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by huxley 10y ago
It stands for "Front of Book", often where shorter news pieces appear on a magazine
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There's a distinction between being a signatory vs having ratified the treaty. The US is a signatory (the treaty was signed on 22 March 1990) which is why they are on the list, but it's not ratified since the US Congress has never
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by huxley 10y ago
You're probably thinking of the Shakers, compared to other non-conformist sects, the Quakers had relatively few hangups about sex.
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by huxley 10y ago
Good interview of William Weaver in the Paris Review which discusses some of his early days as a translator in post-war Italy: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/421/the-art-of-tran...
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by huxley 10y ago
Not quite, the passcode is needed 48 hours past the last unlock but the clock restarts with every login or unlock including TouchID unlocks.
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by huxley 11y ago
Lots do. We lose the ability to look at our work objectively after spending a long time struggling with it, if you can put your writing aside for a period of time (some people say a few days others a week) stuff that you thought looked like
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by huxley 11y ago
Investing a surplus $100-200 a day everyday of your adult life may stretch the definition of feasible for most people. But on the positive side, the amount didn't double every day or you'd seriously distort the stock market in a m
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by huxley 11y ago
> The existence of the Antikythera mechanism despite no known contemporary written accounts of such mechanisms or their uses Actually there are a few written accounts of mechanisms similar to the Antikythera, probably best known are Cice
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by huxley 11y ago
Hardly, he isn't being deceptive at all, it's that Amazon's categories are so easy to game. Categories are normal in modern bestseller lists. Take a look at NY Times' Bestseller Page: http://www.nytimes.com&#x
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by huxley 11y ago
Definitely, in fact as far back as 1988-89, but Apple called their "notebooks" Powerbooks starting in 1991 before anyone else was using -Book in the branding* * as far as I can recall with the exception of Alan Kay who was dreamin
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by huxley 11y ago
One of Shakespeare's lost works, a collaboration with John Fletcher, was the History of Cardenio which is believed to have been based on a section of Don Quixote. Don Quixote was quite popular in English so it's kind of exciting t
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by huxley 11y ago
English readers were very fortunate to have William Weaver as the translator. Umberto Eco himself said --only half in jest-- that Weaver's translation of the Name of the Rose was better than the original.
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by huxley 11y ago
Anachronistic quotations happened quite often in ancient and medieval writing, so Eco was just having a bit of fun. I agree that the Name of the Rose is not an historic work (incidentally so did Eco), but plenty of medievalists think that i
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by huxley 11y ago
Incidentally translated into English by the same man that translated most of Umberto Eco's work, the late great William Weaver.
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by huxley 11y ago
re: #4 the Free Software Foundation goes to great pains to distinguish itself and free software from the Open Source Initiative and open source software, so whether the GPL violated or failed to violate a principle of open source software p
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by huxley 11y ago
I'm sure that it's easier for them to do it because it's aligned with their business model but Tim Cook has shown himself willing to pursue policies that aren't solely ROI-related. Cook very publicly tangled with shareho
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by huxley 11y ago
I thought that's what the TechCrunch article said that the OS Update does, isn't it?
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by huxley 11y ago
3D Studio was developed by the Yost Group and published by Autodesk pretty much from the start, they bought it outright after 3D Studio MAX R2.
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by huxley 11y ago
Decent point, but most people familiar with metric would work with smaller units than metres and for those unfamiliar with metric, describing it as a billionth of a yard would still sound like a pretty peculiar. I think describing it as a m
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by huxley 11y ago
I find the "billionth of a metre thick" phrasing painful, but I guess it's better than if they'd written that it was "a trillionth of a kilometre thick"
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by huxley 11y ago
> (What, you don't pickle tomatoes when they're green in the States? You have no idea what you're missing!) In some spots, I know of it in Atlantic Canada and some southern states where green tomato relish or chow is made
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by huxley 11y ago
I assumed it was a reference to Kafka's The Trial
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by huxley 11y ago
Hardly, if her married name wasn't Clinton, it would have made no more than a Friday afternoon page 18 story and then disappeared. Of the terrible things perpetrated by US government officials, this doesn't even register in the to
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by huxley 11y ago
IANAL and off-topic, but if it was a series title, your friend might have a case but, at least in North America, the titles of single works are generally not protectable under trademark law. If the book became strongly associated with your
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by huxley 11y ago
At least for the UK, he did on November 10: "Following the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill, which was released last week with new and extended surveillance powers for the government, Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended strong encryptio
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by huxley 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken your handle jgalt212 is a reference to John Galt from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. If Apple hatred is so strong that it makes Objectivists consider the obligation to pay taxes to be of crucial importance beyond a
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by huxley 11y ago
She was fine, the doctors kept her for observation. Of course, back then we didn't have cellphones so it was tough to reconnect, but eventually the concert staff tracked her down. She and I dated for a few more months but kinda drifted
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by huxley 11y ago
Me too, on July 2 1990 in New Brunswick. I won't ever forget it not just because Bowie was awesome but because a woman that climbed on stage to grab Bowie's arse leapt over the barriers and landed on my girlfriend, knocking her ou
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by huxley 11y ago
Agreed about the book and miniseries, but for me the problem with the film is that the book "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is one of the great character-driven spy thrillers, so while the film on its own is not a bad film, it dumped
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by huxley 11y ago
Yeah, I mean, what the heck has miniaturization ever done for computing? I am struggling to think of a single thing in the entire history of computers that was made better by being designed or fabricated in a smaller or thinner form.

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