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by ptah 7y ago
there's already increased IRA activity https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17891935.londonderry-bom...
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by ptah 7y ago
I wonder if any software rely on these bugs EDIT: windows famously had bugs and had to add special code to preserve the buggy behaviour to keep certain applications that relied on them working https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
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by ptah 7y ago
I would actually hold him up as an example of how to move from being racist to becoming a fighter against racism. either way his development of non-violent resistance is still invaluable
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by ptah 7y ago
This has broader application than just technology. I think in all contexts it is good to have a firm grasp of first principles and how to trace back any commoditized excellence back to them. Also a good understanding of when to apply "
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by ptah 7y ago
sorry, my comment in this instance is based on https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/how-a-small-ger...
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by ptah 7y ago
maybe england should just leave the UK and let the rest stay in EU.
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by ptah 7y ago
but right now NI belongs to UK against the will of a lot of Northern Ireland. All the border counties e.g. have voted for Sinn Fein for UK parliament. Possibly those counties need to join the republic?
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by ptah 7y ago
what does he think about N.I. and good friday agreement
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by ptah 7y ago
I think the UK will have to give up N.I. to Ireland at some point to avoid an all out war. EU is good at keeping peace the last few decades, but Europe has always been at war internally before that so it looks like it will be back to BAU
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by ptah 7y ago
maybe they should take all the syrian etc. refugees?
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by ptah 7y ago
yes, it is a step in the wrong direction. multinationals already have very little restrictions already as governments can only operate inside their jurisdiction. it's a bit like old tv shows where the bad guys get away by racing the co
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by ptah 7y ago
could this be opensourced and added to linux
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by ptah 7y ago
i wonder what the actual treatment feels like and what else the tech can be applied to.
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by ptah 7y ago
in the video, does each little conveyor do one ingredient? what about food allergies and special dietary requirements where you can't use tools for e.g. dairy/meat to process vegetables
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by ptah 7y ago
ok, i'll bite: you need to learn vim if you are ever going to edit stuff remotely on a vanilla unix/linux/bsd server
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by ptah 7y ago
flame bait
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by ptah 7y ago
if they didn't pay oracle for the help and facilities then it is fair enough
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by ptah 7y ago
productivity gains typically translate into greater profit and not much wage increase so from a worker's perspective: shrug
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by ptah 7y ago
it sounds like the priority is to have quality life not just bust your butt to make company owners rich.
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by ptah 7y ago
this goes for all machines, i read recently that modern tractors are impossible to repair by farmers due to manufacturer restrictions.
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by ptah 7y ago
it should. in the real world and online, logic is useless at convincing people. probably because empiricism is more effective at discovering useful knowledge epistemologically speaking
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by ptah 7y ago
why not just do it in a video game instead
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by ptah 7y ago
according to nicholas Taleb, Black-Scholes was always broken. I tend to believe him based on results achieved by Scholes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
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by ptah 7y ago
>Democrats win 21st century elections by relative landslides, while Republicans win by very narrow margins Republicans would need orders of magnitude more people to move
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by ptah 7y ago
it's probably cheaper to just pay off politicians, and if you are really cheapskate billionaire, just run for office yourself(like trump)
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by ptah 7y ago
why can't you use linux instead?
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by ptah 7y ago
the second one would have actually helped us to avoid current dilemma :-P
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by ptah 7y ago
trees only capture carbon temporarily
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by ptah 7y ago
that quora answer erroneously mentions natural selection. i am not aware of any genetic causes ofmyopia
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by ptah 7y ago
letter of the law solutions like this are outrageous

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