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by irv 11y ago
If those books were from the British Library, then they're available for free online from the British Library
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by irv 11y ago
you're replying to the author, and maintainer, of spiped.
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by irv 11y ago
it's mentioned in the article that microfilm is digitised
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by irv 11y ago
and you've just conflated anti-semitism and calls to boycott Israel, which I would certainly class as intellectually dishonest.
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Listen up Why digitising the British Library’s audio archive is so important(theguardian.com)
1 points by irv 12y ago|0 comments
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by irv 12y ago
wikipedia describes the situation here [0], but i think in general "literate" has a specific meaning here, that you need to know x amount of characters. Some cursory googling leads me to believe the rate for urban dwellers is 2000
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Luxembourg: how tiny state rubber-stamped tax avoidance on industrial scale(theguardian.com)
9 points by irv 12y ago|0 comments
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by irv 12y ago
memory is has been getting better over the years, thanks to the memshrink project though. https://www.areweslimyet.com/
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by irv 12y ago
But, no? I don't understand how you could possibly draw that conclusion. The "WMD" ISIS have discovered were decommissioned WMD from the 90s. They aren't capable of being deployed.
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by irv 12y ago
2.0 should maybe work, 3 probably never :( http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1748
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by irv 12y ago
in the sense that there is a personal ceiling for you, yes. but if you've never trained at elite level, then you can almost certainly improve it up to your (personal) ceiling.
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by irv 12y ago
oh, she was asking for it! well, that changes everything.
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by irv 12y ago
Yes, I have the 2013 model of the X1 carbon and it's about perfect for me (running Debian). But I have no idea why they ruined the keyboard on the latest model.
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Libertarian ideology is the natural enemy of science(gu.com)
3 points by irv 12y ago|1 comments
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by irv 12y ago
Feel free to not trust it, but it does indicate whether the message to be send will be encrypted or not: in the current version, a padlock will be locked or unlocked on the send button. If you receive an unencrypted message from another tex
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by irv 12y ago
"Yet in the slides for his talk[1] under theories he writes..." I think you may have misunderstood. He is at this point theorising why the service is enabled outside of developer mode, not why it exists at all.
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by irv 12y ago
I dunno, it's hard not find something to agree with, particularly the rather tone deaf "let them eat soylent". I regularly read the Guardian, and it seems they are very tech positive in general, it's just the SV culture
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by irv 12y ago
few days late, but thought I'd share my anecdote. several years ago now, I was on a road trip through the largest island of Japan, Honshu, and was staying at a cheap roadside motel in the middle of nowhere. My girlfriend was having a s
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by irv 12y ago
Written by Max Blumenthal though, who I don't think you can correctly describe as a "Jew-hater". I submitted it because it was interesting, but also referenced the role technology had played in the manipulation of the story.
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Netanyahu government knew teens were dead as it whipped up racist frenzy(electronicintifada.net)
8 points by irv 12y ago|9 comments
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by irv 12y ago
I feel i should point out that will not use an index. DELETE FROM Table WHERE CreateDate < DATEADD(year, -2, getdate())
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by irv 12y ago
I completely agree he shouldn't have been running this service in the first place. I also agree it's a bit late to find some principles when you've been happily complying with these requests in the past. But! The period you d
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by irv 12y ago
That Marc Twight article appears in the recently published book "Training for the new alpinism" by Steve House. Seriously recommended.
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by irv 12y ago
i did an experiment where my raw & converted jpegs ended up compressed by about 12% overall, if that's any help.
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Free Lunch to Free Lunch(medium.com)
1 points by irv 13y ago|0 comments
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by irv 13y ago
this is similar to the case brought in the UK against CDWOW http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6471863.stm Isn't free trade and globalisation great (as long as you're a multi-billion dollar co
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by irv 13y ago
A point that was made in the article
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Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit(theguardian.com)
187 points by irv 13y ago|172 comments
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by irv 13y ago
It's been a long time since i've written any asm, but I just did this. You're almost correct; 0x3866 contains 2 pieces of information, 38 and 66. so you should end up with 0x6638
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by irv 14y ago
> Furthermore, the case in question is hardly an example of poorly managed outsourcing. G4S were, by all accounts, the most suitable firm for the Olympics security contract. That said, it is a largely unprecedented event, and not unsurp

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