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by dalke 10y ago
It's parody, not libel. Here's a summary of what the court considers in a libel case - https://popehat.com/2015/09/02/satire-vs-potentially-defamat... . > Finally, the court will look at the stat
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by dalke 10y ago
"The Amityville Horror: A True Story" was nearly all fiction. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp I remember as a kid seeing the "nonfiction" on the spine of the book cover, and
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by dalke 10y ago
Susan McDougal is a specific example which shows there is both criminal contempt-of-court and some of can happen as a result of civil contempt-of-court. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McDougal : > Fro
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by dalke 10y ago
It looks like you've gone from "often really changes people" to "get through two years by having the goal of getting out." The latter is the same goal for those in jail. The question I have is, how do you know that
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by dalke 10y ago
If movies are correct, judges during the pre-volunteer military days would tell someone their choices were the military "to straighten you up" or jail. I think that's the better comparison than your comparison to the modern m
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by dalke 10y ago
Could someone explain the economics? Doesn't it make better sense to transport the bulk materials and have local people make the menstrual kits? This would bring employment, and help the economy. This was going around couple of years a
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by dalke 10y ago
There are a lot of used ones on eBay. The devices for all those graduated kids has to go somewhere. Looks like ~$20 for a TI-73, vs. $70 on Amazon, and ~$40 for a TI-83+, vs. ~$80 on Amazon.
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by dalke 10y ago
Being smug and white isn't limited to liberals. Smug white conservatives talk about the sanctity of family, while cheating on their second wife, or speak out against homosexuality while having sex with strangers in an airport bathroom,
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by dalke 10y ago
About a generation after we have working Star Trek-style transporters.
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by dalke 10y ago
I agree that it's an accurate number. I meant to highlight that "development" can mean "to develop a working system" (R&D) as well as "to develop a commercial product" (R&D plus production, support
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by dalke 10y ago
Oops! Yes. I'll edit my original. Thanks! (No copy&paste from Google Books views.)
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by dalke 10y ago
That $5B appears to be the cost of the entire project, including production. In your essay, you wrote "development cost". Is that meant to include production? Because it appears the development cost as its own line item was no mor
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by dalke 10y ago
That was the original development cost, in early 1960 dollars. The remaining $4 billion was manufacturing costs.
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by dalke 10y ago
https://books.google.com/books?id=oaBOuo4mId8C&pg=PA189&dq=I... says: > Estimates of the total cost of System/360 range from $4 to $5 billion. Of this amount, $500 million to $1 billion was development cost,
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by dalke 10y ago
Do I understand correctly that you linked to a SO question about how to have the DOS batch command "echo" emit a newline just so you can point out how to do it in a different shell used primarily on a different OS?
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by dalke 10y ago
This doesn't salvage it in any meaningful sense, but it does work: class EqualLengths: def __init__(self, size): self.size = size def __nonzero__(self): return True def __repr__(self): return "Tru
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by dalke 10y ago
There were 5 HN postings about it in the last few days https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Media.net&sort=byDate&prefix&p... . The only one with comments (20) is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12
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by dalke 10y ago
FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla... is a list of directly imaged exoplanets. These all appear as point sources. I assume you want to be able to see something the size of a continent on
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by dalke 10y ago
And the many failed attempts to do drug discovery have earned such optimistic views the sobriquet "the Andy Grove Fallacy." http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/04/02/sil...
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by dalke 10y ago
There is no contradiction. There are two specifications, the C language specification and the Python language specification. Programs written in Python follow the Python language specification. When run in CPython, the implementation follow
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by dalke 10y ago
Do you not realize that that reductionism is exactly why I don't like your definition of "undefined behavior"? You are using a non-standard definition of "undefined behavior". In common use, "undefined behavior
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by dalke 10y ago
This repeats the story that "Charles Manson ... was captured with the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" in his backpack". I thought that was unfounded rumor. http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/faqwo
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by dalke 10y ago
I don't think that does what you think it does: >>> reduce(lambda a, b: len(a) == len(b), ["a", "b", "c"]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in &
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by dalke 10y ago
As a historical note, this phrase was originally applied to WordStar. Quoting Jim Mischel at http://www.mischel.com/diary/2005/08/22.htm : > While I'm on the subject of WordStar, I've heard a sto
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by dalke 10y ago
Python is not defined by its C implementation. For example, Python-the-language does not require reference counting even though CPython uses that. The real-world distinction between the Python specification and its implementation started in
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by dalke 10y ago
Some similar failure cases are: 1) when I make a presentation using Keynote, it drops the leading spaces when it exports to PDF, so my students can't simply copy/paste my example code. 2) the interpretation of blank lines with no
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by dalke 10y ago
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by dalke 10y ago
I didn't get the point of the 1800+ crashes. Python isn't designed to be safe from corrupted byte code in the .pyc files.
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by dalke 10y ago
FWIW, that's reference #1 in this paper.
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by dalke 10y ago
Satellites are in orbit, so can't be used if you want more than a few minutes of continuous surveillance. Drones have an iffy legal status. Using a piloted light aircraft gets rid of that uncertainty.

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