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by topynate 7y ago
Possible explanations for the absence of antiviral therapy: lack of availability, reluctance to prescribe untested treatment (all antiviral treatments are currently experimental), some of the antivirals actually work really well and a lot o
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In the Name Of the Father (or the troubles with L-caron) (2010)(typotheque.com)
1 points by topynate 7y ago|0 comments
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The trucks could have AI that worked most of the time. Not well enough to rely on for normal operations, but good enough for a fallback in case of losing connectivity. Some made-up numbers to explain my point: Consider a situation where the
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by topynate 7y ago
Anyone who doesn't like hearing very loud flyback transformer whine should avoid playing the last few seconds of the embedded video. I think what Stokes did in recording those tapes was outstanding, by the way.
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by topynate 7y ago
> the article notes that Waymond's partner Ben spent only 7 months in jail for the same crime It only says that he served a 7 month sentence, not necessarily for that crime.I think there's a good chance "Ben" got away
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by topynate 7y ago
This is from before Xi.
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by topynate 7y ago
The purpose of the system is to aid police in finding people on a wanted list. On average someone using this system only needs to look at 5 photos to spot someone, whereas without it they would need to look at thousands. The police are prob
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by topynate 7y ago
"I can't stand my dog." might be the funniest thing I've read all week. "The law is always on your side. You're not in danger. You do have the right to hate the dog. It's not the end of the world. It'
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by topynate 7y ago
I see that the posts aren't generated in real time. Were they curated? Even if these are just the top 5%, they're still extremely impressive.
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by topynate 7y ago
"Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them" I let Medium email me suggestions. Almost without fail, both the "Today's highlights" and "Based on your reading histor
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by topynate 7y ago
The only phrase which really is "too French" here is "proposes to the sagacity of its admirers". (It's not wrong , but not many English speakers still use "propose" in its sense of "set before someon
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by topynate 8y ago
The Constitutional Society wrote an 86-page paper in 2012 attempting to show that any such powers are extinct, and that primary legislation is necessary to restore them: https://www.consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads&#x2
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by topynate 8y ago
I would attribute that to the substantial Soviet investment in meteorology.
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by topynate 8y ago
Good to see Bluetooth in the new hardware. Lack of real mobile support for hardware wallets has been by far the biggest pain point for me. (With regard to the best possible physical security, I would have preferred NFC over Bluetooth, but t
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by topynate 8y ago
Dependent types. You think I'm joking, but check back in ten years...
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by topynate 8y ago
The comment you're replying to is hot-blooded, but your question has a simple answer nonetheless. Sergei Brin stands in front of the "activist employees" at an all-hands and tells them that he strongly disagrees with some of
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by topynate 8y ago
The film Threads (which strived for accuracy) had a full scale nuclear attack on the U.K. preceded by a high altitude nuclear detonation over the North Sea, in order to knock out as many systems as possible with an EMP. And from the Starf
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by topynate 8y ago
I've been following this guide for several months. It's made some excellent recommendations so far. Prospective type theorists, students of linear logic, etc. will have to venture beyond the reading list, but having a good grasp o
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by topynate 8y ago
I do admire just how perverse YouTube's solution for copyright law is. If they were accepting DMCA notices, they'd have the obligation to take note of counter-notices. If they were giving control of claimed videos to the claiman
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by topynate 8y ago
See here: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aarchiveis%20cloudflare&s... Archive.is intentionally returns bad results to Cloudflare DNS, because Cloudflare don't send them the EDNS Client Subnet Header. Archive.is
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The Spanish Prisoner (2005)(newyorker.com)
4 points by topynate 8y ago|1 comments
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by topynate 8y ago
When's the Hebrew language version coming out? There are many languages for which this "solution" is completely impracticable. On the other hand, there should be no problem with Turkish or Persian.
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by topynate 8y ago
The shapes of the letters themselves aren't copyrightable in the US, so that if you vector-traced them perfectly, using your own "control points", you could distribute – and in fact, would hold copyright in – the resulting fo
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by topynate 8y ago
The 2014 branding reminds me of the best of mid-century graphic design. Very rare to see it today.
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by topynate 8y ago
https://oeis.org/A007477 “For n>=2, a(n) gives number of possible ways to parse an English sentence consisting of just n+1 copies of word "buffalo", with one particular "plausible" grammar.”
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by topynate 8y ago
In Darwin's telling, Renous left his caterpillars in the care of a girl "that they might turn into butterflies", which isn't quite the same thing.
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by topynate 8y ago
"The Sunday Telegraph wrote about Books and Bookmen’s “dazzlingly diverse” list of contributors, from Enoch Powell to Tariq Ali." How long ago 1980 seems.
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by topynate 8y ago
Commenters annoyed by sensationalism, use of the term "censorship", or the lack of a substantive argument, should bear one thing in mind: It's an art installation. A successful show needs a message, and needs press. It's
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by topynate 8y ago
If the ship is Greek as it appears to be, then it's from the middle of the Classical period – around when Plato and Alcibiades lived. Which is also astounding!
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by topynate 8y ago
They too encourage emissions.

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