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by gebruikersnaam 6y ago
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith has some interesting thoughts about this. The gist is that because they have such (relative) short lives, their lessened need to be defensive allows them to be more curious.
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by gebruikersnaam 6y ago
One of my favorite programming stories : http://archive.is/O70Rg
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by gebruikersnaam 8y ago
> Spain defaulted 9 times This was all before 1900 though, things have changed quite a bit since then.
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by gebruikersnaam 8y ago
Bush put tariffs on steel in 2002 : 200000 jobs lost [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tarif...
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
The alpha version (4.0) is significantly better than the stable version (3.05).
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
https://scholar.google.nl/ is a start.
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
"In October 2012, U.S. officials acknowledged off the record for the first time to the New York Times that “most” of the arms that had been shipped to armed opposition groups in Syria with U.S. logistical assistance during the previou
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
> The U.S. has never armed al Qaeda in Syria (al Nusra). That's not true[1]. The USAF might have bombed them, the CIA certainly supported them. The war between the CIA and DoD is described here [2]. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
It adds '.casa' to each link, maybe that's the problem?
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
PyPy has a GIL : http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#does-pypy-have-a-gil-...
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by gebruikersnaam 9y ago
It's a known way of cooking[0], saw them in Tibet years ago. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker