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by coolgeek 5y ago
The punchline: > The buck stops with the arrival of a fully developed crypto-economy, the technological instantiation of what Confucius called the rectification of names. But that's another post, for another day. (Aside from it bein
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The warm, long term relationships are several decades old at this point. Russia/USSR has long backed Iran. Russia/USSR has long had at least a working relationship with CCP China. Not sure about China and Iran. But that's
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Which of my questions do you think you answered?
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Apparently, you just created an account to challenge this comment. Do you not understand the FDA approval process? Or do you not understand how to Google that question yourself? Or is it something else? Seriously. What possessed you to c
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I'm not a fan of Dollar General. But there's something poetic about a smaller competitor eating away at WalMart's margins after WalMart destroyed so many small businesses.
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There's a 74 episode set of videos for this from Real Physics https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMcpDl1Pr-viA25VUkHNm... Just found it. So no clue as to the quality
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Fourth paragraph (first section): > The Census Bureau also released data visualizations, America Counts stories, and videos to help illustrate and explain these data. These resources are available on the 2020 Census results page. Advance
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by coolgeek 5y ago
This is a good take. To put it more succinctly, in most countries (especially in the west) there are clear lines of demarcation between the public, private and criminal sectors. (The lines aren't impermeable. But the lines exist.) In
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> Consider the natural numbers. There is no 'why' behind them. In a universe with more than one object, cardinality exists. Natural numbers are how we can discuss cardinality. Natural numbers are also how we discuss ordinality
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I agree with most of your points. But the distinction between null and undefined is an important one. Its absence is a legitimate complaint about SQL.
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I was looking into the Calyx hotspot recently. I hadn't heard about this. Why is T-Mobile shutting down Sprint’s old LTE equipment a problem? They say that the hotspots will "roam to T Mobile when Sprint is not available"
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> Articles in preparation (104 items) Holy crap. I've got about a dozen articles in preparation. Not a one of them is in Shelah's league
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Gentlemen - you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
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These are well written. Looking forward to parts three and four
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And the 80s. Young me got sucked in to a lot of conspiracy BS back in the day
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Never heard of 1440 before, so I took a look. Every single one of their links is behind a redirection service. It's possibly their own service. But that's not a whole lot of difference. It's kind of ironic that you suggest
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by coolgeek 5y ago
But the post wouldn't exist without https://www.masswerk.at/card-readpunch/ (btw the reader link on that page is 404 https://www.masswerk.at/card-readpunch/cardreader )
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Everything about this is magnificent. As with many other great hacker projects, the answer to why is "because they could"
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Hah! I assumed it meant grow your own weed
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How does the Oxycontin debacle fit into your theory here?
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It's also important to understand that entropy lies at the end of all roads (metaphorical, as well as concrete). That entropy has a way of sneaking up on you
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https://archive.is/PObEM
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Beyond Goodreads: Four tools that help readers track their books(washingtonpost.com)
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Not sure where you're getting your definition of science from, but it doesn't correspond to those from authoritative sources. Here, for example, is Brittanica's: > Science, any system of knowledge that is concerned with th
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https://archive.is/s8Iyk
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Whether or not that is strictly true, there's an enormous gulf between the renown and respect for Lowe versus that for Weinstein.
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> random blog Let's put it this way - more people on this site know who Derek Lowe is (and respect his opinions) than every person combined that was involved in those 31 studies.
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Nice find. Did you miss the main page from OP? http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/ Click the English link
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The goal of the Federalist Society is to replace every single member of the Judiciary with hand-picked candidates that strictly agree with a narrowly-defined canon of legal doctrine. Their members may be less openly confrontational - more g
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> You see the curve of the earth I was under the impression that this is an optical illusion. You can't actually see the curvature of the earth until you get to a certain elevation above its surface. Was I misinformed?

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