comments like "Then the code won't compile".

As for my editor saying it is invalid..? That is just as untrustworthy as an LLM.

>I "trust" LLM's more than tutorials, there's so much garbage out there.

Yes, rubbish generated by AI. That is the rubbish out there. The stuff written by people is largely good.

Disagree that "justice is done". She lied her way in in the first place.

Why shouldn't private groups be permitted to be male-only? There are plenty of female-only groups out there.

As soon as a male space allows women in, its character changes. It is good that there are still spaces for men and spaces for women and mixed spaces, if you ask me.

So not sold. Also not your data. It is Facebook's data. It belongs to Facebook. You don't own it just because it happens to be about you.

Does someone own the Wikipedia page about them?! No, Wikipedia does.

"iPhone users" isn't a market. Otherwise every company would be a monopoly. That is absurd.

No you don't. There is a narrow range of abilities at each level if students are properly held back when they haven't mastered the material.

Their interests are built by what they are taught. "Socioeconomic background" is a tautology. Their backgrounds are irrelevant.

The history of English is taught in English classes. Historical context is important and interesting. You don't really understand a subject without knowing a bit of its history.

My favourite classes were those where we didn't just get taught facts and theorems but we also got taught a bit about who proved the theorem for the first time, who discovered this fact, what this algorithm was first used for, etc. So much easier to remember too.

This is one of the best things about studying law: the very nature of it makes it impossible to teach it without the historical context.

This is a myth. Computer science absolutely is about programming. The science that makes computers work is called physics.

There are theoretical parts of computer science, but it is fundamentally a practical subject. All of it is in service to programming. Type systems are about typing programs. Algorithms are implemented using programs. Data structures are for use in programs.

The very worst computer science lecturers are those that forget it is a practical subject and try to teach it like abstract mathematics, because they believe (whether they realise they believe it or not) that it is more prestigious to teach abstract concepts than practical concrete things.

It is the same in mathematics, where unfortunately there has developed a tradition since Bourbaki of trying to teach abstract notions as fundamental while concrete problem solving is left to the engineers. The result is that many engineers are much stronger mathematicians than many mathematically-trained students, and those students have to relearn the practical foundations of the subject before they can make progress at the graduate level. If they don't, they get stuck doing what looks like maths, but is actually just abstract roleplaying.

Most mistakes remain mistakes, and do not become part of the language. The idea that mistakes generally get accepted as correct is simply untrue, which is what you are implying.

I am sure people will make the mistake, as they sometimes do today. But it is a mistake, and will likely be recognised as one.

It is likely that the language gets more cemented by automatic spelling and grammatical correction, including using AI. For example, there are a number of grammatical and spelling changes that have been cemented by American spelling/grammar checking programmes ie. by MS Word.

It will likely end up like many other more phonetic spellings: an indicator of ignorance, but more acceptable in America than elsewhere.

Egyptians weren't dark-skinned "savages". If you had to fit them into 19th C racial groups (which Americans are still obsessed with) they would be white.

Only modern black nationalists believe that the Ancient Egyptians were black.

The Pyramids are thought to have been very difficult to build because they are obviously very difficult to build with the technology available at the time. Remember that they were ancient even to the Romans and the Greeks.

Thinking the Pyramids would be difficult to build has absolutely nothing to do with race or racism.

There is no "perpetual shame". What Americans did was completely justified and justifiable. A few thousand Native Americans don't have a monopoly on an entire continent. They were largely wiped out by disease anyway which (despite the "Smallpox blanket" blood libel) was not under anyone's control.

Nobody is conflating Gaza and Hamas. Hamas is the government of Gaza and supported by Gazans. Israel is at war with Gaza.

Ireland is nothing like Israel. The Troubles was between nationalist and loyalist paramilitaries. The British Army was stuck in the middle. It was able to be resolved because everyone ultimately wanted to live side by side. Nobody wanted to kill every Catholic or every Protestant. They are ultimately civilised people using violence to achieve goals that are not inherently violent.

Israel-Gaza is between a state and a genocidal terrorist group. The aim of Hamas is to destroy all Jews everywhere and establish a global Islamic caliphate. It isn't an ideology that can be compromised with. Murdering Jews isn't a means, it is the end.