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by astine 6y ago
Chelsea Manning was not involved in the "collateral murder" leak.
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by astine 6y ago
"roughly the same size as Bendigo or Ballarat, which don't have roads like this in residential areas." Eh, I don't know. Munroe in Ballarat is a residential road but doesn't have sidewalks or street parking either
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by astine 6y ago
One thing you'll notice if you look at a lot of suburban sprawl in the US is that most of the roads are wide and have sidewalks, but the houses are ugly and samey for miles. Interspersed among those neighborhoods will be roads with sma
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by astine 6y ago
It doesn't take a lot of work find photographs of roads like that in Australia. This isn't a main road, it's a tiny neighborhood road. It doesn't need a lot of infrastructure and I kind of wish that more roads looked lik
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by astine 6y ago
This line of reasoning begs the question. Yes, according to your moral framework, one is actually immoral and the other isn't, but living in a pluralist society requires leaving room for people to have and live by very different moral
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by astine 6y ago
A problem with this line of reasoning is that there is a potentially infinite number of issues, all of which could affect you or someone vulnerable. However, people have issues that are more immediate to them and which they have a more d
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by astine 6y ago
Yeah, this is the switch/router operating system that runs most/all Cisco networking devices, not the mobile operating system which runs on iPhones.
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by astine 6y ago
Thanks. I think that first link is what the previous poster was talking about. It references a photo of a 'native symbol' (probably the state flag) turned into a swastika and that's what the first link is about. Apparently th
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by astine 6y ago
I couldn't find any reference to recent white power marches in Farmington NM. https://www.daily-times.com/news/ Do you have any references to that that isn't a clipping from a FB post? I'd be genuinely i
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by astine 6y ago
The Navajo reservation is one of the least densely populated parts of the country so that's not it. Lack of infrastructure is a bigger issue. Many if not most of these people live close to the poverty line and so don't have many o
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by astine 6y ago
I don't know about SAP in particular, but ERP solutions frequently use SQL on the backend. I work with Microsoft Dynamics and it's just a SQL database with a special front-end for constructing workflows. I suspect Oracle ERP would
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by astine 6y ago
I don't think they're that bold. The notion that congress is divided more strictly along sectarian lines today than the past is from this paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journa
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by astine 6y ago
There may have been more violence among various radical and extremist factions in American politics in the 70s but that doesn't mean that America was more divided politically over all. There wasn't nearly as much partisanship in t
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by astine 6y ago
As Juped said, there is actually an in depth discussion of the tool used to generate the website on the about page: https://www.gwern.net/About#tools It looks like static generated website is about correct.
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by astine 6y ago
They used to use the term "Stub" for brief pages that weren't full articles yet and they do put warnings on articles that don't meet certain quality standards, though I think that's different that what you're t
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by astine 6y ago
I think that the main argument that isn't simply a matter of storage costs (which probably does kick in at some point) is simply a matter of brand-management. If the average Wikipedia article is a discussion an incomplete and poorly so
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by astine 7y ago
I imagine that if you were searching from a Polish IP, Google would infer that you meant the movie, not the city. For anyone in the United States, however, I'd expect the city to be the more common search.
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by astine 7y ago
He's saying that if Google wanted another way to present themselves as a progressive company, they could fire everyone who works for them doing a marginal job and replace them with contractors. This would allow them to set a higher min
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by astine 7y ago
My understanding is that the term 'pseudo-science' refers to theories that people pretend have scientific backing but really don't, as opposed to theories that just eventually prove to be false. So I might claim that homeop
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by astine 7y ago
Miasma theory was the belief that it was the smells themselves that caused the disease, or rather, that bad air which was synonymous with with bad smell, that caused disease. The plague doctor outfits, for example, were not actually airtigh
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by astine 7y ago
" For example: there has yet to be a breakthrough in the last 50 years that could even come close the impact of antibiotics and nobody has set foot on the moon in five decades. But if you told someone that in the late 60s, I think they
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by astine 7y ago
If immutability is a language level guarantee and not just a convention, you can use structure sharing to address this problem pretty effectively. Just about any functional language with immutable datastructures does it.
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by astine 7y ago
" > Each quadrant is safe, except the one in the top right: shared mutable state. No. Your database is one giant shared mutable state. How is using a database safe then? Transactions. " Transactions are less an occasion where s
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by astine 7y ago
Hard to do when you're plugging into the back of a workstation that's located under your desk. Or in a lot of other situations really.
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by astine 7y ago
" I hoped the article would explain also why the above happens " If I had to guess, I'd suspect that it's because there are a couple of ways to get it wrong when plugging in a USB drive or cable. You can get the orientat
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by astine 7y ago
" Marx does offer an argument for why labour is taken as the substance of value " The problem here is that we're talking about Smith's LTV and not Marx's. Marx may provide his own reasons for believing in the LTV bu
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by astine 7y ago
Smith was attempting the understand the nature of value and where prices came from and concluded that labor, which in enlightenment thinking was commonly seen at the source of all value (al la John Locke,) must be the common denominator. H
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by astine 7y ago
Frankly, Smith's attachment to the labor theory of value is a bigger mistake than this. Wealth of Nations isn't an important book because Adam Smith was right about everything he wrote about in it but because it constitutes one
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by astine 7y ago
Considering that concept of the division of labor was brought up millennia ago by Plato, before modern employee/management relationships were common, this is unlikely to be true. It's also worth noting that each of Adam Smiths pin
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by astine 7y ago
" What you cited as the whole idea of capitalism is actually the whole idea of trade, which existed long before capitalism. " Trade and property are what people usually mean by 'capitalism'. I mean, yes, Marx popularized

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