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by bloak 3y ago
Although life expectancy was a lot lower in the past than today that was mostly due to infant mortality. It's true that a lot of women died during childbirth, which meant that the life expectancy of women was less than that of men (I t
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by bloak 3y ago
Do you think that someone at the FBI, inspired by https://xkcd.com/2910/ , will be checking the IP addresses of the Wikipedia editors who got there before the ambulances did?
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by bloak 3y ago
At first I thought you were referring to _Who wrote Shakespeare?_ by John Michell, which I would recommend. They sound like very similar books. If anyone has read both recently, what are the main differences between them?
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by bloak 3y ago
The Guardian had a better headline: "Let them eat Flakes" ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/27/kelloggs-ceo... )
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by bloak 3y ago
Perhaps some musicians are using Spotify as a way of advertising themselves for live gigs.
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by bloak 3y ago
Meanwhile, other people trust git so much that they treat it more as a tool for doing an incremental back-up than as a distributed VCS (git commit -a -m x && git push). I must admit I have occasionally used git as a tool for transfe
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by bloak 3y ago
I don't have a lot of experience with Alzheimer's, but in the couple of cases I've observed, though not from very close, the patient didn't seem to be suffering or unhappy at the end. There was a brief intermediate perio
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by bloak 3y ago
I totally agree with the idea that balanced quotes are needed to make quoting sane. If the quotes in a string are balanced then it should be possible to quote it with no changes. I would also advocate the principle that you don't escap
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by bloak 3y ago
One could also compare with Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome being in Kazakhstan.
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by bloak 3y ago
I'm not sure there's much difference, in theory or in practice, between destroying money and giving it to the government! That sounds a bit anti-government but really I just meant that the money raised from fines isn't a sign
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by bloak 3y ago
It's not hard to imagine circumstances in which the police get involved because there is initially some suspicion of a crime, the police do some investigations and then stop investigating because, although many aspects of the case rema
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Craig Wright's claim he invented Bitcoin a 'brazen lie', court told(theguardian.com)
5 points by bloak 3y ago|3 comments
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by bloak 3y ago
They probably can't lead the project but they can definitely contribute. I'm not quite sure what "intelligence" is - some people have strange personalities that make them hard to classify - but you don't need to be
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by bloak 3y ago
The sum of money mentioned at the start of the article corresponds to about 10 cents per person per day for the US population. But that includes the people who don't take them at all, so it's about 20 cents per person per day for
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by bloak 3y ago
Of course I agree it's not easy: I was pointing out some of the difficulties. There's probably no point in arguing about whether the diagnosis or the data protection side is, in general, harder. They're both very hard problem
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by bloak 3y ago
It would be an understatement for me to claim that I'm not an expert in forensic psychology ... but I suspect that spotting the potentially dangerous people is relatively easy but that the really difficult part would be circulating tha
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by bloak 3y ago
And Philips tried to use trademark law after their patent on triple-headed rotary shavers expired, and they failed: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/jun/19/marketingandpr...
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by bloak 3y ago
Sorry, I'm confused here! Who died before finishing what?
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by bloak 3y ago
Apparently the iPhone automatically generates a photomontage of the past year. (It might be called "Memories".) So someone like me gets: some close-ups of body parts that were sent to a doctor; some photos of miscellaneous items t
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by bloak 3y ago
So the things that might prevent you are: 1. Suppliers have not given you sufficient information for you to be able to prove an upper bound on the time taken. (That must happen a lot.) 2. The system is so complicated that you are not totall
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by bloak 3y ago
I saw this quotation in The Economist: "Success is random. Bestsellers are random. So that's why we are the Random House." (Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House) Reading about Kathleen Sully I wonder again to what extent critic
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by bloak 3y ago
I don't disagree though perhaps it's worth mentioning that sentences such as "the great spotted woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker" are used in English with the meaning "great spotted woodpeckers are medium-siz
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George Orwell and the thoughtcrime of trade marks(trademarks.ipo.gov.uk)
4 points by bloak 3y ago|1 comments
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by bloak 3y ago
A sort of companion piece to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249587
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by bloak 3y ago
A proper incinerator doesn't release toxic gases and generates electricity so perhaps fewer fossil fuels can be burnt while it's running so it's not quite as bad as how you're phrasing it either. I don't claim to kn
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by bloak 3y ago
That one should be a configuration option. Most British publishers (I think) use -ise, but some use -ize, and no publisher would be happy with a paragraph in which both spellings are used (unless they are in quotations in an academic text).
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by bloak 3y ago
(It doesn't matter for the point you're making, but in Germany a contract to supply sexual services is legally enforceable, just like a contract to supply any other kind of service.)
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by bloak 3y ago
UK again. Almost all shops accept both cash and debit/credit card. So you can survive without cash, but you can also survive without digital payments. Though they might not be the sort of people who visit this web site, I see lots of p
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by bloak 3y ago
That's the one I was more familiar with. (Is it the same name in some sense? On the one hand it rather looks like two different transcriptions of the same name; on the other hand Illich's father wasn't Russian and the names s
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by bloak 3y ago
Absolutely. I'm just stating my personal preference, that's all.

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