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by dghf 11y ago
Skara Brae is amazing: it's a very freaky feeling standing in something still recognisable as a home after four thousand years. But it is in no way a city. The article admits as much, calling it 'one of the best preserved Stone Ag
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by dghf 11y ago
Never mind V for Vendetta, what about Robin Hood? Hard-left propaganda glorifying armed robbery and violence against public officials under the guise of wealth redistribution. In the eighties series Robin of Sherwood, the Sheriff does at on
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by dghf 11y ago
In the run-up to the 2010 election, they promised to oppose any rise in tuition fees, then reneged on this in government. On its own, that's probably not that significant, but it appears to have helped cement their reputation as untrus
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by dghf 11y ago
> There are recursive layers of social intrigue in this paragraph that people with autism would have a great deal of trouble understanding, much less writing That's a bit sweeping. Many doubtless would; but there are autistic people
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by dghf 11y ago
> I thought that one of the few genuine insights made about autism is that so-called autistic people have difficultly reading intentions (their own, or other people's) or even appreciating what minds and intentions are. Which is why
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by dghf 11y ago
> Unfortunately, he ends with However, I've come around to realize that this makes financial sense. Silly me, I thought the change of mind was about empathy. Enlightened self-interest that results in action is worth any amount of em
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by dghf 11y ago
I agree with you.
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by dghf 11y ago
Yes, I'm aware of the penalties for apostasy in Iran, and that the toleration shown to Jews and Christians is not extended to other faiths (it would seem the Bahá'í get a particularly rough time of it). But the comment I was reply
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by dghf 11y ago
> Any religion that fundamentally doesn't tolerate the existence of other religions and calls its followers to slaughter those who don't convert is "bad religion". Islam is a "bad religion". Well, if that&#x
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by dghf 11y ago
> If you used different HTTP methods, you'd already know which one to use, and don't need the action parameter. But the examples given by anilgulechas were 'action=draw' and 'action=shuffle'. Neither are ide
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by dghf 11y ago
I'm not questioning that; I was questioning the statement '"action" parameter is pretty non-RESTful'. If URLs are opaque, why is it non-RESTful? Or is the point that if you're using query-string parameters, the
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by dghf 11y ago
I thought URLs (including query strings) were opaque under REST?
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by dghf 11y ago
The Anthropic Principle as applied to nuclear Armageddon (or lack thereof).
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by dghf 11y ago
But without the identifying marks, how would they know where they had come from or who had sent them? Wasn't the overriding concern the protection of the two Laureates?
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by dghf 11y ago
> I've tried to answer this question as the conjunction of four concerns: > ∙ What should every student know to get a good job? > ∙ What should every student know to maintain lifelong employment? > ∙ What should every stude
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by dghf 11y ago
Is this URNs again?
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by dghf 12y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc... Seven years old: don't know if it still goes on.
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by dghf 12y ago
> According to Uber, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week in New York City is $90,766 a year. In San Francisco, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week is $74,191. Does that so
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by dghf 12y ago
> Is there a gay crime wave? I haven't noticed one. I can think of two possible, orthogonal answers why that (sort of) fit the hypothesis: - the key is not 'stable relationships with women' but 'stable sexual relation
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by dghf 12y ago
> With its formal finding of a wrongful execution, the case became exhibit No. 1 in what has emerged as a key argument against the death penalty—that sometimes, we misfire. Years ago I read a column by the late, great Auberon Waugh that
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by dghf 12y ago
Wouldn't we have to be the ones in the terrarium? Few years pass for the party zipping round at a large percentage of c , many years pass for those left behind on Earth.
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by dghf 12y ago
De gustibus non est disputandum. That being said: at home, I use a tiling WM exclusively (dwm), and the main attractions for me is that it's (a) uncluttered and (b) fast. Not just fast because the WM is snappy (though dwm certainly
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by dghf 12y ago
Fair enough. But in this case, the userland drivers are easy to install (if they're not a default part of your distro of choice) and work without a hitch, at least in my experience.
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by dghf 12y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "3rd party software" with respect to Linux. If you mean "not made by the Linux kernel or GNU projects", that applies to much (most?) of the software available for Linux. If you mean &qu
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by dghf 12y ago
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus! Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World . Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained . T.H. White, The Once and Future King . George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia .
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by dghf 12y ago
Some doubtless are, but you can't really generalise. Attention to detail and patience for, indeed enjoyment of, repetitive tasks may be traits widely found in people with autism, but they're not universal: surprisingly little is.
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by dghf 12y ago
> why is there something instead of nothing From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: 'why not?' http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/#WhyTheSomRatT...
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by dghf 12y ago
After the first call (or at latest the second), did they not learn to plug it back in themselves?
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by dghf 12y ago
I don't, but this thread might help: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1407/23054.html
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by dghf 12y ago
Apply the pango patch [0] to dwm, and you can get nice xft fonts, Unicode icons and colours in the status bar. [0] http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/pango

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