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by dghf 6y ago
> It's seedless, so wouldn't happen. So why are seeds explicitly mentioned in the EULA? (Also, why is "but not limited to" in quotation marks?)
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by dghf 6y ago
Uglier than having to find the record after the one you're inserting (so you can determine your new record's end date from the subsequent record's start date) and the record before (so you can modify its end date to match y
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> It should be maintained because it's a tool to check if someone is logical and serious or not. Do you mean solely double negatives here, or does this also apply to the three other "rules of grammar"? Because those are n
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by dghf 6y ago
It's not that much more complex: if you do SELECT event FROM events WHERE startDate < "2021" then all but one of the results (the one with the greatest `startDate`) will also have an implicit end-date prior to 202
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by dghf 6y ago
> In the last 10 years have a lot of Scottish, Irish or Black people been murdered by UK police officers? 20 years? 30? How many people of any colour or ethnicity have been killed by UK police in the last 10, 20, 30 years? It doesn'
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by dghf 6y ago
> we need to recall that the UK/British view of race is heavily influenced by the fact that skin color is not the only way in which folks in the UK experience racial discrimination. But that's true of lots of places, including
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> No other dictionary provides a definition that even remotely comes close. Shorter OED: > Myth (miþ). Also †mythe. 1830 [- mod. L. MYTHUS, late L. mythos - Gr. μῦθος. ] 1. A purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatur
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by dghf 6y ago
Minor clarification: Calum MacLeod was the chair of the Police Federation, which is effectively the trade union for police officers in England and Wales (below the rank of Superintendent -- senior officers have their own association). The
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by dghf 6y ago
> Noone asks you to use Brython. From the article: > Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web. So it does sound like they are asking people to use Brython instead of JavaScript. > it does have
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by dghf 6y ago
> ALITO, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS, J., joined. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a dissenting opinion. -- p. 4 in the PDF. > JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting. -- p. 38 in the PDF. https://
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by dghf 6y ago
> Don't watch the fry & laurie series, im sure they're funny, but they cannot be better than the books The early seasons are fine (but not as good as the books). In later seasons, however, they decided to "improve&quot
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by dghf 6y ago
No problem!
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> people like you who claim that free will doesn't exist Where did I claim that free will doesn't exist?
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>You're missing the last step that closes the loop: in order for society to exist and function, moral blame is essential. Therefore some notion of moral responsibility for breaking the law must be imposed, so we invent some quasi-fr
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>The first introductory lecture on politics starts with "laws are written by current political elite to enforce their interests". That doesn't make them any less real in their potential effects. Say I want to steal a stock
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> Free will is inescapable. Without it, you have no ability to assign moral blame, which means law and order become impossible. Even if that were the case, that doesn't bear on whether or not free will exists. Having reasons to wan
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by dghf 6y ago
>A will free from external influence. But what do you class as an external influence? Do social norms, including widely held moral codes, count? What about laws, and the threat of punishment for breaking them? What about environmental co
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I believe the controversy is whether an example of this happening in real life has been found. Several possible instances have been pointed at -- e.g. during the Great Famine in Ireland -- but none has yet been fully accepted.
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by dghf 6y ago
Yes, in absolute units (according to the theory). If you buy exactly the same amount of kg of staple as before, you won't have enough money to buy the same amount of other food stuffs as before, so you'll be short of calories. Ass
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by dghf 6y ago
> 12. Demand Curves Slope Down: The harder something is to do, the fewer people will do it. For example, raise the price of a product and fewer people will buy it. Lower the price and more people will buy it. Economics 101. Not always as
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> 20. Bike-Shed Effect: A group of people working on a project will fight over the most trivial ideas. They’ll ignore what’s complicated. They’ll focus too much on easy-to-understand ideas at the expense of important, but hard to talk ab
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by dghf 6y ago
But the medical use of morphine extends beyond palliative care.
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> Question (To a scientist of today): "OK, so if electrons exist and are the cause of electricity, then what are they, and how are they created? > Physicist: "I'm sorry, electrons are presumed to self-exist, presumed to
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by dghf 6y ago
Two invaluable guides to clear, unfussy English, one short and one long: * George Orwell's essay 'Politics and the English Language' [0], which includes his six rules for writing * Sir Ernest Gowers' The Complete Plain
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I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think they're actually in the shell. I think that's a status bar for a tiling WM, possibly xmonad.
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L430 here. It's not pretty, but it's solid and reliable. And Lenovo's online specs and manuals are excellent.
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IIRC, Robert Pirsig (author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ) described pretty much exactly this method of taking and organising notes on index cards in Lila , his 1991 follow-up to Zen ... . Does anyone know whether Pirsig
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by dghf 6y ago
1. Cummings hasn't been given a strict talking to by the police. 2. Cummings hasn't issued a public apology. 3. Gaiman isn't an advisor to the Prime Minister, and wasn't intimately involved with the drafting of the rules
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by dghf 6y ago
The quote attributed to him (I've not seen his press briefing myself, so I can't say whether it's accurate) is this: > Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning. There ar
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And another one with River Song and Stevie Wonder ("A Good Man Goes to War"). ETA: turns out it was the same one both times, the last Thames frost fair ever, in 1814.

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