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by garmaine 5y ago
You’re thinking is incorrect. There are a LOT of governing regulations and oversight, not to mention unions and corporate policies.
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by garmaine 5y ago
The same reason you might specify “American South” if it is a crew from Alabama.
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by garmaine 5y ago
You need higher karma to vouch for a comment then flag one, apparently.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Here is a start: https://theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-t...
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by garmaine 5y ago
ARM says Intel’s time is ‘over’
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by garmaine 5y ago
You must not be familiar with the intricacies of UK property ownership. Most desirable properties in London are owned by a small group of aristocratic people who really do just hold property, and things which give them political influence l
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by garmaine 5y ago
I really wish Date had any understanding of modern type theory, since that's the basis of his desired reform of SQL. His typing model is 50 years out of date.
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by garmaine 5y ago
See the sibling comments... those books are SF thriller junk. Don't let me stop you from reading them if you enjoy that, but their reputation for "deep ideas" is not deserved.
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by garmaine 5y ago
(minor spoilers for Deepness follow) When I read Deepness I actually imagined in my head a Studio Ghibli like aesthetic for the spider world chapters. I thought if it were ever adapted into film or TV, it would be essential to display
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by garmaine 5y ago
Same here. I would have put down and thrown away Deepness if I hadn't read Fire Upon The Deep first and trusted the author. I'm glad I finished it because of the parts about the spiders and Pham Nuwen's past was really in
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by garmaine 5y ago
Also along similar lines is Alastair Reynolds' Diamond Dogs short story.
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by garmaine 5y ago
That aspect of it destroyed the rereadability of the book for me. I tried reading it again recently because I loved the part of the plot that dealt with the spiders, but I ended up skipping over the chapters with the emergents because I kne
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by garmaine 5y ago
I think you very much missed the point. The tine packs don't mind read, they have high bandwidth sonic communication and their mind is brought into being through that communication. Much like the same can be said of you, whose brain co
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by garmaine 5y ago
I believe it is correct to say there are undecidable theorems in some limited type systems which cannot be proven, but which can be once you extend the type system (e.g. by making it higher-level or dependent). So in those limited systems w
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by garmaine 5y ago
Yeah sounds like the lesson here is that nobody reads the update messages.
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by garmaine 5y ago
This is what happens when you settle for “electability” as your primary metric in selecting a candidate. You end up with an entrenched establishment, partisan hack that is fully owned by lobbyists. The administration didn’t even try to hide
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by garmaine 5y ago
Surely not more litigious than Bezos.
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by garmaine 5y ago
The anti-nuclear crowd willfully conflates the two.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Not in 2003.
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by garmaine 5y ago
I’m not defending Trump. I’m just saying the nuclear situation wasn’t comparable to Petrov. Accuracy and precision matters. A general saying he would hypothetically disobey orders is quite different from actually doing so.
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by garmaine 5y ago
The situation would be comparable is Trump actually ordered a nuclear assault, but he did not.
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by garmaine 5y ago
That’s how Americans use the term, yes. It’s original meaning (still in partial use by the rest of the world) is shorthand for “liberalism”, which is a well defined political and economic philosophy that is actually somewhat conservative an
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by garmaine 5y ago
Exams don’t give the whole picture.
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by garmaine 5y ago
In the USA (re-)definition of the word, yes.
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by garmaine 5y ago
My history may be off, but I believe that the Chinese named their country 中國 because they believed themselves the center of the world. Much like how the Romans named the Mediterranean (which means “middle sea”). The primary meaning of 中 is
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by garmaine 5y ago
I don’t see that as consistent. The USA isn’t the middle of the world by any measure.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Correct that it is very different in Taiwan. But generally you're missing the point. (1) 老外 (lao wai) is an intrinsically othering term, and (2) it's generally applied by race rather than by national origin. It doesn't matter
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by garmaine 5y ago
That’s exactly how trade-in works at a dealership though.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Is this a job for The Boring Company? Dig a straight hole through bedrock that can be “tapped” from the surface with a precisely positioned narrow drill, but is wide enough for human technicians to traverse in electric golf carts.
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by garmaine 5y ago
What does that mean?

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