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by outop 2y ago
I realise that this isn't an argument to show that the book market is healthy, but have you considered piracy? Many of the type of books you are describing are very easily available via libgen.
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by outop 2y ago
Did you read the headline of that article? You need government ID to get on a domestic flight in the UK. You also need government ID to get on a flight from the UK to Ireland. As with the sea border and the land border, this completely inva
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by outop 2y ago
When did you last travel on a UK domestic flight? You definitely need government issued ID. You are suggesting that having to show any photographic ID is the same as having to show a passport . That's obviously silly. No one has to
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by outop 2y ago
Have you travelled between the UK and Ireland? You most definitely do not need a passport and do not need "equivalent ID". You can travel (by boat) with a student card, driving license, photographic travel pass (ie over-60s pass,
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by outop 2y ago
How is this an unhealthy market? Everyone can easily access the books they want. People choose to read the Bible and Harry Potter because that's what they want to read. Of course, it might be a shame that we all coordinate on reading a
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by outop 2y ago
But there are more books published than ever before. Most of the books that sell hundreds of copies wouldn't have been published in the past. If you write a niche book about something and a few hundred people read it, that seems great.
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by outop 2y ago
GPL does not impose conditions on use.
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by outop 2y ago
No, because it's a name that was made up then to try to rebrand something that had already existed for decades, but which has a name that those guys didn't like.
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by outop 2y ago
It would be nice to be told roughly what the process is before having to 'sign up'.
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by outop 2y ago
Maybe it's one in a trillion that a particular piece of space junk, not already known to be falling from the sky, will fall and hit a particular person. This seems quite scary since the product of the number of people and the number of
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by outop 2y ago
It seems like you are implying that lies in "marketing quotes" are not real lies? I don't think that this is the case. In the rest of your comment you repeat the claim that I was responding to, that all the correct informatio
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by outop 2y ago
You must be an exception within an edge case.
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by outop 2y ago
You can do it: by putting tabs on the second line to the start of the first line, then using spaces to match "Type myvar = ". It's just that sooner or later someone will get it wrong.
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by outop 2y ago
I'm not sure all the ISA issues are clearly stated in the contract, or whether they were clearly stated in all the contacts, before they started to get into trouble. But they clearly lied about much of this stuff in the headline pu
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by outop 2y ago
Correct. The article does a bit of a bait-and-switch by showing that centering a rectangle within another rectangle is mathematically trivial, and then going on to complain about misaligned stuff that is mainly "irregular shaped text (
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by outop 2y ago
Before CSS people used to use tables, often nested, for all kinds of layout. Eg if your page had a header, a sidebar and a main text area, you would create a table with cells of the right relative widths, with invisible borders, and put eac
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by outop 2y ago
As a private person wanting to decorate your own house in a fancy way you are something of an edge case. If your contractor came to you and said "this material has a questionable provenance but it's 20% cheaper and will look 99% a
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by outop 3y ago
ChatGPT would be terrible at adding stuff to a shopping list.
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by outop 3y ago
I disagree with your second statement. I think they're studied because they are simple working legal systems which are easier to reason about than modern ones. Arguably these legal systems are the conceptual basis for our modern law
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by outop 3y ago
Draw a line of length 1 which makes an angle of p with the positive x axis. The x and y coordinates of a, the point at the end of the line give cos(p) and sin(p). Now think about what happens if you increase p by a tiny bit. a moves tangent
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by outop 3y ago
Many law courses spend time on Roman law, and on archaic English law.
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by outop 3y ago
Same as their reason for shutting down all their other projects. They only ever existed as a distraction for their underemployed workforce and as part of the PR that they have a mission other than pulling cash out of their personal-data-mon
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by outop 3y ago
To be fair to them there are still a few projects which are still hosted on SF, in some cases it's the only place you can find specific legacy projects. So if their calculation was that all of open source would stay on their platform w
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by outop 3y ago
That's the company that bought Slashdot isn't it?
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by outop 3y ago
Can you name some of these social revolutions? I'm genuinely not sure what you are referring to.
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by outop 3y ago
It was found that drivers unconsciously filtered out a single small light moving like a bicycle does (weaving back and forth slowly, often towards the edge of the driveable area). Flashing lights are somewhat annoying but much safer for cyc
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by outop 3y ago
Pretty sure the existence of art made from large pieces of steel isn't the thing that "helped alienate the common man".
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by outop 3y ago
Good behaviour in federal sentences is restricted to 15% off the total.
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by outop 3y ago
It's a chronological distortion to say that the peace process was stopped by the second Intifada. It did not start until after the breakdown of the peace process.
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by outop 3y ago
Well, most code that loads CSVs is intended to work with certain files from certain sources, and not with all the CSVs that have ever existed. So yes, I am happy with code that works for a subset of files. There are thousands of application

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