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by nanis 5y ago
Hmmmm ... Waited almost the gestation period of a human baby before I joined, mostly to raise the quality and quantity of Perl answers. Haven't been very active recently. As user 100,754, I am ranked in the top 0.12%, current #830 base
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by nanis 5y ago
> more middlemen equals lower share going to the person actually making the thing. Most people forget that the transaction might not have taken place were it not for said middleman.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Isn’t this the same as “pay with PayPal/Amazon pay/etc”? There is always the issue of how well the integration performs. It is not uncommon for merchants software to get confused in the process and ship your order to the bill
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by nanis 5y ago
In the same vein, I remember a rash of train accidents where the engineers were simply derelict in their duty, but the entire world seemed to rush to defend them because, oh my God!, accidents happened where positive train control systems w
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by nanis 5y ago
Interesting. > On June 14, 2019, the NTSB revoked OSHA party status because of a breach of party participation rules. On June 11, contrary to party agreement obligations, OSHA released a report to the public that contained large portions
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by nanis 5y ago
Looks better rendered in PDF: https://www.unur.com/10cfcp.pdf groff -ms -Tps 10cfcp.in > 10cfcp.ps ps2pdf 10cfcp.ps
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by nanis 5y ago
> With JsonLogic, that might look like this Here is the thing...There is already a crappy way to describe JSON Schemas[1,2]. It is hard to grok by visual inspection and expressing conditions like "this element can either be a list c
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by nanis 5y ago
> muckraking to clutter someone's obituary notice Edited to add: In theory, one might think there ought to be a difference between an obituary and a encyclopedia entry. This is more shrine to a person as opposed to a less propagandi
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by nanis 5y ago
Why the downvotes? The Wikipedia link confers a degree of assumption of neutrality even though it reads exactly like the content in one of those `.cn` posts. So, why not go to the source.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Mao’s pronouncements about the peasants’ willingness to pay that tribute, and the supposed improvements in peasants’ and workers’ lives, also resemble Stalin’s 1929 public statements. > The main purpose of these policies was t
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Political Famines in the USSR and China(direct.mit.edu)
4 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
Wealth is a stock measure, income is flow. You accumulate wealth out of what you can set aside out of the flow. Some of us immigrants do not come to this country with an existing stock of wealth either back home or here. We are also not in
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by nanis 5y ago
> huge drive towards HTTPS since Snowden’s 2013 releases Note that HTTPS everywhere in conjunction with HR 4681[1] means there are no limits on how long US government can retain captured communications of US citizens: > Covered commun
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by nanis 5y ago
> we could make better ones Who is the "we" deciding what tradeoffs are better?
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by nanis 5y ago
> It's a little paranoid to claim that governments are continuously trying to create totalitarian states. What in human history makes you think that?
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by nanis 5y ago
> People sick with corona going to events will clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous. People with any kind of cold symptoms going out and mingling also clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous. Yet, w
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by nanis 5y ago
Far more people in poorer countries will die from the economic consequences of lockdowns and travel restrictions than the disease. Decisions that were neither inevitable nor necessary will lower the opportunities for people to double their
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by nanis 5y ago
> * partial hydration I guess I am not caught up on hip terminology. Can you explain what this means to someone who authored his first web site in 1993 on a NeXT Cube what that means?
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by nanis 5y ago
I noted that it only detected Skype and nothing else and that app is installed on all Windows machines these days. Tried again, same deal: > That means it is 96.35% unique
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by nanis 5y ago
> You also have none of the other tested applications; I presume most of them have Word. What makes you assume I do not have Office installed? Instead of, say, considering the possibility that the fingerprinting may not be that good.
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by nanis 5y ago
> it won't pass the first amendment test. I do not think it applies.
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by nanis 5y ago
Curious: > We have generated your identifier based on 1 applications you have installed. Skype Then it told me I am ninety-something percent unique... I find that odd because pretty much every Windows machine has Skype.
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by nanis 5y ago
> have polluted water, or polluted air There is no "pure" water or "pure" air. The "right" amount depends on costs and benefits ... None of that can be looked up anywhere and people end up bargaining over th
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by nanis 5y ago
I used to post on test failures in Perl modules when building `perl` with MSVC on Windows. Just two[1] examples[2]. Also, there is this gem[3]: > I still run into modules that try to create temporary files in the root directory of my C:
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by nanis 5y ago
>> Is this something that happens because someone thinks C/C++ is one language? No[1]: > C++ source files conventionally use one of the suffixes `.C`, `.cc`, `.cpp`, `.CPP`, `.c++`, `.cp`, or `.cxx`; C++ header files often use
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by nanis 5y ago
I've run into `.C` files a few times since the 90s. They were associated with projects managed by developers who were actively hostile to the notion that people might do development on Windows and they knew what they were doing.
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by nanis 5y ago
> but I'd rather be calling the shots! With a horse, you get to communicate and convince. Also, stretching your legs and not squeezing would help. > To each their own. :-) Definitely.
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by nanis 5y ago
They created a place where people who value the food can get it at a price less than the value they place on it. So, first, they created consumer surplus. That is real wealth creation. Second, we know that it cost them less to produce the p
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by nanis 5y ago
>are you saying that you think AC between your legs is a worthwhile feature but airbags are not? Why should people not be allowed to make that choice? Keep in mind that the only reason we have airbags is because Naderites did not believe
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by nanis 5y ago
>> It's also why I love that my hometown allows riding bikes on sidewalks. > This would be a dream. Or the kind of urban nightmare where motorcycles (sorry, battery assisted bicycles) are rushing down sidewalks at 20 mph, bare

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