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by nswango 6mo ago
Not sure that quote has aged well from a close personal friend and spirited defender of Peter Mandelson.
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by nswango 7mo ago
Non-energy uses of fossil fuels are not problematic from the point of greenhouse emissions. If we stop burning fossil fuels and get energy from renewable sources, the remaining hydrocarbons will probably be used for plastics, chemicals and
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by nswango 7mo ago
But making plastics using renewable energy and fossil hydrocarbons for feedstock does not exacerbate the greenhouse effect, unless you burn them when you've finished with them. Arguably plastics are a stable, cheap and useful carbon si
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by nswango 7mo ago
To be pedantic: I think the actual story is about V1 drones. They did not have a navigation system as such, they were just aimed in a certain direction and with the right amount of fuel to fall out of the sky over the target. The British no
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by nswango 7mo ago
Are you claiming that advertising doesn't increase the total gambling spend?
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by nswango 7mo ago
My comment and the part of the previous comment I was replying to are explicitly about works in copyright. For public domain works, poor quality printed copies could never be criticized as crowding out better quality copies.
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by nswango 7mo ago
I disagree. The bookshop would order the book from the distributor, who would get a copy ultimately from Amazon. The books printed-on-demand by Amazon and sold directly by them are also sold via the traditional supply chain.
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by nswango 7mo ago
I mean, it will be very obvious from the physical book itself.
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by nswango 7mo ago
Agreed, the article author is just gatekeeping as far as I'm concerned. Most books available on PoD wouldn't be available at all without it. Not just less well known reissues but also new interesting books with limited readership,
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by nswango 7mo ago
It's usually extremely prominent if the book is an India only edition.
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by nswango 7mo ago
> If you have an older, low-volume book, providing a shoddy version will make you more money than letting it go out of print. From my point of view, what you are describing is "if you're the owner of an interesting but niche wo
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by nswango 7mo ago
If you order from your local bookstore a book which is being sold on Amazon as a PoD copy by a major publisher, what do you think happens? They don't have a separate manufacturing process for mom-and-pop bookstores. Amazon do the print
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by nswango 7mo ago
biblio.org is a good alternative where I am (although personally I don't see the problem with having either the print-on-demand books or buying used from Amazon as an option).
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by nswango 7mo ago
sqlite is an extreme outlier not a typical example, with regard to test suite size and coverage.
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by nswango 7mo ago
For a long time the standard way of loading JSON was using eval.
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by nswango 7mo ago
So you think that the letters in the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets which are printed identically to the Latin A should not exist? And, for example, Greek words containing this letter should be encoded with a mix of Latin and Greek characters