lil_cain

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by lil_cain 3y ago
The differences in regional accents between say local Dublin English and the Supra regional Dublin accent (i.e. without even leaving the city) are reasonably large. I dunno what italian dialectal differences is, but Englishes are often very
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by lil_cain 3y ago
It's actually worse than this; you'd need centralised control over pronunciation as well. Otherwise, would a speaker of local Dublin english spell tree and three the same? And should a speaker of South Eastern Hiberno-English spel
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by lil_cain 3y ago
UK was legally obliged to by the EU. See the "metric martyrs" for how weirdly controversial this all was.
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by lil_cain 4y ago
This is interesting, but I suspect Maersk's work on ammonia/Methanol engines may beat it to decarbonising shipping. Interestingly Maersk Oil tried using wind power a few years ago - iirc they found it got about a 10% reduction in
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by lil_cain 4y ago
Lots of them didn't. Under 5 mortality is down ~79% since my parents were born (using US figures. Down 92% where I live).
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by lil_cain 5y ago
>If we ever want to get close to the dream of an European Federation we need to get the Army done. If we want an EU army, we need a single EU foreign policy first. Otherwise who decides when to use it? And if we have a single EU foreign
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by lil_cain 5y ago
More so than Ireland was in 1921? And will that continue to be the case, with the NIP imposing barriers between it & GB?
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by lil_cain 5y ago
Scotland, and NI. Which are 2/3 of the constituent "kingdoms" that were united to form the "United Kingdom". Of course, it might not happen, but odds are rather better, in both cases, than they were pre Brexit. Ninj
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by lil_cain 5y ago
I don't think this is true. Firstly they didn't get free trade - there are tariffs, rules of origin, and a lack of equivalence for SPS & product safety rules. The last one is especially egregious currently, because the UK sti
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by lil_cain 8y ago
Worth noting: this kind of rule is both normal, & legal in both IE & UK. The idea that this wasn't the case somewhere sounds weird (although nice!) to my European ears.
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by lil_cain 8y ago
> The fact that other countries manage to be outside the EU and do just fine. This is the wrong way of thinking about things. Yes, other countries manage to be outside the EU, and do fine (albeit, at least in Europe, most of those doing
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by lil_cain 8y ago
Does the average American respond to a stupid law by campaigning for secession?
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by lil_cain 10y ago
No. The example of a giffen good given is a high calorie food, that's exceptionally low status. Thus, when its price falls, people will demand less of it, as they can afford to replace some of their consumption of that food with more e
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by lil_cain 10y ago
Do service charges count as tips?
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by lil_cain 10y ago
That article indicates that there are both tipped, and untipped minimum wages - i.e. tipped staff earn less at minimum wage.
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by lil_cain 10y ago
I worked in a McDonalds for six months. The money was rubbish, but that aside, I quite enjoyed it. There's a sense of camraderie in that kind of job that you don't get in more well paying jobs, it's easy to be social with you
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by lil_cain 11y ago
nor was Nostradamus'
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by lil_cain 11y ago
Are you really comparing Uber to MLK, Rosa Parks, and Ghandi?
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by lil_cain 11y ago
>which is what socialism is, and nothing else Actually, socialism is the ownership by the workers of the means of production. A system of co-operatives would also be socialist.
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by lil_cain 11y ago
Init scripts are code though. I mean, they're code that's mostly boiler plate, but they're still code - I can do arbitary things in them, reasonably unconstrained by their stated purpose.
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by lil_cain 12y ago
You're assuming that poverty doesn't cause impulsiveness, and that poor people don't face any costs that the middle classes don't. Both of these assumptions are likely untrue. Poverty makes the cost of many things higher
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by lil_cain 12y ago
Ansible can do this, using sshpass (and openSSH).
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by lil_cain 12y ago
Original research (which has extra issues) is here. Linked in the cryptography engineering as well.
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by lil_cain 12y ago
https://www.smacktls.com/ (Discussion of the actual flaws)
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by lil_cain 12y ago
Do you have EU customers? And if so, how do you deal with data protection?
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by lil_cain 12y ago
London City, and even Heathrow have major issues with neighbours.
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by lil_cain 12y ago
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9 Note the long list of mitigations. Some things will be remotely exploitable (exim), but it looks like most things will be safe enough, as it d
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by lil_cain 12y ago
RHEL have now released updates. Also, not this was leaked before the end of the embargo.
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by lil_cain 12y ago
Using it to buy things in a shop is not the same as using it as 'legal tender'. Bitcoin is not legal tender anywhere in the world.
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by lil_cain 12y ago
Current rackspace employee - ime, we want you to apply through our system (here http://rackspace.jobs/ ). If you're getting no reply from us at all, then there's a good chance that no one here has got your CV. (Or

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