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by DC-3 6y ago
I'm not 100% sure this is what the author intends but 'based' has been used for quite a long time on imageboards as an adjective describing something that is unpopular or contentious but nonetheless correct. > J.K. Rowling
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by DC-3 6y ago
Did it ever occur to you at all that people might value education for its own sake and not for potential financial yield alone?
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by DC-3 6y ago
Because he's a very gifted writer and an insightful social critic whose modes of reasoning and analysis happen to align closely with those most familiar and natural to the average HN reader. (i.e. he does humanities, but for people who
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by DC-3 6y ago
I think they're alluding more generally to the idea that the EU's bureaucratic sluggishness caused its member states to not have a contract in place with AZ until three months after Britain, putting them proverbially to the '
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D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm(en.wikipedia.org)
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by DC-3 6y ago
> To uproot racism, you need to rally your population behind common denominators and values. That's all very nice but how do you apply it to the situation where you have a minority group with little to no interest in integrating int
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by DC-3 6y ago
They look like spaceships and when you buy one you feel like a king (i.e. you're stealing from the British taxpayer).
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by DC-3 6y ago
Brownie Points. But for what it's worth, I think it's an absurd idea to try and cleanse oneself of 4chan memes, since they form such a significant strata of internet culture. The attitude that some people have towards 4chan is emb
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by DC-3 6y ago
I adore Orwell. The second chapter of The Road to Wigan Pier (separately published in the excellent essay collection 'Inside The Whale'), which describes the working conditions of coal miners in the North of England, is one of the
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by DC-3 6y ago
It asked me to listen to a clip of Oh Comely and asked me if I liked it or not lmao.
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by DC-3 6y ago
I don't really play games so that's not my rationale.
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by DC-3 6y ago
I'm a libre software advocate but I see little reason why games should be libre. They're not tools - you don't use them to create things or to do your job. They're more akin to movies - compiled and packaged 'experi
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by DC-3 6y ago
In fairness we also have an obesity crisis.
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's funny when you think about it how much money is made by people writing relatively trivial tech on top of incredibly complex and technically impressive software written for far less reward and acclaim (at least, outside of engineer
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by DC-3 6y ago
Sorry to go off-topic, but I had not come across the concept of Indian city tiers before, and found it interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Indian_citie...
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by DC-3 6y ago
This is obviously made for people with much more exciting lives than me.
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by DC-3 6y ago
For those who haven't come across it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbI Quite embarrassing for all involved.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Checks out to me. The first one already exists while the second one is hilarious.
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by DC-3 6y ago
So Java is nearly as low-latency as C if you're willing to write your Java as if it were C?
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by DC-3 6y ago
On the one hand it's not hugely thrilling for the headline features of a new release to be improvements to doc tooling and a stabilized trait impl but on the other hand it's good to see the language settling down and maturing.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Should the vote also be weighted to uphold the interests of other classes of people, like young vs old, or rich vs poor, or bricklayers vs hairdressers? I consider myself more defined by my age and profession than by my hometown but in an e
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by DC-3 6y ago
Thousands of people die each year because of stupid mistakes by human drivers. From a utilitarian perspective, pushing for self driving as fast as possible - in a manner that some might even judge to be reckless - is a net positive.
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by DC-3 6y ago
You're not using YouTube?
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by DC-3 6y ago
As far as I can see, Mozilla have no reason to be losing money other than their own mismanagement.
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by DC-3 6y ago
So they're hoping that they can replace the people they fired with open source contributors working for free.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Does anyone know if he has any works in Danish? I am learning the language and am fond of compiler engineering.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Couldn't help but giggle at the inserted [GNU/] in that quote.
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's wonderful. Melvyn is an excellent 'man on the Clapham omnibus' - quietly intellectual, ever inquisitive, but never looking to show off his own knowledge and always more than happy to cede the limelight to the academics w
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by DC-3 6y ago
I use the BBC World News site as my homepage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world
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by DC-3 6y ago
The most obvious refutation is that according to Jaynes' theory conciseness emerged just a few thousand years ago. Since humans took divergent paths across the globe over a hundred thousand years ago, this raises the question of how al

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