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by mcherm 4y ago
My college had a similar installation, with the inner solar system on the walls of the physics/astronomy building and the other planets scattered about the campus at appropriate distances. But my favorite part was the plaque that said
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In the short term, that's true because the GPUs are already purchased. In the long run, people will invest in new cryptocurrency mining rigs very much in proportion to the profitability of running one.
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> That's all I wanted to read While I agree that in selecting a proxy to use whether it is open source is one of the most important considerations, if that's all you look for in this article, you may be missing something. I tho
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> Is this common? Why would unions agree to that sort of concession? Yes, it is quite common. In any contract, both sides give something of value to the other. When a union contracts with an employer, the employer makes concessions like
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Having a diagram drawing tool that automatically lays things out in an elegant fashion by default is really wonderful -- especially when I am just getting started on any given project. But if that diagram drawing tool does not graduate to a
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Those loans are sold as part of the bankruptcy proceedings (if there is one) or as part of the sale of the company's assets (the more common outcome).
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> I want to call it "ausplaining", this tendency to go "no no, YOU don't understand ME (because I'm special, not because I'm wrong)" That's certainly a message I have encountered in some places, an
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They could, for instance, prevent for most of a century most prosecutions for lynching.
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If the aid programs can easily afford to simply give out the average annual income to each person, then why on earth don't they just do that already?!
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Another solution to this problem would be competition. If there were a workable alternative to Gmail that had account recovery mechanisms better suited for this population than the librarian could simply recommend that for their patrons. Ca
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When I write, I typically DO spell these things out. > We accepted a pull request ("PR") for our continuous integration ("CI") server. As a result, CI will now automatically trigger a canary release instead of the old
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What is the legal difference between a license with this clause: > No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document. and a license with no clause at all ad
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> after scrolling partway a popup appears demanding an email address and prevents you from reading the rest of the article. Curious. I did not have that experience. I was able to read the full article normally.
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Reading that story, I feel bad for Derek. They thought outside the box, and came up with an objectively superior solution -- only to have it rejected for no reason other than the fact that they thought outside the box. On the surface, this
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That is a very creative excuse but it cannot explain why this video which described the dangers of the practice and did not explain in detail how to go about doing. It would be removed when none of the videos that demonstrate how to do this
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What law? I mean, specifically there has been no national law mandating Covid vaccine use. There were some restrictions applied differently to vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
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I guess I've been subscribed for at least 80% of that time (I've got bookmarks since at least 2008, but I think I'd been following it for two or three years before that). Writing that is consistent, and is consistently inform
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Interesting point, but I wish instead of this we had an article that did more to explore the technical aspects. Run through the derivation of that 1/e fraction. Or at least link to it. Go into depth about how human psychology modifies
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So the point here is that you don't need as many fans if your fans are sufficiently rich? I mean, it's true: one can make more money by [selling to / servicing / having as a patron] the rich, but it's not a new obse
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Can someone familiar with these make the case for why I should be using them (or at least one specific app in the suite)?
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Just because one person disagrees doesn't mean it isn't reasonable. I've met people who (claim to) believe the earth is flat, but surely no one would consider that belief "reasonable". So I'm curious what the R
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Yes, but it IS possible to do research that untangles these effects. Here is a review (from just 3 years ago) of such studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136984781...
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> Wouldn't the same apply to mask wearing? No, for a ton of reasons. Off the top of my head: (1) Masks are more effective at preventing transmission than reception. (2) Different individuals have different levels of concern, which m
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Also famously the November 5 1996 NYT puzzle where a clue about the newly elected president could be solved either CLINTON or BOBDOLE and all the crossing words had two solutions. If they trained the AI on the NYT archive then they would ha
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I am not persuaded. I think that C extensions could handle multi-threading more easily or could simply document that they only support single-threaded use. BUT, I had never heard this argument made and I find it a very interesting and insig
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Another possibility would be to create some system with an opportunity for an adversarial legal process. Allowing experts in the field to weigh in (providing prior art and/or professional opinions on patentability) might take some of t
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I don't think the cost of development is an issue, but the cost of hosting certainly is. Open source organizations have a lot of resources (programmers, reputation, etc) but it is rare for them to have much money.
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Yes, I someone who lived through that period I can confirm: I used SourceForge regularly until The point where it was proven to my satisfaction that the malware being added to downloads was not a fluke or a hack, but an intentional choice b
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I think you are misunderstanding the problem. The underlying question is not how a government with good will can offer public broadband. The question is how public broadband can exist if the government is actively passing laws to block publ
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That is absolutely not what "species" means.

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