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by auxbuss 9y ago
"begging the question" is also commonly used to mean: to raise a point for debate.
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The myth of the 'agricultural revolution'(eurozine.com)
30 points by auxbuss 9y ago|18 comments
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by auxbuss 9y ago
You seem to misunderstand technical debt [0]. There is no technical debt here. There is a maintenance overhead – as there is with every line of code – which SO no longer wish to support. I do agree that we are going in the wrong direction,
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by auxbuss 9y ago
There's also a macOS app.
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Debunking the myth of the 'agricultural revolution'(eurozine.com)
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by auxbuss 9y ago
The issue I’ve always had with Agile – with a capital A – is that the manifesto itself is not agile; it’s been cast in stone – or, at least, embedded in a static web page. (That’s why I’ve never “signed” the manifesto.) I’ve been in this ga
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by auxbuss 9y ago
My perception is that downvoting has increased. I often upvote downvoted comments that are perfectly reasonable, though I might disagree with them (or simply not care much), because downvoting can alienate folk from commenting – I've h
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by auxbuss 9y ago
My knee-jerk reaction to this unsupported assertion was to counter it as a myth; however, I was reading Alan Garner's, The Voice That Thunders [0], this afternoon – specifically the essay, The Voice in the Shadow – and my understanding
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Try Frances Hardinge. The Lie Tree [0] won loads of awards. I'm not in the target age range obviously, but my favourite is Cuckoo Song. Her earlier books are definitely for a younger audience. All Hardinge's books have young femal
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by auxbuss 9y ago
I have Libratone speakers [0]. They do all of that. (Alexa is integrated; off by default should you not want it.) And they sound fabulous. Streaming is available via Airplay and Bluetooth. The Libratone also contains a 10-hour battery, so y
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by auxbuss 9y ago
This[0] from 2016 shows 13,500 outstanding cases of those "who skipped court bail while facing charges including murder, child sex offences and rape" in the UK. It appears that Assange can be tried for "Bail, failure to surre
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by auxbuss 9y ago
I contacted an e-chum who is a lawyer specialising in the field of IT, IP and media law [0]. He pointed me back to Article 17 of the Regulation, Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten'), which is contained in [1]. This states th
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Erasure of data, on demand, is a requirement of GDPR[0], which becomes law in Europe on 25 May 2018. Note that erasure of the data is required, not just its display. IANAL, but the above appears to be contrary to GDPR. [0] https:/&#x2
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by auxbuss 9y ago
No idea why you are being down-voted. Le Guin absolutely spoke of authoritarian socialism. These things are obviously not mutually exclusive.
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Ursula K. Le Guin was an anarchist and Taoist not a socialist[0]; she translated the Tao Te Ching, after all[1]. She was anti-authoritarian, whether libertarian (remembering this term was hijacked), socialist or otherwise. She was pro colla
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by auxbuss 9y ago
I have the Avon paperback from 1975 and on the cover it says: The magnificent epic of an ambiguous utopia – Winner of the Nebula Award! I don't believe this phrase was a subtitle so much as part of the cover blurb. It's not mentio
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by auxbuss 9y ago
I read Tribes yesterday: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28119237-tribe It’s an up and down sort of book — 6/10, imo — but it makes some interesting connections with the social past of homo sapiens and t
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Similarly, Lessig: "Five years ago, we lost Aaron Swartz. None should rest, for still, there is no peace." https://twitter.com/lessig/status/951425535388692481 And Arron's mum: "RIP my darling
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Just a note to say that when I see a hell-banned commentator where there's no obvious cause, I email the mods to draw their attention to it. I can't recall a time where the account hasn't been reactivated, and I've recei
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by auxbuss 9y ago
The Guardian also does eg and ie, which, equally, I've never understood.
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by auxbuss 9y ago
If you prefer spaces around the dash, then use an en-dash. This is standard outside the US, though not universally. Most US publishers use the closed em-dash.
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by auxbuss 9y ago
An open em-dash is used to indicate the omission of a word. It's best to use an open en-dash in the open case – which is standard in the UK (except for Oxford). (This is taken from the Oxford Style Guide.)
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by auxbuss 9y ago
> and the government is now bound to try and live by those lies. This is a false assessment. The European Union Referendum Bill 2015-16[0] specifically states: "This Bill requires a referendum to be held on the question of the UK’s
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4_Wlq8JeI (Saša is also the author of Elixir in Action; a highly recommend read once you have your
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by auxbuss 9y ago
Disproof: The recent release of Scrivener use Pandoc for their 847-page manual[0]. It's a complicated something. [0] https://www.literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support/user-gu...
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by auxbuss 9y ago
"allegedly involved"? He was caught bang to rights guarding the explosives under the House of Lords. The recent BBC 3-part series about it is a good potted history http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j1bc9 It
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Hire a driver/guide. He'll navigate around any hassle -- you'll be left in peace -- and he'll sort all the tickets for you. It's probably a one in a lifetime visit, after all. We lucked out. Our driver turned out to
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by auxbuss 9y ago
It's Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...
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by auxbuss 9y ago
A fun place for names: http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
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Riak lives. bet365 buys Basho's assets(twitter.com)
6 points by auxbuss 9y ago|0 comments

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