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by lainga 6y ago
Indeed, in 1848 authoritarianism and nationalism were the two major opponents on the European political stage.
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by lainga 6y ago
The IPPNW and PSR are the main organisations stating that human extinction is a possibility. e.g. https://www.ippnw.org/statements/2006-helsinki-congress-decl...
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by lainga 6y ago
Do you think your reaction would have been as strong if the post was written by someone else?
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by lainga 6y ago
Can you think of any situations in which non-secret ballots might cause undesirable effects?
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by lainga 6y ago
The problem was not exercise but malnutrition. It was a question of enjoying enough food vs. having, as Piers Plowman put it, "no penny, pullets for to buy, Nor neither geese nor pigs · but two green cheeses, A few curds and cream · an
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by lainga 6y ago
Personally, it's because I can't set up X11 forwarding on every machine I SSH into
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by lainga 6y ago
Same in BC, but that's very inconsistently enforced
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by lainga 6y ago
I think the opposite is true. A lot of people expressing disagreement by trying to hide things they disagree with instead of rebutting them. I think the down arrow should be reserved for cases where you think they break "The Rules&quot
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by lainga 6y ago
If the constituent employees are trying to win in the classical sense, and not the pump-my-resume-and-bail sense.
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by lainga 6y ago
I am going to say the machine-gun of 2020 is any number of new technologies. Maybe drones and loitering munitions. The footage coming out of Nagorny-Karabah makes any vehicle or fixed object without air cover look like a death trap.
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by lainga 6y ago
In traditional 2D animation I think this effect is not called "wobbling" but "boiling"
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by lainga 6y ago
Greenwald co-founded it; how did it get out of his control and lead to this situation?
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by lainga 6y ago
As much as I am fond of MOND (hu hu), is this going to get any traction? It seems like the MOND and lCDM worlds have stopped trying to interact with each other, covering their ears and going "bla bla bla" while building parallel a
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by lainga 6y ago
Jesus has significant but un-exercised IP rights on a lot of technologies underpinning the modern economy (e.g., all the waters under heaven, dry land, every living creature that moveth, etc.)
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by lainga 6y ago
May not be a game-changer, but you ought to update. There is an RCE vuln via BlueZ which I think was under embargo until 5.9 came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPYrLRausSw https://lwn.net/Articles&#x2
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BleedingTooth: Critical Linux kernel Bluetooth vulnerability (prior to 5.9)(lwn.net)
8 points by lainga 6y ago|2 comments
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by lainga 6y ago
Match random users to separate ends of a very, very long piece of spaghetti...
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by lainga 6y ago
Lot of the small Japanese shopping arcades are organised that way
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by lainga 6y ago
This line of thinking is very close to Bonapartism as interpreted by Napoleon III. I am the democratically elected emperor; my mandate comes from the people having elected me; I may do whatever I deem in the interest of the people who have
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by lainga 6y ago
"Some scholars suggest we can best understand these developments as a form of backlash against ongoing cultural, economic,and demographic trends (Kaufmann 2019; Norris and Inglehart 2019)" Is the paper paper based on the premise t
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by lainga 6y ago
We got that in signal processing. Two sides of one sheet of engineering paper, anything you can fit, prof gets to examine it as you enter the exam. Some people would put their sheets through the printer and go for 8pt font... I used pencil
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by lainga 6y ago
Maybe that analogy would be accurate if you could make new and pleasing music out of hundreds of small samples of other music, and also 90% of the musicians were used to either getting their samples via torrent or picking one album and play
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by lainga 6y ago
In my experience at UVic (6 months fresh) the CS students did more theory of computation, and SEng had formal requirements and specification writing, engineering economics, and project management courses that CS did not. And also yes, the c
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by lainga 6y ago
Well, I'm sorry if you don't like Matt Levine's style, but he's been at his attempts for many years now and it's what distinguishes him from the rest of the regular columns. I think to the point where if anyone else
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by lainga 6y ago
Recant! Ezra Pound showed you the way, but you would not listen!
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by lainga 6y ago
The Frollo effect? judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin / and he saw corruption everywhere, except within.
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by lainga 6y ago
The genie has been doing a Fred Astaire number in cleats on the head of the sensible-economic-growth genie since about 2005.
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by lainga 6y ago
can you actually make a symlink to a commit in .git/ ? neat...
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by lainga 6y ago
You might feel like some guy, but be someone's brilliant teacher.
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by lainga 6y ago
And $3 in seed money.

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