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by sbmassey 11y ago
If I am reading anything worthwhile, I will usually be taking notes and looking stuff up every page or two, or pausing to make sure I really understood some concept, so I'm not sure speed reading would help much
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Or read blogs by military strategists/economists/scientists that have some actual knowledge of the stuff they are writing about, rather than a bunch of ignorant journalist types.
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Diogenes Laertius cannot really be described as a peer of Pythagoras, as Pythagoras lived in the 6th century BC, long before anything Roman might be considered a peer to anything Greek, and Diogenes Laertius in the 3rd century AD.
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It recorded an early flaming in the diatribe against Engar Dug: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr5411.htm
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Anki allows you to add cards through the Ankiweb interface, in addition to having a more flexible card/note data model than most of the alternatives. The iOS Anki interface is pretty expensive at $25, but you can do everything throug
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by sbmassey 11y ago
I said nothing about mutual respect: I was merely comparing the pro-ISIS propaganda effects of "they won't let Muslims into country X", and "the Muslims in country X are under continuous police surveillance".
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Banning Muslims from entering the US is probably better from the alienation perspective than letting large numbers of them in, and then having to police them heavily to prevent attacks like the above
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There was a lot of deservedly forgotten popular music from back then too, though. There is every chance that Kardashian will fall into that category.
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How about wrapping the return value in a templated error class that the caller has to explicitly unwrap with an error handler to be able to use?
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Well it is basically an almost-copy of Boost.Filesystem which you can use today, can you not?
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It is important to remember as much history as possible, since it gives us an understanding of the range of human activity, and the outcomes of pursuing particular policies. The mistake is to take it personally.
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Is your 99% figure hyperbole, or do you have a source for it?
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Pretty much any programming language with a repl or similar makes a better calculator than any of these handheld calculator emulators
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I made no such claim: you claimed that integration had failed, and I asked if you had any solutions, while pointing out how why previous methods of integration of foreign populations might no longer work. So I guess it comes down to a quest
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Firstly, 15% supporting ISIS is a huge amount of people. Secondly, there are lots of anecdotes about Islamic refugees throwing Christian ones overboard, or maltreating them at refugee centers and so forth too. Thirdly, you don't mentio
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Do you have any actual suggestions to force them to integrate better? We are no longer in a world where most of these people will be consuming their host countries mass media, and they will certainly set up their own school system, so as fa
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Listening to the terrorists is always a good idea, especially when they are discussing how to attack us. I suggest you learn a little arabic or turkish, and browse their popular websites to find out what they think of westerners as well, wh
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by sbmassey 11y ago
Maybe we eventually get clever enough to print tablet functionality, including search, on a sheet of paper.
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In Lojban, sarcasm is denoted with attitudinals such as je'unai, which marks the statement as a logical contradiction, and/or zo'o, to mark it as humour and/or ianai for disbelief. Certain kinds of ambiguity are quite pl
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I can't imagine that a unified Conservative and Labour party in the UK would do anything but utterly disgust their respective voters, and ensure a UKIP victory.
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true, damn, let me fix that... I was thinking of using sie in the accusative rather than the dative ... hopefully 'ich mag sie' works better, right?
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The thing is, that would require that your smartphone be sufficiently aware of the context of your words that it could correctly map one ambiguous statement in one language to another in another language with a different set of ambiguities.
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I don't think the loss of a language without a literature is much of a loss, really. Also Navajo, though grammatically odd to speakers of Indo-European languages, contrary to the article does not seem to only have irregular verbs.
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Because the alternatives to C++ are even worse. There are still a lot of problem areas where GC is unacceptable, or you need precise control over memory, or access to things like Cuda, along with the high order programming constructs you ge
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The problem with OO - and this applies to Smalltalk too - is that class hierarchies are a bad fit for a changing business environment, being hard to refactor when previous assumptions change: inevitably some new case will come along which r
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If so, it will eventually come out, and then Apple will have lost all credibility on the matter.
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I didn't read the article yet, but the Carolingian Renaissance was smack in the middle of that period, and was pretty culturally fertile, with pipe organs, new architecture, the invention of lower case Latin script, and so forth.
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In C++ std::optional<T> does the trick, as of version 11, and boost::optional<T> previously. In C ... hrm you could probably wrangle some macros around that struct if you were desperate.
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Why would they vow to do it, and not just do it? Ok, it's just the title, but still.
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Of course, in practice Seneca was considered rather hypocritical. But I guess being an important aristocrat during the reign of Nero does that to you. The best book I have read on the Stoics is the Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, by the

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