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by lainga 7y ago
Strongly agree. "People you may have blood feuds with"
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by lainga 7y ago
Lucky! I get some kind of fleeting toast message (sub-quarter of a second) about some kind of permission missing, before the app closes itself entirely.
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by lainga 7y ago
Yes, and the guy is one of the few characters to survive each regime change. Gaius! (shovels) Julius! (shovels) Caesar!
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by lainga 7y ago
Less likelihood of media or police attention. Maybe the gangs are hoping (or even empirically aware) that authorities will be reluctant to investigate them -- for whatever reason -- if their activities keep under the public radar.
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by lainga 7y ago
Does it mention why? Is it because the adverse reaction rate for (e.g.) Gardasil is higher than the probability of catching one of the HPV strains it targets after 26?
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by lainga 7y ago
Well, taken to another extreme, it's Philip Glass working as a plumber and taxi driver (as he did) between compositions. ROBERT Hughes, the Australian art critic, filmmaker and writer, wandered into the kitchen of his fashionable loft
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by lainga 7y ago
The African savanna is very coal- and coke-poor -- for most of our species' early history, our natural predators, like lions and cheetahs, were unable to produce sheet glass in large quantities. When humans started moving north into Eu
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by lainga 7y ago
But the big question (for longtime readers) is: does that misattribution count as securities fraud?
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by lainga 7y ago
The only way out of it I can think of would be: if the site could prove that some number of people, greater than 45, were hitting that specific query on that specific page, then vacuously, they could say that any number of people between 1
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by lainga 7y ago
Someone else in that thread asks: > I wonder if they report a lower price to Google as well. Presumably for the little boxes which show up below certain Google ads with price points []. I know that's against Google Ads' policie
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by lainga 7y ago
Well, if civilisation ever collapses, I guess we'd get something out of it
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by lainga 7y ago
>The author presumably has no problem with the wealthy doing drugs, sleeping around, and violating laws What makes you say that?
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by lainga 7y ago
That's Georgism, which was very popular around the turn of the 20th century
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by lainga 7y ago
Are there no fair algorithms? I urge the authors to at least give Bogosort another chance!
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by lainga 7y ago
>post-apocalyptic associations of a world where there are somehow only text terminals left an SSH session?
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by lainga 7y ago
House Democrats have been fairly consistently anti-PRC since 1989. The last (failed) attempt to repeal PNTR was spearheaded by Bernie Sanders in 2005.
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by lainga 7y ago
It wasn't a one-and-done deal between Kissinger and Mao on the first visit. While I think it's fair to assess the US's 1972-(2016? 2017?) policy toward China as regrettable overall, blame must also be put on the Carter (givin
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by lainga 7y ago
Employees come to a business and exchange their money for goods and services?
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by lainga 7y ago
The 1973 and 1979 oil crises had peak increases of 400% and 100%, respectively
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by lainga 7y ago
It's almost Kasiski's test! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasiski_examination
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by lainga 7y ago
Oh! I have a much bigger pet peeve for projects which have a fine and moderately-usable examples section, but then decide that's good enough and never document the API because one should just "look at the examples".
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by lainga 7y ago
I'd be all for it, as long as the decision loop involved Tom Cruise and three people in a tank full of water
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by lainga 7y ago
I (soon to be non-undergrad) got the impression around 2016 that the admiration was wearing off of our classmates who did co-op terms at FAANG. One of our peers had done a term at a Cambridge Analytica subsidiary in town, AggregateIQ, so wh
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by lainga 8y ago
Why was there only one communist revolution? If you're feeling up for seconds, which one was the real one?
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by lainga 8y ago
https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/museums/samurai-museum It's one man's work of passion. When I went, it was quiet enough that an attendant guided us around the entire first floor personally. It's not e
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by lainga 8y ago
I tried one on once at a hole-in-the-wall samurai museum in Tokyo. It was pretty hefty but very well-supported - my head didn't feel wobbly or strained.
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by lainga 8y ago
MD Anderson President Peter Pisters says all [five] are “Asian”; Science has confirmed that three are ethnically Chinese.
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by lainga 8y ago
Who uses outsourcing firms like Wipro (government agencies)? What do they do ? It seems to me, living in the bubble of haute tech , that the only things you ever hear about these firms are (a.) they exist and (b.) they are very large.
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by lainga 8y ago
The beautiful old Breton town of Saint-Malo was also rebuilt "historically", but not "exactly" - where they could not find original plans or reuse stones from buildings, they recreated them in a style that they felt was
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by lainga 8y ago
How often do you handwrite?

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