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by barking 8y ago
It helps that Shamir as well as making the name alliterative also sounds like the stage name for some early 20th century magician
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by barking 8y ago
I'm not a mathematician but here is my ELI5 understanding of it based on linked wikipedia article. If you know the coordinates of any 2 points on a line you can recover the equation for that line. The same is true for 3 points on a qua
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by barking 8y ago
I don't think you should have been downvoted for this comment. People are taking this as criticism of the son when that's not necessarily the case. No one wants to end up in an old folks home.
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by barking 8y ago
Q: What's the difference between a house and a home? A: A home is where they put you when they want the house. That resume is from shortly after he turned 54. It must have been hard looking for a job at that age and I don't think
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by barking 8y ago
>But you are free to believe what you want. Do you have any references to sources that support your alternative theory or discredit the usual explanations?
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by barking 8y ago
As an example I found on a moment's googling, I'll just quote you part of the conclusion from this article: ( https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-economic-impact-of-the-black... ) The European economy at the close
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by barking 8y ago
Arguably Scotland is an exception, the reformation is still a hot topic there. 2004 wasn't too long after Rangers signed its first Catholic player. I'm kidding btw. I think you'll always find vestiges of ancient systems if yo
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by barking 8y ago
I think it was the black death that effectively killed of feudalism in most of Europe. Wages went up and peasants were in high demand so it became easier to move. The effects of the Black death (1344) were probably being felt in 1400s Europ
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by barking 8y ago
Then there's the other PIG, Ireland, fluctuating between boom and bust like a yoyo
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by barking 8y ago
We don't hear much about Romania but we hear regularly in the news about Romanians, usually in connection with atm machines and aspects of the night time economy. :)
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by barking 8y ago
The article is mystifyingly optimistic about the prospects for the reform of government. Only lawyers can resist reform better than government employees. And then there's the digital revolution in government. If examples elsewhere are
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by barking 8y ago
I think you're right. I hadn't looked at it that way.
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by barking 8y ago
Bullshit-sensitivity and cynicism are practically synomyms I'd say. It feels counter-intuitive to find cynicism positively correlated with prosocial behaviour (which the article defines as donating to and/or joining a charity.)
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by barking 8y ago
Sugar is currently very bad for you. It's really bad for your liver though I can remember a time when it was thought that fatty food was hard on the liver and that sugar wasn't.
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by barking 8y ago
Then there was the 6 glasses of water a day that became dogma but had no basis.
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by barking 8y ago
WFPB, whole food plant based diet. No meat, no fish, no dairy. You can eat fruit but you can't juice it. Seems a bit of a misery diet to me.
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by barking 8y ago
I remember when butter was bad for you and my dad, who was great butter lover switched to a particular type of margarine that was marketed as being good for you. Later it turned out it had the wrong sort of fats in it. Then later again but
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by barking 8y ago
I'm in the same situation, I don't fancy breaking my back weeding by hand or hoe
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by barking 8y ago
The guy goes on holiday from Russia to Greece and then after being arrested and extradition sought to the USA he's suddenly also wanted back in Russia on a minor charge. How suspicious is that?
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by barking 8y ago
Same business model as DeBeers, control the supply of rubbish/diamonds.
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by barking 8y ago
I'm not gone on them, they persecute the local song bird population, we have a plague of them and the even more unwelcome grey crow. The magpie's call is either a horrible squeal or an equally unpleasant chchchchchch sound
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by barking 8y ago
30 years ago the only choices to fly Dublin to London were BA and Aer Lingus. Both charged identical fares and the cheapest fare was £150, ie well over £400 today. That rip-off was ended by Ryanair. I'm not crazy about them but i like
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by barking 8y ago
It wasn't crazy but if you go by the Ken Burns documentary series it was also wrong. America abandoned its principles to support French colonialism, ironically for fear that France would otherwise ally with the Soviets and thus pushed
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by barking 8y ago
The image on that webpage suggests there were no Roman roads in Greece
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by barking 8y ago
The train goes up, the train goes down: a simple new way to store energy https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11524958/energy-storage-rail This sounds good to me and it claims have 86% efficiency.
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by barking 8y ago
Yes and cable took the piss for years with subscriptions plus ads and then along came netflix
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by barking 8y ago
That's OK those sites are toast if they keep that up.
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by barking 8y ago
I've never been in that situation. I think I seen recommendations where you should swim diagonally toward the shore rather than parallel, maybe that's the logic there. The thing is that there is an current toward the shore on eith
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by barking 8y ago
I'm used to the Atlantic but I had one of my scariest moments on an Algarve beach and I've since heard others say the same.
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by barking 8y ago
Rip is where there is a current taking you out and people try to swim in against it, get exhausted and drown. The solution is to swim parallel to the shore until you get to beyond the rip

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