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by namelost 9y ago
But if we're going to be spending billions of euros on moonshots, the core activity doesn't need to be fruitless! There's plenty of unfunded marginal ideas that could change the world if successful. How about funding someth
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by namelost 9y ago
When physicists (and you guys know who you are!) say things like "the universe arose from an infinite multiverse", they are bullshitting, because structure does not come from "infinity", structure comes from rules (whi
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by namelost 9y ago
Street dealers, "low level" or not, do actually kill their clients. Prison sentences for dealing hard drugs should be in line with prison sentences for murder, otherwise the implication is that the lives of drug users are much l
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by namelost 9y ago
I'd say the author comes across as immature, which is kind of a bad look if you are making security software.
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by namelost 9y ago
Further to this, it is interesting to consider their motivations. Usually trade policy is an attempt to reconcile two conflicting goals: 1. To protect your own industries/producers 2. To grow your export markets abroad They are conflic
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by namelost 9y ago
Rich Brexiteers such as Liam Fox are happy to throw UK producers (especially food producers) under the bus in favour of cheap imports from abroad which have lower environmental standards. The parent is absolutely correct that the pro-Brexit
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by namelost 9y ago
> For the most part, being a U.K. prosecutor isn’t even a career. Instead, barristers, as trial lawyers are known, both prosecute and defend clients, depending on the case. This is really not accurate. You can certainly have a career as
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by namelost 9y ago
FWIW you can see the list of providers if you sign up (you have to put in your details but don't have to pay any money). Click the hamburger button, then "find hospital or doctor". To OP: please add an easy way to see provide
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by namelost 9y ago
Can the people who are downvoting this comment please explain why?
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by namelost 9y ago
Many people want to live in Germany, there's nothing wrong with Germany itself. If German companies were competitive in pay and culture, they could easily attract the best from around the world. It's my observation that many Germa
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by namelost 9y ago
Slack is merely the latest contender in a very long succession of group chat technologies. They will be usurped one day, but they are substantially accelerating their demise by making their product so infuriatingly slow.
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by namelost 9y ago
The central question is whether EU citizenship is a relationship between individuals and the EU, or whether it is simply an artefact of the treaties between the EU states. If the former, then the action of a member state deciding to leave t
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by namelost 9y ago
It's even stupider than that. When I first subscribed to Google Play Music, in the UK, it included "YouTube Music Key", which had the same feature to allow YouTube videos to play in the background, and it worked just fine in
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by namelost 9y ago
IANAEE but would it be possible to use a DC compressor and rectify the mains, instead of using an AC compressor and inverting the PV?
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by namelost 9y ago
Judges do not create new statutes , however in common law jurisdictions they do create new law.
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by namelost 9y ago
On the plus side, there is no law against face coverings in the UK. You can legally walk along the street wearing a guy falkes mask, motorcycle helmet or niqab. Nor is there any requirement to carry ID.
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by namelost 9y ago
The real world, let's hope.
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by namelost 9y ago
It's not quite so straightforward, the deforestation enables humans to access more of the island than they otherwise would be able to.
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by namelost 9y ago
Asymptotic notation is defined using limits. In fact a lot of concepts in CS involve limits, convergence, etc. The problem is that most calculus courses were devised before the widespread availability of Wolfram Alpha and focus too much on
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by namelost 9y ago
Being a programmer without advanced computer skills is like being a paramedic who can't drive. Sure it's possible and there's probably some niche where such a person can fit in, but definitely career limiting.
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by namelost 9y ago
I presume you get your FDA-approved meth from a licensed pharmacist?
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by namelost 9y ago
People are willing to pay for good content. e.g. Wikipedia receives vast amounts of donations. Not only are people willing to pay money, they are willing to do it if even if the content is otherwise free. The problem is that most of the t
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by namelost 9y ago
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks Whoever Satoshi is, he's probably not a Keynesian.
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by namelost 9y ago
Chinese cities have grown tremendously large metro systems in a very short amount of time. China has 5 of the 10 longest metro systems, and 4 of them were started operating in the 90s or later. The Nanjing metro is the 6th longest in the wo
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by namelost 9y ago
What happened to 2D printing? If you want a paperback copy of a book, do you download a PDF and then print it on your laser printer, or do you order a copy from Amazon / a store?
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by namelost 9y ago
Yes the App Store app is so broken and abandoned that it seems far more sketchy than downloading software from a website, which is quite an achievement!
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by namelost 9y ago
The sandbox allows apps to open files via three methods: * Open dialogs * A limited number of files that have been opened in the past via open dialogs (intended for e.g. recent files) * Files that live in the app's sandboxed region of
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by namelost 9y ago
Apple's implementation of sandboxing actually makes computer users less secure. All the good software is distributed away from the App Store, because sandboxed apps are far too limited (especially regarding the filesystem). So users ha
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by namelost 9y ago
There are many parts of the world, even parts of America, where for a single woman or married couple to choose to remain childless in the pursuit of wealth would lower their social value more than the extra wealth would increase it.
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by namelost 9y ago
This is part of a deeper problem in certain parts of America whereby one's personal value is determined entirely by one's net worth (and perhaps also education).

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