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901.
by lainga 8y ago
The count between 1961 and now is 46 Democrats to 48 Republicans, which includes all the Watergate convictions.
902.
by lainga 8y ago
Correct - for instance, we could have diverted all the resources we used to ban straws into educational anti-waste programs in the biggest offender countries.
903.
by lainga 8y ago
This on the money. Newfoundland, for instance, spends a lot of money on roads in some areas, because the road markings are completely scraped off by snowplowing every winter. Whereas Arizona and the Southwest are great for long-term prese
904.
by lainga 8y ago
What's backwards about that? It's a genius way for both state governments to squeeze a little more money out of people, while being able to write it off as a "mistake" if anyone complains too loudly. Real backwardness wo
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by lainga 8y ago
Laughs in Moodle
906.
by lainga 8y ago
I don't want to define anything, I was just going off what the grandparent said about the police crime reports being less reliable than surveys.
907.
by lainga 8y ago
But why do they record crime incorrectly? If they were underfunded, being honest about the amount of crime in the UK would be a good case for giving them more money, right?
908.
by lainga 8y ago
“In my case, police officers would make jokes while Smith was stalking me and making my life a misery,” she tells Broadly. “They’d say things like, ‘Why don’t you find yourself a nice boyfriend?'” So are the British police underfunde
909.
by lainga 8y ago
Because elephants are notoriously shoddy about leaving primary sources for us to use?
910.
by lainga 8y ago
That's tragic! What if the love of your life is on the other side of the Hilbert curve, fated never to meet?
911.
by lainga 8y ago
How big of a problem is the fact that shards constructed this way don't like crossing the "big" boundaries in the S2 curve? Especially if a high-usage location happens to straddle one of those boundaries (like, IIRC, Toronto)
912.
by lainga 8y ago
>if they could subdivide their properties for intensive development. But that would require giving a damn about the local situation. A large segment of single-family-home owners in Vancouver - foreign and local - see the house and plot
913.
by lainga 8y ago
I eagerly await the next South Korean discovery of the ship in 2034.
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by lainga 8y ago
How do so many people again and again get roped into obsessing about their companies? I realise there is a bag of tricks to keep people on their toes (frequent waves of firing, impostor syndrome, friend cliques), but how do they fall into t
915.
by lainga 8y ago
First, so I can show up in the 3rd or 4th installment of a future civilization's video game franchise as an "Ancient One" and speak in hexameter.
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by lainga 8y ago
:forbidden: (ZWJ) :bear: (ZWJ) :on!_symbol: (ZWJ) :flashlight: (ZWJ) :bee: (ZWJ) :ng_symbol:
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by lainga 8y ago
Amount of gold aside, it looks like the Dmitrii Donskoi sank during or around the battle of Tsushima, having sailed all the way from the Baltic, and around the Cape of Good Hope, in one of the most ignominious and infamous fleet movements
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by lainga 8y ago
There's no time to cry / Happy, happy!
919.
by lainga 8y ago
Wait till you hear where matrices come from.
920.
by lainga 8y ago
Off-topic from the OP article, I encourage anyone who knows a Romance language or two to read this. With a little knowledge of current events and a few choice neologisms ( methano, Coreae, nuclearibus ) it's astounding how much you can
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by lainga 8y ago
First 3 chapters of Kissinger's On China do a good job, but I'm certain you could find better sources. ED: outside getting a book, the main characteristic to look at is China having the lion's share of historical world GDP,
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by lainga 8y ago
To be fair, his blog was never exactly positive on China, and (as he states in the article) he was very wary of crossing the fine line between moderate criticism and falling afoul of the CCP. Between the fact that he was forced out of his p
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by lainga 8y ago
All powers we demand can be used against us at some point.
924.
by lainga 8y ago
Great, now you're just using port 7566184 (0x737368).
925.
by lainga 8y ago
Iceland invaded by French Marines; geothermal energy in magma was "not theirs to take", says Macron"
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by lainga 8y ago
Do people who work 40 hours a week get promoted?
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by lainga 8y ago
Yes, and likely in practice too, but in practice you would probably also run afoul of insider-trading laws.
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by lainga 8y ago
No, the Internet was founded in Austria-Hungary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edler
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by lainga 8y ago
Sounds a lot like Pythagoreanism - a hybrid of mysticism and mathematics.
930.
by lainga 8y ago
I'm honestly surprised it isn't bigger. That's some serious king effect in the diagram.

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