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by spiralx 8y ago
The only thing lacking about Stylus is the documentation really - the built-in functions page seems to list functions in random order (could be in order of addition to the language I guess!), there's no master index of the various synt
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by spiralx 8y ago
Yes, there is definitely a runner's high from endorphin release, and the whole process is somewhat meditative in its physicality.
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by spiralx 8y ago
They actually use a related chemical, tiletamine, on larger animals due to its increased potency: http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/S/00Chem/ChComplex/Tiletamine...
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by spiralx 8y ago
The dysfunctional Randian management model imposed by their CEO had more to do with their failure than any external woes: https://outline.com/dnb2UK
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by spiralx 8y ago
Banks don't lend out deposits, they lend based on the expectation of getting repaid. Lending is just an adjustment in the borrower's assets and the creation of an equivalent debt, which is why banks are said to "create money&
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by spiralx 8y ago
Thanks, as someone else with ADHD this is almost entirely spot-on with regards to myself, although I'm perhaps overly anal about the code I work on as a defence mechanism - which sometimes leads to focusing on the minutiae and missing
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by spiralx 8y ago
You say that, but then again there's this book with all its amusing reviews: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/08...
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by spiralx 8y ago
I think Istanbul may have you beat there, and even if you don't agree the documentary Kedi about their street cats is absolutely worth watching :) https://www.economist.com/prospero/2017/02/09/istanb
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by spiralx 8y ago
Some friends had a flat in what was the Jewish Home and Hospital for Incurables and while it was very nice inside, everything in the building was just a bit oversized and cold for residential use IMHO.
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by spiralx 8y ago
You might find this interesting, and it has possibly my favourite title ever :) https://jacobitemag.com/2018/04/24/uncanny-vulvas/
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by spiralx 8y ago
Here's one :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs
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by spiralx 8y ago
I worked for the British Medical Journal a while ago which had 120 years of articles digitised, along with several different medical databases, with around a dozen different applications utilising this content in various ways. It was basica
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by spiralx 8y ago
> ... XML grew a "type system" of sorts with XML Schema (which is widely used IME, esp. where interfacing with external services as in SOA) ... The type system came from both XML Schema and XPath and was codified with XSLT 2, t
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by spiralx 8y ago
Because world population is already forecast to peak and then decline over the next few decades, economic development has already "done something" about this issue, unless you're proposing mass murder or something equally imp
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by spiralx 8y ago
> ... is another potential protester locking themselves up in front of a fracking plant ... Isn't fracking responsible for a massive drop in coal use though? The increased amount of natural gas available means that wholesale prices
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by spiralx 8y ago
I'm not sure Christians are unusual amongst engineers - graduates of engineering degrees (other than chemical engineering) are more likely to hold creationist beliefs than graduates of any other degree programme. Engineers and priests
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by spiralx 8y ago
You might be interested in this article about how wealth is divided in the US, even if you don't agree with all of its conclusions: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...
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by spiralx 8y ago
According to this Atlantic article, the divide is between the 1%, the next 9%, and the bottom 90%, with the top 1% increasing their wealth at the expense of the bottom 90%, and the remaining 9% desperately building walls to keep their wealt
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by spiralx 8y ago
I would guess that legibility is whether it is readable at all, where readability is how easy it is to read. Something that is 100% legible might still not be easy to read - large blocks of 9pt text in a low-contrast grey colour on a white
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by spiralx 8y ago
That annoyed me as well, seems like the worst possible choice of format and quality for the given images.
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by spiralx 8y ago
It's true that most cities don't have records of everything that has been buried beneath their streets, although I don't know whether the additional costs of finding the appropriate items and the occasional unintended damage
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by spiralx 8y ago
> I'm in the UK and my recent trips with Uber have cost around the same as a standard taxi ... My experience is that they're about 10-20% more expensive on short local trips, but about 20-30% cheaper on medium distance trips, w
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by spiralx 8y ago
> These days, don't Chinese companies mostly list the products on Ebay and Amazon themselves? Yes, it's pretty standard to find the same company with store-fronts on AliExpress, Ebay and Amazon. It's sometimes worth checki
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by spiralx 8y ago
But even if that's true - does printing more dollars affect the price of crude oil on the international markets for instance - if the interest accrued on those loans exceeds the loss of value due to inflation, then they're still a
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by spiralx 8y ago
The amount of debt isn't a problem for a country's credit rating as long as repayments are made on time, that's the same as for individual borrowing and their credit score. You have to explain why the US would fail to repay i
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by spiralx 8y ago
What crisis would be so large that the US would be unable to keep up with it's repayments? Especially when you consider that it can borrow more to repay current debt instruments i.e. issue more Treasury bills, notes and bonds. Plus oth
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by spiralx 8y ago
If creditors are paid off, why would that discourage them from making future loans? Creditors surely want to get their money back, and countries that have trouble borrowing money are those that don't make debt repayments, not those tha
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by spiralx 8y ago
Here you go :) http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/05/iorz-feixfuli-m-j-yilz....
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by spiralx 8y ago
"A person walked down the street. They were wearing a brown coat." Singular they has been in recorded use since 1375, it's only been the last couple of hundred years people started trying to insist it wasn't valid. http
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by spiralx 8y ago
I've read a few articles on implementing CSP in JavaScript, and there are definitely some packages available, e.g. https://github.com/olahol/node-csp https://github.com/ubolonton/js-csp http

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