Gupie

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The Great ADHD Myth?(theguardian.com)
5 points by Gupie 29d ago|0 comments
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The eBay Harassment Scandal(theguardian.com)
10 points by Gupie 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Gupie 2mo ago
A contest between on one side a comedian with joke policies and on the other side Count Binface!
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by Gupie 3mo ago
The citizens of Byzantium identified as being Romans. Interesting, many Greek Christians still did at the time that the modern Greek state was created. When told they are "Hellenes" they responded that they have always been "
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by Gupie 8mo ago
Being pedantic the only nuts we generally eat that are actually nuts are hazelnuts. The rest are seeds, drupes, or as in the case of peanuts legumes.
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by Gupie 9mo ago
Yes and as a corollary, it has nothing to do with Venezuela having the largest oil reserves of any country.
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by Gupie 9mo ago
Is one reason that Russia is an empire, created as the same time as the British and French empires, ruling over countries with their own long histories and separate cultures that would break apart without an autocratic government?
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by Gupie 9mo ago
Sure, but my point was that RAII doesn't need to involve the heap. Another example would be acquiring abd releasing a mutex.
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by Gupie 9mo ago
Open a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor. RAII with 0 allocations.
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They're not wolves – they're sheep(theguardian.com)
3 points by Gupie 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Gupie 1y ago
If they are trans or not he still "died for his beliefs", as he had said: "I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God-giv
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by Gupie 1y ago
Reminds me of parts of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Model
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by Gupie 1y ago
Why can't you use this for the comparison operator: bool operator<(const interval& x, const interval& y) { if x.min < y.min return true; if x.min > y.min return false; return x_max < y.max; }
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by Gupie 1y ago
Possibly however homo erectus used the same design for their hand axes for over a million years. This implies the design was hardwired in their brains, in the same way the design of nests are hardwired in bird brains, as opposed to a ration
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by Gupie 1y ago
English and Scots are also of course remnants of a foreign invasion.
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by Gupie 2y ago
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." Donald E. Knuth
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by Gupie 2y ago
Single cell organisms can be light sensitive. Can move away or towards light. The signal cell erythropsidinium even has an "eye": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropsidinium
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by Gupie 2y ago
It also the fault of the guys in Marketing and Product Management who want features to match a competitor's, or to beat a competitor on some pointless metric, or to create different versions for different market segments, or because so
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by Gupie 2y ago
Also there would be the use of new materials, such as diamond films.
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by Gupie 2y ago
An amnesty for what, mass murder, a policy of multiple genocides? Also the Nazis claimed the German army was not losing WW1, but were betrayed by politicians. Perhaps WW2 would not have started if WW1 ended in unconditionally surrender?
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by Gupie 2y ago
No doubt he is intelligent but intelligent people can still behave stupidly, a "wise fool" to quote Gandalf.
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by Gupie 2y ago
Dropping a lump of plutonium on the heads of the inhabitants of Europa might be seen as an unfriendly act! :)
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by Gupie 2y ago
You could argue education is wholly about the transfer of knowledge, but research isn't. The fundamental difference between research and education is the discovery of new knowledge. You can be educated without doing research, and you n
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by Gupie 2y ago
I don't disagree with what you have just said except I understand education to refer to the transfer of knowledge while research is the discovery of new knowledge.
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by Gupie 2y ago
But he is not talking about education, about doing a course, where "getting the right answer makes you file smart". He is talking about research where nobody knows the right answer.
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by Gupie 2y ago
Just clicking the "continue reading" link worked for me, no email address needed to be entered
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by Gupie 2y ago
when each competitor would use one of their country's official languages and poetic forms.
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by Gupie 2y ago
$30.59 per ounce (current)
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by Gupie 2y ago
Yes, it is bad. The distribution of wealth determines the distribution of resources. The housing stock is limited. It ends up being mainly owned by those with a lot of money, in the process putting prices up beyond even what the middle clas
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Face to face with local conspiracy theorist(theguardian.com)
3 points by Gupie 2y ago|0 comments

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