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by Qem 2y ago
Did he succeed?
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by Qem 2y ago
Lawnmowers don't throw parties to celebrate the hands they shredded: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-so...
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by Qem 2y ago
> Bulldozers themselves have been used to murder. There were examples given in the article? https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israelpa...
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by Qem 2y ago
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
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Why are young adults less happy than ever before?(aljazeera.com)
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Archived version: https://archive.is/HXP8y
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by Qem 2y ago
So GPS a misnomer now, given not only "global" anymore. Perhaps better change it to CPS, Cislunar Positioning System.
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How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan(middleeastmonitor.com)
115 points by Qem 2y ago|70 comments
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How did South Korea start producing more babies after long decline?(aljazeera.com)
7 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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The War for Mineral Non-Resources(senecaeffect.substack.com)
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by Qem 2y ago
Any chance those chips will be marketed outside China? I eagerly wait for the day when I'll be able to buy my first RISC-V desktop, not just some expensive barebones dev board.
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> At which point you'll be a decade behind TSMC. Moore law is losing steam. TSMC itself is probably just 10-20 years behind physical limits. A decade from now TSMC will run out of room to be much ahead anyway.
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IMHO it was a worth bet. Had it succeeded we could have one extra mobile OS with much more freedom today. It lost steam, but it would be a shame if not even attempted. It lives through FireOS, despite negligible market share. And I still ha
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How the film I'm Still Here forces Brazil to face a dictatorship's legacy(aljazeera.com)
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Iceweasel? Probably at least the Firefox versions packed by many Linux distributions will remove any unreasonable telemetry added, just like they used to remove the trademarked branding.
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Did Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem author) took Geometric Algebra as inspiration for some elements in his trilogy? There's reminiscent terminology in the story, like weapons names (dual vector foil).
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> My absolute favorite Fermi's Paradox theory is that life on Earth was evolving too slowly to survive, so aliens sped up the process while hiding themselves, but that came with a variety of problems that humanity bumps into, and th
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She would surely be an awesome astronaut candidate, if she were alive today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%C3%ADa_Z%C3%A1rate
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It's because of this I like the concept for a one-way mission crewed by volunteer elderly astronauts. Why worry about developing a cancer 20 years down the line due to cumulative space radiation exposure, if your remaining life expecta
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What are some examples of incompatible commands?
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> Similarly the walrus operator. Other than an answer to “what is a new feature of python that you like” interview trivia question, really, who has actually used it? At least in my case I use it all the time, to avoid duplicated operatio
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We probably should have lanyard-equipped showers.
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They are more closely related to elephants.
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It appears to be combined lenght for the whole tunnel complex. Not 1,500 meters to the nearest exit.
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> Giant sloths was not really on my list of expected answers Despite not looking very alike at the first glance, sloths are grouped together with armadillos in the clade Xenarthra[1]. Both lineages descend from a common ancestor from aro
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Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf](clp.unesp.br)
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> Why would this affect women much more prominently than men? Motherhood and Menopause, both of which are very disruptive to women's sleep. On the other side sleep apnea is 2-3x more prevalent in men.
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> how they feel finding out the rest of the world has all this amazing stuff and cheap easy eats I wonder how they feel finding out the rest of the world has some nasty infectious diseases and people there need to work their asses of for
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I wonder if something like this is behind the push from Microsoft to obsolete a lot of hardware with the windows 11 release. The NSA pushed them to require a hardware upgrade so people replace devices bearing old processors with new ones fe
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> A new type of interpreter based on tail calls has been added to CPython. For certain newer compilers, this interpreter provides significantly better performance. Preliminary numbers on our machines suggest anywhere from -3% to 30% fast

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