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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Honestly curious what you mean by anti-Soviet. I don't feel being anti-Soviet is bad, unless it means misleading people to serve your goals (as the comparison to Voice of America and by extension to propaganda implies). I guess you mea
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
PayPal does refund the variable portion of the fee (e.g. 2.7%) but not the fixed portion (e.g. 30 cents).
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
"Red Plenty" is a "historical fiction" novel that is an easy read and deals with this subject. Glushkov is the main character.
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
The universe functions because all the rules are in place. But predicting the outcome of those rules without actually "replaying" them may be impossible. Example 1: Conway's game of life. Example 2: Collate conjecture. If the
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
That sounds like a good argument for not drawing the line at the more extreme end. But that's not where Lego drew the line. A different toy company might decide to not produce anything related to violence, and yet a different toy compa
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
It looks like they already did draw the line somewhere, just like you suggest. They made a mistake and crossed their line they had already drawn earlier, and now stepping back behind the line. Star Wars licensed toys are OK. Military aircra
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Marsupials and monotremes lack the corpus callosum that facilities communication between left and right brain in placental mammal, so it is as if they already had this surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callo
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
I think I know computers well. But I have no idea what "body" and "childhood" computers have. Can you please explain?
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
It looks like all the different attempts of analogies overwhelm real discussion of of the effects of the bill. Why do we need all these analogies? Why not discuss real-life repercussions and pros cons of the choices before us, and based on
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
It makes sense, otherwise they'd be deleting user data without consent. Maybe they could show an opt-in screen to every user pointing them to this setting.
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Does the same chronostasis effect with the second hand on the clock work if you can hear the clock tick? I'm having a hard time visualizing this. If it still happens, would you sense a longer time between clicks? Or does the effect go
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
I think a similar effect was described by Daniel C. Dennet. Imagine a row of lights next to each other. The leftmost one blinks, then the one to the right, then the one to the right, creating an effect of a smoothly moving light dot from l
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
You want to look for Software Tester / Software Test Engineer positions. Microsoft used to hire a lot of people from all walks of life for this position. However a decade ago or so they combined this position with the Software Design E
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Would this further extend to fishing or hunting licenses? I think I one could say that fishing or hunting licenses only apply to certain locations - you are only able to use methods X in location Y. This out of state the license is valid bu
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Can someone with knowledge of music theory explain how it works? Meaning, how come if I close my eyes and place some random tiles, it still come out sounding OK. But not so if I bang random keys on a piano.
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Getting a blog such as "Common Sense" printed in those days was much harder then getting a firearm.
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
Did Gore actually say that he invented the internet? The linked Wikipedia article says that it's an urban legend.
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by wwwwewwww 6y ago
I'm not sure why people compare these stories to folktales. These are not folktales, they are short stories Tolstoy wrote for his school for peasant children, where he also taught. They are not meant to be read at bedtimeto small child
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by wwwwewwww 7y ago
In part 3 Doc says that while the time circuits are powered by Mr Fusion, the engine runs on the old-fashioned unleaded gasoline.
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by wwwwewwww 7y ago
You're overestimating the legitimate companies' employees security acumen. They do it all the time. Sometimes when a legitimate company asks me to verify something, they do it by telling to me. As in, "I need to verify your d
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by wwwwewwww 7y ago
Absence of malice doesn't absolve from responsibility. The mental model is still accurate in your example.
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by wwwwewwww 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/915