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Look, the entire content of my comment above you is that other punishments are also final, irreversible, and impossible to compensate. What are you trying to say?

Play the youtube video. You don't know what you're saying.

I used to spend a lot of time with origami books. They didn't have videos. You could consume the information as quickly as you wanted.

Unless, of course, you couldn't do that because the instructions were completely inscrutable. That happened a lot. More the rule than the exception, really.

Videos solve so many problems in this context. They would have saved me hours of confusion. Why would you complain that the free instructions are superior to the instructions you can pay for?

> In February, Forrest was officially declared innocent, and a few months later he was granted millions of dollars in compensation from the City of Austin. In August, he turned fifty, and his mom and the patrons of the Manchaca Springs Saloon threw him a big party. Sixty friends—many of whom he didn’t even know two years ago—toasted him, hugged him, and gave him raucous high fives. You would think Forrest would, finally, be happy.

I see the argument thrown around a lot that it's unethical to impose the death penalty because it can't be reversed.

This has never made any sense to me. If you put someone in prison for 40 years, you can't reverse that either. If you spread baseless rumors about someone being a murderer, never charge him with anything, and just quietly let everyone in the state shun and despise him for 40 years...

It also worked well for Bill Gates.

There are also keyless solutions to your front door. The second time I had to call a locksmith in Shanghai I got pitched on a combination lock for my apartment door.

That's not to say they make sense. The total amount I spent on having the locksmith let me back in to my apartment that year was significantly less than the cost of putting in a combination lock.

You're not commenting on an apology from him to her. You're commenting on an apology from him to you.

It's a public document; the reasons he published it aren't even likely to include whatever relationship he has with his wife.

> If I'm reading that right they are implying academics were pushing the idea of [...]

Academics were captured by ideological concerns. There's nothing really veiled about this. One slogan for the movement was "pots not people".

> And yet, there’s a reason we use magnetic tape for long term archive

Is it because "long-term archival" strategies aren't updated frequently?

Still false.

> Over and over again you have to contend with bullshit like 120MB APKs full of obfuscated code, root detection, custom firmware detection, "non-mainstream device" detection, VPN detection, and even more obscure spyware-flavored functionality.

I keep seeing people say this, and it keeps being true that you can just go to your bank's website and do whatever it is you want to do.

> -elle is not necessar[il]y a diminutive. In theophoric names such as "Arielle", "Michelle", "Michele", "Gabriella" and "Gabrielle" it is derived from the Hebrew El, a name for God.

(1) El isn't a name for God in Hebrew; it's just the ordinary word for any god. Like "god" in English. Conceptually close to ba'al, the ordinary word "lord".

The best-documented confusion of this kind that I know of is the Greek "Adonis" - in Greek, Adonis is a name, but even at the time it was recognized as being a Semitic loan from a word meaning "lord". We know enough about the cult of Adonis that we can identify him with a specific Semitic god, whose name was Tammuz.

(2) You're right about the etymology of these Hebrew-derived names. I think you're on shakier ground when you say that names ending in -elle are "not necessarily diminutive" in French; since the diminutive form exists, people are inevitably going to process those names as diminutives, regardless of the etymology.

That isn't a feature of Pandora.

I have quite a few channels:

1. Comedy rock, seeded by "Code Monkey". (Mainly Jonathan Coulton and Weird Al Yankovic, but other people sneak in there. The biggest hit, in personal terms, was a song by Matthew Ebel.)

2. Secondary comedy rock, seeded by "Weird Al Yankovic"; this channel is mostly dead. It tried to converge with the main comedy rock channel for obvious reasons.

3. Country (sad), seeded by "She Used To Say That To Me". The main thing on this channel that I personally see as a genre outlier is Mark McGuinn's "Busy Signal", but going to youtube I see that that song is tagged "#countrymusic".

4. Country (happy), seeded by "Emily Harper".

Those two channels also constantly attempt to converge with each other. But they mostly don't try to converge with the comedy rock channel.

5. "Clancy Brothers".

This has blossomed into a more general Irish folk and sea shanty channel.

6. "Steeleye Span".

This one plays Steeleye Span and some other English folk and folk rock music. It constantly tries to play Irish music, though the Clancy Brothers channel does not try to play English folk.

7. "Alan Menken". This one is good at staying separate. It plays showtunes. (And sometimes branches out a little; Annette Funicello's "Pineapple Princess" is on there.)

8. A channel seeded by "Kiss Me", by Sixpence None The Richer. I like the way this song sounds. I was never happy with anything that played on this channel and it's been abandoned.

Within the past several years I have gotten the feeling that Pandora would rather I just have one channel that plays "everything"; there have been attempts at crossing the deeper channel boundaries.

I have never ended up with Ellie Goulding or Dubstep.

> However, that "non-skip" thing was always a showstopper. Undiscovered music is often obscure for a reason, and I would end up exhausting my skips fairly quickly.

I have a bunch of different Pandora channels with different themes.

Pandora's skip limit is per-channel. If you run out of skips on one channel, and give up on it and start playing another channel, you get the full complement of skips back. You can go for quite a while if you have several channels.

In a development that is probably not related, but nevertheless feels like it is, Pandora tries hard to get you to collapse your channels, playing songs on one of them that don't fit at all but that you've thumbed up on another channel.

(Another obvious pattern is that if you haven't signed in to Pandora in a while, all of your channels will heavily feature songs that you've already thumbed up. They start playing new potential "discoveries" only after working through a "welcome back" backlog.)