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by nemo 11y ago
"PLEASE create a LinkedIn profile for Princess Penelope Pricklepants." That is a brilliant idea and must be done, though it might be a little bit before I get to it.
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by nemo 11y ago
Thanks, though that's seventeen words. A few people have suggested trying to publish a book, I was planning on looking into it next year. While I am dubious that publishers would be too excited, you never know - the world's a real
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by nemo 11y ago
Thanks! The back story isn't exactly what I'd think of as inspiring. We got a pet hedgehog, who was adorable and entertaining, and I thought it would be fun to make a blog to share with family, friends, and hedgehog fans online.
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by nemo 11y ago
Hello, the author here. I assumed this would fizzle into doom. Happy to see the strange gaze of the Internet pass briefly over my odd little blog. If you have any hedgehog-related questions, etc. feel free to ask.
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by nemo 11y ago
Gibbon wrote at a time where literary sources were the main material that was used. He actually was something of a pioneer in the 1700s in trying to tie his arguments to cited texts, which is admirable, but given how much ancient historian
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by nemo 11y ago
The criticism centered on using Gibbon as his primary source. Gibbon's fine to read as literature, or as a source on English thought in the 1700s, but not anything a serious historian would cite on Roman history. That's not a cr
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by nemo 11y ago
"The rule of law is largely a joke that the powerful trick the weak into accepting." If you're saying that in the US the rule of law has been corrupted to the point that it's largely a joke that the powerful trick the we
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Princess Pricklepants, Startup Founder Extraordinaire(princesspricklepants.com)
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by nemo 11y ago
No. Not 'he', and not just distributing how-tos. Read the link if you'd like to be aware of what's happening though.
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by nemo 11y ago
The article mentioned encryption, but I was more interested in their details on how Daesh was using it as an unmoderated platform to spread tutorials on manufacturing weapons and launching cyberattacks, calls for targeted killing and lone-w
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by nemo 11y ago
There's an interesting article on how Telegram is being used here: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8828.htm/
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by nemo 11y ago
We covered in my 8th grade in my Soc. Studies/History class (in California, in the 80s), though maybe that was because the teacher was WW II obsessed. We watched a lot of films of WW II combat in the Pacific including bits of Corregid
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by nemo 11y ago
Oh, yeah, sorry, should have given a timestamp.
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by nemo 11y ago
This talk of Cantril's was in the same vein, and also really amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc The "don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison" bit was fantastic and made all the better by t
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by nemo 11y ago
Hearst's papers were one of the chief propaganda outlets deceiving the American public into the Spanish American War. After he got his war he turned to pillaging Spanish cultural treasures and justified it as a jobs program. Wow.
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by nemo 11y ago
"The NSA is, I'm sure, very scrupulous about following the law." Your certainty is definitely misplaced (unless that was sarcasm). One of many, many examples: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national
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by nemo 11y ago
I'm not saying they shouldn't have privatized at all, I'm saying the way they privatized was disastrous. Summers was deeply involved in supporting terrible policy and putting corrupt US economic advisors in Russia to advise
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by nemo 11y ago
Sachs resigned when the Harvard Institute for International Development he was running was roiled in the scandal of his direct reports buying Russian stocks and working to get the first mutual fund license in Russia while they were dictatin
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by nemo 11y ago
I haven't got a problem with privatization per se, and recognize that some approach to privatization was called for. I have major problems with the disastrous "shock therapy" approach to privatization that was actually applie
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by nemo 11y ago
Larry may be right on some points, but given his past support for and architecting of deregulation of the U.S financial system (including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act) while he was in the Clinton admin., along with support for the d
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by nemo 11y ago
The urban-rural divide does create issues, though the author is very selective and invents a fractious view of reality concocted from stereotypes that does more to perpetuate the problem than help, and blurs cultural and political lines. P
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by nemo 11y ago
The Tigers were heavy tanks plagued by manufacturing problems. The Sherman was a medium tank more comparable to the Panzer line - the Germans built around 45,000 of those. The American M6 was comparable to the Tigers, of which few were bu
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by nemo 11y ago
Yeah, this sentence, "Almost every narrative history of the war ever published almost entirely concentrates on the strategic and tactical levels, but gives scant regard to the operational," either suggests the author hasn't r
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by nemo 11y ago
"That you think the only threat to civilization comes from the right" That's not what they said nor is it implied.
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by nemo 11y ago
Enlightenment ideals of liberty were not universally applied, but only to a limited in-group deemed worthy. That in-group was primarily wealthy white men and not all (hence the American States originally granting the vote to male property
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by nemo 11y ago
While agriculture has had health-effects, Jared Diamond is a quack who writes shallow fluff-anthropology and seems to take the approach of deciding on a conclusion, then go finding research to justify it.
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by nemo 11y ago
While there's nothing "wrong" with it in the sense of following the standard, it's nice to be able to help people spot mistakes when entering things. With email I warn on weird input, but accept provided it's compli
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by nemo 11y ago
RFC 822 is so loose in what it accepts compared to conventional use that it doesn't help with validation to prevent input mistakes, though it's effectively a lost cause. Since someone could theoretically have the address: "&
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by nemo 11y ago
I was showing Ruby code to show how its regex handling is much like Perl 5 - Perl 5 would use a sigil on 'something'. Ruby is less like Perl 6 regex-wise due to the smart match (among many other things).
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by nemo 11y ago
length is gone. See: http://design.perl6.org/S29.html#Obsolete_Functions "length() This word is banned in Perl 6. You must specify units. In practice, this probably means you want Str.chars(), although it could be Str

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