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6y ago
> Groves could publish a memoir the Manhattan Project in 1962 He explicitly named it "Now It Can Be Told." Only 17 years after the bombs , the whole book. The rationales for the target selection -- yes, it's straight from
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6y ago
I've read R.V. Jones' book about it from the said "Airstrip One" location, and much more, I really recommend it. It's really interesting. Regarding "someone must've been doing similar analyses to pick alli
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6y ago
> Has there ever been an influenza/coronavirus-like infection with less than 0.1% fatality rate in working-age people ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/singapore/ ) that caused lasting
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6y ago
Thanks for mentioning "Airstrip One" (1). It's indeed always worth to mentally compare the parts of his Oceania with Five Eyes (2). The "airstrip" is, I believe, a reference to the island's role in the bombing
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6y ago
> a problem where there is little research and no scientific consensus. > There is plenty of video evidence I can't even what you talk about. "Video evidence"? Edit: if I'd guess it's about "UFOs" f
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6y ago
> I do have a reason to want to modify this extension. And it is...? It's a completely honest question, I really like to know what you'd want to achieve and modify but is hidden from you for being in that binary. I'm not
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6y ago
The arguments "don't follow." Reproducible builds were indeed more than once used to verify that the published binary does correspond to the published source. Without having them, that kind of verification is much harder, dep
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6y ago
> The EAD was quite clear. Trim back to normal with the electric trim switches, then shut off the trim. I don't see that wording anywhere in EAD. Only the quoted weasel worded sentence. It's your interpretation post-crashes and
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6y ago
> all C++ parsing is done on it. Unless somebody needs to change how the C++ sources are processed, doesn't its mere presence allow the extension to function? I.e. if you modify the source of the extension, wouldn't that modifi
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6y ago
> The cutoff switches were there for "when demons possess the control system and try to drive you into the ground." For the second crash it wasn't about "hit the switch" at any moment you will when you notice the
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6y ago
> It is the hidden cpptools binary which has no source that is the problem. Anybody knows what that binary does?
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6y ago
Your claim is supported by the "Offline installation" section of: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools "The extension has platform-specific binary dependencies , therefore installation via the M
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6y ago
> it was the pilots not reading a message. It was that the message (see the whole, the link was quoted) definitely wasn't clear . It has multiple weasel words and it is far from a clear and actionable sequence checklist for the exa
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6y ago
Thanks for giving the link to the document. Looking at the context, the sentence you quoted is more a built-in disclaimer than a procedure that the pilots were supposed to learn to apply in only a few seconds they would have before the airp
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6y ago
On another side, one can argue that the implemented "unification" is anyway just for a convenience of using a dot call instead of just passing the reference to the object as the first parameter of a "plain" function call
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6y ago
Exactly, that "all or nothing" is the main problem in in how most of the people think about the whole topic. I've read one work that gave the very simple estimates: if the infected person wears the surgical mask it will emit
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6y ago
> a research paper (admittedly an unreviewed preprint) As Dr. Fauci would say, it doesn't matter, even if it were a peer reviewed it can still be bad. (1) There are a lot of bad studies, especially on the "preprint servers"
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6y ago
> we test more people, register more mild cases. That, and the age structure of the infected changed: the older people are doing what they can to avoid the infection, if they are able to do that. Also, across the world, different measure
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6y ago
I really like the attempt to show the pictures, where available. Doing a fast glimpse is still much faster than reading the titles, especially when checking if one is already familiar with some article. I've also observed that for thos
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6y ago
For anybody like me who didn't know: the mentioned iMX8 is NXP's "i.MX 8M Family - Arm® Cortex®-A53, Cortex-M4, Audio, Voice, Video" https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers... A
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Pictures Show What the 1918 Flu Pandemic Looked Like (2018)
(buzzfeednews.com)
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> you can renew when that's over You could now try , if the DRM allows it, and the Internet Archive only temporarily during the lockdowns , through the DRM, allowed more than one person to read the book. That is, you could have ha
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6y ago
> no limit on how often you can check out the same book There was always a fixed limit on how long the book remains checked out, and it must have already expired to all that checked it out at that time. The DRM protection remained activ
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6y ago
> Science is not advanced by eliminating everything that disagrees with the establishment. That however has nothing to do with the news coverage. That coverage does a poor job or is even harmful to all the citizens if it falls prey to
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6y ago
AFAIK the borrowing was still limited in time and with the DRM protection. Whoever "took" the book at that time lost the access to it long ago already, thanks to the DRM protection remaining and working. Edit: answering "I&#x
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6y ago
It's in The very Fine Article: "While just 10% of the press releases Wetts found featured anti-climate action messaging, those rarer releases were twice as likely to get coverage as pro-climate action press releases" "We
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6y ago
Exactly. The real user friendly editor would always show you the "top" commands that can be accepted. But some !@$ in some distros or programs set the defaults of nano to not show the "help lines." So I know it's
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> east of the iron curtain I only don't understand why "east of the iron curtain" when the country is on the west of the countries behind the iron curtain, as per Wikipedia link I've given?
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Luckily we have today online translate services. I've copied the first 2 pages from the "Astrology" chapter from the linked PDF of the book to give you an idea how the automatic translation looks like: "In order to under
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> If someone came up to criticize it, obviously they were a criminal, and the benevolent Tito, in his love and mercy, would have them locked away so as to prevent them from further damaging glorious Yugoslavian society Do you have any ex
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