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by zsz 4y ago
The PDF/A format was developed specifically for long term document archival.
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by zsz 4y ago
There's no list (comprehensive or otherwise), but FIRE's (www.thefire.org) work relates specifically to freedom of speech-related issues on college campuses that receive any sort of federal funding and are at least theoretically (
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by zsz 4y ago
"Democracy" is just the latest invention of the ruling class, frustrated by such events as the French revolution, or more recently, the fates of individuals such as Nicolae Ceausescu. In practice, it causes the rabble to redirect
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by zsz 4y ago
Wrong turn? Rat race? Compared to what? Your ancestors 200 years ago were malnourished, working the fields all day to eke out a miserable existence, never enjoying a single luxury in life. They didn't know how to read or write, and in
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by zsz 4y ago
The Global Forecast System (GFS), i.e. the model presently used at NCEP, has a grid resolution of 18 miles (28 km). It is (has been, for years, actually), the second best global forecast system, right behind the European ECMWF (sometimes ou
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by zsz 4y ago
This is precisely why those laboring under the misapprehension that the same mechanism used for this can somehow be used by them to make things more "fair" are, at best, delusional. The results will always be "more fair"
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by zsz 4y ago
Reminds me of the topic introduced at the end of the following video: "Will the world ever threaten our [Denmark's] dominance in indoor handball?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZfM1lkLuMI
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by zsz 5y ago
I am responding to the assertion that "sometimes you need a good amount of fear or anxiety to kick you in the ass..." This supposition is not merely factually false, but is actually dangerously harmful, especially to one's me
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by zsz 5y ago
Maybe "stability" isn't the best factor for human progress? I'm not saying "therefore, let's maximize chaos!" -- just pointing out that /stability/ in today's world is more likely to lead to
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by zsz 5y ago
That's a cool site! Now to find a continuous / animated -- maybe even 3D -- equivalent thereof. BTW Venus is outside the Sun's habitable zone (too close to the Sun for liquid water), e.g. https://astrobiology.nasa.
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by zsz 5y ago
Seems to me that economic inequality would be the best facilitator of de-growth. If you could send the entire middle class into poverty ASAP, you could maximize de-growth overnight. Add a few draconian rules here and there, re-introduce goo
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by zsz 5y ago
One of the principal things that "got done" using Bash (at least until 2017 -- after that, I couldn't say) off the top of my head was the GFS at NCEP. Yes, it was predominantly Fortran for number crunching; but what tied all
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by zsz 5y ago
Sir! Yes, sir!
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by zsz 5y ago
China will be first in line for this, since it finances its own corporations already (meaning, any tax collected from party-controlled entities -- i.e. all of them -- is reinvested in the same, thus automatically conferring a competitive ed
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by zsz 5y ago
Chinese entities seem to be treated like a special case / emerging market/industry, by even the most senior E.U. member states. This is in contrast to the U.S. / U.S. entities, which are viewed / treated as a mature (i.e
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by zsz 5y ago
How will breaking up the biggest U.S. tech firms not make them more vulnerable to Chinese influence -- where, notably, the biggest firms like ZTE and Huawei have already since at least 2012 (i.e. based on E.U. agencies reports at the time)
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by zsz 6y ago
Japan is essentially a monoculture. Other than their below-replacement birth rate, they don't seem to be struggling -- at least not based on any (non-existing) plan to diversify. The same is true for China. And India. In fact, let&#x27
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by zsz 6y ago
Also, I should have made this more clear: The Hoover Institute makes their "China's Influence & American Interests" book (ISBN-10: 0817922857 ) available in PDF format, at this link: https://www.hoover.org&#x2F
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by zsz 6y ago
I haven't read other responses yet, but let me be among those to point out: this is only tangentially about Taiwan. To have an informed discussion on the subject, please be aware of at least the following: First and foremost, let'
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by zsz 7y ago
Is this a portent of truth's final days? Is absurdism the only final, knowable truth, in a world where only fact carries meaning, as humanity has been deconstructed and rendered noumenal? The voices of a million potential future artist
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by zsz 7y ago
The brain processes and integrates emotional/instinctive responses, not abstract concepts -- even in situations where said responses are themselves caused by abstract triggers (e.g. stock market crash and subsequent loss of wealth&#x2F
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by zsz 7y ago
1. PTSD is in actuality frequently triggered by a single, discrete, traumatic event. 2. The feelings of ostracization/alienation and general disengagement from social discourse are indeed well known markers -- except, they follow, rath
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by zsz 7y ago
I'm left handed. But when I use a mouse, I noticed after decades that I'd always been controlling them with my right hand. Attempting to switch now feels as awkward as trying to write with my right hand. So I guess the answer is,
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by zsz 8y ago
This article is very lengthy and detailed, so eventually I gave up on trying to find in it any evidence (in the form of e.g. actual quotes from the SCOTUS decision -- which undoubtedly exist in detail and are publically available) that it i
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by zsz 8y ago
Nano Defender An anti-adblock defuser for Nano Adblocker and uBlock Origin
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by zsz 9y ago
When technical jargon consistently employs the term "somehow," cost (implicitly tied to value) itself becomes the arbiter of worth.