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by oska 6y ago
This reads like a rationalisation to me. I would guess that the forces that beat the US in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese & the Viet Cong, were far more parsimonious in their resource use and put effort into extracting their equipment. O
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by oska 6y ago
She might prefer being called by her first name and perhaps doesn't even like formal address. We don't know and if she isn't complaining about it then I don't know if we should.
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Obituary: Dr Joy Thomas, information-theory stalwart(indicanews.com)
3 points by oska 6y ago|0 comments
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by oska 6y ago
> Braben was studying natural sciences, Bell was on the maths course. Neither went anywhere near the computer science department, which they had arrogantly but accurately decided offered them nothing useful. They're talking about Ca
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by oska 6y ago
> I think he might be a robot. I have the opposite impression - that he's human, and I mean that in a good way, as someone able to empathise and show discretion. He's an extremely good moderator and I can't see a robot be
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Dr John Campbell's video on making videos (with OBS Studio)(youtube.com)
4 points by oska 6y ago|0 comments
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by oska 6y ago
The 'from GM' in the title is a little misleading. The manufacturer of this car, as described in the second paragraph, is SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. In this 3 way joint venture SAIC Motor, a state-owned Chinese company, is the
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Ponds, Beaver Ponds, Arctic & Antarctic Ponds, and Walden Pond(nakedcapitalism.com)
13 points by oska 6y ago|2 comments
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by oska 6y ago
> we won't have global communities anymore We can easily have global communities if social media is based on open standards and transparent data sharing, rather than corporate offerings with jealously guarded, covertly collected, pe
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The Battle over Dyslexia(theguardian.com)
67 points by oska 6y ago|79 comments
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by oska 6y ago
I think your observation is a good one. But yes, it doesn't give him a pass and personally, I'll never forgive Gates & Microsoft for their strangulation of the computing world (and its creativity) through the 80s & 90s. I
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by oska 6y ago
Based on what cyphar is saying in this thread, my (somewhat cynical) take is that someone made it up recently and tried to give it an air of 'old wisdom' by falsely attributing it as a Serbian proverb. (I also think this supposed
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by oska 6y ago
> citrus is acidic and why the hell would I want anything acidic on my scalp? Because your skin is acidic - indeed it has a protective acid mantle [1]. The question you should actually be asking yourself is why would you want anything a
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by oska 6y ago
> This passage presents altruism as a tit-for-tat deal with God. Only by an extremely shallow reading.
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by oska 6y ago
You're assuming the government controls the development process. That's not the objective (and frankly, FOSS licences works against control, as any party can fork the code). Rather, the suggestion is for governments to support F
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by oska 6y ago
This is exactly how Europe (and other parts of the world) can avoid having their IT services monopolised by US American companies. And build up ecosystems of expertise around the free software projects.
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by oska 6y ago
I'm the submitter. The whole second half of the article details the ways in which this orca population is stressed. It describes how their population has rapidly declined, they have much less food and there is evidence of them sufferin
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Orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar(theguardian.com)
290 points by oska 6y ago|154 comments
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by oska 6y ago
This is testing my memory but I think WordStar from the early to mid 80s had something similar. Codes all started with a ^ (again from memory) and their visibility could be toggled on and off.
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by oska 6y ago
They solved it by almost completely stopping Covid-19 at the border. So while there are indeed many lessons to learn from Taiwan, I doubt they are the people to look to for how to deal with large numbers of undetected infected persons using
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by oska 6y ago
Or you could just minimise this part of the discussion, which HN makes trivially easy to do.
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by oska 6y ago
You're simply changing the meaning of the word then and also, I would suggest, debasing the complex experience of death by suggesting it is a singular, universal experience of 'personal tragedy'. Everyone loses loved ones and
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by oska 6y ago
Your portrayal is so slanted. Here's an alternative take: if the many, many, many billions of dollars that were squandered on the nuclear fission industry around the world had instead been invested into wind, solar and storage then we
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by oska 6y ago
From that page: > Julia and I believe that one of the best ways to make the world better is to donate to effective charities. I would argue that the best way to make the world better is to First do no harm . Making a large income by pus
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by oska 6y ago
Funding a site by mind pollution, which is what push advertising is, is antisocial behaviour. The onus is on the site publisher to find an ethical source of revenue (just as with any business model). Putting up content on the web and fund
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by oska 6y ago
We don't know how old the author's mother was when she died. My grandfather died of cancer at 79. While it was sad (and I still feel sad when I think of it) I wouldn't ever describe it as a 'tragedy'. Only commentin
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by oska 6y ago
Is her name Lauren O’Bryan? Because your story reminded me of a similar story in an ABC article [1] profiling ppl stuck overseas with the pandemic. [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-23/coronavirus-pandemic-..
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by oska 6y ago
Really no surprise here. Facebook wants to maintain its presence in the Thai market and thus has to comply with the Thai lèse-majesté law. Much as I dislike Facebook I find it hard to criticise it for this action. The obvious takeaway is th
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by oska 6y ago
I don't know why I wrote 'biplane' above. The Southern Cross was of course a monoplane.
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by oska 6y ago
I think the last paragraph is worth quoting in full: > The book ends with Scialabba’s own advice for depressives. In contrast to the political and economic themes set forth in the earlier sections and the clinical diagnoses of the docume

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