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by 50CNT 10y ago
That depends on who finds who. Assuming that technological advancement is directly related to cultural refinement, that is the question. Well, crude but mighty is also an option. We could be the Huns ravaging distant worlds.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Off-topic, but since I started looking at some of your stuff, with the entire trans-humanism and cyborg thing, what implants do you have? I don't mean aesthetic body modification, but things with chips in them. I'm also in China,
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by 50CNT 10y ago
But then your code easily gets really wide, and you start committing heresy against the holy rule of 82.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Also, isn't accurate weather information and prediction essential for forecasting in industries such as Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, Construction, etc.? There's a 2002 paper by NOAA which outlines some of their estimates (
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by 50CNT 10y ago
> At what rate do they say suckers are born? About 4/s[0], considering newborns are all suckers, both regarding their knowledge of scams and more literal minded sucking. That said, I'd be interesting to know what the percentage
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I think it's great that the chart is completely ordinary. Imagine how terrible it'd be if it suddenly became fascinating.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Not on business cards & store doors, but WeChat Pay and Alipay both use QR codes for payment, so anywhere between 1-5 times a day. The washing machines downstairs too.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
When I'm not using orgmode I usually use yED[0] for diagrams and graphs. Not specifically mind-mapping software, but close enough for my purposes. [0] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
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by 50CNT 10y ago
So in order to provide incentive for employees to come in 20 minutes early, your company is willing to handicap a percentage of its workforce all day? That doesn't just sound hostile, no, it sounds dumb.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Whoops, mentally went in the wrong direction.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
What's wrong with base10 SI prefixes? DeciFactory to build 10 rockets per year. CentiLaunchpad set to do 100 launches.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Does this mean little bobby tables[0] might have trouble making online purchases? [0] https://www.xkcd.com/327/
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by 50CNT 10y ago
The Emacs Wiki does describe it as the "poor man's Mathematica". Org-tables with Calc functions are also quite nice.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Example in a similar vein, was trying to split Chinese characters by ',', but they were separated by '，'.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Whilst this is a permutations problem, what parties need wine that much that you'd risk fatally poisoning people?
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Other humorous observation. Due to the js loading, Bing seems to have trouble caching the content.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Do the second best thing and build a small carbonation rig.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
All foods are slightly radioactive.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
On the other hand, isn't pwning coworkers the basis of sound security awareness training?
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by 50CNT 10y ago
This isn't uncommon in China either. A friend of mine was riding with a relatively well connected Chinese lady, when she pointed at a man on the side of the road and said: "I could hit that guy and get away with it, would probably
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by 50CNT 10y ago
But what about companies shutting down, axing the project, mismanaging the project and stonewalling fixes, shutting down the APIs, revoking licenses, or any other mishap that can happen to commercial software? I feel like the risk is signif
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by 50CNT 10y ago
I don't know, but open up emacs, type M-x term, then emacs -nw, then type M-x term, then repeat. It's very silly.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
with emacs 25 incorporating webkit, we can now say "emacs may also contain safari"
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by 50CNT 10y ago
There's "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler[0] which is quite nice in that it presents a systematic way to engage with the content of a book. That may or may not help with the attention span. [0] https://www.amaz
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Whilst I agree to a degree that the pendulum sometimes swings too far in the other direction in German political discourse, the attitude of "us versus them" is rarely useful. Say we took a culture legitimizing rape, how about Saud
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Though socially frowned upon, you could make the same argument substituting Stalin or Hitler, and it'd still make sense. Matter of fact, Germans regularly do. "Never again" requires you to view what happened objectively. If y
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Maybe he meant 10 percentage points?
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by 50CNT 10y ago
That's signaling you're an attractive mate other people will sleep with right there! I think we're onto something.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Hrmmmm...could do. No, the dishrack has drip trays, and I've got kitchen towels for drying.
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by 50CNT 10y ago
Honestly, living in China, this might just be more convenient. It's not like my newsfeed is a particularly great source of news, I mostly use FB to keep in touch with friends abroad. Chinese revolutionaries already know how to circumve

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