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They reported the arrest, they didn't say that it was justified. The volunteers were released and cleared some time after that, which you may also remember. Brazilian police is shockingly corrupt and largely aligned with the equally co
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This is a conspiracy theory supported by Bolsonaro and his supporters. In reality NGOs active in the Amazon are more likely to live under death threats and barely have any funding at all for even basic activities.
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And OS/2 was better than Windows. Technical superiority doesn't matter. And to be fair Ethereum has more scalability problems than Bitcoin.
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I'm a reasonably hardcore environmentalist but this is true. There will be many armchair experts here suggesting that stuff should be done in Brazil but they never propose things like "let's shut down New York for two months
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Programmers should get whatever machine makes their build times tolerable, which probably means a pretty fast machine. Not because they are superior beings but just plain-old cost/benefit analysis. Product managers and designers should
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I've seen people use Octave in their workstations but I never worked where Octave code was used in "production". It was more of a individual prototyping/exploration tool for those who knew it.
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I think the West avoided using this as propaganda against the Soviets because that would only call attention to the equally massive and more recent Bengali famine, which was engineered by the British.
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Social-democrats are socialists though. They are one of the many subgroups.
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Luis Suarez's move was like sacrificing a queen in chess. He used his hand and accepted his red card. "Cheating" would be being on steroids or bribing the ref or something like that.
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The limitations of the referee were a part of the sport, which was always about humans and stories, not the mechanical application of rules. That's why we are here once again remembering the memorable moment that the Hand of God goal w
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I agree, and I was confused regarding the comments about the colors of the rooms in Garfield's house. The last pane even sort of implies it's "realistic", in that there seem to be two walls that actually have those color
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Thanks!
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This is the thing that used to be called Safari, right? This is great, but a tad expensive at $50/month. I wish O'Reilly would just charge a bit less for that.
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This "rule" against passive voice doesn't exist in every language. What looks like good writing in English may look like childish, repetitive prose in other languages.
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FWIW I am attracted to Sourcehut's aesthetic exactly because it's not a "2020 theme", so I've been using it and paying for it. Pages are simple and functional. Github makes me feel tired, overwhelmed, and it require
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The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country(wired.com)
2 points by zorked 6y ago|0 comments
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"Security concerns" is an excuse for protectionism. If he does the same it does not necessarily mean that the security concerns are real.
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Anyone old enough to remember what the press said in the 90s about the Internet will recognize the similarities. The Internet is full of fraudulent websites. It's full of porn. Email isn't as warm as a hand-written letter. Communi
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This is an editorialized link name and the target comment isn't even obviously wrong or anything. Let the awfully outdated XML tooling die. Context: This was named "Chrome holding the web back: an example", I expect moderatio
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I'm not Substack but "email ops" is a thing that exists, where you have someone working on reputation, getting you off blackhole lists, keep up with the latest DKIM-like thing to ensure deliverability, etc. For very large ema
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Is it though? I click a lot of clickbait because I am human. I don't think I give a lot of direct money to clickbaiters. It is a hell of a mountain to climb before I feel compelled to go grab the credit card and type all those numbers.
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Yup, it's all about incentives alignment. If you get promoted for shipping a feature but you don't get promoted for saving 40 minutes of everybody's time every day you will get a lot of features, delivered slowly.
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Well, as someone that has been lightly interested in Julia lately this sort of content is something I am interested in. It feels like there are many of us. My own impression of the Julia community has been rather pleasant. I think they are
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Chile hasn't been ruled by Pinochet since 1990, when it scored a 0.7 in the Human Development Index, about the same score as Bolivia today.
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For perspective: Angela Merkel has been in power for longer than Evo Moralez was.
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Eigentechno – Applying Principal Component Analysis to electronic music loops(math.uci.edu)
110 points by zorked 6y ago|13 comments
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Your point [1] on the capabilities of some languages is generally discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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Basically any language has that many dialects - or many more. English has a ton of unintelligible dialects but you won't hear them on CNN/Hollywood and speakers of those dialects will adjust to a more standardized form of the lang
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The same thinking applies to PCs and supercomputers, but sometimes we trade efficiency for convenience. That's happening in the "microcontroller" space too (which are surprisingly powerful nowadays).
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Mandatory response to this mandatory comment to every discussion on this topic: https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02

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