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by tasogare 6y ago
Not it’s not. UK has a lot of small islands colonized here and there and the US is an aggregate of colonies itself with its original inhabitants still robbed of most of their land.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Internet Archive is not immune to collapse of civilization. In fact, such kind of service would probably be the first to be abandoned in case of war or serious disaster. It also requires electricity and I don’t think that organization have
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by tasogare 6y ago
Native language probably helps (or hinders) too. In French it’s common to cram 3-4 different information belonging to various level of concerns in a single sentence so I didn’t bat an either at processing the quote.
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by tasogare 6y ago
They can’t be used for local development, so hard to consider them a general computing platform. They are more akin to consoles than PC.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Sure, but humans are a relatively known entity. We don’t know how brain works, why sleep exist, most of humans cultures and languages are not documented, hundreds if not thousands of psychological and medical things are unknown, etc. M
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by tasogare 6y ago
I’m using the two platforms but I would like the reverse: Windows shortcuts on Mac. I like the fact ctrl is further away from c and v, making it easier to type. Also Mac shortcuts in general are pretty wild (not to say insane) with 3 or 4 k
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by tasogare 6y ago
> The demo site is in German The target market is probably Germany. The post mentions amount of money in euros, but never other currencies used in English-speaking countries. It make sense to not internationalize the website if the produ
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by tasogare 6y ago
*she as someone who read the full article would notice.
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by tasogare 6y ago
A relative works in a country where lying on CV and during interviews by hugely inflating one’s skills is the norm. It only fools European expatriate managers with no knowledge of the country. Local HR and experienced expatriates know about
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by tasogare 6y ago
What are the differences and advantages over Sci-Hub?
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by tasogare 6y ago
Latex doesn’t support unicode out of the box. And when it does, there are still issue with fonts.
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by tasogare 6y ago
It should be forbidden because it makes people work illegally (because of a lack of contract and pay). In France a restaurant was fined by the work inspection because they asked their customers to give plates back. Using the same logic and
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by tasogare 6y ago
The value the self-scan systems have for the shop owners is not in automation but the fact the work is reported on customer, with of course no price reduction. That should be forbidden. I boycott those systems and wait for the human clerk t
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by tasogare 6y ago
Everything needs to be Googled, all the time. Want to include an image? Google it. Install a package. Google more for arguments. Want to center the image? Google. Want to insert a table? Google. Oh a line in the table is too long, how to wr
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by tasogare 6y ago
And the word is ironically not used anymore for real racism cases like killing someone because of his race or religion (as it happens often in Europe).
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by tasogare 6y ago
My university does (a top national one) and it’s still less reliable and UX friendly than SciHub.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> low effort art will trend back to $0 This is being continuously disproved since decades by contemporary art.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Are the people on the forums I frequent going to show up at my wedding, my funeral? It can happens yes. The obvious example is a couple meeting in a game like WoW, marrying and inviting their in-game friends. Or that stories of a kid w
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by tasogare 6y ago
Le Monde in France do that too. They even go as far as rewriting portions of their articles after publishing, and partially re-using them under different title(s). Hard to take them seriously when they cry about fake news when their own art
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by tasogare 6y ago
English 0.5 * 3,000 = 1,500 French 0,5 x 3 000 = 1 500 The period thing is very tricky, I often parse big numbers in English are super small ones.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Everyone had to list what pronouns they wanted people to use I’ll be glad to demonstrate my knowledge of Unicode, Sumerian and Chữ Nôm in my signature and be OFFENDED by any "woke" idiot who get it wrong. Bonus point if the f
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by tasogare 6y ago
> “oh that could be because women are interested in people and men are interested in objects” In a free societies with free education like most West-Europeans are, this is indeed the best explanation up to date. At least way more convinc
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by tasogare 6y ago
Math isn’t written using the same notation across human languages, so it’s not a good counter example either.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Classical MS move: spending more efforts on competing technologies than on their own (in this case dotnet).
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by tasogare 6y ago
Good illustration of why relying exclusively on code being online (external repositories, code on github, hosted code like this) to make a project compile is a bad idea.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> RDF data and SPARQL Please no. There are already a ton a triple stores (which all seems to have bad performances when deployed in real), we don’t need that failed class of technology (the stringly-typed web) to infect sane products.
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by tasogare 6y ago
The gist of it is: « While the court handed down a three-year prison sentence, two of those years were suspended. If Mr. Sarkozy commits a new crime within a given time frame, a court could then order the sentence to be served in full. Mr.
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by tasogare 6y ago
That’s very few elements of comparison, and half of that list is equally applicable to the US, in particular sponsoring terrorism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso... ).
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by tasogare 6y ago
How are you justifying that term? I see nothing (geographically, politically, culturally, economically, historically, religiously, diplomatically, etc.) that could justify it even in the slightest.
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by tasogare 6y ago
I didn’t know that Twitter deleted Sci Hub account. That company already had a bad record of political censorship but now it attacks science too. Disgusting. Elbakyan is doing an amazing and important work with Sci-Hub, I hope the site will

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