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by munchhausen 11y ago
A president elected by the parliament used to be a pretty common thing in many European countries. It's simply a different model. Keep in mind that in virtually all European countries, the office of the president is not particularly po
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by munchhausen 11y ago
Not strange at all. A suit is a uniform. In a more practical sense, it's a means of directing creative energy away from irrelevant causes, such as self-expression, and enabling you to put undivided focus on your work items, the process
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by munchhausen 12y ago
A scripting language that can not fork off a subprocess does not sound particularly usable to me. Certainly not more usable than bash, which I find eminently usable. bash gets a bad rap, because there's a ton of horrible shell scripts
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by munchhausen 12y ago
So I'm scrolling through this comment section, thinking, "Are we ever going to talk about the book or what?". This thread is proof that programmer types need their share of celebrity gossip as much as anyone :) "That Zed
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by munchhausen 12y ago
Were you drunk when you created this?
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by munchhausen 12y ago
Well, I don't know what GP meant by "America", but I can imagine Montreal fitting under that umbrella, nay? FWIW, IME the work ethic in Canada is very, very similar to what it is in the US. There's certainly an accent on
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by munchhausen 12y ago
This needs to be said - upgrade your RAM. If your device doesn't support a memory upgrade, get one that does. Upgrading my laptop to 32GB RAM was one of those things where you wish you had done it a lot earlier. No more OOM-killers, no
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by munchhausen 12y ago
FWIW, had pretty good experiences with the five Thinkpads, private and company boxes, that I was using at one point or another. There are things that could be (a lot) better - battery life on the W530 and, related to that, the ugly, ginormo
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by munchhausen 12y ago
To be fair, innovation and replacing battle-hardened^W^Wobsolete system components with new software that's pushing the envelope comes at a cost. Apple are doing the right thing here and at this pace, I can see OSX being ready for the
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by munchhausen 12y ago
> As a ubuntu user, I find that I cross my fingers every time I run sudo apt-get upgrade. About half the time I get broken builds and once a year my OS will just flat out crash from it, or fail to reboot in virtual box. What I'm abo
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by munchhausen 12y ago
> I suspect that "fixing most social problems" (racism, extreme poverty, etc) is probably a prerequisite. Disagree completely. This smells of a "busywork" solution - we know something needs to be done, but we don&#x27
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by munchhausen 12y ago
This is very unpalatable, and makes me reconsider whether my next phone will, again, be an Android device. This sort of "fuck you" attitude towards legitimate feedback and valid bug reports from users doesn't bode well for Go
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by munchhausen 12y ago
Uh...you use some pretty strong language there. Can you provide technical information that will help me understand why is the Tor Browser an abomination? Apart from the obvious (Firefox vulnerabilities, dangers of running Javascript or othe
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by munchhausen 13y ago
> As I said - do you need acid to see the problems in our human society? You are on a red herring streak :) You do not need acid to see the problems within human society. But acid helps when it comes to seeing the problems within yoursel
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by munchhausen 13y ago
> The effects of LSD in freeing peoples minds or somehow waking them up to reality are exaggerated IMHO. > I mean, do you need LSD to know the government is wasting your money and making insane legislation? Nice red herring. Indeed, y
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by munchhausen 13y ago
On Linux, nothing: The only signals that can be sent to process ID 1, the init process, are those for which init has explicitly installed signal handlers. This is done to assure the system is not brought down accidentally. (From kill(2
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by munchhausen 13y ago
Yeah, no, Prague is no better. When it comes to LGBT rights, it's the same story all across the Soviet Union.
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by munchhausen 13y ago
Well, there is no good reason why the effects should be similar, because the mechanism of action of SSRIs and LSD is very dissimilar.
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by munchhausen 13y ago
> No. What you can take away from this is 'while no one doubts that at 100μg and higher one gets dramatic psychedelic effects, the suggestions that at tiny doses like 10μg there are non-psychedelic genericly positive effects, may no
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by munchhausen 13y ago
> Your source for these sweeping claims? No source. Just information that you may for all intents and purposes call hearsay. What is your source that proves your tabs had LSD on them? Why didn't you get them lab-tested? Or at the ve
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by munchhausen 13y ago
Dear gwern: Your scientific experiment was fatally flawed on multiple counts. A lot of (possibly most) LSD sold today (even LSD from Silkroad, and, amazingly, even LSD from vendors favorably reviewed by The Avengers (see: selective scamming
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by munchhausen 13y ago
The HTC Desire X that I've had for a year and a half hasn't crashed once. Anecdotal, I know - just like your Samsung experience. Btw, I wonder if the heavy customisation that Samsung does could lower the reliability of the system?
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by munchhausen 14y ago
This is terrible advice, that must not be heeded. The times when you could be reasonably sure you are getting LSD if you are getting the drug on blotter, are long gone. There are many drugs that can be/are being distributed on blotter paper
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by munchhausen 14y ago
DOM, DOB and DOI are not tryptamines, but rather psychedelic amphetamines. This is an important distinction, as it means that the most common test kit (Ehrlich reagent), will not confuse them for LSD, contrary to what you said. It is howeve
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by munchhausen 14y ago
Are you nuts? Ubuntu 12.04 is the best distribution of a Linux-based OS by such a huge margin that it's, as they say, not even funny. Even if I take into account the fact that many users seem to nurse a rather passionate dislike of Unity, I
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by munchhausen 14y ago
Are you insinuating that Ubuntu is just a Debian with a different name slapped on it? If that is the case, then you must not have used Ubuntu at all. As a Ubuntu user, I like the Ubuntu Software Center and being able to install Skype and Dr
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by munchhausen 14y ago
And using this service of course partially defeats the point of using Debian stable at all, at least for the packages that you install from backports.
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by munchhausen 15y ago
The destructive consequences of alcohol or morphine addiction are in no small regard caused by the fact that it's possible to indulge in the drug daily, and therefore it is easy to completely lose yourself in the cycle of drug use. This pro
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by munchhausen 15y ago
openSUSE is the best KDE distro around, not the least because the vast majority of SUSE developers use KDE. Dogfooding really works in this case.
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by munchhausen 15y ago
I agree that the easy availability of alcohol to teenagers in most European countries seems to achieve the effect that you describe. There is another angle to this though - is it better to engage in binge drinking right in the middle of ado

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