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by taejo 9y ago
> A have a friend who was a flight attendant working the Teheran evacuation in 1979. They packed the 747 full. People were sitting on the floor in all the aisles. During Operation Solomon , an El Al 747 carried 1,122 Ethiopian Jews from
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by taejo 9y ago
It's closer to saying "English is the European dialect of Indo-European". Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese are all languages spoken primarily by Han people, they are all Han dialects. Of course Mandarin has a priviledged po
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by taejo 9y ago
"Deserves" is a "should"-level concept, not an "is"-level concept. "It's reality" is not an answer to why someone does or does not deserve something.
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by taejo 9y ago
One that I've played a bit in the last few years (IIRC it's discussed in Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays ) is to draw an RxC grid (4x5 works well for a short game). Two players take turns placing 1x2 dominoes on two adja
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by taejo 9y ago
What happens when the two characteristics of clever and stupid are combined? I'm far from certain this combination is impossible.
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by taejo 9y ago
Yeah, it sounds amazing, but I think it would have been a disaster. Jodorowsky never actually read Dune, and he had the grandiose, completely impractical ideas: Salvador Dalí as the Emperor, his girlfriend with no acting experience as Irula
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by taejo 9y ago
Right, so for this order to be "topsy-turvy", the pimp would have to have higher status than the innkeeper outside of the game.
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by taejo 9y ago
> Optical remotes? I don't take selfie. I press the button. The OP had a specific complaint about cameras not having an IR receiver at the back , i.e., for non-selfies. Remotes are useful for bulb shots, for reducing camera shake,
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by taejo 9y ago
> That's still not as good as the non-idempotent message. Only if you can be sure the non-idempotent message arrived. It's not safe to re-send the delta message.
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by taejo 9y ago
Does anyone else do `qgit`? `q` to quit the pager, but the output of the previous command unexpectedly fit on one screen.
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by taejo 9y ago
I'd say rather that as alternatives were discovered and developed, these became unprofitable.
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by taejo 9y ago
Not entirely random, since it's about a language (albeit non-Germanic) unifying blue and black.
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by taejo 9y ago
“There's no free will, says the philosopher; To hang is most unjust. There is no free will, assents the officer; We hang because we must.” ―Ambrose Bierce
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by taejo 9y ago
Poe's Law is strong with this one. I can't tell if it's serious or a parody.
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by taejo 9y ago
> I've noticed is how common it is over here to just allow dogs in restaurants and pubs and on public transportation. That seems to be the default and only some places have "no dogs allowed" signs up. If the US would take
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by taejo 9y ago
A spam filter is usually a computer program. As far as I know, they are never employers. If your company's "spam filter" tells your employer what your sexual orientation is, whether you or your wife are picking the kids up fr
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by taejo 9y ago
AIUI it is 100% orange juice in the sense that all of the ingredients are extracted from orange juice. Yes, "flavour packets" are added, but these flavourants are also 100% orange juice, just processed in a different way.
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by taejo 9y ago
> I've found that "meat" is sometimes used in casual English as "Animal muscle/meat, but not fish" But also often monophylectically as "mammal muscle/meat".
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by taejo 9y ago
"People in this country have had enough of experts" -- Michael Gove, in 2016, then Secretary of Justice in the Conservative Party government of the UK
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by taejo 9y ago
Only if they have virtual members.
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by taejo 9y ago
> I think this is a short-term issue just because error correction is so good. We have many error correction algorithms that approach the theoretical limit for efficiency. Doesn't this mean there isn't much room for improveme
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by taejo 9y ago
The Perseids peak at around 60/hour, but I guess it's a lot less a couple weeks before.
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by taejo 9y ago
Well it's 2017 now and FontForge still doesn't behave like a Mac app (it uses X11 still) so the friend seems to have an excellent justification.
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by taejo 9y ago
That's not an assumption, that's an answer to "how is it possible?". The answer to "how do we know that's the case?" is "polling": http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3
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by taejo 9y ago
> de-colonization was complete in the Americas. Except for Canada and many islands which are still colonies today.
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by taejo 9y ago
I think the difficulty is in defining the relation, rather than proving it. The problems are so small that it probably doesn't matter how you actually prove equivalence, once you've defined it.
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by taejo 9y ago
> Are there other foods that you think would be improved by adding a melting feature? Butter and chocolate are solid at room temperature; likewise ice cream is served frozen. Part of what makes all of them so pleasant to eat is that they
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by taejo 9y ago
Get in touch with archive.org. They're probably interested in hosting, would know about the legal side, and likely can also advice about scanning and preservation.
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by taejo 9y ago
The German-language equivalent is https://mundraub.org -- also global, but most useful in German-speaking areas.
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by taejo 9y ago
Why not find out? I'm not in North America, but I eat wild blackberries whenever I see ripe ones. From what I can see with a quick Google, all blackberries and black raspberries in NA are edible and delicious.

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