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2y ago
There are a few from Artech house you can find.
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There is no royal road to geometry just like the route to Carnegie Hall is practice practice practice.
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2y ago
The benefit to perpetuals is all bonds trade in the same pool regardless of issuance.
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2y ago
Glenn Gould didn't tour past 31 and made money from recordings.
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2y ago
Just ask lenders to Argentina about how getting paid back is going.
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2y ago
No state does. The Russian state started in 1917 and disclaimed all debts of the Czar. The Ottoman empire ended and was replaced with the Republic of Turkey. Modern Germany doesn't inherit from any of the predecessor states after WWI a
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The Hudson's Bay Company is almost old enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company
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2 is definitely true. 3 is much more interesting and likely true but even saying it takes us into deep philosophical waters. If every true theorem had a proof in a computationally bounded length the halting problem would be solvable. So the
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4: states use the long arm statutes to go after sites offering bets to their residents.
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2y ago
States can protect their residents.
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2y ago
Text layout doesn't need to be done when the source is a PDF. Make printers do the PDF and let Adobe control trademark access via conformity tests and life is good.
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2y ago
I have a modern Canon laser printer that does not properly implement ligatures because of obscure driver issues. What I see on the screen is not what is printed.
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2y ago
How about the other other S4 https://adv-r.hadley.nz/s4.html
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Send PostScript, done. Today it's figured out what driver will properly rasterize exotic things like ligatures because we decided that throwing a real CPU in the printer was a mistake.
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2y ago
3: the stuff has to be done in the child to avoid problems. Like in shells.
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2y ago
There's nothing easy about Cecil Taylor.
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2y ago
The Pope needed something for his ceiling.
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This just feels like special pleasing. Why did Facebook get the timing exactly right and what was different about that time vs. a better understanding of user wants, well planned rollout and promotion strategy that created desire to have it
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2y ago
What did Livejournal, Xanalga, Myspace, Tumblr, all screw up and Facebook do right? Facebook had stiff competition from the start.
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2y ago
Kenny G might deserve your comment. But Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus...
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2y ago
There are zero free ASN.1 compilers or module checkers.
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2y ago
ASN.1 DER, BER, or OER? Implicit and optional can really break compat in surprising ways. Then there are the machine unfriendly roster of available types. XDR was more tuned for that. Finally free tooling doesn't really exist. The conn
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Because some companies need 500 million in credit or more.
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It was the banks holding MBSs that failed. Banks always hold mortgages. With Glass Steagal the investment banks couldn't have jumped in to do the rescues.
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2y ago
What conscious motor processing? My motor functions largely take care of themselves while I daydream when walking or consider where I want to steer while driving.
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The difference is the customer for some of those companies demands cutting edge tech and is willing to pay handsomely for it. Because if they don't have the best, the adversary will and that is unacceptable.
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2y ago
You misspelled gangsters, terrorists, and thugs who murdered civilians willingly. I'll say the same about the RUC, which at its worst was a facade for loyalist paramilitaries. But let's not pretend a revival of the Troubles will d
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The module and functor system. Also macros are much more a Lisp family thing.
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All of the original case, and Kennedy's sweet mystery opinion in Casey, and then the transparently political overturning emphasize how political courts can be. I read some of the argument transcripts and usually it is a bunch of lawyer
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Congress can do this but chooses not to.
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