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by eointierney 6y ago
The hole is the lack of access to the courts to to appeal decisions of the Government on maybe 90% of the business of the Governement. If you read the rest of the article it's actually pretty cool if old fashioned. If it was justicable
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Yes but the institutions are defined in the constitutions. In the Republic of Ireland we have a relatively good constitution, fairly active, that has a vast hole in the first paragraph of Article 45: ARTICLE 45 The principles of social poli
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You might enjoy "There's plenty of room at the bottom" by Feynman.
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More and more guix or nixos seem like good practical choices for these kinds of use cases. I prefer guix as it's a little less finicky (though https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix is probably required for all non-pu
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https://github.com/remacs/remacs and yep it's in rust
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I've a GL-AR750S-Ext and it's excellent. Small, reliable, and properly configurable. I also have a Linksys WRT1900ACS and it's a great piece of kit. The point is that no matter the hardware, having the community-empowered Ope
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Kindness is how we'll save our planet Kindness is a polite word for love
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Increase the copper content of all coinage
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edit - error
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by eointierney 6y ago
Code must be re-used or it rots. Fortran was the first language I learned, and naming things was a problem. Guix, mentioned in the fine article, or like it is the answer as long as we keep reading and writing our code. This is why all scien
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by eointierney 6y ago
Oh dear, I want to rant. Efficiency is a dimensionless ratio of energy in to energy out. Economics, as formulated, has little to say about efficiency and lots to say about preference relations on utility functions (the texts do tend to hand
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Amateur mathematicians worry about patterns, professionals worry about numbers
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Or how to become a better theoretical physicist. Generality and technical ability, proper mathematical awareness, historical understanding and appreciation of our forerunners. Mainly read the damned texts and task good teachers when confuse
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He just towers over most, elegantly. I remember working in an Internet cafe and in the evenings out of boredom would read Knuth. I used to visit uni libraries and hunker down with TAOCP for a few hours until cramp, physical and mental, beca
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You hack our news Awesome storytelling, thank you
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The New Yorker needs editors More of less
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Tinkering electronically Let's celebrate and explore
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You are doing our work and I am grateful
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This is an awesome piece of kit. I have one. I used to have an N900. This is better. Our community of doers who celebrate freedom by doing are amazing. This is almost, but not quite, the last piece of our autonomous puzzle. Very soon now we
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by eointierney 6y ago
This is excellent advice for everybody. Well said zoomlings. I remember reading about forge work and thinking it would be fun. I remember playing on a forge and sweating pants and burning. I remember reading about advanced techniques and wa
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Syncthing?
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You give excellent commentary
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Why?
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The world order, in terms of socio-economic and politico-legal structures, is for sure changing, but it's more a matter of demographics and communication. We have shattered certain assumptions about the world economy to ensure the cont
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by eointierney 6y ago
Work and hard work. We all know it's easy to "work" as in get "stuff done" but "hard work" is the basis of our economy. Part of the problem is the notion of hardness, a dimensionless constant on the Moh sc
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by eointierney 7y ago
Math, and Science in general, is slow. Arxiv, mathexchange, ncatlab, have each changed how scientists collaborate, as have so many other projects. Wikipedia itself is way way better than a "facebook" for Science. Science is best p
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by eointierney 11y ago
Mathematicians, and I am one, are obsessed by and seek to exploit seemingly arbitrary yet otherwise convenient numbers.