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by idoubtit 7y ago
`awk` is not needed since `sort` can apply to the fourth column. curl ... \ | sort -t, -k4 -n | less
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by idoubtit 7y ago
From Wikidepia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#Germany About 70% of church revenues come from church tax (Kirchensteuer). This is about €9.2 billion (in 2010).
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You seem to have missed an important word in the grand poster's story: monasteries are opening up their rooms to paying guests. Sanctus Benedictus never set any rule about renting rooms and selling breakfasts. By the way, monasteries
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by idoubtit 7y ago
I agree that many people chose to become monks "because they were true believers", but I know two facts that show that religious belief was not the only factor for living in a monastery. First, monks were not the only men to live
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> demonstrating that meaning was neither atomic nor discrete, with interlocking contingencies that span multiple words and sentences. How is that original? Of course, the exact meaning of a word and a sentence depends on the context. If
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by idoubtit 7y ago
My view on climate efforts is rather orthogonal: spend less money. A large part of the damages to the world comes from the consumerism of modern society. Mass tourism destroys pretty places and their social structure, mass farming destroy e
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I suspect that figure is wrong, because the Bureau of Justice Statistics does not publish the rate on prisons but on prisoners . "As of 2016, 8.5% of the prisoners are in private for-profit prisons. Since 2000, the number of people
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Myth about cities founded by Trojan people were common in Greek and Roman culture, and in derived cultures. Virgil's Aeneid is the most famous example. The Arvern tribe from Gaul also claimed a Troyan ascendance. There were legends tha
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> UN investigators have suggested that the rebels’ new UAV-X drone may have a range of up to 930 miles (1,500km) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/14/major-saudi-ar...
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The so-called "rebels" represent a large part of the Yemen population, and they ruled over their country for many month, so of course some of them are educated and have access to technical ressources. From memory, here's what
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Monte Cristo is also my favorite novel by Alexandre Dumas, but I enjoyed many other books he wrote — he used to have assistants that wrote part of his books, and, IIRC, one of them claimed that he was the main author of some novels. I&#x2
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by idoubtit 7y ago
When I was a child, I loved Jules Vernes' novels. My favorite were "L'île mystérieuse" et "Michel Strogoff". I've read them again after a few decades, and I enjoyed them both. "L'île mystérieuse&
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> The only think keeping me on Fx is a sense of ethics So do I. At least I still use Firefox as my secondary browser. My own main recriminations: - The download manager is awful. I sometimes download several times a file because I didn&#
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by idoubtit 7y ago
I suppose this list must be combined with the following explanation: "To be targeted might mean simply being born in a certain geographic region or being part of a certain ethnic group."[^1] So the suspects are countries that figh
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Over the last 20 years, I've heard this often. "I don't need to learn no VCS, I get work done by copying files". "I don't need no IDE and semantic navigation, I'm productive with Notepad+". "I do
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Alternative solution for keeping track of where you stopped watching series : watch them with mpv. If you quit with "Q" instead of "q", it will remember the position. Then, whenever you launch mpv, it checks if one of th
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The etymology of the Portugese "marmelo" is clear, from Latin "melimelum", itself from the Greek "μελίμηλον", meaning "sweet apple". The product was famous, so the word was borrowed to sell orange pas
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The demographics is worse than what is seen in the streets, because of the correlation between overweight and outdoor activities. The CDC facts are that 39% of the American adults are obese and 75% are overweight (including obesity). So ove
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> The DOT doesn't show that to be the case. Your graph stopped at year 2012 with a rate of 15.1 pedestrian fatalities. The latest report on the CDC website has the following text under "key findings": "In 2016 there w
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Granted, "scornful and stupid" is a better description than "hateful". But "Childish exaggeration" is also an exaggeration. Next time you hear "I hate losers" (or "I hate XXX"), will you rid
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by idoubtit 7y ago
You forgot the most mind-related epidemic disease in the USA: obesity. Without the proper education or mind sanity, it's hard to resist the constant assault of junk food. Now 21% of the American teenagers are obese, and 39% of adults.
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by idoubtit 7y ago
> In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels. This is currently HN's title, and the article's subtitle. But the article makes no statement to prove this assertion. It does not even make s
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> Just enjoy being alive! :) Telling this is like telling "Just believe in God". Both would be solutions, if it was that simple to format human minds. Nowadays, the highest rate of suicides is no longer among the young men. In
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As noted in the initial post, the sociologist Durkheiem did show that people living with a partner and children were less inclined to suicide. But I wouldn't build an advice from it. In a similar way, I've seen a few couples makin
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> if the justice system cannot help you then you have to take things into your own hands. If you apply this rule strictly, then the mobs could first hit the police. In many countries, police officers are violent and have a de facto impun
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by idoubtit 7y ago
Point 3 is wrong. OOM killing is not random. Each process is given a score according to its memory usage, and the highest score is chosen by the kernel. The way to mark priority in killing is to adjust this score through /proc. All of
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by idoubtit 7y ago
The irony is that I ported two of my old user scripts to web extensions. With old Opera, userJS was native, while TamperMonky is a (big) web extension. I had performance problems with TamperMonkey, so I rewrote my scripts to avoid this laye
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I believe many people should attempt to create their own web extension, even if they don't publish it. In my younger years, I used to crack and hack software just for fun. Those were my Softice years. Later, when Opera was not Chromium
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I don't think the comparison is meaningful. Twelve years ago, it was obvious to most people that the web on smartphones would be important. Mozilla understood that but they were presumptuous: instead of trying to create the best Androi
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by idoubtit 7y ago
This BBC article intends to surprise the reader, and I think the reader has to be extremly cautious with its content. Yet, it briefly mentions that the Roman longevity concerned only the nobility. > all working-class people who were buri

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