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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
Societal structures arise to manage contradictions in society on behalf of the ruling class. One example of this is policing in the US: modern day policing arose from slave patrols [0]. This societal structure of slave patrols arose to mana
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
https://archive.ph/y8iF7
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https://archive.ph/awkdM
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
I've been very happy using SumatraPDF on Windows, because it redraws the PDF after the file has been written over. (This is especially useful with LaTeX on Windows.) When I have the PDF open with Adobe Acrobat, my LaTeX compiler can&#x
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the results of your script running on the "Who wants to be hired?" threads [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983765
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
https://archive.is/SajD9
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
https://archive.is/Sc50Z
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
In my previous job, they began using scrum agile to develop hardware. I don't know if it ever worked because I left. But when I was there, it was more stressful than before agile scrum.
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
https://archive.is/OcSlR
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
> Imagine commuting to the office 60-90 minutes each direction Assuming 240 work days per year. A one-hour roundtrip commute means you're spending 10 *WHOLE* days in your commute per year. Two-hour roundtrip? That's 20 whole da
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https://archive.is/7sqfj
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https://archive.is/c5q13
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https://archive.is/jaqOv
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https://archive.is/jaqOv
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
Another fun, somewhat related poster from 1944: Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations [0], and a "color-corrected" version [1]. [0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llnl/9403051123 [1]: https://ww
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
"Now let the court enforce it." -Andrew Jackson
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
It makes more people aware of the game.
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
They recently overwhelmingly voted on a new Family Code law [0], one of the most progressive laws to be passed. And if you're interested in how democracy and elections work in Cuba, here is a pretty short and very informative clip (13m
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
This happens to me. I never realized that anything happened and that the URL changed, which means I would naturally click the back button again , and it takes me to the previous-previous page (which is usually a new tab for me). It's
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
> Why would Europe sit idly by while the US unilaterally reshapes their energy policies? Because these are our client states. NATO's purpose is to bend Europe's will across the Atlantic and away from having mutually beneficial
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
Russia could just turn off the taps instead of blowing it up... Russia spent billions building these pipes to bypass transit fees through other countries. This is not a mystery. The US has the most to gain from this: increase Europe's
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
https://archive.ph/ry2Kc
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
Regan's algorithm cannot prove that you did not cheat; it can only fail to prove that you cheated. The question that Regan's algorithm is this: "Did you cheat?" If the algorithm comes back with "Yes," then you
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
That's the point of the magazine: it's to spread ideologies around. If you want to know what people in the state department (or adjacent/influential) are thinking, then "articles" in this magazine are one way of pee
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
See also Gantt charts with gnuplot [0]. [0]: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_5.4/gantt.html
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
For those interested in the Korean War, Blowback's season 3 [0] covers the span from Japan's imperial occupation of the Korean peninsula to the Korea War. [0]: https://blowback.show/
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
One of the Fed's key charges is to maintain price stability by maintaining inflation at around 2% YOY. It should be clear by now that the Fed is unable to achieve its goals and is a failure according to their own stated goals.
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
Whoops! Totally misunderstood that page. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by EarthIsHome 4y ago
Holy crap! Look at these acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware#Acquisitions
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Chipmaker Broadcom to buy software group VMware for $69bn(ft.com)
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