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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
'Ninety percent of everything is crap' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
They are in an international airport. People in an international airport are already in voluntary temporary confinement. If people want to plead their case, provide them a hotel and fly them back if they abandon it. It really shouldn't
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>Due process at the border? yes >Do you see the hold up this will cause? no
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>due to the fact agents must make educated or gut decisions. That's one hell of an a priori you have there.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>Well, some countries spacial programs were made with IP stolen from the US. I suspect that Werner von Braun would find this hilarious. Also, I'm flitting on the verge of calling Poe's law here.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>What happens if I run the inputs for a decade? Presumably it either melts or explodes. Or melts and explodes.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Legally, until someone properly tests that in court, then it is not even really law yet. Also, as a legal conceit, it doesn't continue to apply to people after they emigrate from the US. I feel also, that you can't really go aroun
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Well, it is very often not theft. If they leave to a different juristiction, then local law applies. This twitter thread from law professor Sarah Burnstien is related - https://twitter.com/design_law/status/1166326
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Calibration Fingerprint Attacks for Smartphones(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
3 points by inflatableDodo 7y ago|0 comments
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>An approved and verified word-by-word upload of it, preferably on some public institution's servers. Which servers do I have to visit to verify the verification and whose approval would this all rely on? With books, there are copyr
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I know someone with aphantasia who is an excellent mathematician, I asked him what he does instead of visualising and he says that he does mathematics with the kinesthetic feeling of arbitary imaginary limbs. This may possibly explain why h
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>IMHO shitty trade and mass-market paperbacks should die a much needed death and the few books that survive should be Folio Society style, well bound books with good typography. Looking to my bookcase, do you think I am made of money?
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I have in my hand a 1942 edition of the 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by T.E. Lawrence that I am currently half way through. Can you suggest which credible data source on the internet is going to compete with Lawrence's first han
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I knew there was a good reason why I hadn't commented any code, named all variables using the elvish translations for a variety of diseases of sheep and built the DB backend out of practically unknown fork of paradox for dos that will
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Papanek's 'Design for the Real World' might be good inspiration for you. Here is the pdf - http://playpen.icomtek.csir.co.za/~acdc/education/Dr_Anvind_... - however I'd strongly recommend get
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I reckon it isn't that inaccurate, especially given the reported behaviour of compasses. " From these models and extrapolating down into the Earth, it is known that regions of reversed flux at the core-mantle boundary have grown o
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I don't care how much money someone earns, be it a dog or otherwise, or if they can buy me untold carpets. I am still going to tell them off if they shit in the middle of the living room floor.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>Well, first of all, email is an oligopoly and it's practically impossible for individuals to set up their own servers and expect their emails to get delivered all of the time. What the hell are you doing to your mail servers? edit
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Also, the swap apparently takes ages and during that time you have loads of magnetic poles floating about and the ionosphere dips by 80% or so. We currently have a little north pole floating around the south Atlantic. https://en.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
It isn't just a theoretical supposition, I believe we measure alignment of magnetic fields in igneous rocks and the 'almost always' comes from that, the current field of the earth being fixed in the rock when it solidifies.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Our brains certainly experience pain, even if burning a bit off doesn't trigger it. Also, we are not all entirely fine with what is done to mice and chimps.
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UK shale gas reserves are at least 80% smaller than thought(theconversation.com)
2 points by inflatableDodo 7y ago|0 comments
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
All the cookies are gone and the subject is has abandoned the study in favour of learning the ukelele.
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Given the link between inflamation due to infection and schizophrenia (here's a radio documentary on the subject, 'The Inflamed Mind', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjYmYPKZNE ) and the fact that joints an
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I'd say that Neuromancer, though it is not commonly regarded as a political novel, is more useful as a metaphor, given it predicts the explosion of players and political complexity created by the inability of any one group to exercise
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
The text is also up on MSN without the paywall https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/jim-mattis-duty-democ...
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Jim Mattis: Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism(wsj.com)
1 points by inflatableDodo 7y ago|1 comments
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
While this design loses some points for being essentially a cheap extension to the olympic rings device, it definitely wins points for other semantic associations, namely that if you remove 3 rings from the flag, you get the international b
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The Martians' Vision of the Future(mek.oszk.hu)
1 points by inflatableDodo 7y ago|0 comments
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by inflatableDodo 7y ago
Most of Freemasonry's really useful secrets got revealed during the enlightenment, I suspect.

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