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by phaemon 9y ago
As zcoyle said, it's bash. Why did you think it was Ruby when you correctly guessed it was a shell? AFAIK, the closest in Ruby would be something like: for i in 1..10 do puts "This works too! Number " + i.to_s end
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by phaemon 9y ago
It's not that bad. I turn on my computer and type: echo "This is nice." and it does. Then, I type: for i in {1..10}; do echo "This works too! Number $i" done And it does.
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by phaemon 9y ago
It goes into the EU budget, but since the 2017 budget was €158 billion, even the largest fines are fairly insignificant.
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by phaemon 9y ago
I think you misread that comment. He wasn't talking about the pharmacy making anything cheaper. Quite the contrary.
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by phaemon 9y ago
They did not gloss over it. It's right there in the abstract: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/01/17/scien... Please realise that, just because a detail is omitted in a news rep
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by phaemon 9y ago
Well, Idiocracy was release over 11 years ago, so young adults might not have heard of it. Hope I haven't made you feel old :)
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by phaemon 9y ago
From Paul Sagar's bio (the author of this article): "i am lecturer in political theory in the department of political economy, king’s college london i completed my doctorate at the university of cambridge (2014), after receiving a
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by phaemon 9y ago
You're going to let little kids starve because their parents refuse to do your shitty government assigned job for the rest of their lives? Are you looking forward to your mandatory assigned job? Or are you imagining that it's ju
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by phaemon 9y ago
The vast majority of software is not commercial software (as in, software that is sold. Most software is for internal use.) > with a few shining examples, I've been totally underwhelmed by FOSS. I suspect you think that most softwar
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by phaemon 9y ago
I don't really customise my CV to a particular job, so I just use the cover letter as a brief summary of why I'd be great for {advertised role}. Not that this is advice. I have no idea either and would like to hear what other folk
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by phaemon 9y ago
Those top 100 names total 50 million people, out of a total US population of 250 million (at time of 1990 census). That means that 80% of the US population has a surname other than those on that list. Assuming that 80% of the US poplulation
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by phaemon 9y ago
A blockchain is a DAG. Just one with no branches. Like, if in using Git you never branched but only used `master` for everything: that's a blockchain.
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by phaemon 9y ago
> Nobody cares about the security implications. Assuming he's innocent for a moment, I'm going to bet Damian Green cares...
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by phaemon 9y ago
That's an interesting theory, considering this story is about someone using Bitcoin for a transaction. EDIT: it's Friday, be nicer me
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by phaemon 9y ago
Is there anyone here who's actually used one of these?
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by phaemon 9y ago
> and 2008-2012. Also, the UK’s GDP growth has been about double France’s since 2013. So, the UK overtook France in 2013 and since then has had double the GDP growth, resulting in...France now having a larger GDP?
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by phaemon 9y ago
That is the complete opposite of the study's findings. The number of days they felt ill did not change, but they had fewer days absent.
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by phaemon 9y ago
So, 3.5% over 5 years, is about 0.7% per year. And that's the main cause of the housing problem in Sweden? I'm very skeptical. > note that they're going to be concentrated into relatively few urban areas Well surely that&
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by phaemon 9y ago
> Well, if you are increasing the population a lot But you aren't increasing the population "a lot", now are you? You linked to a graph that shows around 350,000 asylum seekers over 5 years. What percentage of Sweden'
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by phaemon 9y ago
Try reading the sentence that followed that.
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by phaemon 9y ago
> "Hey guys,..." and someone expresses discomfort with the genderedness of the phrase Is "guys" still gendered? I thought it was used to refer to any group of people, male or female, pretty much since the days of &quo
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by phaemon 9y ago
Yes it is. A "synecdoche" is where you use a part to refer to the whole (or vice versa).
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by phaemon 9y ago
> The amount of goods you can buy for 1 hour of labour should be equal between USD and BTC. Why? The amount of goods I can buy isn't equal between USD and GBP. Or between either and EUR. So why exactly should it be equal for BTC?
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by phaemon 9y ago
So they have nothing and have great lives. They just go get a job like normal people. They live in the Netherlands. They're not going to be left starving and homeless just because they don't have money.
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by phaemon 9y ago
What's wrong with that? Are you so attached to material stuff that you'd be devastated if you lost it all? Seems reasonable to me. Worst that happens, you go back to working like most people do.
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by phaemon 9y ago
To "concur" means to agree; I'm not sure what word you meant but I'm assuming it was a synonym for disagree. EDIT: oh, did you perhaps misread "cannot recommend this strongly enough" as "cannot recommend t
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by phaemon 9y ago
Well, no-one answered your question directly, so here: https://ibb.co/dVDSDG That is cumalative wealth up to 100%. The blue line is if everyone is equal (poorest 20% have 20% of the wealth). The red line is linear increase
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by phaemon 9y ago
Yes it does. What are you talking about?
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by phaemon 9y ago
heh, you didn't need to link to a parody. The "We've got an awesome team and have secured VC funding. Now, anyone got any product ideas?" from last week would have done :)
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by phaemon 9y ago
Nonsense. You don't have the designated rights or privileges to lock down the meaning of anything. The definition as I gave it was used in the 1975 edition of "The Mythical Man-Month". Is that good enough for you?

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