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811.
by taejo 10y ago
Presumably if you're used to the BBC's style (and this style is much more common generally in the UK than in the US - many of the major newspapers spell acronyms similarly) it doesn't look like a typo.
812.
by taejo 10y ago
> white male vs. black male or white female vs. black female These are still groups. I (a male) am much less likely to mug anyone (let's say 1 in a million chance this year) than certain individual women . Within the group of m
813.
by taejo 10y ago
Perhaps more interesting would be a list of solved problems in philosophy :p
814.
by taejo 10y ago
This doesn't have to be the case: the libraries of public German universities are often called "University and State Library" and are open to anyone living in the state.
815.
by taejo 10y ago
"Mal" means "time" (singular)
816.
by taejo 10y ago
> Probably farm land is cheap In particular, arid farm land is cheap. And that's clearly what we're working with here.
817.
by taejo 10y ago
A Google Books search for "in town for the season" gives a result in Memoirs of a Peeress (1837) [0] which unambiguously refers to London. (The difficulty is not so much finding an example, as finding an example which explains
818.
by taejo 10y ago
BTW, in English one says "Either ... or ...", not "Or ... or ..."
819.
by taejo 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of gmane, but I mostly use it by it showing up in Google results. I wouldn't feel like it was worth a subscription, and while a 50c charge per thread would probably be a fair reflection of the value for me, the fric
820.
by taejo 10y ago
And as a counterpoint, every time I hit a link to a Mailman archive, I would jump to gmane and try to find the thread there.
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by taejo 10y ago
The estimate of the distance from the equator to the North Pole was off by about 20%, though.
822.
by taejo 10y ago
Theophrastus is not talking about your experiment, but suggesting another.
823.
by taejo 10y ago
In some countries it's illegal to swerve to avoid an animal. I assume this means that they've judged it safer not to swerve.
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by taejo 10y ago
Can we banish "Have an awesome day" and the like from email signatures forever? Especially in support emails. It's at best insincere (you didn't even write it yourself: a machine added it to your email automatically) a
825.
by taejo 10y ago
Other responses have shown why characters do the job just fine, and they're not wrong, but there's something to be said for phonetic literature, which is why there is Pinyin Literature contest [0]. See [1] for some more explanatio
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by taejo 10y ago
It's not a static list, though: mouse over or click on the entries.
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by taejo 10y ago
On the other hand, the President of the European Commission is elected not by a popular vote, but by the popularly elected European Parliament. The members of the cabinet (the commissioners) are proposed by the democratic governments of the
828.
by taejo 10y ago
I was responding to this: > if the UK has not been part of the Schengen Area, then what controls did the UK lack?
829.
by taejo 10y ago
> We're not talking about some inconsequential civil servants, we're talking about the leaders of the EU. If you want to call the EU a democratic entity, you should at least be able to vote for who runs it. The UK and German ca
830.
by taejo 10y ago
They had no control at all over EU migration, basically. They are not part of the Schengen Area, which means that they have their own visa regime (with respect to non-EU nationals), and they have systematic border controls (passport checks)
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by taejo 10y ago
DAO : ETH :: Y Combinator : US Dollar A DAO is an organization that makes investments as proposed and voted on by its members. The crypto only comes in because a DAO's "fund manager" is a piece of code rather than a human.
832.
by taejo 10y ago
s/invertible coefficients/integer coefficients/
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by taejo 10y ago
I guess daniel-levin meant to say "invertible matrix with integer coefficients whose inverse also has invertible coefficients". The fact isn't too hard to see: * If M has integer coefficients, then det(M) is an integer. * det
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by taejo 10y ago
Your comment exposed me to the big gap between the meanings of muckraker in US and UK English: 1. (US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or
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by taejo 10y ago
The members of the scheme who die relatively young subsidise those who live to an old age: both have paid the same amount in, but the latter draws a pension for a longer time.
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by taejo 10y ago
That particular piece of legislation is just annoying. Some of the other privacy legislation is very good, though, as is the extension of consumer protection laws to online shops.
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by taejo 10y ago
I take it "cool" means "higher temperature" and "warm" means "lower temperature"? :)
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by taejo 10y ago
Brian Sheppard's thesis "Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble" [0] has a lot of good info on Scrabble strategy which can be applied to human play as well as to AI (though obviously things like B* and Monte Carlo search aren'
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by taejo 10y ago
No, you would have demonstrated that you understand French and speak Italian. Or nothing of the sort, as this subthread indicates.
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by taejo 10y ago
> I find these things amusing "according to people who aren't authorized to speak publicly" except that they are talking to a reporter so that's kinda public. But unauthorized. That's the point.

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