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by chalst 5y ago
There's something about martial arts that encourages mythologising. The Reddit post you link to also mentions the uncritical assertion that Angampora is 5000 years old. Gillian Russell wrote a nice essay about the nature of received wi
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The problem with aliasing is that it undermines the ability of users to refine their searches, especially in the case of Google with its unclear semantics for terms within quote marks. I've switched to using DDG as my first search engi
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This is actually a worse take than "Yet you participate in society! Curious!" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
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In ancient times, most transactions did not involve money at all. That is the big difference to the modern era. Generally, the gold/silver value was really hard to determine, but minted coins could be more valuable than their believed
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This is not very accurate. In ancient times, mints frequently adulterated the content of coins, so coins were usually worth more within the kingdom or empire than outside it. Gold was not the ubiquitous denominator of value: silver was wide
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> Most extant forms of welfare exist because at the time of their creation they allowed some group of politicans to buy the votes of some subset of the population. I think this isn't true. The UK got single-payer healthcare (with th
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by chalst 5y ago
Not necessarily. The object code produced by a compiler might best be regarded as a different form of the source code, even though it is not a copy or a new work, according to http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/trea
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> Copyright law has only ever applied to intellectual creations – where there is no creator, there is no work This is, at best, an oversimplification. Code compiled from copyrighted source code is derived work inheriting that copyright a
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History of Actors (transcript of 2018 HOPL talk)(eighty-twenty.org)
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This is potentially of interest to any application making use of POST. Its generality and simplicity justifies standardisation.
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In developing countries, the urban poor frequently don't live in places with cooking facilities and have to eat prepared food.
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Right. The reference IPv6 packet header is only twice as long as that for IPv4 (320 bits vs 160). What is crucial, combined with the fact darkr points out that since they include the link layer the IPv6 protocol deals with more of the netwo
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A lot seems to turn on exactly what kind of open-source project might be used. The author refers to a letter from 15 years ago: > Future CS Course Already Here In his “President’s Letter” (“Computer Science Education in the 21st Century,
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The CACM Viewpoint proposal doesn't mean that students have to work on the kind of open source projects that businesses will assign developer labour to. The open source projects can be chosen to complement the educational aims of the c
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This has worked very well in mathematics at Imperial College, London, having undergraduates provide machine-verifiable proofs in the Xena project. They use a nonconstructive axiomatic framework (so not really "software", I suppose
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The British cooking writer describes a process that works as adverstised: cook an a high heat for 2 minutes until golden, add a splash of water and simmer on a low heat for 35 minutes.
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I have no idea. The story about tailoring ads to individual consumers that the tracking companies sell is catnip to marketing departments, but I don't have high confidence that the advertising industry is better at the statistics neede
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> that kind of identifying data is absolutely useless because you by yourself aren't worth anything from a data perspective. I hate to get all Godwin's law on you, but you don't think, say, Jews in the 1930s might have ha
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I don't keep up on the exact rankings of the Oxbridge colleges, but there is a huge difference in the wealth of the richest colleges from the average of the rest. Long before Yale, King's College Cambridge pioneered sophisticated
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> Then why are student loans (in the US) the only loans not dischargable in bankruptcy? In the US, the loans are overwhelmingly made through the Federal system, not by universities.
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The quip about Yale being a hedge fund was funny before the financial crisis and in a loose sense some of the wealthiest colleges in the US seem to behave like an educational frosting on an asset-maximising endowment. If there are any simil
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> Universities sell a financial product No, they do not. Universities offer undergraduate education to school leavers. Both schools and universities bend over backwards to inform prospective students on the fit between degrees and career
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Both much of the Eurozone and the UK have particularly poor situations for young graduates because of the economically contractive way both handled the last financial crisis. The UK has compounded the situation by increasing debt for studen
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I see the top game on the list of current multiplayer games has the attrbute "password protected", which sounds like the kind of thing that would achieve this.
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> not for you specifically, but for the average computer user This is shifting the goalposts. Desktop Linux is perfectly usable for me, not for my wife. I'm interested in a more Linux-like phone for me; I'm not looking to see i
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Given the US imprisons its citizens at nearly ten times the rate that Germany does, has hugely unpredictable outcomes to civil suits, and clearly has serious problems with reliability of convictions in criminal cases, the question shouldn&#
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I'm not an expert on US union law, but AFAICS, American workers have a choice between card check, which in principle allows intimidation by unions, and the NLRA process, which has been documented as enabling intimidation by employers.
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Not all activities in the financial sector are destructive, but the sector as a whole has a tendency to reward destructive activity. You might like Michael Hudson's comment: "when left-wingers–or people who call themselves left-wi
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The Levenstein distance to either "Fasm" or "Fshasm" are the same, at three. I don't think that's too close.
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If it is not clear, I'm comparing China today with C19th Britain. Britain's safety net back then was mostly driven by private and Church charity, and covered very basic health and education services and the existence of workhouses

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