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by heraclius 6y ago
One respect in which it seems prima facie that the story is farfetched nonsense but isn’t is provenance. Lianhe Zaobao is owned by the Singaporean government and is reasonably reputable, and the translation is accurate. It is however a repo
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by heraclius 6y ago
> Large geographic size…Similar to #1, this makes it hard for aggrieved, disenfranchised groups to collectively rise up, as everyone is literally all spread out. This is not at all obvious: sometimes different groups are disproportionate
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by heraclius 6y ago
How does this deal with birds, clouds, fog, planes, drones, hills, dust, smog, etc.?
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by heraclius 6y ago
> In the example above, Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil would be bridge languages for Indo-Aryan languages. Tamil isn’t an Indo-Aryan language. It would be rather surprising if it were a good bridge for any two Indo-Aryan langauges.
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by heraclius 6y ago
I should be rather surprised if the FCC were the relevant body in Wales.
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by heraclius 6y ago
That’s too late for university admissions this cycle, and next year’s Oxbridge admissions cycle will be a nightmare given the large number of reapplicants. It’d have been necessary to use the time saved in not having to mark exams to run th
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by heraclius 6y ago
I don’t see why this is would actually be a bad idea—it just sounds like the offer wouldn't be taken up much. Most systems that allow people to express some preference to be kinder to someone else probably won’t end up causing harm—the
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by heraclius 6y ago
In practice it seems that affirmative action primarily takes from Asians and unconnected whites to give to blacks. I have no objection to the latter—indeed, I can see some justification in taking from educated middle class Asians like me—bu
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by heraclius 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, the IPT upheld ten of 1468 complaints from 2000 to 2012. High standards of conduct, judicial probity and intellectual excellence do not inevitably lead to justice—we know this from, e.g., Singapore—and, whilst we can
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by heraclius 6y ago
Initially I suspected that the most likely reason was that the _Deutsche Physik_ babble ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik ) somehow had got out of hand, but evidently that wasn’t it.
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by heraclius 6y ago
The answer from the Education Secretary in the LegCo, in full: https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202007/08/P2020070800306... The obvious flaw in the answer given is that he goes from ‘such right [para
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by heraclius 6y ago
The fourth year of an undergrad also gives an “undergraduate master’s”.
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by heraclius 6y ago
The PM was Senior Wrangler, so at least as much of a mathmo as a computer scientist. Moreover he is odd in two ways: first, he is the product of the scholar-army-politician pipeline in Singapore, which is quite unparalleled; second, he is t
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by heraclius 6y ago
> weapon of absolute last resort At least when Israel was developing its nuclear bomb, its neighbours were not particularly minded to compromise. Contrast, for example, the Freedom Charter (a fifties document!), which was so studiously n
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by heraclius 6y ago
The court would not discharge its duty to follow the law if it were to decline to correct earlier precedent on the basis that the legislature could at some point alter the law once again. In this case, the question is whether qualified immu
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by heraclius 6y ago
In this case, in the video, Jimenez asks the police whether they'd like him to move somewhere else, they don't respond, and then they arrest him, so it is quite hard to justify the claim that they were resisting arrest even on tha
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by heraclius 6y ago
Hong Kong’s economy is built on its (arguably at least economically) exploitative relationship with China. More improbable even than the successful implementation of a relocation plan (to N. Ireland, Tsushima Island, or whatever) is that Ch
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by heraclius 6y ago
Ah yes, quite right. I thought the colours suggested that I was in fact already on the fixed broadband list.
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by heraclius 6y ago
I looked at [4]—unless I’m being silly, the table seems to have the US far behind (from your list) S. Korea, Belgium, Austria, and several other European states.
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by heraclius 6y ago
> I just want them to understand that they aren’t very much more protective than if they weren’t wearing them. And they’re really not doing a whole lot of good for the people around them. So, we should continue to do social distancing as
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by heraclius 6y ago
Bravo!
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by heraclius 6y ago
Thank you very much; in retrospect this should have been obvious.
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Hampstead Theatre: The Arrest of AI Weiwei (2013)(youtube.com)
1 points by heraclius 6y ago|0 comments
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by heraclius 6y ago
The original 2019nCovMemory repository appears to have been deleted.⁰ There is another repository of that name on Github, but it was last updated 13 February.¹ If anyone happens to have a more recent local copy, I urge you to upload it to
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Chinese activists detained after sharing censored coronavirus material on GitHub(scmp.com)
12 points by heraclius 6y ago|3 comments
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by heraclius 6y ago
The target is to ensure that each case infects no more than one additional person (‘R<1’). Each infected person will come into contact with some other people. Testing allows three things— - first, we can tell this person to stay at home
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by heraclius 7y ago
I believe that they stay in quarantine wards where everyone is known to be infected, since attempts are still made to treat them.
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by heraclius 7y ago
From Caixin: > He found that two-thirds of the medical staff in the ICU were already infected. Doctors there were running "naked" as they knew they were set to be infected given the shortage of protective gear. They still worke
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by heraclius 7y ago
1. It is trivially the case that many have overthrown such systems sans guns. See, for example, the DDR, Poland, Hungary etc. 2. The HK protest movement is not about “communism”. The left in Hong Kong, apart from a very small section repres
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by heraclius 7y ago
As Hyphen Press explain, hardbacks used invariably to be bound properly, but now they are often simply paperbacks between boards.¹ Signalling alone as above is the correct explanation. Cloth books can have practical advantages, such as the

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