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by taejo 11y ago
> to think that advertising results in informed consumers makes little sense. I find it strange that a community of logic and science oriented people can hold such a notion. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, wh
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by taejo 11y ago
English only has six vowel letters (the same ones as German without the umlauts), but it has lots of vowels (monophthongs). Wikipedia's article on lexical sets lists the following words as having distinct vowels in General American (th
903.
by taejo 11y ago
The elections are typically bundled, so in a particular November in some places you might be voting for president, senator, representative, governor (most states have gubernatorial elections halfway through presidential terms, though), stat
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by taejo 11y ago
German can even have two syllabic consonants in a row: "gefundenen" is usually pronounced something like "gefuntn̩n̩"
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by taejo 11y ago
Unlike Japan, the USA doesn't have an explicit constitutional guarantee of freedom of association (though the Supreme Court - reasonably - starts to read such a right into the first amendment in the 50s). If I understand what I'
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by taejo 11y ago
If one reads about Weimar politics, one striking thing is how basically nobody wanted a democracy. The Communists didn't, the Nazis didn't; Von Papen, Chancellor second before Hitler, of the "Centre" Party tried to get
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by taejo 11y ago
Because making membership of an organization illegal is a violation of freedom of association, as guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of Japan?
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by taejo 11y ago
"Strip accents" is not a well-defined operation outside of a specific locale. Does "Ö" have an accent or not? In German, yes: it's an O with an umlaut. In English, yes: it's an O with some funny dots on it (hea
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by taejo 11y ago
Numbers 10 and 9 both seem to be incidents where people died in falling elevators: http://listverse.com/2011/12/23/10-tragic-elevator-accidents... It seems possible that the falls were not caused by the eleva
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by taejo 11y ago
One thing this misses is how to make plateaus: it uses a power law to make plains at zero altitude, but those end up getting flooded. Whereas real geography has plains at sea-level, flat seabeds, high-altitude steppes/prairies, etc.
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by taejo 11y ago
The comment you're responding to said > I would be obliged to follow the laws about giving away data, so I would find out exactly what my legal obligation is, and follow that as best I could. Of course, the law requires people to ob
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by taejo 11y ago
FIFA takes the bribes, it doesn't give them (well, probably that too, but they aren't begging and bribing South Africa and Qatar to take the games)
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by taejo 11y ago
Well, there are women athletes, so that wouldn't work. (Entry to Mount Athos is only allowed to men)
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by taejo 11y ago
Not "prove". "Confirm". If you ask somebody to do something, they might do it, or they might not, whether out of passive malice or carelessness. Saying you have done something which you haven't done requires acti
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by taejo 11y ago
Chesterton's fence doesn't require you to prove that the doohicky isn't staving off Cthulu's wrath, but merely to know that that is the purpose.
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by taejo 11y ago
If you have a chair in your front yard, and I walk off with it, that's theft. You wouldn't say "chairs are decentralised and unregulated, you can't expect protection from the government". If I burn it, you wouldn&#x
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by taejo 11y ago
Reading some patents, it seems "use a computer program" is a patentable solution, though.
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by taejo 11y ago
Yes, but it's also ssh functioning in a way people don't know about.
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by taejo 11y ago
It should be safe to say "yes" to any fingerprint from any server you don't trust (as long as you don't send any sensitive information over the connection, or trust information coming from it). The risk is that you accep
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by taejo 11y ago
It's based exclusively on the public key. My local username and github login are unrelated, and it worked for me.
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by taejo 11y ago
The result doesn't look like Ed Milliband, though...
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by taejo 11y ago
That's interesting, given the stereotyped belief that Appalachia is the epicentre of a certain type of murder culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia#Feuds
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by taejo 11y ago
> All persons on US soil are protected by the US constitution, whether citizens or not. That's my reading, too, but it's not clear that it's government's reading.
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by taejo 11y ago
Then you can have a radio button: Girl or guy ( ) Yes ( ) No
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by taejo 11y ago
How is deliberately disabling a vehicle on a highway the FBI's jurisdiction?
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by taejo 11y ago
What happened to Sakai? When I was starting undergrad my university had just switched to it and it was supposed to be the next big thing.
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by taejo 11y ago
Your morning cereal isn't auto-updated in the box, obviously, but the recipe is presumably tweaked quasi-continuously without calling it Corn Flakes 2.1 or something like that.
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by taejo 11y ago
A Big Mac, as a branded item, varies by cultural context: in the US, it's super cheap fast food; in Europe it might be late-night after-party food; in Asia, an extravagant treat.
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by taejo 11y ago
BTW, DACH here is presumably the trilingual abbreviation "Deutschland, Austria, Confoederatio Helvetica", i.e., Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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by taejo 11y ago
Even in a family, if the breadwinner loses their job, they should not sell their car if that's the only way they'll get another job.

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