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by mkempe 9y ago
She claims there are "hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive." NZ population: 4.8 million, of which 900,000 are under the age of 16. So she's talking about a vast proportion of their child
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by mkempe 9y ago
Opinion of Thomas Hazlett [1], Professor of Economics at Clemson University, a former chief economist of the FCC, and author of "The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smart
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The net neutrality farce(nydailynews.com)
4 points by mkempe 9y ago|1 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
All biographies indicate that Al-Farabi studied in Baghdad under a Christian teacher, not in Constantinople.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I noticed, and enjoyed, that variation too. A few of my software products have gone through multiple frameworks and rewrites, but from the user's point of view they appear to have remained one evolving entity. My phone/personal-di
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Volvo Truck Concept Points to a Future of Hybrid Big Rigs(blog.caranddriver.com)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
You're still missing the point, in the context of the severe deficit of book translations in the modern Arab world: The Caliph's order --as chronicled-- reveals a certain attitude towards books other than the Koran.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Right, "misreading". Same thing with everything else you've written in this post and the ones before.
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by mkempe 9y ago
In the year to 2017-Aug, total US solar generation was 72.1 TWh, amounting to 1.80% of total US electricity (predicted to reach 5% by 2022; in 2016 US solar capacity almost doubled from the year before). Tesla semi consumption: < 2 kWh&#
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by mkempe 9y ago
What is the basis for your statements? According to everything I've read about Leo, he was from the Greek mainland, he did not have "frequent contact" with Moslems, and he never "met with the Caliph".
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by mkempe 9y ago
You're missing the point. Moslem chronicles attribute this to Caliph Omar: "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them." Whether the Library wa
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by mkempe 9y ago
You'd have to look up the last couple of years in the Daily Camera. Basically RTD invested in buses for Boulder along the rebuilt US 36 (not even attempting to build a rail line); they announced there would not be enough money to compl
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by mkempe 9y ago
Worse for Boulder: it was recently decided by RTD that after collecting $millions in taxes they would NOT build a rail connection.
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by mkempe 9y ago
The final destruction was chronicled by multiple Moslem sources.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Are we to believe that the Byzantines did not keep or study Aristotle's works in Greek? or that somehow the Arabs/Moslems taught the Byzantines about Aristotle? "Leo the Mathematician [790-869] ... appointed to the chair of p
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by mkempe 9y ago
In 642, Alexandria was captured by the Muslim army of Amr ibn al-As, a contemporary of Mohamet. Amr destroyed the library by order of Caliph Omar, who reportedly stated: "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need
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by mkempe 9y ago
Thomas Aquinas read Latin translations of Aristotle's works by Iacobus Veneticus Graecus (James of Venice) -- who studied in Constantinople and translated Greek works held in Constantinople. The fact that Byzantine scholars were inclin
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by mkempe 9y ago
I gave you a reference to a scholarly book that traces the path of Aristotle's most crucial work through the ages, instrumental in triggering the Renaissance. The links you provide support my argument, although they incorrectly claim t
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by mkempe 9y ago
Exaggeratedly credited so. While the works of some scholars in the Moslem world did contribute to the preliminary path towards the European Renaissance, their contribution was neither essential nor crucial. Byzantine monks and scholars regu
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by mkempe 9y ago
Scholars argue that Averroes was the last of the significant pro-reason philosophers in the Moslem world, and he lost that battle.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Correct. Here is why -- according to the Koran it itself is the only and final container of truth as provided directly by their god. Hence, why read other books, or bother translating them from other languages? In the 11th and 12th century
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by mkempe 9y ago
Thank you. It's frustrating that so many people talk as if the Byzantines had zero contact with Western Europe for a thousand years.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Actually, Byzantine monks regularly travelled to Italy for centuries, bringing scrolls with them to teach Ancient Greek. This movement accelerated during the crusades, and got its final major impetus at the final fall of Constantinople. The
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by mkempe 9y ago
Historically, Modula was Pascal v2. Modula-2 was arguably different enough to be v3. And so Oberon was v4.
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Stanislaw Lem's Forgotten 1964 Masterwork: Summa Technologiae (2013 review)(newscientist.com)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Interesting discovery. However: Georgia is in Europe, not in the Middle East -- in terms of geography, history, and present culture.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Given what we know of the NSA's past predation, why would one think this is not intentional?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Worse than rooting the computer. A JTAG debugger has chipset-level access to a system. Likely that nothing is detected in the operating system. Intel has put CSME and DCI in all (?) their chips since 2015. Skylake was announced in 2014, lau
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by mkempe 9y ago
I'd like to know why they're shrinking their list of locations. I love using Fresh, in Seattle. Saves me several hours per week; reduces the need for car trips and navigating nasty parking lots; avoids walking past aisles of bad f
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by mkempe 9y ago
Indeed. He did so in 2012, not recently.

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