metalon

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by metalon 3y ago
The current IPCC report is readable and pretty comprehensive: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
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by metalon 5y ago
Spending two weeks in a hotel room with all the amenities you can imagine (Contact to your beloved ones, television, internet access) is in no way comparable to solitary confinement, especially given the short time and the fact that you kno
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by metalon 6y ago
Groundbreaking idea there. Why has noone ever before thought of just giving everybody the same opportunities?
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by metalon 9y ago
You could consider going to Laos, the air is definitely better here
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by metalon 9y ago
What do you mean by victim culture in this context?
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by metalon 9y ago
This still has nothing to do with the point they were making, that black people in the U.S. are still disadvantaged due to historical reasons.
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by metalon 9y ago
I think it's pretty clear they were talking about the U.S., which IS a white majority country where white people DO have an advantage
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by metalon 9y ago
More like strangers taking pictures of you without your consent (and often knowledge) with the intent to increase their profits and not sharing any of that with you.
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by metalon 10y ago
Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)
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by metalon 10y ago
In 1991, Israel evacuated 14325 Ethiopian Jews in 36 hours using 35 aircraft, with up to 1122 passengers on a plane [1]. It's such an impressive feat, those must have been some of the best pilots, to be able to fly such an overcrowded
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by metalon 10y ago
That is what is well-done in the Haskell book imho, the combination of someone just learning everything and an experienced programmer
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by metalon 10y ago
They did not say that blacks don't kill blacks, just that the reason for those killings is not the victim's skin color.
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by metalon 10y ago
They are not simply banning new foreigners from entering the country (which alone would be bad enough, imho), but also many green card holders who were legal residents and now face an uncertain future. Also, does "In addition, the Unit
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by metalon 10y ago
I thought the same, e.g. this: > There's actually a special Haskell search engine to search for anything related to Haskell, because of the funky syntax not playing nice with Google. Hoogle is so extremely convenient, it's a bi
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by metalon 10y ago
I think LFE is at least not unheard of, but anyway, that's not really the point here probably ;)
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by metalon 10y ago
I think what it means that they got the idea for the tracker after losing the laptop, they didn't lose it after securing their funding
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by metalon 10y ago
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
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by metalon 10y ago
Chlorophyll does actually help against bad breath, since it absorbs gases. You can still buy dragees in pharmacies
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by metalon 10y ago
Ok.
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by metalon 10y ago
Maybe if you think about the local environment (rainforest) as the medium in which the population is dispersed, like colloids :-)