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by kleton 5y ago
Was this the TalkTalk hacking case?
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Presumably the original first commit was a CL on perforce, and copybara did not yet exist, so they arbitrarily did this when exporting to git.
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Seems incomplete without at least some token mention of Lorentz and Poincare.
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Nominative determinism that might have been missed by non-Slavophones: Zimov would translate to (belonging to winter), like the English surname, Winters.
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Tony Xu Joins Meta Board of Directors(finance.yahoo.com)
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'Цовид-19' has to be one of the laziest transliterations I've ever seen. Coronavirus is spelled with an initial К in every Cyrillic-using language I'm aware of, not a Ц (ts) sound in English. It's basically a keyboa
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> it is backed by the West because a stable dictator Nazarbayev gave up over 1000 nuclear weapons to be disarmed when he came to power. This came with some explicit and implicit guarantees to not be color-revolutioned by the West.
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Are these aluminum or some fiber-reinforced composite?
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China has 150 new reactors planned to go online in the next 15 years. They have a variety of different experimental fission plants such as molten salt and high temperature gas (helium) in addition to reliable "traditional" third g
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Chen Qiufa (electrical engineering) ran CNSA from 2010-2013, then became leader of Lioaning province. His successor at CNSA, Ma Xingrui (PhD mechanical engineering) ran CNSA for a bit in 2013 before being tapped as leader of Guangdong provi
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The PRC is one ongoing study. The leaders of four of China's provinces are former aerospace engineers. The minister of education, as one might expect, is a computer scientist.
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The google3 repo is probably terabytes at this point
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More specifically, having kids in preschool guarantees exposure to every respiratory virus going around.
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Most likely, child-having
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About every 25 years, the residents of Portland vote against fluoridation of the municipal water.
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The Chinese civilization has at least 2000 (the commonly given 5000 is way too generous) years of experience with statecraft. I think at this point they know what will or will not backfire on them.
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Is this intended to replace older Google App Engine sandboxes, nacl and gvisor?
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Santo Grial in Spanish, I suspect neural machine translate would have translated their press release into more idiomatic English.
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Does it "speak" iSCSI or what?
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> CORRECTION > A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the percentage difference between a $15-an-hour wage and a $9.25-an-hour wage as a more than a 60 percent difference. It is about 40 percent. The article has been co
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China just started importing a bunch of pine nuts from Afghanistan. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/china-gets-1st-shipmen...
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Phenol-formaldehyde thermoset breaks down into phenol and formaldehyde. It degrades a lot faster than polyolefins.
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If you were doing the hardened wood process on it, you wouldn't even have to wait 4 years for the culm to lignify, since you were just going to delignify it with a hot chemical bath.
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Low temperature electrowinning of iron would be the holy grail https://energy.nl/en/factsheet/low-temperature-electrowinnin...
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In fairness, ASML, the US government, and SMIC all know that SMIC would buy exactly one of these before making their own.
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There's a theory that the eukaryotic nucleus originated as an archaeal virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_eukaryogenesis
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In the older Wade-Giles system, they indeed tried to maintain some similarity with how English uses the Latin alphabet. Ch was used, for example Ssu-ma Ch'ien, which is now Sima Qian. Using Latin q for a ch sound isn't unheard of
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They won the Peloponessian war (plenty of diplomacy and coalition building) and remained dominant until 371, which was the first war they lost. It was a pretty respectable record.
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Some criticism of Acoup's analysis of their combat performance. All of the defeats listed are either not infantry battles or ones where Sparta was heavily outnumbered. It's hardly surprising that they would lose battles over 500 v
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If we cured toxoplasmosis, then there would probably be a ton of abandoned cats.

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