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Being gay is no longer a crime in Australia(brisbanetimes.com.au)
1 points by thisrod 10y ago|1 comments
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by thisrod 10y ago
I didn't mean that as a criticism. These are all good choices for the role that PHP was intended to play, being the language that everyone writes 10 lines of for their personal website.
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> laravel but not not enough php I haven't used those much, just glanced over a system written in them. But that sounds bizarre: I thought the whole point of PHP was to be bland and mainstream. If you know how to program at all, t
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by thisrod 10y ago
Here's a better report. https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/09/07/atsb-rep... The Guardian article misses the bits that are probably most interesting to HN: This kind of thing happens abou
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by thisrod 10y ago
Climbing is different. As Hemingway put it, "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." Many performance-enhancing drugs are really bad for you; that is the ration
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> The theory of ... This is starting to sound like history or sociology. The next step comes when you notice that the "the theory of" keys on your typewriter are getting excessively worn, and adopt a convention that any refere
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by thisrod 10y ago
That can't be the cause: all of the people who didn't discover atoms were made up of atoms too.
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by thisrod 10y ago
Here is an exercise: draft your account of how atoms caused the discovery of atoms, then imagine how I would rewrite it as an account of how the luminiferous aether caused the Michelson-Morley experiment. My account is obviously bullshit, b
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by thisrod 10y ago
The language used in sociology does deny the existence of objective knowledge, for excellent reasons that sociologists are happy to explain. It's a way to manage a massive problem. https://web.archive.org/web/20
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by thisrod 10y ago
Early? It was used on one section of Australia's main train line until a decade ago.
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by thisrod 10y ago
I think there is a middle ground. Paper and contact does have a categorical advantage for field use: at least, anything with batteries has a categorical disadvantage. On the other hand, it's nice that you can print 1 map of your own
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by thisrod 10y ago
You should read The Fatal Shore .
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by thisrod 10y ago
Thanks, that makes a big difference. Apparently you can't trust newspapers even on the orders of magnitude for these things.
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by thisrod 10y ago
I'm sure that's true, but the article explicitly says that 60% of the emissions it quotes are from digestion. It's hard to tell if there is a real problem hidden under the irrelevant data, or if this is propaganda from the a
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by thisrod 10y ago
I'm sceptical about this, for a couple of first-year-physics reasons. 1. Matter is conserved. Before carbon can be farted out of a cow, it has to get in to the cow from somewhere else. I expect most of it was in the atmosphere a year
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by thisrod 10y ago
Am I the only one who got a laugh out of the caption, "The last sunset of the summer at the South Pole"?
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by thisrod 10y ago
People have also been trying to make programs composable for a long time. By 1990, they succeeded: Smalltalk, Oberon and Plan 9 all worked, though in very different ways. Plan 9 even dispensed with the head application, because you save t
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by thisrod 10y ago
Crikey 's business model comprises a daily email and a monthly bill. They've managed to grow steadily for over a decade, and they complain more about defamation lawsuits than about add blockers. The important news would get cov
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by thisrod 10y ago
No. The university administrators tell the faculty that cheating is a really big deal , that they take very seriously . They will not tolerate it, and will severely punish any student they catch cheating. Of course, it is essential tha
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An Australian parliament apologises for criminalising homosexuality(theage.com.au)
1 points by thisrod 10y ago|0 comments
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by thisrod 11y ago
I'm confused. The web has a new server. If I trick the server into thinking that stuff I write gets hosted on example.com, it will generate a certificate asserting that I have a right to post stuff on example.com. It's easy for
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by thisrod 11y ago
I've never used this type of key, and I don't known if I would have noticed the flaw. But, um, nineteen different manufacturers gave drivers devices that try their best to unlock the car every minute of every day, and not one e
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by thisrod 11y ago
"I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt like a misfit associating with oddballs." - Steve Roper, Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber . Perhaps that is less true of Groves, who came from
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by thisrod 11y ago
This reminded me of a Rob Pike comment. I can't find the text, but it was along the lines of, "I recently tried Linux. It was as if every bug I fixed in the 1980s had reverted."
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by thisrod 11y ago
Try asking that question in Hiroshima :-(
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by thisrod 11y ago
This is the result the theories predicted, and there's nothing for the theorists to do except gloat. If people had kept building more sensitive detectors, and kept failing to detect gravity waves, then eventually that would have been
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by thisrod 11y ago
The LIGO mirrors and beam splitter are attached to Earth very loosely. They hang from towers of pendulums; when Earth moves, LIGO catches up eventually, but over the time it takes a gravity wave to oscillate the components might as well be
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by thisrod 11y ago
People do take photographs of single atoms. It requires a very colorful atom and a very bright flash, but both those things exist. They're not particularly interesting photographs: atoms are smaller than a light wavelength and they l
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by thisrod 11y ago
> I'm not too sure I agree with the government doling out our taxpayers to compensate a dying/legacy industry This is a tradition in Australia. When our law creates property rights that shouldn't exist, and people spend m
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by thisrod 11y ago
There is an extra benefit for public transport. If people have to pay to drive, they will be willing to pay more to ride. The more users pay, the less it costs the public, and more of it gets built.

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