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by biorach 4y ago
> What would be good enough grounds, in your view? That's getting a bit hypothetical. I'm just working with the evidence available to me right now. If strong enough evidence appears to the contrary then I will change my mind An
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by biorach 4y ago
Still, there are not good grounds to say that SF and the IRA are the same thing. All the evidence points to the aims having changed - the aim of violent overthrow of British rule seems to have been abandoned, as evidence by the last 25 year
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by biorach 4y ago
The Unix philosophy is to do one thing and do it well. The ssh command wraps the large and complicated ssh protocol - I would say it does one complicated job and does it well.
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by biorach 4y ago
There's a large body of economic literature arguing that competition breeds efficiency and better service. Granted it's only starting to grapple with the question of how to regulate the new economy - c.f. Lina Khan's paper on
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by biorach 4y ago
Hubble images are also frequently "enhanced". Not all the wavelengths these telescopes capture can be seen by the human eye so some post processing is necessary for the "publicity shots" A lot of the real science is not
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by biorach 4y ago
Can you elaborate? This in the context of a message-passing architecture? Or do you mean as callbacks?
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by biorach 4y ago
> a party controlled by the terrorist group I really don't think this is true. It's widely believed that some former high ranking IRA members still are involved in the party leadership, but nowhere near the extent that they cou
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by biorach 4y ago
It's been decades since that's been a common chant. Anyone I know from the North would be horrified by it these days.
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by biorach 4y ago
Well.. It depends,East Belfast, yeah. Rural areas, I hear a lot of the parades a these days are low key with little hardliner involvement and safe enough
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by biorach 4y ago
it's not "dancing around it" - it states it outright
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by biorach 4y ago
> France was one of the few modern examples of a successful refactor of the culture of an entire society - wholesale out with the old, in with the new - a true 'Year Zero' style revolution, not some sort of disguised compromise
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by biorach 4y ago
none whatsoever
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by biorach 4y ago
Maybe in your middle class bubble all the smart kids graduate high school with good grades. From meeting people in a variety of walks of life in the USA it seems to me that what actually happens is that your grades are determined by zip cod
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by biorach 4y ago
That's assuming that your society does a good job of funnelling smart people into higher education. Most societies I've visited don't do that good, the USA does a worse job than most. There are plenty of smart people on const
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by biorach 4y ago
Sold!
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by biorach 4y ago
> Im Aschenbecher Damn, that's rough! My Jewish friends tell really appalling jokes like this - mostly, I suspect, so they can watch gentiles squirm.
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by biorach 4y ago
They clearly mean using pip on its own, presumably by `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
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by biorach 4y ago
Seriously! Some of Amos' posts about Rust as in-depth as anything on the internet. TikTok it is not. With the amount of effort he puts in he's earned the right to make a few dumb jokes
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by biorach 4y ago
> they must sell the drug in the US for the same price as the lowest price they sell it to any other country. This would largely fix our expensive healthcare, but would also harm the world heavily in advancement Drug prices are far from
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by biorach 4y ago
You'd really need to show some numbers to back this up. Is the cost of funding the "research complex" included in the expenditure on health care? At least some of this cost is born by the Federal government, foundations etc,
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by biorach 4y ago
I don't believe that there is any research backing this. Do you have any articles, papers etc from reputable sources to back this up? Or is this just personal speculation?
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by biorach 4y ago
that's not totally accurate. The Guinea coin is no longer legal tender and it is not a unit of currency Livestock sales are priced in Guineas as a convention > Bids are still made in guineas for the sale of racehorses at auction, at
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by biorach 4y ago
They were referring to National Insurance, not Income Tax
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by biorach 4y ago
> Most people who voted, voted Tory and Brexit, they're majority positions. Ok, maybe the assumption of xenophobia is unwarranted, but restricting of immigration was one of the main selling points of Brexit. Also, the point about ag
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by biorach 4y ago
> We need a more sophisticated understanding of these problems, so we can have more sophisticated conversations about what to do about them. This should be pasted liberally across the internet
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by biorach 4y ago
Also Irish, agree 100%. Every time I have to click on the UK flag to select my language preference I have a quiet "ugh" moment, then click on the damn flag and move on with my life.
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by biorach 4y ago
> And if you stray into the "clever" subset of Perl, frankly it becomes hell Yeah, this is the thing... it's very very easy to go down a one-way street to an endless hell of incomprehensible line-noise code and "cleve
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by biorach 4y ago
It would mean his service would be useless for a significant portion of end-users. Not really an option for a site that wants to stay relevant.
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by biorach 4y ago
you mean 2060, right? Looks like I misremembered the projected peak population. And yes, long to medium run it's going to be fine if we can carefully manage river water carefully. And if we don't exhaust soils in key agriculture h
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by biorach 4y ago
I was looking for a source for : > Everything I've read on organic farming and permaculture _nearly always_ yields higher per acre output _nearly always_ Your second assertion is accurate: > organic farming yields are lower when

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