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by dghf 9y ago
> the recent discovery of a female Denisovan finger bone and various teeth shows that they had no morphological similarities to either Neanderthals or modern humans. Does "morphological similarities" have a particular definitio
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by dghf 9y ago
Could a CA count as a telecommunications operator? Would this mandate a MIM attack if the government fancies a look at what you're up to in your online banking?
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by dghf 9y ago
> I have always wondered how hard it would be to switch to direct voting rather as opposed to the system with an electoral college. Is it impossible because the current system is codified in the constitution, or does it 'only'
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by dghf 9y ago
> SQL and relational database management systems or RDBMS were invented simultaneously by Edgar F. Codd in the early 1970s. Codd didn't invent SQL. Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce did. > SQL is originally based on relational
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by dghf 10y ago
That I did not know. I found a page with a bunch more of them: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-cuba-article.2157... No one seems to really know why.
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by dghf 10y ago
French does it for every country (as far as I know): la France, l'Angleterre, les Etats-Unis. It's not something specific to Ukraine.
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by dghf 10y ago
Could you expand on why you think this?
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by dghf 10y ago
No, we're talking about the reasons why people end up in prison. > People end up in prison for a reason. - banthum, in grandparent of your previous comment. > Ye[s] they end up there for a reason, but it's not the reason you
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by dghf 10y ago
To be picky, it means that it's no greater than 60%. I'm not sure that an armed raid which turned up, say, the dog end of a joint or a line's worth of speed should be counted as a success.
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by dghf 10y ago
Violent offenders tend to serve longer sentences than others (expected to be ~3 times longer on average than most other categories, according to the BJS article you reference), which is part of the reason they make up such a large part of t
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by dghf 10y ago
Also in Scotland. Soon to be the case in England & Wales, if the government doesn't blink in the face of outraged letting agents.
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by dghf 10y ago
> Nevertheless I definitely emitted some crappy code in my first few months. Stuff like: (every? #(= % “success”) (map :status (:state task))) > Which I’d write like this today: (->> task :state
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by dghf 10y ago
Ah, I'm one of those weirdos who actually uses ; (and ,). Though I guess I could noremap ; : noremap : ; But that might take muscle memory too much time to adapt. (And would it break plugins?) I've already got F7 an
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by dghf 10y ago
And this is why I read vim threads. I've been using vim for years, yet didn't know about ^O, ^I, ^E, ^Y or ^^. That last in particular is going to be a big help. No more `:e #` for me!
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by dghf 10y ago
> I think vim can do some of the same things (all?), but it requires some configuration. I don't think it requires anything beyond `set mouse=a` in your vimrc, and not even that if you're using gVim.
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by dghf 10y ago
By "wrong" do you mean "morally wrong", or "factually incorrect"? If the latter, in what way are human rights not just a human invention? What metaphysical or transcendental status do they have, and how do we
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by dghf 10y ago
Two questions: 1. Each passphrase would presumably have to contain at least one word with a racial or sexual connotation. Does that overly restrict the passphrase space, or introduce a large enough non-random element to make such a phrase u
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by dghf 10y ago
Lots of assumptions, presumptions, guesses and maybes here, but: - Netflix's licences to stream shows are presumably for a limited period of time. - There's only so much money in the pot, and they want to spend it on the renewals
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by dghf 10y ago
> Where you would normally find the Windows key is an Ubuntu key or Entroware’s own logo (you can customise this at purchase). It'd be nice if they'd also offer a properly labelled 'Super' key, as this seems to be the
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by dghf 10y ago
There's an irritating mix-up between power and energy throughout the article and in the tweets it's sourced from. Cannon-Brookes asks for a 100 MW (power) system; Musk responds with a price of $250 per kWh (energy), based on a &gt
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by dghf 10y ago
> All expert medical procedures in the UK will be carried out by an MD, no matter what part of your body they're on Point of pedantry, which doesn't really affect your argument: the professional medical degree in the UK is the
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by dghf 10y ago
> Also the fact that he's Australian is a reassuring proof they don't base these question on color of skin... White Australian gets asked to print the sum of two numbers. [0] Black Nigerian gets asked how to balance a binary tr
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by dghf 10y ago
And the other four were from Egypt, Lebanon and the UAE, also not on the list. Yet the EO starts by using the September 11 attacks as an example of the consequences of not vetting foreign nationals thoroughly.
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by dghf 10y ago
Because events that have a spacelike separation -- that is, they are close enough together in time and far enough apart in space that even travelling at the speed of light you couldn't be present at both -- have no absolute order. Depe
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by dghf 10y ago
Sapiens by Yuval Harari defines "human" as "any member of the genus Homo ". I don't know how common or accepted this definition is. It could become problematic if, as has been suggested, some or all of the other
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by dghf 10y ago
That was my understanding too. It's disappointing that it keeps getting explained along the lines of "every time there's a decision point at the quantum level, the universe splits in two", when it doesn't say anythi
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by dghf 10y ago
> It's the most obvious counter-interpretation. More obvious than many worlds?
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by dghf 10y ago
> I think the word "mundane" is out of place. I think it's perfectly fine. "Mundane" means "commonplace", "everyday"; it's an antonym of "exotic". Some people use it in a slight
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by dghf 10y ago
Maturin himself is both Irish and rather fond of laudanum: I don't recall either being true of the sin-eater (but then I can't even remember which novel he appears in).
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by dghf 10y ago
IIRC, one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels (a.k.a the Master and Commander series) sees a former sin-eater among the crew: ostracised by his crew-mates, he is taken on as a surgeon's mate by Dr Maturin.

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