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The philosopher, Bertrand Russel was also known to work like this. He would produce a perfectly structured, completed work on the first draft.
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Got to admire Sarah Kaplan's patience here. Whenever someone demands of me to explain why there are "still monkeys", I just observe that even monkeys have to sleep sometime.
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F-Droid provides a curated list of FOSS apps for Android which can be installed via the F-Droid app. https://f-droid.org/about/ It would be a lot more complicated to provide a similar service for iOS.
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A quick visual inspection would reveal that the false card bubble with the skimmer installed was different in two significant ways. It was glued into place, while a real one would be embedded into the panel, and it was larger than the real
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Wikipedia does not note the real reason for the Soviet rejection of genetics. Darwin's theory of evolution, being based on random mutation and natural selection was seen as contradicting the theory of dialectical materialism which assu
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How is the claim that "Lenin was a bottle nose dolphin" more plausible, comrade? If a mammal cannot be something simple like a plant, then surely it is even less likely that a mammal can be a fish!
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34 states plus D.C. now have laws against 'revenge porn' http://www.cybercivilrights.org/revenge-porn-laws/ According to the article linked below, although the posting of explicit pictures of people online ag
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The article claims that the following languages are table oriented in some respect: "TOP languages do exist in various levels or incarnations of Table-orientedness. These include Xbase derivatives (dBASE, FoxPro, Clipper), PAL (Paradox
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Patent trolls, innovation and Brexit: What the FT won't tell you(theregister.co.uk)
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The advantage is that you get to keep your passwords on a single database rather than having a separate copy of the database for each operating system. Synchronizing two separate copies of the database would be painful. An alternate solutio
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That could make sense OP dual-booted and the KeePass app and database were installed on the NTFS partition.
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"It’s not that theory should be as simple as possible. But it is true that we can often make a lot more progress than you’d think when we simplify things in slightly absurd ways." Sociologists insisting on greater nuance in new th
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Ray Bradbury anticipated such a total immersive experience in his book Fahrenheit 451. He was not so sanguine about it, as he saw it as a potential pitfall which could lead people to lose their humanity in a cloud of vague emotions and indi
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Sadly, no link to free eBook, which is not surprising because it seems that the book is still in print, having been released as recently as 2004, and updated in 2005 and 2013. This post links to the website supporting the book and provides
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Correction to my comment above: On taking out my Dictionary of British Sign Language, I find that there is indeed an intricate notation used throughout.
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Here are the why/hows as I understand them: 1) This is an informal shorthand agreed between people who already know each other in the particular context of work, so there is no surprise or ambiguity. Outside this context, I would use,
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Don't know why you got downvoted. Your comment is both admirably terse, and completely valid! SL is an entirely distinct language. People who are fluent in multiple languages switch from linguistic context to another when they speak di
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I have experienced this in communication with deaf colleagues.
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I wasn't aware of the existence of any notation at all! The dictionary I have uses photographs, other dictionaries and textbooks use drawings of people speaking SL. The nearest thing to a notation in this case consists of a verbal desc
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Agree. It depends on context. A quick flash of 't' could also mean 'thanks', or 'th' if it was less obvious.
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The houndstooth pattern is a form of check. Wikipedia entry for Houndstooth pattern: "Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound's tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog's tooth, or pied-de-poule,
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>He is not wearing a keffiyeh in that picture. A keffiyeh is a square scarf that is worn on the head. A keffiyeh can also be worn around the neck (the favored way for Westerners, though also found in the M.E.) covering the face, or even
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What does that even mean? There is a narrative here, which appears at first very compelling, especially to readers of HN: gentle intellectual persecuted by hysterical ignoramus... But the narrative gradually reveals holes and inconsistencie
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Nothing justifies Menzio's behavior, either on the plane or later on Facebook where he made outlandish claims and invoked Trump. He is completely obnoxious, and the author of his own misfortunes.
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He was.
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>I'd love to hear this more nuanced explanation. I suspect his fellow passenger's account would bear little resemblance to either the Washington Post's spin on events, or how Menzio himself chose to interpret the matter on
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'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.' ---Winston Churchill
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It is like a storyline from The Big Bang Theory with a slightly more obnoxious (if that is possible), scruffier version of Sheldon.
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The keffiyeh is versatile. It can also be worn around the neck, tucked into the jacket. This way of wearing it became a fashion in the West in the mid to late '80s.
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Extroverts generally cannot understand why someone would not wish to talk. They feel insulted and threatened, and it makes them very anxious. As an introvert myself, I find extroverts attempts to start a conversation to be intrusive and ver

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