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841.
by lainga 8y ago
No, according to TFA, but I don't see how that's relevant.
842.
by lainga 8y ago
Oh. Now I get why some fonts hoist the tilde up high.
843.
by lainga 8y ago
Of note: Erdogan has said the boycott is not just him, but Turkey-wide. Good luck!
844.
by lainga 8y ago
I see them emerging as Russia's Italy - look at how Germany and Italy treated each other in 1934 vs. 1938.
845.
by lainga 8y ago
From 3rd paragraph TFA, and unlike 1910-1950s USA, Like the Soviet Union in the 1970s, China is coming to the end of a long labor-force boom, and hoping that an orgy of investment will keep the old magic going while stabilizing its fraying
846.
by lainga 8y ago
I encourage ITNews or anyone else to point out what's suspect about Speck. It's so tiny I don't see where you can or would put the compromise.
847.
by lainga 8y ago
In 2001, a blogger named Tara Liloia wrote that sarcastic sentences should be ended with a tilde (~) Oh, how far you have fallen, tilde.
848.
by lainga 8y ago
People can do irrational things under pressure to publish.
849.
by lainga 8y ago
In this case I think it's moot, because by Borges' original description there are 25^(1 312 000) books in the Library, much more than the number of atoms in the observable Universe. So I think (and hope) the site isn't actual
850.
by lainga 8y ago
Well, besides apparently spoofing one of their senior colleagues' email addresses to send another colleague an email asking him not to criticise the authors' works. Through Protonmail.
851.
by lainga 8y ago
This begs Quine's reduced version with just two buttons, one labelled with a dot and the other with a dash.
852.
by lainga 8y ago
Well, the two questions are: (1) Do dogs have more human-like behavioural traits compared to wolves? (2) Do humans have more dog-like behavioural traits compared to primates? I have always thought it was a a sort of symbiotic domestication,
853.
by lainga 8y ago
I'm impressed Berkeley went to all the trouble of designing, approving and erecting an entire dormitory without ever seeing the point - or maybe while trying not to.
854.
by lainga 8y ago
It still means rotation in "a + bi". If you take "a + b" you get another real number, but if you take "a + bi", the b component has been rotated by 90 degrees (i), and now it's orthogonal to a . Even if
855.
by lainga 8y ago
Might I add to BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T : SHOULD PETITION THEIR BOSSES cf. ...implementers SHOULD PETITION THEIR BOSSES to allow passwords of arbitrary length... to indicate an action that is required and easily possible, b
856.
by lainga 8y ago
You may converge on an "air-humping cheetah" style cheat, like repeating the word "Poop!" over and over...
857.
by lainga 8y ago
Is this something you do manually...?
858.
by lainga 8y ago
I have a theory for you - that the maintainers monitor for these events from a teapot somewhere between Earth and Mars...
859.
by lainga 8y ago
Maybe not, but there are a much more diverse set of ISPs in different countries than there are cloud-hosting providers. We know that some of them are looser with what they will or won't enforce as long as you keep paying them. Can you
860.
by lainga 8y ago
Well, they kind of shot themselves in the foot by leaving big social media platforms... for a big server hosting platform. If they wanted to go Henry David Thoreau on the corporate internet, why didn't they buy physical equipment?
861.
by lainga 8y ago
As opposed to my last job, where they blocked me at the door and showed me a picture of Tony Kornheiser declaring "GAYS NOT WELCOME", when I just wanted a free bubble tea.
862.
by lainga 8y ago
I think it could include something like Ultimate Software's health coverage (from a post elsewhere in the thread) for IVF (3 rounds) ... [and] parental leave for adoption . Although I guess those are not LGBTQ-exclusive.
863.
by lainga 8y ago
Well, it's not exactly everything, is it?
864.
by lainga 8y ago
This is off-topic, but I just wanted to highlight the following sentence: [Thomas] reads everything. Not just the latest scholarship across innumerable topics, but also theorists – whether Marx and Engels, Gramsci or Bourdieu. Zounds! Don
865.
by lainga 8y ago
> doesn't roll off the 'tongue' as well I use DDG's bang codes extensively, almost more than DDG itself (!yt !gi !so etc.), so I would have almost suggested duck-banging .
866.
by lainga 8y ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
867.
by lainga 8y ago
If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank.
868.
by lainga 8y ago
What does removing curbs do for draining rain and snow melt?
869.
by lainga 8y ago
Very first article ( https://quicksilver.primer.ai/adrian_j._luckman/ ) contains nonsense. Who is O'Leary? What's a rift tip? How does it relate to the previous sentences?
870.
by lainga 8y ago
That would be the weirdest dark pattern ever, although I could see it going down in a design meeting: You know how people speak up more if you say something wrong, than if you ask for the right answer? Well, what if people were more likely

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