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by lainga 7y ago
I suppose then there's something else about desert sand (all deserts??) that the article claims makes it unsuitable for glassmaking. Maybe compositional.
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by lainga 7y ago
Desert sand is too smooth to bind to make concrete, so sand is taken from river beds such as the Mekong That's really interesting, but makes sense. The sand in most deserts has been blowing around for millennia (or longer), and so wo
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by lainga 7y ago
That's even less reassuring to me. I don't want North America's defence to rest on some American version of the Reichsfeuerzeug [], designed by an incompetent but politically connected firm. [] https://en.wikiped
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by lainga 7y ago
That's interesting. Does "recently" mean it was not always so? My untested and rumour-based thoughts had been that they skewed towards younger (no family/ties/more energy/less negotiation skills) employees, and
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by lainga 7y ago
Well, what if there was a country with fifty quintillion people and a hundred million prisoners?
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by lainga 7y ago
I thought FAANG weren't hiring 35-year-olds?
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by lainga 7y ago
The mantra I'm always told around slices is "Don't keep pointer slices. Don't keep pointer slices." Because the entire thing will fail escape analysis and go onto the heap. But it's OK in this case, right? Beca
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by lainga 7y ago
You'd better stay away from Istanbul then, it's full of unspayed Socrates-es. In seriousness, China's problem is not with all Muslims, it's with the Uighurs as a threat to their national integrity (especially in a region
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by lainga 7y ago
I think there's a different scale involved when you're running an experiment on a CubeSat vs. trying to set up telecommunications. ARSAT-1 and -2 were both the size of a car (3 tonnes).
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by lainga 7y ago
Once that was realized, the whooshing particles were retconned by the TNG writers to be random interstellar particles that were glowing due to warp effects.
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by lainga 7y ago
either `golint` or `go vet` will complain about stutter of this kind
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by lainga 7y ago
No, why are the things they're writing probably what the company needs?
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by lainga 7y ago
“Home-delivered groceries? Well, they were a great idea back when everyone had money.”
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by lainga 7y ago
>Those people are writing code that probably does stuff they need. Why?
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by lainga 7y ago
"ship-helmsmen-turned-criminals"
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by lainga 7y ago
Why surely? I assume each member of each organization, like most bureaucrats, stuck to their narrow, comfortable purview and never considered the big picture.
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by lainga 7y ago
It's a shame. If a country can't show you its culinary best at a university cafeteria, where else can you go?
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by lainga 7y ago
How's the ol' internet balloon coming along?
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by lainga 7y ago
Do you think this is unique to the Python community? Any thoughts as to why it might be so?
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by lainga 7y ago
What drew you to mjs?
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by lainga 7y ago
I get the feeling I could make some kind of comment here about an aristocracy of labour, especially given that it's motherjones
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by lainga 7y ago
Can I address the raven in the room here? How are corvids' future descendants going to use tools? Beaks? Standing on one foot? Re-evolution of articulation in the wings?
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by lainga 7y ago
There is more to life than contraception and psychological counselling. A chance at a steady job, the ability to save money, the opportunity to start a family, the prospect of retiring with a Social Security check, and confidence in the eco
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by lainga 7y ago
"On Sunday, an unidentified wrecker sent by the Imperialist powers to humiliate Facebook..."
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by lainga 7y ago
Not if you bet on the double-A tranches. Nobody will think to do that, not even Michael Burry.
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by lainga 7y ago
It's fed by freshwater rivers, providing pressure pushing the water in the bay out to sea; and they open the barrage at low tide so that water flows out (thus why it's a barrage and not a fixed dam). And then close it again at hig
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by lainga 7y ago
Sand Property is Sand Theft. Also, in the case of Singapore, not all of it was used to make Singapore larger, some was used to resurface Marina Bay (formerly muddy) with nice clean sand, so it could act as a strategic freshwater reserve
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by lainga 7y ago
I don't mean to go all cui bono , but the company behind the study[] has a remarkably consistent knack for getting the message out in mainstream publications (HBR, Bloomberg, Economist) that the world's economies must learn Engli
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by lainga 7y ago
Did you mean Edmonton?
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by lainga 7y ago
> The middle class helped spark the revolution hoping that the proletariat would come around eventually. That resulted in several decades of false starts by what Krein would call the Russian "secondary elite", in the form of th

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