pacifist

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by pacifist 11y ago
This right here. I'm using a product that I helped build to earn my living from 500 miles away. I walk everywhere. I drive biodiesel but not much. I filled the tank last winter and still have a half tank. We can set things up so we do
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by pacifist 11y ago
Here's another take on it: [1]"As the war’s outcome became apparent, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to return Greece to the prewar rule of the monarchy and the old regime. He was motivated by fear of Commu
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by pacifist 11y ago
Maybe not a direct correlation but: "By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions"[1] I believe this is what the op was getting at. This is why C is called a "mid level" language.
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by pacifist 11y ago
This is why I always read the comments first.
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by pacifist 11y ago
Here's another take on it: [1]A widely repeated claim is that, as a result of Portugal’s decriminalisation policy, drug-related homicides increased 40% between 2001 and 2006. But this claim is based on a misrepresentation of the eviden
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by pacifist 11y ago
While reading your original post and before I got to the part about bitcoin I was thinking bitcoin might be a good way to respond to the problems of greed and corruption you point out. It's early days for crypto currency so we're
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by pacifist 12y ago
"given their importance in reducing famine" Turns out to be a myth: [1]"New Report Debunks 'Myth' That GMOs are Key to Feeding the World - Study upholds value of traditional methods 'shown to actually increase
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by pacifist 12y ago
Here you go. Data from the internet: [1]"States are all over the map on their retreat from higher education. At one extreme are the two states that have managed to maintain their fiscal 1980 investment through 2011: Wyoming (+2.3 perce
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by pacifist 12y ago
It didn't make sense to me until I read this: from the article: "Some of this increased spending in education has been driven by a sharp rise in the percentage of Americans who go to college." from the comments: "The mon