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by Bendingo 7y ago
I think one reason for the "Assange is an asshole" hate is that there are many people all over the West who love and believe in the USA as a unequalled force for good, and they are filled with resentment towards Assange for destro
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Very well said. And thanks for the interview link.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
And if you don't know who Brian Kernighan is, you're not informed enough to judge him.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Fixed: Tesla's marketing is so powerful, that they don't even need to advertise.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Hmmm. I didn't know this. What are some countries that aren't nations?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> other countries have one or two of something the United States has at least ten. This goes for planes, tanks, cruisers, helicopters, missiles, pretty much whatever This is correct except for tanks [0], where Russia has about 3 times mo
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Excellent - thx !
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> terrifying Unhinged hyperbole. Nothing about RMS is remotely terrifying. It is the unchecked power and intolerance of your movement, that is truly terrifying.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> decided that the guy was capable of pretty much anything We are all lucky that you have the power of divination. Thank you for keeping us all safe.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> ... Soyuz ... the 1 Russian member Well to be fair, it's completely understandable that US astronauts would never be allowed unsupervised access to a Russian spacecraft. Hell, US are lucky they even are granted any Soyuz flights a
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Wow. That's quite an imaginative claim. Got anything to support it?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Would be great to have a tech thread that didn't degenerate into low-grade political opinion.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> Narcissists are broken people I would add that Narcissistic Personality Disorder, like all personality disorders, is essentially unfixable [0]. However it's unlikely that OP has NPD, since someone who actually has an NPD would no
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by Bendingo 7y ago
"Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack" --> "Jamaican field cricket or maybe cicadas" [0] [0] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/the-real-story-behin... ?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
This is 100% what's going on.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> basically match the Iowa results so far Actually, they don't quite match at all. Sanders campaign released partial results on 4th/Feb that shows Sanders:29% and Buttigieg:24% [1][2] [1] https://twitter.com/HCT
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by Bendingo 7y ago
My translation (as a beginner in Russian language) of Stalin's letter is: "In negotiations with Eden on the issue of Aerocobras you acted cowardly. This is not worthy of the Soviet ambassador. The British behaviour on the questio
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Indeed that irony will be completely lost on most (western) readers.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Thanks. Minor typo in your lecture notes just after equation (22). "The assume the flow is steady, inviscid and and incompressible." should be "They assume..."
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by Bendingo 7y ago
GP's attitude is fine - there's nothing offensive about stating "You're wrong". People's search (need?) for offense is becoming pathological.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
No-one yet mentioned expect [0][1], which is the most amazing, general-purpose automation tool I've ever used. IMHO it's creator Don Libes [2] is an original-thinker/innovator in the same league as Ousterhout. [0] https:&#x2
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Maybe UK would rather be spied upon by Chinese Gov. than by US Gov. I know I would.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Iran's issue with Israel is not related to Judaism. It's important to distinguish between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Iran is the former but not the latter.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Very cool!
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by Bendingo 7y ago
Most realistic comment in the entire thread.
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> think Russia would annex a Baltic state Baltics and Crimea are not comparable. - Crimea has Russia's only warm water port and would never be given up - Russia already has Baltic access (Kaliningrad and StPetersburg) - Crimea has b
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> A compressor is an analog to an internal combustion engine - in reverse A compressor is not the reverse of a IC engine. IC engine is a heat engine, and the reverse of that is a heat pump (not a compressor). Furthermore, Carnot efficien
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> tells outright lies for a living I'm not going to defend Alex Jones here, but surely you realise that this metric includes many main stream, "respected" media organisations?
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by Bendingo 7y ago
> zero risk that my country might compel me through extra-legal channels to modify my work product I assume therefore, that you must not be Australian [1] [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/12&
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by Bendingo 7y ago
It's not a threat -- it's an offer. Take it or leave it.

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