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by frabbit 9y ago
You remember incorrectly. The famine was the result of laissez-faire capitalism (Wiki-1) combined with active discrimination against the majority Catholic population which explicitly interfered with the paternalist regulation of land in th
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by frabbit 9y ago
Surely it's 95.6897% ? It would be a mistake to simply call this "land reform" and confuse it with (e.g. Zimbabwe) while ignoring positive examples (e.g. Ireland). It's a fundamentally different situation brought about
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by frabbit 9y ago
I use a tiddlywiki. Very easy to backup, easy to search. http://tiddlywiki.com/
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by frabbit 9y ago
That’s because immigrant farmworkers in California’s agricultural heartlands are getting older and not being replaced. As others have mentioned it's all to do with the wages that the fruit growers are willing to pay, an
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by frabbit 9y ago
Sounds interesting. By contrast Timothy Snyder in _Black_Earth_ argues that concentration camps were created as institutions that were deliberately outside of the state to facilitate slaughter: http://www.npr.org/2015&#x2F
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by frabbit 9y ago
Beautiful cladogram
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by frabbit 9y ago
As long as your child isn't irritating me or my child in a public space I do not care.
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by frabbit 9y ago
How about they just release Free drivers for the latest cards instead? Having seen how wonky their proprietary drivers are I'd rather have something auditable if they're to get anywhere near controlling thousands of Kgs of metal
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by frabbit 9y ago
Just having dragged the scroller for the embedded sample for Halifax, N.S. a simple, idle question occurs to me: I presume that this is all not just regression to the mean? Is there something deeper than that demonstrated here?
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Cisco to use ML to detect malware sigs in encrypted traffic(blogs.cisco.com)
4 points by frabbit 9y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 9y ago
> So just because "Al Gore and I" is an object > that requires object case, it does not mean > that "I" is an object that requires object case. > By the logic of grammar, the pronoun is free to &
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by frabbit 9y ago
Lobbyists currently do not even need to use propaganda. They just need to provide a sufficient monetary reward to the smaller number of people's "representatives". It is much easier to bribe/suborn a few people than the
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by frabbit 9y ago
> Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a > person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we > hire people to handle running the country for us. It's > an abstraction of labor. I really don'
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by frabbit 9y ago
I think the idea that any of us are able to judge the trustworthiness of a politician is dubious on its face. When we add in the cliched and repetitive history of broken campaign promises then it becomes laughable.
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by frabbit 9y ago
The problem is with the idea of representative democracy at all. If the electorate is smart enough to figure out that Candidate A is _both_ correct on a range of policy matters _and_ of a trustworthy nature, then why are they not smart eno
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by frabbit 9y ago
Thank you for that link. Well worth reading as it is both funny and informative: The principal large mammals in Białowieża are the bison, moose, wolf, boar, bobcat, and graduate student. The last spends a lengthy juvenile period
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by frabbit 9y ago
Or alternatively Poland could be kicked out of the EU and UN for failing to abide by the laws and conventions that they signed up to when they joined. I think that would be fairer.
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by frabbit 9y ago
I cannot think of anything worse than flying cars. The noise, visual pollution, lack of privacy, waste of energy and sheer lack of imagination of finding a new way to live on this planet makes me grind my teeth. I hope they are easily hack
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by frabbit 9y ago
He has now been actually charged under the Terrorism Act: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/17/cage-campaig...
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by frabbit 9y ago
Or to put it another way: if you are contributing to a Free Software project and the copyright is held by some other entity to who you have duly assigned rights, then you may find that they decided to sell the right to use some of your con
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by frabbit 9y ago
This is why if someone were the (usually) imaginary "Free Software zealot" that would like to prevent a private business from profiting off public work, it would be necessary for software not only to be under a Free license, but f
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by frabbit 9y ago
I found the thesis interesting and plausible: that innovation is fetishized. But on a slight tangent I wondered whether the "innovation" that they complain about is a particular variant, one that we're all familiar with here
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by frabbit 9y ago
Snap seems like the solution to your woes: http://snap.berkeley.edu/about.html It's Javascript and extensible.
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by frabbit 9y ago
I use a (couple of years old now) Sandisk Sansa Clip with Rockbox on it. Great battery life, little to no maintenance, small, light cheap. Am very happy with Rockbox too.
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by frabbit 9y ago
I disagree that I am "giving up the will to question and criticize". On the contrary I criticize the fevered speculations in the media based upon unverifiable sources reputedly in secret agencies over which most elected lawmakers
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by frabbit 9y ago
I like this theory: "My guess is that the Shadow Brokers are a criminal organization with informal relationships with state intelligence services." But weirdly, why are any of us including Bruce discussing this? It's almost
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by frabbit 10y ago
I disagree that it takes too long. I wallow in it: - Russian folk punk - Avant garde theatre theory to control the spectacle - Trump's roots in the banksters' destruction of New York city government by financializat
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by frabbit 10y ago
FYI: "catimg" is available as a Fedora rpm.
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Big Data's Hidden Labor(jacobinmag.com)
3 points by frabbit 10y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 10y ago
Resistance to smallpox for those that can afford it or are useful?

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