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by JimmyM 11y ago
Just to say that this is not my experience. Have made highly contentious edits and created entirely new articles on topics from Hoplomachus through Corpse Paint to planning law in the UK. None of my good edits have been reverted, but some o
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by JimmyM 11y ago
The death toll is definitely low compared to Eastern Europe. It is very very low compared with the rest of the world. However, in much of Western Europe it is still perceived as being a place where people drive dangerously. The main reason
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I think it has likely been downvoted by people from countries that do not speed. I have only ever seen Americans and Canadians talking about the necessity to speed to keep up with the flow of traffic (and they have a higher rate of fatal RT
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by JimmyM 11y ago
This is a reference to Thing Explainer , the Randall Munroe book - https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/ I think since so much quantum physics depends on maths, which in turn depends on highly specialised terminology or a
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Quasi-fractal makes sense to me, I'm assuming that the gears are created from generic fractal-generating code (pass a basic geometric pattern, draw a portion of a self-similar fractal) that's been modified to create finite gears i
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The Norwegian Method of Tunneling (2012)(tunneltalk.com)
8 points by JimmyM 11y ago|1 comments
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Other articles trending on The Daily Beast: > "The Alabama Granny Murder-For-Hire Plot" > "Attack Of The Kate Upton Clones" > "The Internet Is Just Broken" ...oh wait, that last one... It's not an
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such A Beautiful Day is wonderful, capable of teaching you new things about mortality and how you think about yourself and others, and is available on Netflix. It might also make you cry.
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by JimmyM 11y ago
"So I downvoted the comment mostly because it was dismissive of the entire article" - I thought that was an issue of tone. I don't think it was dismissed because it doesn't bust the 'Katanas Are Just Better' tr
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I think that people are downvoting you because they're not sure what you're getting at or have an issue with tone, as I think I know what you are referring to here: http://www.thearma.org/essays/hype.htm#.Vchr
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I would say just to be safe, use the <details> and <summary> tags with a polyfill if you need to hide and then reveal text. It's more meaningful, and it shows that you're not trying to be deceptive. I've not test
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I think there is a similar core issue (not problem) in both mega-genres, that they tend towards extremity - so anything that represents a particular extremity (e.g. slow despair - Doom, guttural aggression - Death, shrieking hatred - Black)
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I think that this is definitely contentious given that many of the best bands that formed that year didn't peak until much later. Death's best album, for example, is probably either Leprosy or Human, which are both from several ye
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by JimmyM 11y ago
That sounds really interesting, there was a similar approach (albeit somewhat implicit rather than explicit) in the Programming Languages Coursera course. Where do you think I would be able to read the essay when it's complete? Will th
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Given that Chinese investors have been buying significant amounts of real estate abroad ( http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/uk-china-property-o... ), does anyone have any idea what this will mean fo
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I thought that (') was the apostrophe character, although it doesn't look like one. (Source: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html ) The same source agrees with you elsewhere though, making
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Well, this was my point - I can't even deduce the presumably well-known figure you are referring to, so I'm not a very knowledgeable or trustworthy commenter on this issue, and my opinions and thoughts should be treated with an ap
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by JimmyM 11y ago
If you're saying "Philosopher or writer", Ovid, Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Pliny, Juvenal, Livy, Cicero and Martial. Of whom I suppose I find Ovid, Catullus, Livy, Cicero and Virgil enjoyable to read, others would dis
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I've heard tales of AdBlock Plus consuming huge amounts of CPU, especially on large and complex pages.
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by JimmyM 11y ago
> when to fight and when not to fight He's not being humble, there's just more to this than you might think. For some context for the following, League of Legends is split between top, mid, jungle and bottom lanes (where there
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Really? I ended up with a couple of notes once, I was a bit worried about using it but the bus driver was just fascinated by them, very happy to see and accept them. They're very pretty, which I think takes the edge off the risk you ta
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Codebreakers: The History and Development of Encryption and Security Protocols(forrestbrown.co.uk)
2 points by JimmyM 11y ago|0 comments
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by JimmyM 11y ago
They use WikiData now to fulfil the same basic function as Freebase, so it does seem that they require some human assistance. Don't know if they've ported everything over from Freebase yet, will have to check up on that.
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Macbook Air, I've revisited the page since making that comment and tried turning AdBlock back off. It seems to be a problem with just a couple of adverts I was unfortunate to come across - they took up the bulk of the screen from the b
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by JimmyM 11y ago
I'm sorry, I don't enjoy using AdBlock, but I was forced to to even read this article. I've not seen ads like the Flash ad at the bottom of the screen before on Polygon, if it's an experiment it's been unsuccessful
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by JimmyM 11y ago
>Assuming you acknowledge the existence of ideas, a better question would be "is meme theory a useful or accurate model of how ideas behave?" I think the answer to that would have been no as of 2005 ( http://cfpm.org&
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by JimmyM 11y ago
Yes - "Tame" implies that you are not biddable by merely one special interest group, but by anyone willing to throw their weight around. A rather stronger accusation. https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/p
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by JimmyM 11y ago
There is also the fact that for some careers there is no intermediate state between success and failure -- no "not being promoted", only continual success or a lack of a job (recruiting and finance spring to mind). In those career
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by JimmyM 11y ago
CSS animations? They've got really good support across most browsers (c. 90% coverage).
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16th Century French Cipher Machine(upload.wikimedia.org)
2 points by JimmyM 11y ago|0 comments

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