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by gerikson 4y ago
This is going to be very interesting to watch. I hope to be able to read the lawsuit when it is filed.
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by gerikson 4y ago
See also Acme::Bleach: < https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach >
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by gerikson 4y ago
That escalated quickly...
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by gerikson 4y ago
Indeed, renaming to GOOG is a good start, saving 34% right there.
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by gerikson 4y ago
At least in Perl, the rationale for this (apart from copying C) is that it's very easy to reference a list (array) of month names if the month indices are zero-based.
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by gerikson 4y ago
The revolutionary calendar is separate from the Terror. In fact, it survived it by quite some time, being abolished by Napoleon in An XII.
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by gerikson 4y ago
"High impact" is a weird wording when it comes to traffic safety...
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by gerikson 4y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines says: no.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Soviet engineers proposed something similar in the 50s/60s to divert rivers flowing north into the Arctic.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Seems like these protocols used a centralized service that provides information about which addresses are subject to OFAC and they just blindly used the results.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Concerted effort to push this weird theory - < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32434124 > - Anti-Big Bang theory scientists face censorship by international journals - < https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by gerikson 4y ago
It's not a given that the water flows that are required to cool the reactors are going to be present in the fall/winter.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Seems to be a feature for subscribers only.
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by gerikson 4y ago
It's basically Gresham's law for information.
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by gerikson 4y ago
What's the context? "Poisoning the well" by associating these addresses with Tornado.cash?
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by gerikson 4y ago
I read "The Gun" a while ago and I got the feeling Chivers was pro-2A. https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/The-Gun.html
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by gerikson 4y ago
Easy. They set up a crypto project that looks just like any other crypto project.
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by gerikson 4y ago
The linked Treasury doc references Executive Order 13694, which has its own wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13694 .
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by gerikson 4y ago
My main blog is still powered by blosxom and it was trivial to set up a gemsite using it.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I can boost my own service: https://gerikson.com/hnlo/ Shows stories shared between the 2 sites.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Lobste.rs does it. If a submission is a duplicate within six months it's not accepted.
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by gerikson 4y ago
From the link < https://thelondonpress.uk/2022/07/28/west-london-faces-new-h... > > In its note, the [Greater London Authority] said pressure on the grid in west London has been particularly acute beca
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by gerikson 4y ago
That was a famous fiasco.
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by gerikson 4y ago
If there's a big fault line developing in Sweden it's about recreational drugs (weed, specifically). The politicians will have a harder and harder time holding the hard line as more and more countries and regions legalize.
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by gerikson 4y ago
When the plants were planned and designed no-one imagined that summer temps of +40C were going to be usual. It's great there are "trivial solutions" but they need to be implemented.
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by gerikson 4y ago
I'd say there's a broad acceptance in Sweden for the restrictive alcohol policy: - age limit of 20 (18 in restaurants) - state monopoly on sales of alcoholic beverages >3.5% ABV - high taxes on alcoholic beverages Of course, th
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by gerikson 4y ago
True! But this was before the Papal States were incorporated into Italy and the same pope who commissioned the research detailed in the article became “a prisoner in the Vatican”.
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by gerikson 4y ago
Indeed, the papal states were a fascinating institution. From a link in the submitted article: > It is easy to forget that even if its political constitution was at odds with Europe’s ascendant liberalism, the Papal States of the 19th ce
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by gerikson 4y ago
TIL the Papacy used to have a navy.
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by gerikson 4y ago
The source article linked from the submission mentions electrically synced clocks with the master in the Observatoire. I don't know why pneumatically synced clocks were preferred. Maybe it was cheaper to integrate the clocks themselves

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