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by m0nty 8y ago
He basically admits to most of what you have just said. > this piece is intended as a fun thought experiment, not a definitive ranking, or a scholarly contribution to the field of military history. I believe some of the results from this
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by m0nty 8y ago
It seems to me that the forged emails are what is being called out as a bizarre fraud, since they definitely are fraudulent. The rest of the thread makes it clear that the experimental results are still to achieve a consensus one way or t
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by m0nty 8y ago
> This pretty much implies Well, according to you. I didn't read it that way at all. avryhof drives a beater car, but the loss of status that might imply doesn't mean much to them because it's just a way of getting from A
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by m0nty 8y ago
> So you just claim that everyone who prefers a nice ride and newer technological assistants etc is using their car for status symbol Where does avryhof make that claim?
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by m0nty 8y ago
It's strange how cyclists have become an outgroup though. Carlton Reid ("Roads Were Not Made for Cars") suggests it goes all the way back to the 1880s and reckless young men on "pennies". Still one of the common cri
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by m0nty 8y ago
> constantly running red lights themselves A motorist runs a red light, it's one stupid motorist. A pedestrian crosses a road dangerously, it's one stupid pedestrian. A cyclist runs a red light, it's all cyclists. I have
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by m0nty 8y ago
> It’s ridiculous for government to intervene at this level of product development That really is a matter of personal politics and opinion.
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by m0nty 8y ago
> I was convinced the guards in the modern art section were there to keep the janitors from tossing the modern art I saw a work of "modern art" on the television once, it was a rectangular canvas with small torn-off squares glu
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by m0nty 8y ago
Jeez, yes. All the people in this part of the thread lamenting that self-driving cars will drive safely around pedestrians.
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by m0nty 8y ago
Today's equivalent of meaningless clipart? But a whole order of magnitude more annoying.
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by m0nty 8y ago
> "Nobody would drag the stones up the Preseli Hills only then to drift them down south to Milford Haven," Ixer said. And going to the sea from the northern slopes isn't ideal, either. "You've actually got to mak
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by m0nty 8y ago
I had the interesting experience of returning to two of Iain M Banks's novels, both of which I had read in my late 20s (20 years ago). Feersum Endjinn was fun but not at all profound: I had found it to be very thought-provoking the f
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by m0nty 8y ago
Ishitani is also very good. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FkqjV8SU5I8FCHXQSQe9Q
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by m0nty 8y ago
> “I’m very disappointed as the funding literature indicated high growth plans,” says a Crowdcube backer who wishes to remain anonymous I'm not surprised they want to remain anonymous if they failed to perceive a downside in investi
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by m0nty 8y ago
> Why do people buy pickup trucks Because the back-end of that truck is an almost precise corollary to a Peacock's tail: practically useless, but designed to impress others with the ability of its owner to carry something useless a
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by m0nty 8y ago
> Put enough smart people in a room and they’ll figure it out. Or start a religious war about something or other (which language, framework, architecture, etc). Efficient self-organisation is far from inevitable.
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Facebook and Google targeted as first GDPR complaints filed(theguardian.com)
2 points by m0nty 8y ago|0 comments
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by m0nty 8y ago
> That's of course if you could create a rigid pole He already said it's a magical pole, I think that covers it. That also implies that some of the forces involved can be ignored for didactic purposes. I mean, the big problem w
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by m0nty 8y ago
Not all architectures are affected by it.
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by m0nty 8y ago
If only there were some way to upgrade the kernel without rebooting. What a god-send that would be.
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by m0nty 8y ago
$ grep -c sshd /etc/hosts.deny 1192 $ uptime 11:58:51 up 327 days, 21:33, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.11, 0.09 I'm using DenyHosts for this, there are alternatives but this works for me. http:/
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by m0nty 9y ago
I would think it unlikely that they have a comprehensive corpus of "offensive content", meaning they can't train/test their system on all of it. So really they're claiming "99.995% accuracy against what we alre
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Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died(theguardian.com)
431 points by m0nty 9y ago|46 comments
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by m0nty 9y ago
AKA "an opinion".
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by m0nty 9y ago
ITT: people saying Jira doesn't suck when the article already acknowledged that (because the headline is not the article): > I think that [Jira sucks] is a vast oversimplification, and shows very little sympathy to the challenges fa
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by m0nty 9y ago
How is expressing your individuality incompatible with good writing?
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by m0nty 9y ago
Is the slide software available online, e.g. github? I've been looking for something similar.
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by m0nty 9y ago
> What would be the motivation behind fabricating a story like this? Lulz, getting one over on the Internet, being able to fabricate a plausible story and see people all over the world reacting to it. Some people get off on weird stuff.
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by m0nty 9y ago
Phoned the Head of Music at a school where I worked. "Peter, you know you wanted the login 'PRN'? Yes, your initials. Well, you'll never guess what ..." Yup, had to rename the account to "PN".
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by m0nty 9y ago
I'm not a native so can't tell about West. I admire Elba more as an actor though, maybe it's that authenticity thing.

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