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by taejo 9y ago
Since more people have it off than on, the information content of leaving it off is much less than turning it on.
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by taejo 9y ago
Indeed. There are places in Croatia where you see more German plates than Croatian in the summer.
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by taejo 9y ago
AIUI they would have been better off if they'd used the latest of any operating system.
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by taejo 9y ago
Are the Foreign Service List and the Biographic Register still published? A quick search only yielded editions many decades old.
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by taejo 9y ago
Are you South African, perchance? (As far as I know, South Africa is the only country that exclusively called 3.5" floppies "stiffy disks").
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by taejo 9y ago
> The biggest human offenders for sending HTML-heavy e-mails are university-wide announcements. In my mind, these fall closer to spam than ham, and what useful information is in them can usually be gained from the title. If only! My alma
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by taejo 9y ago
They steal heat from outside. It takes less energy to move heat from a cold place to a warm place, than to create warmth "from scratch".
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by taejo 9y ago
The US may be the only rich western country without universal health care, but it is by no means the only one without single-payer. Germany, for example, has private health insurance[0] but everyone has to have insurance, public insurers ha
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by taejo 9y ago
Same in Ethiopia.
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by taejo 9y ago
> modern day (most of them Somalian) pirates. I think your information is out of date. In 2015, 60% of piracy incidents were in South-East Asia. http://www.agcs.allianz.com/insights/white-papers-and-case-s...
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by taejo 10y ago
A colleague of one of the authors of this paper commented on this point on Reddit. Old bone fractures differently from recently-living bone.
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by taejo 10y ago
I think that is a very "mathematician" thing to say; my own experience of doing mathematics is largely in accord. A little experience of teaching mathematics shows that this doesn't work for most people.
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by taejo 10y ago
> Because to them it's obvious. And to them it's wrong! Much is said in this book which is difficult (but not impossible) to rigourously justify. It took centuries for calculus to be placed on a rigourous mathematical foundatio
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by taejo 10y ago
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind" is cited by Paul from the OC Bible in Dune .
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by taejo 10y ago
The other recommendations are good, but I think they're higher level than this. The Graded Go Problems series (in this case the "For Beginners" books) are good and cover a lot of the basic tactics. Lessons In The Fundamental
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by taejo 10y ago
> - Why does Corbyn's opinion matter? Well back when Cameron did a deal with Clegg, they did a fixed terms act, meaning elections had to happen every 5 years. This one is within 5 years of the previous, so you actually need a two-th
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by taejo 10y ago
NATO does oblige all members to come to the defence of another member in response to an attack.
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by taejo 10y ago
I always assumed it was a reference to the pentagonal shape of many star forts (despite not being a star shape itself).
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by taejo 10y ago
Yes. Planting a forest is a one-off, though. The only way to capture more carbon with the same land is to cut down all the trees, bury them deep enough so that they don't decompose, and start again.
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by taejo 10y ago
The Beeb is forbidden by law from showing ads in the UK.
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by taejo 10y ago
> This file is literate Haskell, which means there's more documentation than code (I guess) That's the intent, but to the compiler, the meaning of literate Haskell is that comments are the default, and only lines starting with
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by taejo 10y ago
German landlords in large cities generally require a credit report (though not things like criminal record, which can be in a US background check). For large institutional landlords, you may sign a document permitting them to perform this c
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by taejo 10y ago
"axiom" is two letters shorter than "theorem", so no, brevity doesn't cut it as an excuse. The difference between an axiom and a theorem is, undoubtedly, germane to a thread about the different ways we can know thin
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by taejo 10y ago
It's not an axiom, it's a theorem (or maybe a definition of "2"). The more usual definition of "2" is "S(S(0))" (the successor of the successor of zero). "1" is "S(0)". "S(0)
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by taejo 10y ago
Pretty sure it's "machine language" here. Writing ML compiler for Apple II would have been... interesting (disclaimer: I'm not actually completely familiar with either the Apple II or ML, but I have a general idea of the
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by taejo 10y ago
Did you happen to read the paragraph above the one you quoted: > The problem here is there is simply very little incentive for cab company or driver to service this demographic. Accessible vans are expensive and they reduce "normal&
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by taejo 10y ago
> Sounds like interesting option, but 98% efficiency seem pretty unreliable, so I will still be at risk 2 times out of 100 intercourses when not counting other factors. Efficacy for contraceptives is almost always measured per year . Th
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by taejo 10y ago
I don't see how it was impossible for Remain to win. There was <4% margin; different turnout demographics could have swung it. I can imagine holding it a week earlier or later could have led to a different result.
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by taejo 10y ago
I understand the game theory, but I think politically, it would be easy to spin this as the EU being a bully who punishes you if you don't play with them, and many voters would prefer to tell such a bully to bugger off than to play alo
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by taejo 10y ago
Because it makes the EU look evil, and remaining looks like submitting to bullies.

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