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by idoubtit 7y ago
From the BBC audio, about Canada: > In 2017-2018, 3.6 % of criminal cases in adult courts led to acquittal, but 62 % led in a guilty decision, and 1/3 were withdrawn or subject to a crown stay. To be fair in their comparison, they s
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> The people who run these shelters are angels. I'm sorry if I misinterpret, but if only angels could handle such welfare works, there wouldn't be many shelters. I sometimes hear people say, in various ways, that a big heart is
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As a former mathematician, I totally disagree. Logicomix has nearly no mathematical content. The most technical part is a quick description of Hilbert's Hotel, but I thought it was very shallow, since there was no explanation. It did n
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When reading old novels and travel logs up to a century ago, the main difference is that people took their time. Travelling often took days or weeks, but it was okay since there was no alternative, and since enjoying the journey was sometim
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This story was faithfully transposed to *bande dessinée" (European comics) by Martin Veyron in 2016. "Ce qu'il faut de terre à l'homme" won a prize at the Angoulême Festival, and I recommend it very much if you can
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And as soon as the cold war ended, in 1989, the USA invaded Panama to put their own man as president. In the process, the USA killed more than 3000 civilians. The man who ordered the invasion was George H W Bush, a former director of the CI
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In this case, philosophy clearly is an art. Creating artistic sculptures, imagining a long-term future, playing with the notion of time, inducing debates… all of this is relevant of arts. From my experience, this is not specific to this phi
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The "pythonic" way was a mantra that has been obsolete for a long time. With Python, there are many (unsatisfying) ways to declare dependencies, many ways to format code (I hope "black" will prevail), many ways to format
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by idoubtit 7y ago
In my opinion Akira got nothing "wrong", because it is clearly more a supernatural dystopia than a science-fiction world. First, the manga and the anime were both based on the immediate destruction of Tokyo — 1982 for the manga, 1
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The data visualization is often awful and misleading. For instance, consider https://2019.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/ 1. The first graph shows "Rankings". I strongly doubt rankings are more importants t
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Meta: I can't bear watching this video, I find it infuriating. It's a mix of many shots, with no temporal continuity. I don't think there is a continuous shot of more than 3 seconds. The music is annoying (wouldn't natur
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> Stop using chrome. Honestly, wtf?! Firefox is awesome. I do not use Chrome, but I don't think Firefox is awesome. While I use FF, partly for moral reasons, my experience is average and I saw many flaws and bugs. I prefer the featu
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> the sample space changed! Now the possibilities are not just all possible arrangements of 7 children, but all possible arrangements of up to 7 children [...] > the "stop condition" now is not when there are 7 children tot
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There is no contradiction. The title, "Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips", is confirmed by the content of the article, including a quote by an analyst: “When Huawei came out with this high-end phone—and thi
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I've first heard of this custom while reading Marco polo's "Le livre des merveilles du monde" (The Travels of Marco Polo). IIRC the editor's notes, the custom did exist in some places of the Himalaya mountains. >
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The idea is interesting, but I see little more than anecdotes to sustain it. > aeon.co/essays/why-working-class-britons-loved-reading-and-debating-the-classics How many working class Britons did so and when? By 1800, was it 1%?
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by idoubtit 7y ago
In my opinion, the worst problem is the lack of a standard way to handle dependencies. I recently had a hard time deploying a small Python project over a few heterogeneous Linux machines. For example, this "simple, lightweight" pr
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All of the non-research grants were in 2006-2013. Has Mozilla stopped this policy of semi-random funding of external projects? Some of these grants surprised me. For example, $270,000 for the translation and accessibility of the USA preside
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> Twenty years of counter-insurgencies around the Middle East has amounted to a US butcher's bill that would be less than one single day during a major offensive in 1916 in France or 1943 in the Ukraine. That's an exaggeration.
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In which countries are law officers accountable for their crimes? I can't name any. Two weeks ago in France, 2 policemen were sentenced for beating up students. This kind of conviction is extremely rare, but they were caught on CCTV be
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PHP has come a long way, and nowadays it's in the same category as Python. Worse in many ways, but better by other, like the type declarations and their (runtime) enforcing. Yet there are still many ugly sides to PHP, and Laravel illus
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I went to my bank one hour ago and was just reminded of that reality. While I was waiting for my turn, I couldn't help but hear the man before me. He thought his card was broken, but the bank worker told him there were only 9 € on his
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> "adult obesity rates now exceed 35% in nine states, 30% in 31 states and 25% in 48 states." The source for the above data is a telephone survey for the CDC. The NCHS regularly conducts a survey on the same subject for the sam
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It was much worse than a lack of training. Prior to the first crash in Indonesia, MCAS was not mentioned in the formation to the pilots. Boeing has asked the FAA to remove it from the documentation. The FAA did not know that the MCAS was to
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My experience is that Chromium DevTools are much more polished than Firefox's. For instance, the network tab is a pain to use with FF on a small screen because the columns have a large default width, so the Method column ("GET&quo
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The way most people act on internet has changed dramatically. Web users are usually consumers, and web "creators" are often standard sellers. People got used to the fact the sites are there to attract them in a race for attention.
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> Elm is playing the JS world's game (obeying the rules) I disagree, though the meaning isn't clear. Elm is interesting, but it's not part of the JS world, and it doesn't come close. Just recently, the Norway Railways
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I went to a well-famed pizzeria with a few friends. Among them was a woman from Napoli who was in France for a few months. When we asked what she thought of her pizza she said: > It's good. Nothing great, but once I stopped thinking
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I've read this yesterday and thought the Guardian's title was misleading. If I understood rightly, the chapter found was already known, although it was through a later copy. So this discovery will bring minor changes, which a few
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Megalopolis, really? At the same time, Mesopotamia's cities were much larger. Uruk's population was probably more than 30,000 people. Even outside Mesopotamia, Ebla, south of Aleppo, was a large city where nearby villages provided

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