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by maratc 5y ago
Interesting why France (with its nuclear power plants) and Switzerland (with hydro) have the highest prices.
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by maratc 5y ago
That's an easy stand to take. It would be more interesting to see what stand would they take on more controversial subjects that also support free thought and expression.
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by maratc 5y ago
In which case this will generate even more demand for Macbooks, which shouldn't be an issue for Apple.
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by maratc 5y ago
A rather big collection of 10 Vermeer paintings was gathered in Gemaldergalerie Alte Meister in Dresden but it was "temporarily" closed due to coronavirus outbreak, and possibly won't reopen. https://gemaeldegaleri
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by maratc 5y ago
> I would use this form if not naming my child, usually speaking to people who didn't know me, my child or my personal life very well. There's a potential for ambiguity: we aren't sure "they" is a reference to th
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by maratc 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/9v7i1w/tha...
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by maratc 5y ago
iPad has silky smooth scrolling and instant reaction to the input (milliseconds). Once e-ink technology advances enough to allow for these, it might compete with iPad, but until then the lag is severely limiting what the device can do. Read
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by maratc 5y ago
To the contrary. A system that detects Covid-19 in infected people and doesn't detect it in healthy people, where the errors of both types (false positives and false negatives) are irrelevant, is not only relevant, it's a very wel
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by maratc 5y ago
> Queue people (4chan) essentially DDOS'ing that infrastructure by turning harmless memes into false positives and distributing them widely. They'll probably automate it too. The chance they won't do such a thing is about
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by maratc 5y ago
The pictures aren't secret. The hashes are. We don't know what hash algorithm is employed on Apple's server side, so we can't feed that algorithm with these non-secret images and get the hashes.
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by maratc 5y ago
The author should put his money where his mouth is, and imply there were two spots in 2021 but one was already sold out.
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by maratc 5y ago
Of course you're right and I meant American Public libraries; I imagine Chabad-Lubavitch Library would probably lead to a different system. And the time I was referring was the time of Melvil Dewey, although I imagine not much would
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by maratc 5y ago
> How is this distinct from organizing world information? Any practical classification system starts with corpus at hand , and tries to organize that. Any idealistic classification system that aspires to be "complete" (at leas
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by maratc 5y ago
Of course, and while we are there, an average American Public library as of the end of the 19th century . In the last century, DDS has seen its adaptations for China, Japan and other countries which are based on the same idea but are rathe
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by maratc 5y ago
Dewey Decimal System has only one (often-misunderstood) task: organizing bookshelf space. It does not have a task of classifying world information. The reason that fairly narrow "Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational" topic has o
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by maratc 5y ago
I believe they use liquid nitrogen, which achieves the same results while not being ridiculously expensive :)
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by maratc 5y ago
SF Mono should also be on that list.
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by maratc 5y ago
> So, the overindebted in the US are those who used credit for expenses or for failed investments. They are poorer than those with zero debt. Someone who owns a $200,000 house (and a mortgage of $210,000) is poorer than someone who has n
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by maratc 5y ago
A reminder: take any sum operation of wealth with a huge grain of salt. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS228821959920140404
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by maratc 5y ago
So I gather you would refuse. Given your refusal, would you think that, for that person in your family , you would fit the description of "someone who can't spend 2 minutes to install a free [..] messaging app to maintain a socia
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by maratc 5y ago
Would you be willing to install "a free private messaging app", Facebook Messenger, in order to "maintain a social or personal connection" to a person in your family?
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by maratc 5y ago
The other option for them would be not to talk to GP at all.
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by maratc 5y ago
Can't help but think that it's exactly what GP had in mind.
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by maratc 5y ago
I don't understand anything in company ownership but can Company A own Company B which in turn owns Company A? Or to make it several degrees of separation, A owns B which owns C which owns D which owns A?
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by maratc 5y ago
> Jewish cares about when the sunsets It's only for days of the week. The time is still the local time. Since it's very important in Judaism to not do any work on Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest), there are two distinct Shabbat
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by maratc 5y ago
> For me noon becomes 6:43 pm (or something like that) Interesting. At my place, the 23rd of September started at 00:00 and will end at 23:59. When did that date start at your place? Also, that Sunday (September 26th) when I'm suppo
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by maratc 5y ago
I wasn't aiming for anything but GP seemingly was: > We should redefine noon to the time when the local sun is most directly overhead. The local sun is "most directly overhead" at a different time each day at any place (ma
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by maratc 5y ago
This also depends on the day, since "noon to noon" is no longer 24 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds. So these tables aren't just "much bigger", they are also changing daily. We would have to either 1. redefine what a &quot
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by maratc 5y ago
It worked exactly the way you've described until the advent of the industrial revolution and the trains. That's when all of England moved to single time, and other countries soon followed. Assuming you're past sixth grade, pl
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by maratc 5y ago
Israel reportedly paid $35 per shot.

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