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malaxii
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malaxii
7y ago
Hah, no. They get rich, because the more wealth you have, the easier it is to increase it. Why? Because this is how the rich and powerful have set up the rules of the game. Personal wealth does not correlate with any sort of "value&quo
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7y ago
The opportunity cost of learning a language at school is very small.
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malaxii
7y ago
I've been using Wayland daily for over a year now, and have noticed none of these problems.
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7y ago
Quantum trajectories more or less have the usual Copenhagen interpretation built in, so they don't really solve the old interpretation problems any more than decoherence does. Although they can be a nice way to understand some experime
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malaxii
7y ago
> - This may or may not mean that major distributions binary packages will simply stop being verifiable - it depends on who uses what key server in what chain of trust. We probably won't find out till more bad actors poison more wel
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7y ago
Wrong: Debian installations come with preinstalled keyring with the archive signing keys. Upgrades to that keyring are provided via packages, which are signed with the previous archive key. The same for Fedora and rpm. Public keyservers or
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7y ago
Right, gfortran does not special-case length-1 strings. The actual problem however is that it still works in simple cases --- when the Fortran code doesn't access the string length (and apparently, doesn't do tail-calls) --- eve
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7y ago
The existence of the camps is independent of whether you have evidence of them or not.
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7y ago
Historically, unions are a tried and true way for improving working conditions and average compensation. Of course, that's also the reason why they are so vehemently opposed...
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That's not so clear. The LCD subpixels and CMYK dots may well be below the optical/retina resolution of the eye, in which case it's not really an illusion at all as it's already in the signal data the brain receives. Thi
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7y ago
This is a common practice in Europe as I understand, not just Germany. The thinking as I understand it goes along these lines: there are requirements to get a degree (thesis, pass exams, score high enough in exercises), but the university i