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From [1] > In a treatise entitled as Risala fi l-Illa al-Failali l-Madd wa l-Fazr (Treatise on the Efficient Cause of the Flow and Ebb), al-Kindi presents a theory on tides which "depends on the changes which take place in bodies ow
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No later than 17 May 2017 - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1838:_Machine_Lea...
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So, send them to Coventry, set up a ghetto or Bantustan, or be glad there are a lot of islands as in Brave New World. I misread your "else" in "you get a one way ticket somewhere else" as outside of the US, not partition
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Where might this somewhere else be? We already see that the US needed to pay El Salvador to accept its prisoners, and the UK pay Rwanda to take asylum seekers. It's hard to think of a country which will accept people the US considers t
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Yes, that's the meme. "We should improve society somewhat" doesn't mean the peasant has actionable proposals, only pointing out there's a problem. My comment was instead highlighting how your analogy to the "ca
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Isn't that observation akin to the "We should improve society somewhat" ... "Yet you participate in society! Curious!" meme? We know from Paris that systemic change is required - it isn't simply individual choi
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> because how could a fact checker have an agenda? It's not possible, they're just checking facts! Of course a fact checker has an agenda. How else do they decide which fact checking to prioritize? It's not like a single p
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Google Street View of the same shop. https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Carron/@56.9627456,-2....
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https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/ > At around 06:00 UTC on January 10th [2024], a layer 3 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack began to target SourceHut’s PHL infrastructure. We r
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I think it's best to take their statement at face value. I have no special insight into the organization.
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When someone pulls out the old chestnut "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result", I point to the flight crew of Speedbird 9, repeatedly trying to restart the engines
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https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 , Dec 02, 2025, 10:18 PM "We are currently fighting against a DDoS attack against our service and our status page. We are analyzing network traffic with the
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It is. A common argument against using "intellectual property" is how beliefs about tangible property - land and objects - shouldn't be applied to copyright, patent, etc., so using the term is an implicit acceptance of a fals
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"Quite often" = actually quite rare. I think you greatly underestimate the number of new novels published each year. Your first two examples would have been covered under a 14+14 copyright period. I do not think a 28-year copyrigh
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Those stores had to have been pretty far out as there was a "3.3% increase in spending across the whole of Madrid". Also, "Published Mar 08, 2019". There's been a lot going on since then, and from what I gather it&#
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Hypothesis D-for-Delany: The human thought Stephenson wrote Dhalgren. "Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland into the hills, I have come to"
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If ridership went up 30% then there is demand for more busses, which would decrease dwell time caused by higher use per bus.
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I never said you were a Nazi. The Nazi party hasn't been active since 1945, in small part because of my grandfather's military service fighting fascism in Europe. I trust you respect his service and that of millions of other soldi
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> I want a doctor who feels some blood and soil attachment to their patients. "Blood and soil (German: Blut und Boden) is a nationalist phrase and concept of a racially defined national body ("Blood") united with a settlem
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??? > The sit program was originally written in 1988 and posted to Usenet's comp.sources.mac newsgroup by Tom Bereiter. The program assumed that it was running on a Unix system where each input file either had no resource informatio
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Even if you assume the statistics for hyperactivity are correct, how did the researchers decide which statistics were relevant? In any case, the original 2008 publication is at https://www.nber.org/system/files/wor
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There are reaction videos on YouTube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesMOzzNBiQ
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How is the average IQ of an entire crowd relevant to parking violations of UN diplomats with diplomatic immunity?
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The link says it took place in the US.
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When I started consulting, I read a Nolo Press book about contracts for software developers. That was an excellent resource. I learned concepts that I still use when reviewing contracts. Nolo (they've since dropped the Press), "pr
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I don't really think you understand my point. It isn't simple antisocial behavior. It's a multi-generational learned belief in a hierarchical class structure which will persist so long as enough people reject equality and sol
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One of today's entries from that site is "Wario Kart", at https://notalwaysright.com/wario-kart/398386/ A customer returns two abandoned carts. Another customer assumes the first is an employee. Aft
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Here's an account at https://notalwaysright.com/the-dunkin-duchess/396274/ : > Our college study group meets a few times a week. They’re long sessions, three or four hours each. Whenever someone runs out f
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I strongly doubt it is related to intellectual ability but cultural expectations. Some years back someone did a study about which country's US diplomats at the UN had the highest number of NYC parking tickets. Diplomats don't need
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Topological properties exist to the same degree that the number 2 exists, which Argle and Blargle blithely accept. I still object to how the exchange mixes two different concepts of "hole".

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