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by taejo 10y ago
You can also prevent the tragedy of the commons, without federal interference, through an inter-state compact (basically a treaty/contract between states).
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by taejo 10y ago
Because most of the votes Hillary got didn't help her win electoral votes: if you get 80% of the vote in a state, that gets you just as many electors as 50%+1. The remaining 30% is "wasted".
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by taejo 10y ago
You can have the insights without the insults. They add literally nothing, except to degrade the conversation until HN is indistinguishable from 4chan.
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by taejo 10y ago
Actually, the 100 year lease was only for the New Territories, which make up the bulk of Hong Kong's territory, but only about half its population; Hong Kong Island and Kowloon were fully annexed by Britain. However, Britain decided it
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by taejo 10y ago
If you're only dealing with people geographically close to you, you might as well all agree on a convenient local timezone, with features like not changing the date in the middle of the work day.
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by taejo 10y ago
Let's take something else: vodka. Poisonous or edible? Clearly poisonous: if you drink a litre, you may feel nauseous, lose your balance, slur your words, throw up... On the other hand, generally recognized as edible: many people consu
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by taejo 10y ago
I'm not sure what the Bayesian fallacy is (I find several papers with the term in the title, but couldn't find a definition) but it seems like this could be the base-rate fallacy (most goals come after short sequences of possessio
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by taejo 10y ago
In old-style figures, 1 only goes up the x-height, so that wouldn't work. But even in "typewriter" typefaces on computers, 1 and l (el, not eye) look pretty close. And the difference between O and 0 is mostly the width, which
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by taejo 10y ago
I've heard it said that the bicycle basically needed the car, despite seeming to be much simpler: accurate mass production of ball bearings, chain drives, and pneumatic tires were all driven by car manufacturing but needed for really p
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by taejo 10y ago
They're saying that if 432 Hz had special properties, then they'd randomly hit upon it because of the random drift of tuning, and notice that it was better than other tunings; if the keyboardist then came along and insisted on 4
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by taejo 10y ago
If you make the browser window narrow enough the background images are disabled and it becomes readable.
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by taejo 10y ago
I don't know what the averages are, but I'd say in towns the most typical are terraced houses with four or five floors - sometimes that's one apartment on each floor, sometimes two.
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by taejo 10y ago
BBC Worldwide returns a profit to the BBC of about 150 million pounds. Your TV license isn't paying for it: it's lowering your TV license.
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by taejo 10y ago
Growing trees to cut them down and bury them in landfills is carbon sequestration. /s (but only partly)
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by taejo 10y ago
al fresco literally means "in the fresh/cool"; interestingly, English also has "in the cooler" for "in prison"
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by taejo 10y ago
The name Gretchen is a fairly ordinary English name, but it looks like it was originally a German diminutive of Greta/Grete? Which are themselves nicknames for Margarete.
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by taejo 10y ago
English can use italics for pretty much all of those things (foreign words, onomatopoeia, emphasis, scientific names of species...) so it's a pretty close match :)
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by taejo 10y ago
"Border control" does arguably use the ordinary meaning of control: they control the border by checking passports. But check also has an interesting etymology. Its many meanings include a type of payment note (aka "cheque&q
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by taejo 10y ago
Indeed. From Wikipedia: In the liner notes to 1975's The Best of Leonard Cohen, which includes the song, he mentions that the famous blue raincoat to which he refers actually belonged to him, and not someone else: I had a good raincoat
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by taejo 10y ago
>essentially 1 person per step For this to be true, everyone would have to be perfectly synchronized, up to which foot they were currently lifting, so that the foot could go precisely into the space left by the person ahead, landing next
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by taejo 10y ago
That's true, but if we assume the probabilities of "Earth orbits Sun" and "Sun orbits Earth" we still get the correct conditional probabilities under the condition "either the Sun orbits the Earth or the Earth
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by taejo 10y ago
I've never noticed a quality issue... because I've never had a call connect at all (to be fair, it's been a while since I accidentally clicked the "call" button and checked, since I've long given up on trying t
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by taejo 10y ago
If they're doing it for bus systems too, I'd imagine the complexity is much greater. Cities with two or three metro lines might have dozens of bus lines.
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by taejo 10y ago
> 1. An instant in time - often represented as an integer number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970. POSIX time is actually not the number of seconds since 00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970, but the 864000 times the number of days since Ja
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by taejo 10y ago
BTW, Amazon seems to think they're storage devices, and is offering data recovery plans.
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by taejo 10y ago
> which is futile; you know Facebook still has it on some archive somewhere anyway If Facebook does this with the data of an EU resident, they are breaking the law. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has audited Facebook and found th
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by taejo 10y ago
> Code should become protected speech "Go ahead, share the code as much as you like." It's not particularly useful if running the code is illegal.
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by taejo 10y ago
It seems like the Nürnberger Bratwursthäusle may have been serving grilled sausage without offering accommodation since 1313.
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by taejo 10y ago
Wikipedia's list of oldest companies says that Stiftskeller St. Peter , an inn within the monastery walls of St. Peter's Archabbey, Salzburg, Austria, is the oldest restaurant (dating to at least 803), but hotel Nishiyama Onsen
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by taejo 10y ago
Seems like an icon library rather than a general tool for SVGs.

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