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by wk_end 4mo ago
IMO people just use the term to mean “pro-Israel” rather than in any reference to the original meaning ("supporter of the idea of a Jewish state"). Which could mean any combination of “pro-American financial support for Israel”, “
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by wk_end 4mo ago
> This is interesting because the USA claims to pursue a maximum capitalistic society No it doesn't. This is silly. Drug prices in the US are high for non-generic drugs because patent law gives the patent holder an artificial govern
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I thought "I'm sure it's not intentional" would make it clear that I'm not assuming bad faith - actually the opposite, I'm assuming good faith.
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I'm also not exactly on expert on this myself, take it with a grain of salt, but my understanding is that we don't really know what Alzheimer's is . To our knowledge there isn't a clear physical cause we can point to -
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I get what you're saying, but the comparison to "racing the beam" is maybe a little misleading, because the point is that you aren't "racing" the beam. Rather, the system is operating in perfect lockstep with
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by wk_end 4mo ago
Yeesh, until I saw your comment I thought this was Fabien. I'm sure it's not intentional but this goes beyond "homage" and into "deceptive". The replies to this claiming to not see what the issue is are inexp
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by wk_end 4mo ago
In general, sure, but in this specific instance (treating Alzheimer's by clearing amyloid-beta) it's been shown over and over again to not work in humans.
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by wk_end 4mo ago
That's because it was illegal for lawyers to advertise their services until 1976. See Bates v. State Bar of Arizona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_v._State_Bar_of_Arizona
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I absolutely do want to work with people who want to think jointly about interesting questions for a couple of minutes. Give me your long-winded (thoughtful!) answers. Let me see how you think. Let me see how well I (and others) can think
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by wk_end 4mo ago
How important is that, the ability to be certain of the type of some iterated value from a container from one line in total isolation? The odds are very good that it's clear from the context, which is why the compiler can infer it easi
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by wk_end 4mo ago
That's just not true. I just had my band's album mastered; we weren't in the room or anything but the mastering engineer asked us directly questions about how we wanted the record to sound and we got final approval on it.
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I dunno if you’ve listened to these records in question but it’s very, very obviously for artistic effect. They’ve discussed it in interviews and stuff. Low wasn’t looking to get radio play with fractured collages of distorted noise. The
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by wk_end 4mo ago
The loudness and compression on Low's last couple of albums is very much deliberate, so it's surprising that the vinyl doesn't have it. Though I heard similar claims about Sleater-Kinney's The Woods, which was also inten
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by wk_end 4mo ago
BC's intact too, if I'm reading this correctly. We lose some far north to Iceland and the very southern tip of Ontario to the US, and that seems to be it as far as I can tell. And as a trade we get New England, a good chunk of Was
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by wk_end 4mo ago
There's a belief in certain corners of the gaming community (and maybe other communities that deal with optical discs) that if the disc drive's laser has to "try hard" to read a disc it will eventually "burn out&quo
76.
by wk_end 4mo ago
If there’s no media session available, “play” isn’t an action that makes any sense, so it shouldn’t do anything IMO.
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by wk_end 4mo ago
Well, this page/project certainly isn't, but Wikipedia says it's still in the kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_comput...
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by wk_end 4mo ago
But it makes a kind of sense, right? There's long been straightforward upgrade paths for 486 users, making the 486 effectively totally obsolete and killing most of the demand for continued support. Whereas 68k machines have effectively
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by wk_end 4mo ago
I could've sworn VC++6 had Intellisense. I'm not going to dig too far to confirm but Wikipedia seems to agree with me ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_completion#Visual_Studio ) - it's not a great refe
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Indeed, blessed by His noodly appendage.
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Not really? If I were to describe the issues inflicting the west, none of too-small homes, high suicide rates, or an economy based on long hours of white collar work would immediately come to mind. Rather, the west seems to be characterized
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by wk_end 5mo ago
I really don't really think there's much political or propaganda interest in getting Westerners to idealize Japan, at this point. Now back in the 80s? Back in the 80s, despite being aligned with the West, they were perceived a lot
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by wk_end 5mo ago
> This seems extremely surprising - I've never heard of this sort of thing before with any other country. It's a little surprising - even as a Canadian - if you're unfamiliar with Canadian politics/history/civics
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by wk_end 5mo ago
When Deno first came out it was deliberately incompatible with Node, which limited its ecosystem and audience. Bun came along with a lot of Deno's great features but also Node compatibility, and people really took to that. But Deno&#x2
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by wk_end 5mo ago
I disagree completely with the idea that people only still think of Fender-style guitars as good because of boutique builders. Not that I disagree with the premise that boutique builders are making better guitars for better prices. But rich
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Well that's a fusion reaction, but close enough. Every time I see a photo or video of a nuclear explosion, it's simultaneously the most incredible thing I've ever seen and the single worst thing I've ever seen. I can&#x2
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by wk_end 5mo ago
It's a new account, and by default new accounts have their posts flagged/dead I think? FWIW my guess is you're right - this user looks like a bot based on this comment and their other one; I've noticed that somewhat-vacu
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by wk_end 5mo ago
With all due respect, if this page adds a column for everyone's personal Lisp, it'll be as wide as the Pacific.
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by wk_end 5mo ago
One of the neat things about Prolog is that queries can be run both forwards and backwards, so I believe this article should already have you covered ;)
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Domestically maybe, but international buyers aren't giving billions to American arms manufacturers to prop up American jobs.

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