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by leoc 7y ago
German and European Studies academic Alexander Clarkson has said that Orban's Hungary has a lot in common with Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall, not least in that the survival of Orban's rule is partly down to his willingness to pla
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by leoc 7y ago
> So the committee only reflects power dynamics that exist in the greater browser sphere. It doesn't only reflect them, but also amplifies them. Quietly nobbling things in committee is surely a lot easier than having to field ques
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by leoc 7y ago
Here's a JSBeeb talk by Godbolt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuRq-Wmw5o .
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by leoc 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542595 if you're seriously interested in this.
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by leoc 7y ago
But if you're simply making a narrow point about that pronunciation then I don't see how this particularly refutes what gowld said. That there's uncertainty or ambiguity around one specific archaising use of a word in a Blake
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by leoc 7y ago
Nice short video featuring the Crystals, the Globe and Shakespeare's OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiblRSqhL04 .
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by leoc 7y ago
That's what professional students of linguistics are for. Presumably when you see multiple instances of a word or family of words being rhymed in a particular way by different authors of a particular place and time, you start to get a
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by leoc 7y ago
And MS, in its turn, was almost certainly not in both smartphones and consoles simply because it had too much money and was looking for something to do. MS' top management was famously familiar with The Innovator's Dilemma , and
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by leoc 7y ago
Which probably all helps to explain why SJ was so stung by Android and willing to start lobbing patent suits around.
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by leoc 7y ago
And as xorcist said https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287837 it seems likely that Nokia really had finally figured it out with Meego (though I've never touched the thing myself). It was fairly inevitable that a de
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by leoc 7y ago
St. Andrews has one as well, apparently dating to 1927 too. https://books.google.ie/books?id=74PgZAHPw38C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA... It was on display in the Physics building, and I assume probably still is.
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by leoc 7y ago
It seems (not an expert) that prides of lions will have a go if they're hungry enough. The result is a disturbing combination of violence and low-energy slapstick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv0DT08XHg https:&#x
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by leoc 7y ago
Shout out to my Ctrl-^ people, or is that ^^? Not today, DNS.
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by leoc 7y ago
It's a fun theory, but it doesn't seem as if the evidence quite supports it. You'd have to be willing to kill several other powerful French noblemen at the same time, a risky business. And that group includes the guy whose id
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by leoc 7y ago
Apparently there are specific highly-prized things which are in short supply, like Sound Blaster audio cards.
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by leoc 7y ago
Fair enough, but "real pros duplicate code indiscriminately" got voted to the top of this website two weeks ago.
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by leoc 7y ago
You know about the in-house rap cover videos, right? https://twitter.com/aaron_leib/status/1095767549139173376 Appropriate choice of former drug dealer A$AP Rocky's music.
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by leoc 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction... is probably the main reason why the term for a black man in Irish Gaelic is 'fear gorm', the default literal translation of which would usually
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by leoc 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think it's a given that high-value durable goods like this could change hands many times. For example, probably no-one travelled all the way with the Indian metal objects which have been found in Britain:
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by leoc 7y ago
There's plenty of alarmism in The Hidden Persuaders —I think it's fair to say that Freudian 'depth psychology' and subliminal imaagery turned out to be less of a threat than once feared—but once you read what he says ab
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by leoc 7y ago
I'm no expert myself, but: An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic by Graham Priest. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/an-introduction-to-nonc...
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by leoc 7y ago
That domain name though!
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by leoc 7y ago
Here are a few fun videos related to this. A 1943 USAF documentary about ground-based anti-aircraft fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zPNMqVi2E A short YouTube documentary about the failure of the German super-battles
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by leoc 7y ago
See also https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/eating-way-too-much-r... and https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm . Science Is Hard™.
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by leoc 7y ago
> nearly all atheists "believe" in natural selection, but almost no atheists have more than 2-3 children To go back to Chesterton by more or less paraphrasing what he says about the "German pessimist mouse" in Orthod
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by leoc 7y ago
Kaizenland, or maybe Demingworld.
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by leoc 7y ago
Wrong comment section?
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by leoc 7y ago
> There is a secondary rule to the DRY "rule of three": If I can blow it away and rewrite it so easily, there is nothing to reuse or refactor in it. This rule seems not to be correct though. For example it would mean that one o
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by leoc 7y ago
Wasn't it the case that the requirements were the same at the time the code was written? TextBlock.resizeTopLeft(...) and Rectangle.resizeTopLeft(...) did the same thing for the same reason, not by coincidence. The issue was the possib
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by leoc 7y ago
In this case I'm fairly sure the upvoters are mostly people who were annoyed by Graham's latest and want to upvote something anti-Graham as a response.

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