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by tenant 7y ago
More like 5 generations but there was no one in charge of this breeding programme. It seems that a lot of Dutch men decided to voluntarily forego sex but to raise the children of women who were breeding with the tall men. And this phenomeno
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by tenant 7y ago
They took account of differences in income for modern Dutch people but not historically I think. I don't know how poor the average Dutch person was relative to other European countries back then that might explain them being small at t
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by tenant 7y ago
I suppose my main issue is that I just don't think the passage of time since the mid 19th century is long enough to give a natural selection answer for humans. Perhaps it might be more believable if Holland had suffered great loss of m
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by tenant 7y ago
Cattle breeders don't allow inferior males to breed at all and typically a single bull can have thousands of progeny via artificial insemination. That doesn't happen in human societies where most males will have a chance to breed.
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by tenant 7y ago
Actually the Boer war brings to mind the fact that the Afrikaaner people of South Africa are noted for being of large stature. They are primarily of Dutch origin as well but have long been separated from Holland. So the fact that these two
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by tenant 7y ago
Do you have a specific example that demonstrates this?
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by tenant 7y ago
You can still see this phenomenon. People from disadvantaged backgrounds in European cities (for example inner city communities) tend to be smaller than average.
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by tenant 7y ago
This seems like a BS answer to me. Tall people in all societies have always had an advantage in terms of status in society and therefore wealth and health. But unless tall people were reproducing at an extraordinary rate relative to small p
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by tenant 7y ago
OK but I've used vb6, vb.net, Delphi (and Lazarus) and they are all pretty much identical in terms of dropping in controls onto a form, writing event handler code and setting properties. So to claim that delphi's vcl is clearly th
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by tenant 7y ago
MS Visual Basic had windows forms as long as Delphi if not longer and long long before .net came along.
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by tenant 7y ago
It needs a browser which is a lot more hungry than notepad.exe
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by tenant 7y ago
I agree, a nice touch would be if the cleaner agreed to accept a Coca Cola at the end because no one can resist that.
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by tenant 7y ago
Your comment prompts images of minefields and parapets in my mind
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by tenant 7y ago
Glad to hear of someone using it for a while and who's impressed with it. I've only used it a very little bit but I was very impressed, I think I'm going to dive into it deeper now.
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by tenant 7y ago
I have beeen looking at setting up a vpn to be able to hook up my pc to the office network. I don't know a whole lot about it but I ended up trying out Softether for the job just this weekend. It's a free and opensource project fr
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by tenant 7y ago
Nobody I know bothers with a tablet anymore. Everything they formerly did on the tablet they now do on their phone. And most of the iPhone users I know have now switched to Android, mostly Samsungs. Myself being a bit of a cheapskate have a
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by tenant 7y ago
I'm not arguing with you but the fact remains that unlike SQLite, Access doesn't lock the database file so that only one user can write at a particular moment, it's more granular than that. It's also the fact that this w
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by tenant 7y ago
It was a different time.
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by tenant 7y ago
What's anyone's time worth? Might have kept him from doing something foolish.
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by tenant 7y ago
It depended. It suited a small cabled office with 10 to 15 computers fine. I saw such setups work fine for 12 years without corruption. But when wifi came along people started connecting that way, sometimes unintentionally, and corruption b
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by tenant 7y ago
Yes, for Access (and sqlite?) it is the client computers that do the edits directly to the database file, rather than via a mediating server side process, so they are particularly vulnerable to network interruptions while in the middle of a
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by tenant 7y ago
Access is actually designed to work in a multiuser situation over a LAN for concurrent read and write. SQLite isn't afaik. As long as the LAN was cabled I never saw any issues. The only reason it was necessary to move to a server type
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by tenant 7y ago
the standard response to every unhelpful communication to a FOSS project should be either silence or a "F k Off".
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by tenant 7y ago
I have a single God ReadMe file in which I try to record all the facts that I should know and 'recipes' that I might need to follow again. Such as that shutting down windows does not dispose of kernel state whereas restart does. O
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by tenant 7y ago
I'm back using firefox full time since about 3 months and don't notice that at all. In fact I now struggle to remember why I ever moved to chrome in the first place, I know there were reasons but I can't remember what they we
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by tenant 7y ago
You said "Any" question :(
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by tenant 7y ago
For some reason your comment reminded me of "No Sex Please - We're British"
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by tenant 7y ago
very reasonably priced, if I had a mac I'd be trying it out. what I want is a vpn that the BBC that fools the bbc into thinking I'm in the UK. They're wise to my current one, pia.
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by tenant 7y ago
What would have happened to him had he had qualms of conscience before he was caught? If he'd owned up and paid the money back he'd probably have just gotten a lighter sentence.