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by waqf 12y ago
There's a "flag" button, which has the same sort of effect. Don't be shy.
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by waqf 13y ago
crassus may be referring to the crowd shouting for Barabbas: that would be in keeping with the implied interpretation of "democracy" as "mob rule".
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by waqf 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
514.
by waqf 13y ago
On Android, both Chrome and Firefox still open an external tool and ruin your back button.
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by waqf 13y ago
Sorry, what was the one principle? The US certainly didn't stop randomly invading countries after WWII.
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by waqf 13y ago
"… could have wrought …"
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by waqf 13y ago
And a lot of people (think Europe) observe DST but not on those dates.
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by waqf 13y ago
Thank you, I wanted to say this but you put it much better.
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by waqf 13y ago
How so? What is the misleading interpretation here?
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by waqf 13y ago
Thanks for explaining. I agree that there is a distinction between "cause" and "fault" as you describe. Gorbzel's comment is pretty blunt: for sake of argument, it basically amounts to "[Victim] is an idiot an
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by waqf 13y ago
This is indeed a perfect example of what is typically called "victim blaming". Where I disagree with you is that I do not read Gorbzel as suggesting that the perpetrator is not at fault: by my reading Gorbzel says nothing one way
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by waqf 13y ago
For the record, that's not actually what Tolstoy said either. He actually wrote, «Всѣ счастливыя семьи похожи другъ на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по своему».
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by waqf 13y ago
If experimental data does not confirm the theory, you need a better theory. If experimental data does confirm the theory, you need a better experiment!
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by waqf 13y ago
You should take into account humidity, seeing as the best humidity level at say 80ºF or even 70ºF is very much more pleasant than the worst. Also, IMO your minimum temperature criterion is probably a mistake. Nobody cares that it's
525.
by waqf 13y ago
It provides a way to apportion the impulse between the two simultaneous collisions. It behaves as a differential equation because the instantaneous force in each collision depends (via the elasticity model) on the instantaneous velocities
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by waqf 13y ago
Yes … in the symmetric case. That might give you enough to solve the first one-against-two collision. But the subsequent collisions in the pool break problem won't be symmetric (the velocity of the "incoming" ball is not pe
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by waqf 13y ago
Right, with 3 balls you can't just do an impulse calculation like you can with 2 (too many unknowns, too few equations). The author is simulating the collision as an event which happens gradually over an (admittedly short) period of ti
528.
by waqf 13y ago
There are two kinds of companies: companies that are big enough to be immobile on this issue, and companies that aren't big enough to take on fixing the US's consumer finance infrastructure.
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by waqf 13y ago
In answer to his question about the equivalent problem in French: http://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/exp-math-2/fullt...
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by waqf 13y ago
Right. I also failed to invest in SF real estate, everyone should subsidize me too.
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by waqf 13y ago
> we literally can't. This is hard to believe. Couldn't you mail them a check or something?
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by waqf 13y ago
Frost the glass up to cubicle-wall height.
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by waqf 13y ago
I disagree that the space between "but" and the ellipsis is a mistake, and the first citation I found ( http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm ) supports me. However, lest anyone think I
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by waqf 13y ago
Just a side note, "Ts ch üß!" = bye/cheers/etc; "Tshuß!" = I can't spell German. I hate being that guy but … wait, I'm lying, I love it, but I normally try to restrain myself.
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by waqf 13y ago
The staging area is only a powerful and necessary tool if you believe in the Commits Are Immutable rule (i.e. "don't rewrite history"). If you believe in that rule then you have to have a special mutable commit called the st
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by waqf 13y ago
Oh, we'd have killed for Fosters. All we got was half a cup of brake fluid, and if we said anything the engine driver would stop the train "until everyone was quiet". Then we took a wrong turn at Crewe and ended up in A
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by waqf 13y ago
Well, I disagree that it's not the same (from the point of view of how the imaginary perfect justice system in my head would operate) but I agree with you that the judge may have thought it wasn't the same. I too worded my comment
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by waqf 13y ago
All criminals "waste the time" of the criminal justice system, if that's your word for what I would call "justifying its existence". Only a racist or classist asshole would single out one client of the justice syste
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by waqf 13y ago
You're saying that it's okay that the British Library doesn't have adequate infrastructure to support people trying to work and access information? The equivalent would be if Starbucks, the coffee shop, only served inferior q
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by waqf 13y ago
> It's the product of the eigenvalues. It sure is (provided you count multiplicities correctly), but that's not the one-sentence explanation I would have gone with, even to someone with much more intuition about eigenvalues t

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