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by bloak 1y ago
Thanks! Quick review: The 25 chapters are mostly independent and some of them are updated versions of something published earlier. Obviously the chapters complaining about the state of science education in the USA in the 1990s are less inte
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by bloak 1y ago
Particularly since cut hair doesn't even contain DNA. Or at least that's what is claimed by random web sites if you ask a search engine. Never mind a full genomic analysis, even for forensic purposes it is claimed that you need ha
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by bloak 1y ago
No idea! But I found this part of the paper confusing: "between the conception of Aert van Beethoven’s son Hendrik in Kampenhout, Belgium, in c.1572, and the conception of Ludwig van Beethoven seven generations later in 1770, in Bonn,
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by bloak 1y ago
I would guess that a company like Apple (or Miele or whatever) pays some attention to the context in which their advertisements appear. I don't think they'd want an advertisement for iPhone to appear online with a weight loss pill
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by bloak 1y ago
Why is the book so expensive (in Britain)? I found a picture online of the back cover showing ISBN 0-7472-5156-8 and £7.99, but the prices I see for ordering it now are ... discouraging.
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by bloak 1y ago
The correct sorting algorithm is described here: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dpkg-dev/deb-version.5.e... I was joking. Really I would sort file names lexicographically. But the way Debian sorts version num
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by bloak 1y ago
"Residency" is a very slippery concept. "Currently located in" would be clearer, though you probably wouldn't want to include diplomatic staff ... or would you?
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by bloak 1y ago
Yes, clicking "Customize" then "Reject all" is annoying, but it beats "Copy link address", "New Incognito window", then paste and return.
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by bloak 1y ago
I saw the title of that article a few days ago and didn't read it, but today I noticed the name of the author. Clemens Setz has written some good stuff.
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by bloak 1y ago
One of my favourites. The Grimms' original is in a Low German dialect but the style is so beautifully simple that if you know the story and have a good knowledge of standard German then you can probably understand almost everything: h
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by bloak 1y ago
That seems likely. An obvious thing perhaps worth mentioning: if you're shortsighted (or longsighted) then you see better in bright sunlight because the iris closes, giving you greater depth of field, so that might make people think&#x
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by bloak 1y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method#Sunning Aldous Huxley was taken in, unfortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Seeing I would guess it's dangerous nonsense, though
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by bloak 1y ago
But what does "generally capable" mean?
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by bloak 1y ago
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by bloak 1y ago
The IBM 1403 line printer, apparently.
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by bloak 1y ago
Unless New York gets split into two, Berlin-style, and the parts have different time zones.
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by bloak 1y ago
That range of dates seems to correspond to (1UL << 31) days so I suspect they're using only 31 bits so I wonder why they didn't make it signed and extend it to 5,884,322 BC.
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by bloak 1y ago
There's a chapter in Moby-Dick with a similar discussion.
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by bloak 1y ago
It's a bit hard for the casual reader to discover to what extent the spelling and punctuation, and perhaps more than just the spelling and punctuation, has been updated for modern editions of those books, but there are photographs onli
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by bloak 1y ago
I agree with the first two sentences, but the third sentence seems a bit unnecessary seeing as there are plenty of less violent ways for China to enforce its own laws!
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by bloak 1y ago
Well, one way of getting families with two children, at least one of which is a girl, would be to go to a girls' school and ask the children to raise their hand if they have exactly one sibling.
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by bloak 1y ago
I totally agree. "kWh/year" might be what people in the industry use (some people still use British Thermal Units, in the USA ...) but for a scientifically literate lay person "about 100 kW" is far easier to underst
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by bloak 1y ago
Yes, in a way, but I think the person you replied to said it better!
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by bloak 1y ago
To me that response seems ridiculous in several ways. If they think that UK law doesn't apply to them (which seems very credible) why react at all? Describing what Ofcom is doing, which is, as far as I can tell, just doing the job it w
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by bloak 1y ago
ISPs blocking it will mostly work, I think. Most people can't be bothered with a VPN so if 4chan is inaccessible they'll just read/watch something else instead.
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by bloak 1y ago
An alternative approach (less powerful but simpler) might be to reversibly convert the binary files into a mergeable text-like form before committing them. I've never done exactly that but I have occasionally decided how information wi
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by bloak 1y ago
Thanks for that example. Would a Chinese person ever write the tone in pinyin when writing something for themselves?
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by bloak 1y ago
If you're doing an exam in China or Japan, do you write on paper, or use a computer?
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by bloak 1y ago
To be honest, the term "capitalism" has accumulated a lot of baggage and people don't always have a clear understanding of what is meant by it so it might be helpful to use a different term with a clear definition.
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by bloak 1y ago
Leaving criminal stuff to the police and courts sounds sensible but "misconduct" isn't usually criminal. EDIT: Though I'm not suggesting people should sign letters about people they don't know based on allegations b

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