anghyflawn

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by anghyflawn 14y ago
preview-latex (bundled with AUCTeX these days) comes pretty close to this.
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Correct. In any case, I would not trust the government and courts of any country with such a huge loophole ("anything that might become banned in the future"), let along those of Russia.
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Sorry, this is not quite correct. The draft law states that any information prohibited for distribution by a Russian court can be blocked, and Russian courts are notorious for banning all sorts of data under the rubric of "anti-extremism" l
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
It will probably not matter in terms of preventing the passage of the law, but this is the sort of thing that has led to the groundswell of support for Pirate Parties elsewhere in Europe. Given the current brewing of civil-society initiativ
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
We have them in Norway
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Of course it does, it would be preposterous to contend otherwise. That doesn't mean the findings are null and void.
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Ireland is a temperance culture as well (not surprisingly). Protestantism is not a necessary factor here, it's just that historically temperance cultures have tended to appear in Protestant countries, along with pietistic movements. I don't
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Sure, temperance has never been a majority view. But that is not the issue: the issue is that the culture is conducive to viewing alcohol consumption as something that will inevitably lead to the breakdown of social order. This is something
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not sure what you mean :). It's not like I'm making this stuff up, social anthropologists have known about "temperance cultures" for a long time. Ever notice how Mediterranean countries don't have a hi
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
It's not so much alcohol consumption per se as the culture. In the UK, and in general in much of historically protestant northern Europe, there is a very deeply ingrained culture where Bad Things will happen if you drink; the flip side of t
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
True, but φ is still not the same as $\phi$ :) (and it still doesn't save on typing). I know about C-\, but I set up my input modes via 'LaTeX-mode-hook anyway :)
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Sure, if you manage to enter the character XeTeX will be happy to typeset it. It's not a LaTeX issue, it's an editor/desktop issue. I don't really know about maths, but I'm guessing keyboard input for many special symbols is hard. I use (Xe
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
To be fair, $\Phi$ is actually not the same as Φ (U+03A6). Not to mention all the other advantages of LaTeX, which I am not going to rehash.
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
Actually, xetex-pstricks has been in TeX Live for a long time now. It will not give you all of pstricks in XeLaTeX, but for the simplest needs it's more than sufficient. Microtype is a bigger problem.
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by anghyflawn 14y ago
I would say you need a somewhat cleaner approach to placing things on the page. For instance, two paragraph breaks in a row are very non-idiomatic: try \vspace{2\baselineskip} instead. Instead of manually putting a hard space after punctuat
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
That's not quite true either. The public figures are tax paid and net worth; the income numbers that you see are reverse-engineered from tax paid and the code, and may be inaccurate.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I agree, though I'm assuming it really can take a long time at some airports; even in Europe there is the infamous Heathrow take-off queue, or the Polderbaan at Schiphol which is like half the country away from the terminal (I don't know ho
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I suppose it varies. I am a non-EU citizen who lives in the EU, so most of the time I come to the UK on EU flights. Situations like the one you describe happen, but more often than not you actually have three planefuls of EU citizens crawli
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Are you a British or Irish citizen? Then you can do it, because of the Common Travel Area (Irish border authorities do conduct random checks, though). It is, however, strictly speaking illegal for somebody holding only a British visa to cro
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Switzerland abolished border controls (and started issuing Schengen visas) only a few years ago (in 2008 if memory serves). Also, there may be no border control (=they don't check your entry permits if you're coming from a Schengen country)
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I don't know whether this is in fact true for the Lua community, but surely this is not necessarily true in general. MOP is not part of CLOS as defined by the standard, but that doesn't seem to create horrible problems (especially with Clos
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Wait, what? Are you saying barcodes aren't used in the US? Here in Norway at least all major handling agents issue boarding passes with barcodes, so you can board a (domestic or intra-Scandinavian) flight without interacting with anybody hu
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I think what you're describing is somewhat different: temporarily changing context is like a let block. So for instance in CL you can rebind standard-output to a different stream using let, but then you have to do the legwork to ensure th
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
While it is always nice to have harder proof than is usual in the humanities and to a lesser degree social sciences, I feel mildly irritated by the coverage which presents this as a "discovery" by clever tech people. These facts are pretty
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
Not to be snarky, but that's what reviewers do: help with good stuff, reject bad stuff. Academia works the same way. Even if you think it's a racket, this is far from unique to Apress.
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
I find it very hard to believe that many American employers hire foreigners, with all the paperwork that entails, unless they are persuaded that the foreigner in question is indeed better than the Americans in their pool (modulo wages, but
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
No, that's ballot stuffing. The grandparent seemed to mean that real people who work in the government actually voted for UR, either of genuine conviction or under duress from their superiors. It would be very hard to give out filled-in pap
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
But that's a non sequitur. Sure, there was some pressure to actually vote UR (and that is not a sign of a free and fair election either), but what the statistics seems to show is that the final result consisted of a certain number of genu
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
The post points out that the station-by-turnout data are weighted, so the "very small precinct" argument does not fly (and why would all the very small stations all have numbers of votes that are multiples of five)? In addition, why don't w
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by anghyflawn 15y ago
And you know how they voted because?..

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