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by qubex 7y ago
That’s interesting, though... does that mean that in your understanding of the scenario (IANAL, you might or may not be) the original buyer might have a shot at making that argument?
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by qubex 7y ago
Again, a bit of a sweeping (and false) perception informed by our local historical and cultural context. There is strong anthropological evidence that for dozens of millennia matriarchal societies were the norm. This survived well into the
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by qubex 7y ago
I wanted to thank everybody who took the time to explain this. Thank you.
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by qubex 7y ago
I find most explanations of the Equivalence Principle that lies at the foundation of General Relativity to be very lax. To wit, the idea is that you cannot distinguish whether you are in an accelerated frame or in a gravitational field; alt
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by qubex 7y ago
Invoking “help -l” will give you a full list of available commands.
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by qubex 7y ago
I haven’t stated an opinion on the matter, I’m just cautioning against these offhanded remarks about massive societal re-engineering. Though your example is telling, actually. Humans are fairly unusual insofar as females do not have signifi
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by qubex 7y ago
Fallacy of Chesterton's Fence: Don”t demolish things (including social norms) until you understand why they arose in the first place. Most likely somebody solved a problem you no longer perceive because the solution is currently in pla
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by qubex 7y ago
I had never thought of it in those terms but come to think of it... (dons economist hat) yes... this is likely one of the few scenarios in which a higher price might actually drive up utility (and not the other way around, where market cond
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by qubex 7y ago
I’m still very much a pen & paper kind of person; if there’s something worth communicating, I prefer to break out the fountain pen and the writing paper. I’ve got a drawer full of envelopes and stamps and I keep resupplying. I’m also o
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by qubex 7y ago
“Thoughts and prayers”
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by qubex 7y ago
Yes, the lockdown procedures have been successful and the disease is definitely on a downward trend ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/malta/ ) That kind of underscores my point, though, doesn’
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by qubex 7y ago
No we can’t: commercial (passenger) flights were suspended on 20th march and though there’s various repatriation schemes running in both directions (in and out), pretty much everything is suspended. It’s better if you abide by official sour
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by qubex 7y ago
As others have noted, “not confirmed” does not mean that we have to take all that we know about viruses and immunology and trash it (yet). In all likelihood in due course it shall be confirmed. There’s no reason to believe this virus is fun
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by qubex 7y ago
Don’t get me wrong, I’m most definitely not advocating it. But keep in mind there’s folks considering shooting up bleach because Podium Dementor mused about it ‘sarcastically’. People’s cognitive processes surprise, sometimes.
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by qubex 7y ago
I’ve tried to reach out to you.
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by qubex 7y ago
How can your hatred for any corporate lingo term outrank that reserved for the bulwarks ‘leverage’ and ‘synergy’? ‘Granularity’ is a big up-and-comer too.
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by qubex 7y ago
That’s a good point, but I’m also starting to speculate whether, when the infection rates and (crucially) hospital occupation rates diminish, we will see some people deliberately seeking to get infected so as to gain immunity whilst the r
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by qubex 7y ago
I’ve been thinking along these lines, but with a twist. I’m half British and half Italian, raised and resided in the latter most of my life. As I’m sure you know, both of these countries have been hit very severely by the pandemic, and Ital
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by qubex 7y ago
Oh no I understand that very well, I’m well versed in statistical mechanics. The thing is that the cross-section of the targets remain low, and therefore the amplitude of the scattering matrix remains pretty low. It’s actually pretty unlike
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by qubex 7y ago
This kind of visualisation is fascinating, but it’s also (for reasons I shall now explain) the root of a very serious misconception. The misconception I speak of is the “junk in space” one. One sees images such as these and clearly reaches
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by qubex 7y ago
Heh, why am I not surprised? To be honest, the only thing that surprises me is that he hadn’t done this already.
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by qubex 7y ago
Quite coincidentally I am currently living in Malta, and have for about nine months now. The place is... quixotic. The whole economy depends on tourism, internet gambling, offshore companies, and real estate (driven by the first directly an
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by qubex 7y ago
That reminds me a lot of Lotus Improv (somewhat before my time) and one of my favourite tools, Quantrix Modeler . There are some more modern alternatives out there that take a similar approach — I just saved a model I’m editing on my iPa
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by qubex 7y ago
The ICQ “uh-oh!” sound is still the iMessage custom sound for my best friend’s contact, because I remember spending sleepless muddy summer nights of 1999 chatting with him on the crazy realtime chat feature.
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by qubex 7y ago
I assume that was meant to be a conditional, and if so, the answer would be an unprovable counterfactual.
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by qubex 7y ago
I read on NH yesterday (or perhaps the day before) that in the USA HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act 1996) carves our a special exemption to consider faxes ‘secure’.
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by qubex 7y ago
How about WireGuard over DNSSEC and call it a day?
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by qubex 7y ago
The more I read about how universities worldwide are becoming profit-driven enterprises focussed on providing enjoyable experiences to their ‘clients’, the more thankful I become for my mirthless days at LSE.
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by qubex 7y ago
I can strongly recommend mLogic’s solutions, but they certainly aren’t cheap. https://www.mlogic.com/products/mtape-thunderbolt-lto-7
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by qubex 7y ago
The Apple eMate 300 (a Newton clamshell released in 1997, when I was 16. For some reason, though I lived in Italy, I became obsessed by the device. Finally, when I turned 32 (16*2), I bought myself one off eBay and set one up as a SSH conso

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