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by dalke 10y ago
McIlroy's "Development of a Spelling List" (1982) paper is doi:10.1109/TCOM.1982.1095395 available at https://web.archive.org/web/20120324185456/http://unix-spell... . I found it from
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by dalke 10y ago
The original comment by jernfrost is much closer to the actual numbers than your followup comment. You wrote: "I don't know what Danish fast food employees and store clerks earn, but I doubt they make more than software developers
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by dalke 10y ago
How do you define 'homogenous'? By most definitions I know of, Sweden is not homogenous. For example, over 9% of the residents of the country were not born in a European country. Regarding the piece from The Guardian, consider thi
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by dalke 10y ago
A web search found http://www.calpoly.edu/~ceenve/enve/jsczechowski/enve436/pro... . > Based on these results the use of the UV/Ozone/Peroxide, especially the modified UV/Peroxide syste
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by dalke 10y ago
200 for me.
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by dalke 10y ago
I am confused by your positioning Mother Jones as no more extremist than the Democrats while also saying "They are basically Fox News, but on the left". I can't tell from that if you mean that the Democratic party is an extre
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by dalke 10y ago
It would be nice to know what that bias might be. For example, "bias towards truth" is different than "bias towards restoring the US to British monarchy." Mother Jones is of course a politically progressive magazine, so
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by dalke 10y ago
If only more kibitzers were so polite.
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by dalke 10y ago
To clarify, this is why running a rouge access point is bad. It isn't (as I thought from the title) about why it's bad for the conference organizers to run their own conference WiFi.
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by dalke 10y ago
I'm glad that you agree with me that your definition is not relevant to the op.ed piece or to this entire thread.
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by dalke 10y ago
Because it doesn't fit the goal of the op. ed piece, which is what we are talking about. If anything, it says that mandated arming of large numbers of citizens (conscription), and mandatory use of such weapons, leads to a higher number
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by dalke 10y ago
You don't need to believe it because that's not what I said. I said "just because there is a definition doesn't mean it's a good definition". That doesn't mean I think it's a good definition or a bad
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by dalke 10y ago
I see from your article at https://medium.com/dharma-experiments/join-a-startup-to-acce... and your comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9574548 and https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by dalke 10y ago
I think it's because the author is a woman, and there are widespread misconceptions and worries about what will happen to solo women travelers. For example, and quoting from http://youngadventuress.com/2013/09&#x2F
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by dalke 10y ago
This is fringe science. It says there are certain intrinsic sounds which are universal to all languages, and these are present in many modern words. For example, it argues that "cop" is understandable through the following decompo
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by dalke 10y ago
So, you're one of those anti-free range children/helicopter parents I read so much about? "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im4GwUD1UY8 . Th
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by dalke 10y ago
Read the transcript from http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/... , where Sanders explains " I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clint
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by dalke 10y ago
> "the capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists" Where does France's Minitel sit in that dichotomous world?
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by dalke 10y ago
You do know it's an Animal Farm reference, right? "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" In the story, this was the "commandment" used to justify why the pigs - as symbolic for the Sovi
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by dalke 10y ago
It doesn't matter that the federal definition changed a couple of years ago. The salient question is, given the data - no matter what definition is used - does the analysis make sense? I gave a link to a page which goes into that more
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by dalke 10y ago
Hmmm, you're right. I didn't find the correct US law. A-ha! Found it! The bill which changed it was the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, 28 USC 530C(b)(1)(M)(i), https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys&#x
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by dalke 10y ago
+ is an associative binary operator. You have to decide which pair to add first.
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by dalke 10y ago
I didn't count the 5 entries in that period with 3 deaths. They use the new (since 2014) definition of 3 deaths. Here's the relevant law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/540B . You are co
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by dalke 10y ago
The editorial author writes: > Using the traditional FBI definition, the EU and the U.S. each experienced 25 mass shootings during the first seven years of Obama’s presidency (January 2009 to December 2015). where > the FBI defines a
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by dalke 10y ago
No experience. https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/... looks quite relevant.
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by dalke 10y ago
Perhaps because it's an old challenge, which automation has always won? The Luddites and others challenged the automation of the Industrial Revolution. Now we use their name to demean people who argue against increase automation. John
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by dalke 10y ago
Not only "was" but also "is". Here's a list of canal aqueducts in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canal_aqueducts_in_the... The newest aqueduct I saw listed at https://
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by dalke 10y ago
The text from nextbigfuture is a copy of the press release at http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/miop-sfa07291... . That in turn is a subset of the original press release at https://mipt.ru&
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by dalke 10y ago
Should be "w/o a parachute". BTW, others have survived free fall drops of thousands of feet. http://www.oddee.com/item_96967.aspx lists 10. However, those were accidental.
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by dalke 10y ago
I take your point. I don't think now that it's unreasonable.

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