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by lainga 3y ago
To complete the dance around the central message, there was once vigorous academic activity on this thesis in what are now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
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by lainga 3y ago
Never. It is this way for cosmogonical reasons; it fulfils a purpose. I see Isaac Schlueter as the modern Genghis: "If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
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by lainga 3y ago
The new Church has progressed to debates over sola fide , has it?
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by lainga 3y ago
> When this happens, the landlord stops paying the mortgage on the office building or declines to refinance it. The bank or investors who made the loan then repossess the building. ... > Some of the biggest names in commercial real es
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by lainga 3y ago
Sure, I've run into a couple. Here's a chart of Defects per KLOC. Great.
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by lainga 3y ago
And many forget that the first cuts were proposed by Kennedy and passed by LBJ as part of the "Great Society" bills. [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1964
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by lainga 3y ago
> Again, just following orders. I seem to recall there was a trial in the forties of some relevance to Poland about this sort of thing.
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by lainga 3y ago
> The takeaway here is that my regions are smaller than most European countries . Did the author miss certain relevant developments in the period 1789-1945? Maybe overlaying a map post-Westphalia would be more reasonable
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by lainga 3y ago
:%s/Google/the team :%s/people/the promotion board Conway's law applied to the corporate-public interface :)
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by lainga 3y ago
Fun corollary: Tim Follin composed his tracks at 55Hz, so they'd sound "right-ish" when both sped up for NTSC and slowed down for PAL
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by lainga 3y ago
We have to go through the Eugenics Wars first. I am NOT wearing that awful quilted whatever-it-was tunic the soldiers apparently wore.
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by lainga 3y ago
Integrated over the course of a day, total disk solar irradiance for a rotating planet is 1/4 the solar constant. And in our specific planetary case, about 27% is reflected without reaching ground. So the effective whole-day whole-Eart
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by lainga 3y ago
I want to see some numbers. It's just porous mafic rock (i.e. pumice) in the presence of hot seawater. ed. wait, no, it's felsic? but it forms quickly in marine environment... either way, there's a lot of it
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by lainga 3y ago
(too late to edit...) P.S. Not in the sense of "when will you have a baby", in the sense of "was the baby conceived before the marriage"
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by lainga 3y ago
Did you get this symptom from the narrow shutter snapshot-like filming in Saving Private Ryan? https://cinemashock.org/2012/07/30/45-degree-shutter-in-savi...
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by lainga 3y ago
Haha, yes, for the same reason it used to be rude to ask "when are you expecting?", especially if newly married
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JT-60SA (sister to ITER) comes online in Japan(theguardian.com)
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by lainga 3y ago
ignosco, non intellexi.
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by lainga 3y ago
wouldn't 40MMM be 40 trillion (40M-million)...?
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by lainga 3y ago
For the opposite (not quite converse logically!) argument that unrest and wars lead to economic equality, I recommend Walter Scheidel's "The Great Leveler". https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback&#x2
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by lainga 3y ago
There is sufficient qty. of life on Earth to affect geophysics, cf. []. And actually has been for some time. When you see bands of iron in a geological record, it's because archaeobacteria were filling the ocean with oxygen and causing
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by lainga 3y ago
I want to say (as GP) good points. Thank you for disagreeing. When I think of the business, my worldview underweights the cases (the 99%?) where technology is only an enabler to the business case - I guess because I don't think it&#x27
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by lainga 3y ago
Somewhere, far away, the founders of the HBC are tearing up a little
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by lainga 3y ago
> while treating you like an idiot savant they can easily take advantage of. I considered it a bit, and you know what, I'd wager that four-fifths of tech business dynamics flow from this statement. Technical expertise is the money p
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by lainga 3y ago
And in music, the most famous example, Philip Glass the dishwasher repairman
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by lainga 3y ago
The simplest summary I can pull out of my head is... big companies pay them big money to put big ads between the content, at so great a margin that all the excess profit goes towards searching for the next means of striking it rich. Now you
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by lainga 3y ago
15 connectors was the bare minimum. Brian, for example, has 37 connectors, okay. And a terrific smile.
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by lainga 3y ago
Wait till you find out how we talk about evolutionary adaptation... a couple analogies and elided concepts here and there and you'd swear Lamarck had smothered Darwin in his cradle
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by lainga 3y ago
Sure you will. Whoops, my regex got too long and now the diff is - filter: /\.(jimmy|jimbo|jeremiad)$/ + filter: + /\.(jimmy|jimbo|jeremiad|james)$/ . And it's not clear where the change is. GP
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by lainga 3y ago
Reading through the several answers, it seems like the TL;DR is 1. Maybe there is toxic material IDK who wants to touch that instead of some rock 2. The industry actors who would do it only regard landfills as shiny metal reserves, and don&

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