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by razakel 6y ago
>But the more I know about the topic, the less I think of the article. Gell-Mann Amnesia, as Michael Crichton put it: "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject
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by razakel 6y ago
Bill Gates has said The Economist is the only magazine he reads cover-to-cover as it makes him think critically about the world.
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by razakel 6y ago
Some more food for thought - occasionally doctors will privately admit that many of their patients aren't really depressed, they're in fact suffering from "shit life syndrome" - in other words, their mood is the normal a
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by razakel 6y ago
Earlier this year there was a case where someone was accessing illegal stuff (as in, the sort of stuff that does warrant police kicking their door down at 4am) using public WiFi. Except the ISP had forgotten to take into account daylight sa
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by razakel 6y ago
You're thinking of it as a strategic resource when it isn't - it's just an investment holding. If war looked likely they'd just sell it on the open market.
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by razakel 6y ago
Why would someone smuggle meth into China? Surely with China's fairly lax regulations on the chemical industry someone would be more likely to be smuggling it out...
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by razakel 6y ago
This is also something Iran does - in theory someone can renounce Iranian citizenship, but it never really happens. Essentially, if your father is Iranian, you are Iranian, even if you were born outside Iran, and you must go to Iran to requ
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by razakel 6y ago
macOS is actually a certified UNIX, the rest being enterprise OSes most people will never see.
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by razakel 6y ago
Tangentially, a UK ISP managed to get DSL to work over wet string: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
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by razakel 6y ago
>even the IBM mainframes Anyone who wants to mess around with a modern IBM mainframe might want to take a look here: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the... The competition is only
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by razakel 6y ago
Here's the Bugzilla report where they actually request their root be added to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232689 The answer is basically "no".
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by razakel 6y ago
My understanding is that they were built to treat more minor cases, where someone does need monitoring, but they weren't intended to be ICUs.
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by razakel 7y ago
>the private-sector owners Many of the train operating companies are in fact owned by foreign governments. Abellio is Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Arriva is Deutsche Bahn, Govia is SNCF.
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by razakel 7y ago
I thought there was a federal program to provide phones to people on low incomes - the so-called Obamaphone (although it was actually Reagan).
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by razakel 7y ago
If you're thinking of an EPP licence, that's only for a handful of specifically restricted chemicals.
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by razakel 7y ago
Shut up, you'll annoy the an-caps with your example of their fantasy world failing in reality!
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by razakel 7y ago
Peter Thiel mentions in his autobiography that, out of the six co-founders of PayPal, four of them made bombs in high school.
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by razakel 7y ago
It indicates that what they sold you wasn't worth the money and they're fully aware of that . Real estate appraisal is a regulated profession - get two people to value your house and they'll come up with similar amounts. Ask
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by razakel 7y ago
Ecology Building Society, Charity Bank and Triodos have pretty much sewn up the ethics market between them.
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by razakel 7y ago
.onion is reserved, see RFC 7686: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686
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by razakel 7y ago
Yep. You could have a company incorporated and bank account set up all ready to trade by tomorrow lunchtime for about $50.
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by razakel 7y ago
Because you would then have two incompatible banking systems and the whole thing would be a complete pain for everybody.
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by razakel 7y ago
>Firstly, like in every country, most UK businesses don't sell abroad at all. One third do. As for the rest, they may not trade abroad directly , but their suppliers and customers certainly will.
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by razakel 7y ago
>The Co-operative Bank is, as the name suggests, a co-operative. It's no longer a co-op and its relationship with the Co-Operative Group will end later this year.
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by razakel 7y ago
>A regular code signing cert can be bought for about $6/month Where?
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by razakel 7y ago
"Thou" is still used in some dialects of northern England and Scotland, albeit mostly by older people.
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by razakel 7y ago
"They" has been a valid singular pronoun in English since Chaucher; it's not a new invention.
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by razakel 7y ago
You're thinking of Macedonia: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/12/1612271020... https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190528-i-was-a-macedoni... https:/
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by razakel 7y ago
The site hasn't even existed for a year and appears to be based in Montenegro.
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by razakel 7y ago
It's simple: if the Soviets have it, we should too. I'd point you in the direction of Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare At Goats for more detail (the book is non-fiction, but the movie is fiction).

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