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by elsjaako 6y ago
I was referring to the portraits of Kim Il Sung an Kim Jong Il which they hang in every house (and I believe most rooms). I think that is quite comparable. I would completely agree that the whole of "North Korean indoctrination" i
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by elsjaako 6y ago
As someone who had never heard of the practice before moving to the US as a teen, it seemed pretty culty to me. I understand most Americans aren't that bothered, but that makes it even more creepy to us foreigners. I'm sure North
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by elsjaako 6y ago
Is there any database that just defines their own partition type? It always seemed strange to me that databases are so optimized, but still operate on top of the filesystem abstraction.
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by elsjaako 6y ago
> That's great and all, but people who are learning emacs for the first time don't know or care that it's one of the most successful text editors or that it's been around for 40 years I don't think this is true.
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by elsjaako 6y ago
> Semaphores are "P" and "V" canonically meaning something in Dutch. "P" stands for "Prolaag", which is a word Dijkstra made up. Both Raise (Verhoog) and lower (Verlaag) start with a V in dutch. So
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by elsjaako 6y ago
According to the official numbers, of the 7.8 million eligible voters, 40% voted, and 7% of those voted for Tikhanovskaya. That's 218400 people. According to the telegram poll, 1.184 million people voted for Tikhanovskaya. That's
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by elsjaako 6y ago
> I wonder how the US would react to Mexico hosting Russian troops and weapons... I imagine if they put missiles on cuba, some kind of crisis might happen.
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by elsjaako 6y ago
This is mentioned in the article
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by elsjaako 6y ago
There is a certain kind of person that will become some kind of hacker no matter what, but with advice and guidance they will get a lot further than without.
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by elsjaako 6y ago
Do you happen to know of any peer-reviewed sources stating this? Up to now I've not been able to find any.
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by elsjaako 6y ago
You're allowed to sell GPL software
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by elsjaako 6y ago
Can someone link to a study that shows this is the case for virusses also? The example listed in the article, Staphylococcus Aureus, is a species of bacteria. Last time I had this discussion they linked to a study that said that for viruses
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by elsjaako 6y ago
I agree that the university has some responsibility to make cheating hard, and to not entrap people. But I don't see where the responsibility goes from hard to "as hard as possible".
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by elsjaako 6y ago
The actual law can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2002/58/2009-12-19 Emphasis mine: However, such devices, for instance so-called ‘cookies’, can be a legitimate and useful tool, for exa
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by elsjaako 6y ago
I know tens of people that have watched game of thrones, maybe one or two legally. I think the real number might be higher then 17.8 million.
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by elsjaako 7y ago
But couldn't this also be done by publishing the hash in a few newspapers, for example? I imagine for a court case this would be better. One less thing to explain. I think for a court case you would have to prove that the block chain i
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by elsjaako 7y ago
Half-life 2: Episode 2
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by elsjaako 7y ago
I love command lines, but if you are reducing this to a minimum you can replace the top line with git gui
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by elsjaako 7y ago
I usually recommend Termite to people https://www.compuphase.com/software_termite.htm
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by elsjaako 7y ago
Similarly, I usually install ExtraPutty, because I need xmodem support. Still grateful for Simon Tatham's work. Did you know he also made a great collection of puzzles? https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/
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by elsjaako 7y ago
Isn't this an argument against using any library at all?
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by elsjaako 7y ago
> what would it take to convince you that this change really is being made for performance and security reasons, and not to hurt ad blocking? It's a fair question, but there are several of things that would at least help convince me
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by elsjaako 8y ago
Anyone is free to package it for macOS. I guess no one cares enough.
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by elsjaako 8y ago
Peertube?
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by elsjaako 8y ago
D'oh! That's what I meant to say. These days I use AMD, and I just haven't had to think about it. Before this I had Nvidea, and even there the open drivers were fine until I wanted to play games.
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by elsjaako 8y ago
Linux had a different model than windows. It doesn't really have separate drivers. This has a number of upsides and downsides, let me mention just one. Windows used to have a really bad reputation for stability. I'm sure a lot of
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by elsjaako 8y ago
If you make selling blood illegal you don't get a black market. Both the blood and the prostitution decisions are based on reducing harm.
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by elsjaako 8y ago
I'm guessing they mean the other ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpor...
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by elsjaako 8y ago
The blender foundation is more likely than other groups to make something different work. Once something else works, it can start to get traction. This is unlike other content creators, who migh not have the technical skills to try a new pl
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by elsjaako 8y ago
Without going into the idea that if it's just genitals it's fine (which I also disagree with), it's not just genitals: > It’s not just footages of sexual intercourse. There are spycam footages of women relieving themselves

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