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by lake99 10y ago
This is similar to Intel's Tick-Tock model, where they alternate between innovating on technology or innovating on architecture. https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovati...
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by lake99 10y ago
You covered both points, gerrymandering and (sectarian) identity politics. I don't think there is a better or worse here. They both suck in their own unique ways. But I agree that India is more democratic than the US. We have many part
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by lake99 10y ago
It's a common occurrence on /r/India. The amount of habitual downvoting I have seen there, I have not seen on other general-interest forums.
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by lake99 10y ago
I agree there, and lacking any concrete data, it's better to not pass off opinion or speculation as fact. For quite a lot of the sectarian violence, I blame the government and the political parties for having policies that favour some
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by lake99 10y ago
> which is obviously testing for a different kind of unconscious bias altogether. No, the control group for that would be men who have, as you put it, "stereotypical 'camp' gay man accent", i.e. similarly qualified me
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by lake99 10y ago
> One of the arguments against mass surveillance is that it is blatant intrusion of privacy That argument does not hold under the current constitution of India. Under the guise of one threat or another (terrorists, corruption, protection
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by lake99 10y ago
Quite a few apps on Linux depend on Python as their go-to extensions/plugins language. Here is a small sample nearly all the system config GUIs relased by Redhat inkscape quodlibet csound ntop samba ranger
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by lake99 10y ago
> It is unusual for a police officer to incriminate himself. I don't know how the system works, but from what I have learnt from TV & movies, I guess took the deal to confess, in exchange for a lighter sentence. > If Hicks ha
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by lake99 10y ago
That didn't work either. Apparently, it has something to do with Tor Browser, where it didn't work although I enabled JS. Pasting worked fine on another browser.
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by lake99 10y ago
If the author is reading this, I wish he'd do this for copy-pasted text too. I tried pasting some text from Apple's website, and it did nothing.
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by lake99 10y ago
Both, you and cuddlybacon are right. A long time ago, they worked under the assumption that the FS is case-sensitive, and all the games I installed back then had title-cased folder names. Gradually, Valve stopped caring about this, and my g
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by lake99 10y ago
Are you sure you want to publicize your home address?
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by lake99 10y ago
I am close to your age, and I have always called it "O-S-ecks" because I hate roman numbers (there's a book that I call D-S-M-eye-vee) and because "O-S-ex ten point nine" sounds better than the alternative.
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by lake99 10y ago
> called "liberal" dominantly for some decades, some adopted the moniker "progressive" when it was perceived that the right had created bad associations with "liberal" a few decades ago This is not supported
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by lake99 10y ago
Your post confuses me, no offense intended. Friedman and Hayek called themselves liberals, not conservatives. The American progressive movement co-opted the word "liberalism". Before that, they called themselves "progressives
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by lake99 10y ago
No, on this very page, we seem to have a couple of Australians and a few Europeans, expressing how these terms mean something else in their countries. I don't know how South Americans use these terms, but I expect them to be closer to
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by lake99 10y ago
> in the rest of the world is rather to the right of centre I find "rest of the world" hard to justify. The Indian right-wing are Hindu hardliners, but economically not all that different from the "center-left" INC, b
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by lake99 10y ago
Anarcho-capitalists advocate private courts and private enforcement, but that is impossible (at least for cases like this one) to put into practice when an existing government has already established a monopoly on this. Unless the governmen
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by lake99 10y ago
I think they complement each other. Gimp is probably powerful, but I by the time I figure out how to do something, I forget what I was trying to do in the first place. Krita is easy to use, but can't do SVG. And Inkscape is still the b
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by lake99 10y ago
I remember running FVWM quite comfortably back then on 16MB. I dual-booted with Windows 95, which also ran quite smoothly.
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by lake99 10y ago
No, they are not interested enough to care about version upgrades, but they do want to keep running the latest apps and games. This was a real problem until Kitkat came along. These days, app developers seem to be aiming for a minimum of Ki
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by lake99 10y ago
I blame customers too, but for a different reason. I only reward manufacturers for devices that are well-represented on Cyanogenmod. Granted, someone like my mom has no hope of installing Cyanogenmod on her own, given that she knows nothing
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by lake99 10y ago
I doubt it. Judging by history, it's more likely they'll demand access to all that data.
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by lake99 10y ago
It's too late for me to fix my comment. I'll tone it down next time.
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by lake99 10y ago
> and learn what's up there during the seasons. That's a good point. I haven't used binoculars myself, so I wouldn't know whether to recommend it or not. But generally, when people ask me, I drive them in the directio
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by lake99 10y ago
> The OP is of the former type: before you go there and photograph, first take time and enjoy the simple, dark sky. Contrast that with what I wrote: > 1. Install an astronomy app on your mobile phone. Start with free ones, and see whe
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by lake99 10y ago
> The advice not to do astrophotography is meant for the beginner. My advice is meant for the beginner as well. All the other things you pointed out, well, you need to learn those things for astrophotography, even if you don't have
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by lake99 10y ago
I did start with a ~50mm lens, but without a tracker. My camera can do up to 30s auto exposures, but those exhibit star trails at 50mm. I limit myself to 10s-15s exposures, and shoot a few hundred of them. The stars move, but the stacker (I
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It's not. If you have a decent camera and clear skies, you can begin learning now, and have something half decent by the end of the night. Additional investment: 0$. Most important, remember that this article is an opinion piece. There
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by lake99 10y ago
The advice here seems dated, even for 2015. Here's my advice: 1. Install an astronomy app on your mobile phone. Start with free ones, and see where it leads you. I recommend Skeye. This is good for going out by yourself and looking up

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