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by jackfoxy 5y ago
The article dismisses the stringy fuse because spherical mortar bombs had a hollow wooden fuse, but 18th and early 19th century hand grenades were also spherical and had a stringy fuse.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
And the military is the pawn of a corrupt State Department, national security elite, and military industrial complex, which renders moot the mostly honorable conduct of people in the military.
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Choosing properties for property-based testing(fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 5y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Family lore has it that my great grandfather, living in Manhattan in the last decades of the 19th century, was a race walker, and pretty good at it.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Martensen called the pandemic on Jan 26, 2020. The WHO called it March 11. For the next 6 months he produced videos every weekday analyzing the covid news of the day and relevant published papers, always citing the primary sources. Since th
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Chris Martensen's analysis of the dump of Fauci's emails is pretty damning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZwMYw The coordinated lying and censorship from leading institutions and media over the last 18 mon
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
There's a very big problem in the industry with so many developers not understanding SQL at all , let alone how the internals work. Conceptually most developers only need to understand the set operations, relational algebra, and first
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
I like this one page visual for explaining joins much more succinctly https://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/Visual_SQL_Joins/Vis...
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
From my experience in Europe decades ago the Dutch eat peanut butter. It's pretty much unknown in the rest of Europe.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Q: What's the difference between fake news / conspiracy theories and the real news? A: About 8 months. Sure this joke is an exaggeration, but occurrences like this seem to be getting more common. Sometimes it's much longer th
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Did these 12 account for all or the bulk of 18 million pieces of information, and the bulk of anti-covid-vax postings? That is the lumping together I'm talking about.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
> During the pandemic we’ve removed 18 million pieces of harmful misinformation about Covid-19 and worked with 80 fact-checking organizations to label over 167m posts as false. Almost certainly this count includes people referencing actu
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
It's really impossible, or at least impractical, to factor in all the changes in money supply, baskets of goods, inflation, growth in societal wealth, etc. to do inflation comparisons across centuries. Gold has always been internationa
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
> gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump There's no need to politicize the discussion. 1) There's no evidence any recent president or cabinet member had a clue, or if they
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
I am not at all shocked. All this was known and reported over a year ago. Social media companies and the MSM actively censored this information then in the name of squashing fake news. It was called conspiracy theory. What is different now?
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
IIRC the US Supreme Court declared the Civil War era income tax unconstitutional, which is why it required a constitutional amendment.
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
> how have we always just accepted the lack of personal privacy when it comes to finance? It was very easy. The American public was hoodwinked into accepting the 16th Amendment (levying an income tax) as a tax the rich scheme. And like a
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Blue Origin is not doing well compared to ULA. In fact, ULA is none too pleased with Blue Origin, which has failed to deliver the BE-4 rocket engine required for ULA's next generation Vulcan rocket. https://spacenews.com&#x2
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
It was not unusual in the past for changes in sovereignty to still respect the prior established private property rights. For instance both the Louisiana purchase and annexation of California promised in law to respect existing Spanish land
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
> Marxism would never ever put up with rampant delinquency Once in control, yes, Marxists would not allow rampant delinquency. But until that day file this under "by any means necessary".
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Anecdotally, since taking vitamin D3 supplements I haven't been getting colds. Added daily nutritional zinc supplements in 2020 as soon as they were available after I heard the anecdotal evidence D & zinc are effective in Covid pre
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by jackfoxy 5y ago
Why aren't chips recycled more? (Not that recycling could address the immediate problem.) Or perhaps there is already a lot of recycling, but it is not apparent to me and probably not apparent to most people. Is pulling and sorting chi
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
WWI, FDR, and then WW2 ushered in the age of big government, academic-government collaboration, and bureaucracy over all. Everything gets done according to process . Elon Musk is a rare iconoclast.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
The white paper on the F# active patterns feature.
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Extensible Pattern Matching via a Lightweight LanguageExtension [pdf](microsoft.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 6y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
This is the result of the central banks embracing Modern Monetary Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory as the policy to leave no hedge fund behind and lay the groundwork for UBI. In plain English
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Without more clarification this appears to be nonsense. Do any search for gasoline floats on water and every explanation says gasoline floats on water, not the other way around. If there is any hope in this disaster it is that interstate
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
This sew shop in L.A. https://suayla.com/pages/our-mission was claiming you could use a double layer of common blue shop towels as an N95 filter. I can't find that information on their site anymore. If it is N95 e
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Let's not be too conspiratorial, but it is worth pointing out destruction of the bourgeoisie is a central tenant of the Communist Manifesto. https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/communist/full-text/bo...
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
I think information density per visible page of code in the IDE matters. It relieves you of a lot of mental overhead. By visible density I include mouse-over tooltips. For this reason I don't like code lenses because IMO they waste l

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