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by antientropic 6y ago
NixOS does have unattended automatic upgrades: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-upgrading-automat...
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by antientropic 6y ago
No, the ECJ is the highest court of the EU. You're confusing the European Court of Justice (EU institution) with the European Court of Human Rights (Council of Europe institution).
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by antientropic 6y ago
A 50 year copyright term would also apply to foreign works, so Taylor Swift would be out of copyright in the EU after 50 years. However, under the rule of the shorter term ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_shor
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by antientropic 6y ago
Eh. Where's the condescension?
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by antientropic 6y ago
What? The Nevermind cover is generally considered one of most iconic of all time...
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by antientropic 6y ago
It's between quotes presumably because it is, you know, a quote. And the start of the first public vaccination campaign against COVID-19 legitimately seems like a historic moment. But we're just nitpicking language now.
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by antientropic 6y ago
AFAIK, RationalWiki was never intended as a general-purpose encyclopedia, but primarily as a wiki to document the shenanigans at Conservapedia (which was intended as a general-purpose encyclopedia) which then broadened into "analyzin
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by antientropic 6y ago
No, don't bother with terminfo. It just gives you support for terminals that haven't been in use since the Apollo program. Nowadays it's perfectly fine to use ANSI escapes directly, which are, after all, a standard.
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by antientropic 6y ago
An example of a false dichotomy if ever there was one. In reality there is a whole continuum of options, such as reducing the number of relatives you visit, or not visiting them at the height of a wave of infections. And of course "you
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by antientropic 6y ago
Doesn't this just create a culture of fear? Where you can get fired instantly for a single, ill-considered remark? I would certainly never participate in any kind of socializing at such a company, since the consequences of a misstep wo
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by antientropic 6y ago
"It’s all happened before" doesn't imply "will be fine". For instance, the Civil War happened but I wouldn't call that being fine. And survivorship bias being what it is, just because the country survived certa
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by antientropic 6y ago
If I understand paragraph 1 of the statutes of the Nobel Foundation [1] correctly, a settlement between the Foundation and the heirs of Nobel forbid it from deviating from some "main principles", which include that the award shall
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by antientropic 6y ago
They're not dictating anything. They're giving their opinion. Just as you are. > Edit: looking at the Leeds video it's clear to me the processed version adds a great deal - you can even see clearly how much fun they are ha
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by antientropic 6y ago
FYI: Calibre contains a program appropriately named "ebook-viewer" that allows you to view a file (like an epub) without all the library management stuff.
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by antientropic 6y ago
Sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_party However they're primarily just groupings of like-minded national parties.
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by antientropic 6y ago
What assets are being "diluted dramatically"? The only asset class you mention are stocks and they're mostly up. Here in the Netherlands, housing prices have continued to rise during corona. Eurozone inflation in July was 0.4
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by antientropic 6y ago
> in Europe we just do it Maybe in some European countries. The Dutch public health authorities are very skeptical about the usefulness of masks and continue to resist a mask requirement except in places where distancing is impossible (l
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by antientropic 6y ago
The death rate in the US is now substantially higher than in Europe. The EU+UK have 355 deaths per million [1], while the US is at 465 [2]. Of course, those are the official figures - it's possible that the excess mortality shows a dif
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by antientropic 6y ago
Please not this misguided pedantry. A country can be a republic and a democracy. Those terms are not mutually exclusive.
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by antientropic 6y ago
> If you plan to migrate your customers to IPv6 then you are a lunatic. According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-... , IPv6 adoption in the US is above 42%. Was that all done
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by antientropic 6y ago
Isn't "digging" exactly what a good journalist is supposed to do?
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by antientropic 6y ago
But he isn't a source - he's the subject of the story. Finding out the identity of a pseudonymous public figure used to be considered good old-fashioned journalistic sleuthing rather than "doxxing".
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by antientropic 6y ago
It's usually unwise to speak in general terms about the EU. It's 27 different legal systems, after all. For instance, in the Netherlands non-compete clauses are enforceable, though with some restrictions [1]. [1] https:/&#
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by antientropic 6y ago
Why? I don't understand what this has to do with the borrow checker.
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by antientropic 6y ago
When were Einstein or Curie ever considered crazy or deplatformed?
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by antientropic 6y ago
"Would become a pandemic" is not the same as " is a pandemic". Why is it disheartening? The WHO wasn't saying this virus was not a threat of becoming a pandemic.
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by antientropic 6y ago
> So the market is still 15% or so under its February peak. The S&P 500 was up 29% last year. It's now back to the level of October last year - when there was no pandemic or economic crisis. So you could say that the market is
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by antientropic 6y ago
The WSJ editorial page has been predicting hyperinflation because of QE since 2008, but it stubbornly refuses to materialize. Maybe this time...
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by antientropic 6y ago
There is no linguistic difference between German and English in this respect, only a difference in spelling rules. English usually puts spaces between compounds, German doesn't. If English had the same spelling rules, that "word&q
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by antientropic 7y ago
On the contrary: there is probably no sport where the sim is so close to the real thing. Being good at FIFA 19 in no way will make you good at real football. But if you put a decent sim racer in a real race car, they are often able to put t

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