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by lainga 8y ago
She's two digits away - you'd better teach her how to play tic-tac-toe against herself, quick.
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by lainga 8y ago
Cue the old protest that "root" means something vulgar in Australia, and so the Unix superuser should be named something else. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root#Etymology_2
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by lainga 8y ago
Those are nulls. Nonces are random numbers for one-time-only use
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by lainga 8y ago
Yes, but the gap has been around since the 50s and was mostly born from Britain squandering their Marshall Plan aid playing at empire (instead of reconstruction) between 1948 and the Suez Crisis.
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by lainga 8y ago
What are you suggesting, that everyone north of Prince George move to Surrey?
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by lainga 8y ago
It has secondhand smoke problems (like tobacco) which alcohol does not
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by lainga 8y ago
"in the decades after the Great Famine... as much as a third of Irishmen and a fourth of Irishwomen never married due to chronic economic problems that discouraged early marriage." That is by most peoples' expectations widesp
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by lainga 8y ago
Dave Beulke's boss walks into his office, throwing a stack of market research papers on his desk. "What's th-?", Dave starts, but is cut off. "MILLENNIALS MILLENNIALS MILLENNIALS", his boss replies, and is gone
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by lainga 8y ago
Isn't extramarital celibacy sustainable, given that you can have sex and children once you are married?
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by lainga 8y ago
I had no concrete examples, I'm not even sure it happens; I was casting around to my fellow readers in case any of them knew of cultures where it does occur.
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by lainga 8y ago
Can we look to other cultures where widespread celibacy (especially extramarital) is already practiced for cues as to how this will affect the US?
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by lainga 8y ago
European officers knew it, too, and had a habit of coming to America and demanding to be commissioned into the upper ranks. Von Steuben initially tried that, was refused, and only came back as a volunteer because rumours of homosexuality ha
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by lainga 8y ago
The Whims of a Fickle Manager.
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by lainga 8y ago
Which are great right up until you cross boundaries. IIRC there's a big boundary in Google's S2 that divides Toronto in half.
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by lainga 8y ago
To add to the other comment, the Eurotunnel Shuttle does this but for the Channel Tunnel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotunnel_Shuttle Flatbeds would be a bit risky, you can see in both this case and Amtrak's
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by lainga 8y ago
It's an HN custom for, at least, references ([0], [1], ...)
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by lainga 8y ago
The other 19% "did have access to a traditional pension, also known as a defined benefit plan".
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by lainga 8y ago
It is cyber in the sense of cybernetics ("the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine")
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by lainga 8y ago
So why doesn't it work well on Linux?
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by lainga 8y ago
I was also interested. It seems to be a combination of the intermediate galaxy being elliptical, and the star behind it being off-center from our point of view: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/14056/how
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by lainga 8y ago
The GP didn't ask how you would make a Dyson sphere that was invisible, but why it was certain the Dyson sphere would be built at all.
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by lainga 8y ago
Where'd all my bloody Bridge tutorials go?!
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by lainga 8y ago
I thought David Schwimmer was pretty perfect as Cpt. Sobel in BoB.
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by lainga 8y ago
A written statement from Facebook provided to KrebsOnSecurity says the company expects to notify “hundreds of millions of Facebook light users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users.” Does this
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by lainga 8y ago
>Budget-brand soy sauce might actually be "soy sauce powder" mixed with water, as opposed to something straightforwardly brewed. Is this because brewed soy sauce isn't Halal? ED: why the downvotes? That's a legitimate
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by lainga 8y ago
That is like the concept of sousveillance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
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by lainga 8y ago
It looks a bit like the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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by lainga 8y ago
Or for Google: it would just build an antitrust case against themselves.
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by lainga 8y ago
The game really is just the hyper-detailed model. The gameplay is emergent and comes most easily if you know how to spin a good story as you're playing.
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by lainga 8y ago
And what if you find this out, but worked your ass off and got straight As during your degree? Were your parents giving you unknown help then, too? Can you ask them? Where does it end?

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