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571.
by dghf 11y ago
If National Socialism was socialist because it had "socialism" in its name, then the GDR was democratic for the same reason.
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by dghf 11y ago
> I remember reading that a particular author, Franz Borkenau, was highly critical of the communists in Anarchist Catalonia, describing the terror they inflicted on Barcelona in his book the spanish cockpit. Are you referring to the St
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by dghf 11y ago
> Socialism always results in tyranny. Anarchist Catalonia? (Admittedly, it didn't last long, thanks chiefly to a different bunch of socialists, who were in turn defeated by fascists.)
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by dghf 11y ago
> Software forever remains at the limits of what people will put up with. That needs immortalising. Cegłowski's Law?
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The residents forced to pay £14,000 before their homes are torn down(theguardian.com)
3 points by dghf 11y ago|0 comments
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by dghf 11y ago
Written three years after Einstein's paper on special relativity, which kills the idea of an absolute order of events (if they're far enough apart in space). Would McTaggart have had knowledge of Einstein's work?
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by dghf 11y ago
> Kinda depressing just how small we are and that we can't get around places to explore space without some groundbreaking invention that will transfer information from the atoms to another location instantly If that ever happens, yo
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Security flaw found in school Internet monitoring software(theguardian.com)
2 points by dghf 11y ago|0 comments
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by dghf 11y ago
No Oort cloud? :(
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by dghf 11y ago
In particular, every paragraph save two comprises a single sentence. It does read like someone took a list of bullet points, removed the bullets and called it an article.
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by dghf 11y ago
Someone I regularly receive mail from has an address of the form forenamesurname@aol.com or ForenameSurname@aol.com, depending (I think) on which device they use. Gmail will treat one as spam, but not the other. To stop the trapped emails e
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by dghf 11y ago
Oops. You're right, I took the 1946 figure as the 1941 one (700/1100 > 60%). Still, 38% is pretty bad.
583.
by dghf 11y ago
Possibly more shocking, more than 60% of men who were born in 1923 and still alive in 1941 would die during the War (assuming I've understood the article correctly and my maths is sound).
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by dghf 11y ago
The first declutter? What about Diogenes, who lived in a barrel?
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by dghf 11y ago
Netherlands 2001, Canada 2005, Denmark 2012 (though recognised same-sex "registered partnerships" from 1989). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Contemporary
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Was the South Ever Confederate, Anyway?(knoxmercury.com)
22 points by dghf 11y ago|4 comments
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by dghf 11y ago
Point of pedantry: RFC 3339 allows replacement of the T with a space; ISO 8601 merely allows its omission (and that only by mutual agreement of all parties to the information exchange).
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by dghf 11y ago
ISO 8601 format would be 2015-06-29T15:44:21-05:00.
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by dghf 11y ago
> electing masters is not and never will be democracy Neither is having political power in the exclusive hands of a hereditary elite. That's oligarchy or aristocracy.
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by dghf 11y ago
But both slaves and foreign residents ("metics") transmitted their status by birth: you could be born in Athens, as could your father, and your father's father, and still have no route to citizenship, unless the city chose to
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by dghf 11y ago
> The Persian Empire had a lot of subjugated populace. The worry of rebellion and other problems plagued them all the time. Greeks on the other hand were very laid back in comparison. Maybe not all the Greeks. The Spartans were a small g
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by dghf 11y ago
> But as far as ancient athens goes, every male regardless of wealth or status got to vote the laws and decrees. Except for slaves and former slaves. Also a large portion of the population were resident foreigners, who didn't get th
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by dghf 11y ago
> In fact, I don't quite get why people are so enamored by these fanciful interpretations when Pilot-Wave is so much more down-to-earth. I thought the difficulty with pilot-wave theory was that it was difficult, perhaps impossible,
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by dghf 11y ago
Erm, doesn't that mean you actually agree with proposition (2)? > (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof) [Emphasis ad
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by dghf 11y ago
> It isn't that particles exist in multiple states until they are measured. I thought it was exactly that. Or rather, particles exist in multiple states, and when they are measured, either those multiple states collapse into one (
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by dghf 11y ago
> Observers are what deliver to us the results of randomly sampling from the probability distribution defined by the squared amplitude of the wave function by "collapsing" it, according to the Copenhagen interpretation. However
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by dghf 11y ago
> This year, the Mail reported that disabled people are exempt from the bedroom tax; that asylum-seekers had “targeted” Scotland; that disabled babies were being euthanised under the Liverpool Care Pathway; that a Kenyan asylum-seeker ha
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by dghf 11y ago
> EXCEPT FOR THE STUFF THAT CURES IT! "The Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project: a blog following the daily mail’s ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer." http
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by dghf 11y ago
I thought 'burgle' was British usage and 'burglarize' American.
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by dghf 11y ago
It's the standard Reg term for scientists and academics.

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