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by fhars 3y ago
Notes and coins are completely different things from a legal standpoint. Only bank notes are unlimited legal tender issued by the central bank. Coins are more of a practical aid for low value cash transaction and are issued by the governmen
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by fhars 3y ago
That was not a black swan event, that was a concerted effort over two centuries.
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by fhars 3y ago
Yes, that is the problem, imagine you might write a cache and use None to represent the value not being present in the cache - but then your cache silently fails to cache if the thing you were caching returns None
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by fhars 3y ago
That graph illustrates the "should be living much more comfortably now" part of their argument, which is that the CPI adjustment used in that graph is deceptive. You are literally trying to twist their words into the opposite mean
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by fhars 3y ago
I sort of like the idea of a "dark star" shining "with up to ten billion solar luminosities"...
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by fhars 3y ago
Well, the birds won the Great Emu War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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by fhars 3y ago
If that defence works reliably or not depends on whether you have sl installed or not. SL(6) Games Manual SL(6) NAME sl - display animations aimed to correct users who acci-
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by fhars 3y ago
At least the north american subcontient is safe now: https://web.archive.org/web/20040810221240/http://www.jir.co...
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by fhars 3y ago
So that you cannot sit around the table talking with friends after finishing the pizza and they can serve more customers with the same number of tables. Next question?
130.
by fhars 3y ago
No, ist is your body saying "you've been doing it wrong."
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by fhars 3y ago
I think it is a modarately safe bet that the people who designed the processes used by the official library of the Japanese parliament have a reasonable grasp of the applicable laws.
132.
by fhars 3y ago
From the context of the sentence, my most likely guess is "for more information", but yes, that comment is a prime example for "how not to write if you want to be understood".
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by fhars 3y ago
Latitude. Gibraltar is on the same latitude as North Carolina. Most of the suitable locations are in French Guayana, where the ESA launch site actually happens to be located.
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by fhars 4y ago
The true masochists go for Kanken level 1 (which has almost 90% fail rate even for native test takers, and those are already the self selected sample of people mad enough to try the test).
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by fhars 4y ago
They are probably depending on the same person in Nebraska, though.
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by fhars 4y ago
It's the firefox snap, nobody needs to pay for that campaign.
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by fhars 4y ago
Are you perchance trying to describe interlaced video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
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by fhars 4y ago
1000000 square meters are one square kilometer. Which is probably only about ten times the area required to build a nuclear power plant.
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by fhars 4y ago
The CPU only pretends to be a CPU. In reality, it is a small datacenter comprised of several small special purpose computers doing all the work. I gave up understanding CPUs in depth by the time I read an introducion to Intel's then-ne
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by fhars 4y ago
Tigers are not herd animals that are preyed on by other predators, though :-).
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by fhars 4y ago
Fibre optics deployed under the surface. Copper cables may work too for smaller flares, but they tend to burn up during larger events. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
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by fhars 4y ago
They are usually procured in series, but only a few (compared with cars) trains per series are built. For example, there are three configurations for Germanys current top of the line ICE4 high speed train, with 37, 50 and 50 sets built. Tra
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by fhars 4y ago
That is actually deliberate, we tend to organize everyday life and the devices we build around processes that are easy to model, that is why many things look like linear processes and harmonic oscillators (the first two term of the Taylor e
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by fhars 4y ago
Well, sort of... there goes quite a bit of materials science and engineering into making and shaping the glass of a lens to make it behave like a matrix (i.e. to extend the range in which this linear approximation to the actual behavior of
145.
by fhars 4y ago
Well, you can always choose this: https://www.hwlibre.com/en/troll-duino/
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by fhars 4y ago
And then you can give each headline a uniq id, write some elisp, call (server-start) and add a lot of org-protocol://clock-in?id=12345678-90ab-cdef-afb2-91ad9c6049c9 actions to your StreamDeck to clock into tasks without
147.
by fhars 4y ago
I think a related joke was "Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?"
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by fhars 4y ago
RAM is the new tape...
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by fhars 4y ago
No, it is O(mn) if your stream is m samples long, compred to O(m n lg(n)) for the alternative.
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by fhars 4y ago
You might enjoy this project: https://github.com/garybernhardt/base :-)

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