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by eCa 4y ago
Would you like to live in a society where the laws are the same as they are now, but it’s impossible to break them and not be caught? (I know I’m jumping right to where the slippery slope ends.)
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by eCa 4y ago
Russia has occupied parts of Ukraine since 2014, and now they wanted more. What strategy should Ukraine have taken that leads to all of: 1. No full-on invasion in feb’22 2. The full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and the restorat
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by eCa 4y ago
In the latest Perl5 you can define signatures like normal people[1], but it has been available as an experimental feature since 5.20[2]. [1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub#Signatures [2] https://www.effectivepe
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by eCa 4y ago
When doing long tours you want to replace stuff before they break. For instance, I did several tours between 3000 and 5000 kms. I might have gotten away with not replacing the drive train between tours, but spending that extra cash (especia
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by eCa 4y ago
I’m going to follow up with a slightly more pertinent question: Why use a cuttlefish as the logo when the language is named after another animal? Missed opportunity to spread the knlowledge about the Hymenopteras…
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by eCa 4y ago
My favourite of these is probably Graeme Obree[1] who managed to get not one, but two very different bike positions banned in the ’90s after setting the hour record using one of them and winning the world championship using the other. [1]
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by eCa 4y ago
Yeah, lots and lots of unused ISBNs. As an example, O’reilly has the 978-0-596 series. That’s a hundred thousand editions.
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by eCa 4y ago
If you pay a fine for breaking the law means you still broke the law. If you don’t pay the fine, then you broke the law again.
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by eCa 4y ago
Not an invention, but one of my favourite failures is Shackleton’s antarctic expedition[1], which among the many trials includes what must be one of the greatest navigational feats in history: 1300km in an open boat across the Antarctic Oce
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by eCa 4y ago
To be fair, most other projects aren’t as far up-river as curl. Any project they depend on becomes at least as important as curl itself.
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by eCa 4y ago
> An outdated concept of the XX century. I guess that was suggested in the XIX, XVIII, XVII, etc centuries as well. But I quite enjoy my job security in the XXI century.
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by eCa 4y ago
Never knew about the bug issues, I must have ”acquired” a fixed copy. I still have very fond memories of bringing Barnet FC from the lowest of divisions to the highest, with Henrik Larsson as the top scorer. He was just ridiculously fast.
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by eCa 4y ago
> I find it transformative because I know about Warhol, his art practices, and the context with which he worked. In other words, you feel that the Warhol piece is transformative because it was Warhol that made it and not because of the
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by eCa 4y ago
Safari on ios. I see no dogs or rabbits. I only realized that it was supposed to be interactive by reading the comments here. Edit: Same in Chrome on ios for me.
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by eCa 4y ago
So, if we in 2012 had known 100% that Covid would hit in 2020, the correct course of action would have been to do nothing, since maybe an asteroid would hit us in the meantime? Also, global GDP is $80,934,771,028,340[1]. So, if that doubles
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by eCa 4y ago
Similarly, we’re on https://news.ycombinator.com./ (Weird new line to get the whole url displayed)
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by eCa 4y ago
To avoid confusion: ”This site has no relation with the European Union, despite its name.”[1] > do not expire The current expiration date for all eu.org domains is 2026-08-08[2]. [1] https://nic.eu.org/ [2] https:&#x2
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by eCa 4y ago
Men’s football at the Olympics is also an Under 23 competition. I assume FIFA had a say in that.
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by eCa 4y ago
> If something sounds too good to be true, then it isn't. That doesn’t sound right.
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by eCa 4y ago
The article, of course, agrees: > The answer, of course, is “Both” — as with any creative business — but watching each side wrestle with that ambiguity has been instructive.
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by eCa 4y ago
> Dell's website really sucks Even their cookie box is weird. I’ve never seen ”Declinate all” as an option.
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by eCa 4y ago
> "there is no amount of renewable energy that will make [enjoyable living standards] a sustainable way of living" doesn't make environmental reforms seem very palatable to me. Imagine that those environmentalists are corr
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by eCa 4y ago
> ”more customer value” They are not lying. The value of the customer to GM increases.
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by eCa 4y ago
Happy to pay it forward. It was in a similar thread a few months ago that I found it.
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by eCa 4y ago
Can you dive a bit deeper into why you would like to see our global civilization collapse? (I mean, if it doesn’t it’s not for lack of us trying. I just don’t see it as something to look forward to.)
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by eCa 4y ago
I have the same experience. When I want to access twitter I use https://nitter.net/<twitterhandle>
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by eCa 4y ago
2% has been a long time goal. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14400.htm
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by eCa 4y ago
Exactly. For a simple example, look at the criticism about Lithuania’s LNG terminal[1] a few years ago, built to reduce their dependency on Russian gas. I think they are pretty happy about that terminal now. [1] https://www.lrt.l
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by eCa 4y ago
Or perhaps they started on day 330.

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