Pitarou

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by Pitarou 9y ago
In the UK, they used to use the volume of Wembley Stadium (a well-known sports ground), but then it was demolished and rebuilt.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
River of fire comes out of the ground. Hmm. Where did it come from?
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by Pitarou 9y ago
> they estimated that Kuwae’s eruption had released vast quantities of magma, enough to fill the Empire State Building 37 million times over This is a unit of journalistic measurement I have never come across before.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Regardless of what the law says, in practice, breaking TSA equipment, interfering with TSA duties and, above all else, pissing off a TSA officer are all arrestable offences. If there’s any question about culpability, all they have to do is
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Way to make friends with the TSA. ;-)
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by Pitarou 9y ago
No, he’s doing both.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Wow, you killed Tails! I tried visiting the payload site with Tails OS (a Linux distro for privacy minded) and the whole OS is frozen.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
There’s a way: it’s pointless and nobody will use it. It’s very much a solution looking for a problem. If there was some advantage to using cryptocurrency for sex services, they’d already be doing it, just like they do for illegal items dis
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by Pitarou 9y ago
THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO MEET! So why do thy need cryptocoin? Cryptocoin just makes life harder, because you have to convert that coin into cash you can spend, which is troublesome and leaves an e-paper trail. And the market for erotic services
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Just curious: If I was an Australian citizen and I wanted access to my full medical records, would it be cheaper / easier to go through legal or illegal channels?
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by Pitarou 9y ago
So a disruptive technology is one that disrupts the marketplace, but markets are impossible to predict, so disruptive technologies can only be identified in hindsight. Have I got that right?
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by Pitarou 9y ago
TL;DR Business theory based on cherry-picked case studies, post hoc rationalization and survivorship bias fails to make a compelling case, but nobody cares, because it tells an appealing story.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Is there an easy way to do represent something like this in Cell: <p>I will say this <em>emphatically</em></p> As far as I can tell, Cell doesn’t permit this. If you have multiple child nodes ($com
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by Pitarou 9y ago
I don’t know why they call it “stateless” either. It clearly isn’t. Are they confused about what the word means?
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Simple and useful. What a shame there’s no easy way to integrate Cell into pre-existing code. Well ... actually ... there IS a way, but this feature is only mentioned one-third of the way into the tutorial – a tutorial that begins with the
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by Pitarou 9y ago
My apologies to all you tab lovers, but I suspect that preferring spaces is a proxy for experience.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
What a great idea for an analysis, but I can’t see ANY patterns in the data. I thought the expressiveness of the language might be a factor. A line of Haskell does more than a line of Java, so it there is more room for bugs. Clearly not. I
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by Pitarou 9y ago
After SICP and a little study of functional programming, I started learning about design patterns, and my immediate reaction was, “What’s all the fuss about? I mean ... c’mon ... how else would you solve that problem?” It took me a while to
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Have you tried using LyX? Or does LyX not really support the kind of things you want to do?
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Take a class C. Alice extends class C with class A, which implements function a. Bob extends class C with class B, which implements function b. I have both Alice’s and Bob’s code, and I want to use both a and b. How can I do it? Of course,
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by Pitarou 9y ago
I don’t wholly disagree with the article, but I think it overstates its case. In particular: > Is there really so much difference between f(o), o.f(), and (f o)? Yes, there is! In the case of o.f(), o needs to know about f. In the case o
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Because it’s much easier for the court to reach a judgement about a contract if both parties are clear about what they were expecting to gain from it. Also, you have to ask why someone chose to sign a one-sided contract. Was it signed under
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by Pitarou 9y ago
I was talking about ignorance among the consumers, not the producers. The farmers certainly know which side their bread is buttered on!
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Not for lettuce, no. It has a short shelf life and doesn’t travel well.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
> Nobody that I know of complains about about the agricultural system here (granted, I live in a farming community :-) ). I did (granted, I have a background in Economics). Tell a Japanese how much a tin of tomatoes costs in Japan compar
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by Pitarou 9y ago
I‘m not sure what you mean by that. In Japan, a farmer’s vote has roughly twice the weight of an urbanite’s.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Is this more to your liking then: Japan is peculiarly vulnerable to potato shortages because it restricts imports, even when its own potato crop fails.
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Why do you assume that the primary purpose of the regulatory regime is to maintain high standards?
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by Pitarou 9y ago
It‘s not as simple as that. Japan‘s agricultural system was intended to be a temporary prop, to help agriculture recover after the War. The people would experience inflated prices and erratic supplies, but that was thought a price worth pay
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by Pitarou 9y ago
Rawls’ is an odd case. If the reports are accurate, he seems to have believed that a strong password on his hard drive gave him legal immunity, and didn’t really try to conceal what he was doing. Nonetheless, a line has been crossed, and cy

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