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by wbl 1mo ago
It's important for people to be able to critize elected officials.
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by wbl 1mo ago
In America its not libel if it's true
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by wbl 2mo ago
You might need to rewatch A Man For All Seasons.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Mens rea requirements are per crime and can vary wildly. Its difference between murder and manslaughter. The CFAA requires knowingly which is tough to prove.
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by wbl 2mo ago
"A Christmas Carol" will never be a great novel, but there is a reason it is beloved the world over for what it is.
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by wbl 2mo ago
BSD is hard to appreciate because it connects a function that only now is known to have the right properties for the expression on the left hand side to a group we know next to nothing about, plus other mysterious factors each of which coul
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by wbl 2mo ago
The rank of an elliptic curve is expected to be at most one by a combination of a simple heuristic from Cohen and Lenstra and a deep BSD consequence (but I think the case needed is known). However we know of families with rank 15, and somet
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by wbl 2mo ago
Its easier on a system that doesn't need to do broadcast distribution and with servers available.
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by wbl 2mo ago
You can very easily define one yourself.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Extended double has some niche and quite useful for its application properties. You can for instance simulate 128 bit floats more easily with it.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Not all markets or manufacturers will have the same degree of vertical integration and that's ok.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Different athletes look different. A runner vs a Olympic powerlifter vs a quarterback.
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by wbl 2mo ago
US was able to recover, rest of world has not.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The chaos arguably starts with the Coalition and Cameron, and the Brexit vote and tuition fees reversal.
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by wbl 2mo ago
That's where write barriers and the like come in. The cost varies by implementation and language.
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by wbl 2mo ago
If you buy yuan just to turn around and spend them you aren't holding the yuan.
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by wbl 2mo ago
I'm watching that one in Egypt.
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by wbl 2mo ago
RFK has been the person behind the antivax movement for a long time.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Slough
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by wbl 2mo ago
Beaches are extremely dynamic environments and can heal in ways that other areas can't.
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by wbl 2mo ago
I've cited letters from Serre to Tate in my dissertation: this is the source for what's known as Faltings-Serre.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The AI launches new kernel bugs as matter of course.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The infra org has to also understand their internal customer!
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by wbl 2mo ago
Those were military not CIA. The distinction really matters!
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by wbl 2mo ago
The US doesn't even kill foreign leaders. Our intelligence service doesn't have the skills or appetite, let alone citizens. The resulting scandal would make the Church commission look like nothing, not to mention the impact on rec
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by wbl 2mo ago
Initial underscore is a reserved namespace for this reason.
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by wbl 2mo ago
It's not about existence it's about what drives the flows. People are born, work and save, and retire. Part of the savings enters as institutional money, and is consumed in retirement.
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by wbl 2mo ago
The institutions exist for people to do things like retire.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Anubis sucks because CPU is cheap for scrapers and hard for humans.
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by wbl 2mo ago
Don't forget driving in the bay area. Google maps will happily recommend entering 580/880/80 at Emeryville and going on 580 east instead of the much better entrance at 36 street that's 5 minutes out of the way.

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