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by azernik 5y ago
> if you look at the data from neighboring countries. Which neighboring countries, exactly? Minority languages in Spain were suppressed for decades under the Franco government, and intermittently under assorted Spanish monarchies and rep
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by azernik 5y ago
It's because the optimistic narrative about the reasons for coal's decline are misleading. Some of the competition is renewables. A lot of it is natural gas. Countries are usually building a mix of fossil fuel and renewable genera
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by azernik 5y ago
To be a bit more pessimistic - the competition that's driving out coal isn't just renewables. It's more efficient and cheaper fossil fuels, most notably natural gas. These are way better than coal in carbon emissions, but won
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by azernik 5y ago
Sure you do. It's very easy to ban things when the ban costs you nothing, and at the same time expressed support for a popular cause.
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by azernik 5y ago
"At least in Europe" is the important part; British influence made it the lingua franca by 1900 or 1920 in South and Southeast Asia, eastern and southern Africa, most of the Mashriq, &c &c. (To this day local varieties of
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by azernik 5y ago
That is not why English is used as a lingua franca. There have always been such languages, often with none of those features. English is a lasting lingua franca because two world-dominating powers in a row - the United Kingdom and the Unite
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by azernik 5y ago
Only because of dead links to the case and RFID reader parts. Otherwise, it's a fairly straightforward step-by-step setup guide. (Specifically for an IT person setting up the hardware terminal.) The actual UI and backend are out of sco
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by azernik 5y ago
Translators move things into idiom all the time; "one-man show" (gender is easily swappable) is an idiom that comes from stage, refers to single-actor plays where one person plays multiple roles, and comes with connotations of ski
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by azernik 5y ago
They are "guaranteeing" in that they are putting themselves in high but limited liability in case they can't fulfill that "guarantee". As long as they can find tenants for at least 6/7 (~85%) of their apartment
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by azernik 5y ago
Its audience is not curious hackers; it's other organizations who might want to use this solution.
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by azernik 5y ago
In the US in particular: The right to life (in a negative, the government-shouldn't-take-it-away) is quite universally recognized - in cases where it's violated, defenders of that violation work very hard to craft a strong justifi
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by azernik 5y ago
Certain heavily-populated classes of orbits (like SSO, which this one is using) are very cheap in propellant terms to transfer between. Only as long as you don't care about speed of the transfer, but refueling needs are predictable ver
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by azernik 5y ago
If you're in the right inclination and more or less the right altitude, matching argument of ascending node with a target is cheap, just slow; this class of customer orbits is selected precisely because the Earth's oblateness noti
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by azernik 5y ago
a) I said "fairly large swathe" b) Elites exert control by persuasion; they control the discourse, they organize larger movements, &c. There are still limits to what popular opinion will go along with. c) Intelligence agencies
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by azernik 5y ago
"Fundamental" rights are the ones whose existence is not considered a matter for debate in society.
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by azernik 5y ago
We assign those rights as a society and, more relevantly here, as a political system. The people who draft our constitutions and (like for all political norms) those who create our political discourse have more influence in defining them th
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by azernik 5y ago
EM spectrum is something sovereign states take Very Seriously, and if that requires hardware makers to lock their hardware in to approved frequencies so be it (from a state perspective).
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by azernik 5y ago
I've found the multiple contradictory sayings ("don't force it", "where force doesn't work, more force will", "doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing" and its reverse) useful as a way
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by azernik 5y ago
Problem is, carbon emissions make the dehydration worse by heating up the planet. It's counterproductive.
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by azernik 5y ago
There's also a capital investment problem - good equipment is expensive to set up, even leaving aside the operating costs problem. Achievable, yes, but only for the rich for now. eg Gulf Arab states and Israel are early adopters, the l
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by azernik 5y ago
Notably, Alibaba's core business is B2B. Business customers have very little tolerance for bad shipments, and are frequently repeat customers such that they would quickly have left Alibaba if they could not get predictable quality.
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by azernik 5y ago
Just git blame -w to ignore whitespace. There's also an equivalent git config option.
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by azernik 5y ago
The only standard mentioned in this thread was "beyond a reasonable doubt", to which someone replied that it should absolutely be the standard.
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by azernik 5y ago
It was created that way because of the extreme consequences of criminal conviction. Civil suits, which deal in money or injunctive relief, have a much lower standard of proof. Social opprobrium rightly has a standard lower than that.
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by azernik 5y ago
The Freikorps were not a useful force for conflict with peer states. The long-lead-time rearmament that Germany started early was gearing up industry and producing equipment. The Weimar efforts at deniable weapons development was nowhere ne
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by azernik 5y ago
"Beyond a reasonable doubt" isn't even the only standard of proof in a courtroom! That's only for criminal cases.
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Not even then. I think they take back taxes out of your estate.
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That's a legal standard, not a social or historical one.
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by azernik 5y ago
Huh. Never heard that latter usage. Where are you from? (For regional dialect purposes.)
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by azernik 5y ago
Rural land reform is less of a pressing issue when agriculture ceases to be the main economic activity - even in Europe, it was mostly either 1) very very early, or 2) in economically backwards regions.

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