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811.
by lainga 8y ago
There are over 5,000 KFC locations in China
812.
by lainga 8y ago
There are Uyghurs in Pakistan, and Pakistan itself borders on Xinjiang. Pakistan even plays up the whole pan-Islam message so they can stave off Pashtunistan nationalism. But Pakistan is also increasingly dependent on China, and you can bet
813.
by lainga 8y ago
I'll have you know that I sequenced and compressed both my parents' DNA at a very young age, although the process was about 50% lossy.
814.
by lainga 8y ago
It's happened before. Think of all the Fanta those settlers in the Reichskommissariat Moskau are going to drink!
815.
by lainga 8y ago
And if you had a dog... http://acronymrequired.com/2011/10/the-four-dog-defense.html
816.
by lainga 8y ago
All governments need some method of contact with the governed to assert their legitimacy. It's telling that in North Europe we had parliaments - places to speak your mind - because speaking your mind was how we did that. Oratory was,
817.
by lainga 8y ago
Columbus kept two logbooks, one with his ships' real positions, and another with falsified positions to show his men so they wouldn't become discouraged.
818.
by lainga 8y ago
Whoo baby! Talk about tunnel vision! Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.
819.
by lainga 8y ago
Tell that to the Qing circa 1842.
820.
by lainga 8y ago
The metamorphosis from startup to company is complete. The people who would have been straightforward with you have been replaced by endemic office-dwellers.
821.
by lainga 8y ago
You can get all of those except the first one out of Twitter...
822.
by lainga 8y ago
The rig was in the basement of his summer house, secreted away from the prying eyes of the SEC, until such time as he had enough petros to get his hands on sweet Bolivarian crypto-crude. (The point being, it's neither clear how the US
823.
by lainga 8y ago
"Fie!" declares a refinery manager in Galveston, throwing his mining rig in the dumpster.
824.
by lainga 8y ago
If it is not a common fallacy, let me make an appeal to you: If I go to your house and beat you up, you have every right to call the police on me and they should be able to throw me in jail, and keep an eye on me until I've reformed my
825.
by lainga 8y ago
What's your argument here? If there were no Opium Wars, there would have been no Nine-Power Treaties, and thus the Qing would not have fallen, and thus Mao and the CPC would not have eventually gained control over China, and thus the C
826.
by lainga 8y ago
Or Thrace, Constantinople, and Ionia? What about Pakistan? Alexander of Macedon clearly left it to "the strongest", not to a gaggle of warring Macedonian officers, and certainly not to a section of a former British imperial territ
827.
by lainga 8y ago
basically statements are the devil's playthings...
828.
by lainga 8y ago
If you don't want to visit BoingBoing, https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu/static/tpc-paper.pdf
829.
by lainga 8y ago
Alas! One of the Pregel's tributaries originates in a lake which is itself linked by a canal to the Baltic, forming a loop excluding Konigsberg.
830.
by lainga 8y ago
I wonder how many people saying that Jefferson's actions were inexcusable also hold that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
831.
by lainga 8y ago
what does H3 gain over S2 in exchange for cells at different levels no longer matching up? do you think their use case justifies that change?
832.
by lainga 8y ago
Negative curvature means a saddle, right?
833.
by lainga 8y ago
the Hurd-verse lives! Richard Stallman is a clean-shaven, foulmouthed autocrat, and Linus is composing folk songs about joining hands with Intel and Nvidia!
834.
by lainga 8y ago
Not true. It gives each of the representatives a chance to look tough and mad-as-hell-damnit on TV, and maybe produce a soundbite they can shove in their next campaign ad.
835.
by lainga 8y ago
Is it for the same reason there are no trash cans in Japan? You're expected to keep that stuff at home, as home business?
836.
by lainga 8y ago
Of course, you use a match to light tinder.
837.
by lainga 8y ago
Well, on the contrary, I loved the AI in Halo 2/3, and half the time you'd be alerted to new developments by the AI on your side (Marines saying "aw f$%$ here comes $unit!").
838.
by lainga 8y ago
Not among my age cohort, many of whom have never encountered cigarettes.
839.
by lainga 8y ago
Under the aegis of #metoo, he had to give explicit consent.
840.
by lainga 8y ago
It's a good phenomenon, but it has nothing to do with the health effects of vaping. Bringing it up just muddles the waters. If a bunch of people switched from crack cocaine to cigarettes, would that warrant bringing it up every time a

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