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by n4r9 3mo ago
Sounds a little like the Thieves' Guild in Discworld. > The Thieves' Guild was established early in Lord Havelock Vetinari's rule of Ankh-Morpork. Lord Vetinari realised that what people crave is stability, and that, while
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I'd be interested to know how almond butter gets to $22 per jar in a country that produces over 80% of the world's almonds. Years back I stayed in Davis California for a few months, and was astonished at how expensive fresh fruit
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Speeches only show projected intent.
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I had to put this one through Claude, but it boils down to: > A culture's felt sense of proportion, ratio, and spatial order manifest directly through the hands of masons and sculptors, without necessarily needing the mathematical f
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UK and France are possibly more likely to retaliate, given the proximity.
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As with many modern wars, it's hard to say whether the Iraq war was won or lost, because the goals are difficult to discern.
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by n4r9 3mo ago
Wow, I just looked up how self-sufficient the island is and the answer is barely at all . Which initially seems surprising given the continual threat. But I guess they're counting on global support as a tech chokepoint.
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Addictive behaviour is rarely cured by telling the addict to "just stop doing it".
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> Walk around Burton and everything is named after beer: Cooper this, Brewer that. I recently learnt that a "cooper" is someone that makes wooden casks or barrels.
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nla made a reply which I think is worth considering. It got flagged and killed and I don't know why. nla ------------ You’re eliding two very different things: personal conscience and actual consequence. The author is obviously free to
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> the synopsis for the book has a mistake, and the entirety of the book builds on it Not sure what you mean here. I asked ansari.chat [EDIT turns out I used the new version ansari.ai] for an overall assessment of the book as well as a cr
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Companies that allow this will quickly lose control over code quality. The company should have PR size guidelines, and/or developers need to feel confident that they can say "please split into smaller PRs"
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That probably does happen, but I don't feel like it's happening here.
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by n4r9 4mo ago
Agreed. There's a whole checklist of what to look out for: - Does it functionally achieve what it sets out to (as per tacker issue or PR description)? - Does it have extraneous code? Leftover debug prints, private API keys etc... - Doe
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I can't imagine ignoring personal ethics in career decisions. I also find it troubling when personal ethics are inaccurately dismissed as "identity politics". Supporting carbon-neutrality and rejecting military applications a
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This is worth treating carefully. There are sources like Ibn Kathir and al-Tabari writing centuries later which claimed that Zakat collectors would return with unspent funds because eligible recipients could not be found. Even if we take th
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by n4r9 4mo ago
> I'm not quite sure where you read there is a debate I think the debate is less about how the Qira'aat vary, more about how genuinely/accurately they reflect pre-Islamic dialects. For example, Marijn van Putten has a book
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I always knew this but used to wonder why 12? , as I'm sure a lot of people did. It turns out of course to be a human choice, but the convenience of that choice can be codified mathematically. On a piano you move up an octave by going
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by n4r9 4mo ago
At the end of every workday I shut all the windows and shut down my laptop. Unless I'm in a rush. It's soothing!
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Thanks for the info! You've inspired me to research the topic a little more. My impression is that there's debate over whether the qira'aat represent pre-Islamic dialects or a curated set of recitation variations. Nevertheles
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Just to clarify. The UK police can assist you in ejecting trespassers, whom you have told to leave your house, in order to "prevent a breach of the peace". They won't arrest or charge trespassers unless they have reason to su
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by n4r9 4mo ago
Visual Studio Professional/Enterprise. It's gotten a lot better to be fair - especially with the dotnet sdk - but back in the day I'd often have to get myself out of scrapes by manually editing .sln files, deleting bin or Pro
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That link says he's okay with dogs unless they bark angrily or jump up at people.
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In case anyone is interested in a secular perspective, I would phrase this as: "the Prophet's tribe's own linguistic heritage dominated following his success as a religious leader". At the time of Prophet Muhammad, Arabi
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Abstract: "We consider a model of automation embedded in a political environment where workers can undertake a revolt (modeled as a global game), and greater inequality between capital and labor increases the likelihood of a revolt. De
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Automation and Repression(nber.org)
4 points by n4r9 4mo ago|1 comments
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What would persuade you otherwise?
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How far do you want to take the chain of causality? Hamas is in power because of increased popular support during the first and second intifadas. The first and second intifadas happened because of land expropriation, settlement expansions,
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by n4r9 4mo ago
This is awesome! I'd appreciate being able to bring up a primer on the rules - perhaps a reiteration of what it says at the start plus a list of pieces and their moves, and maybe a brief description of what strategy the pieces apply wh
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by n4r9 4mo ago
You might find it helpful to write the email, if you can find the time. Even if you never get to send it.

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