mytddu

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by mytddu 10y ago
> Why are not enough people volunteering? Because these particular wars are pointless and immoral? Your segue from briefly discussing mercenaries on to gender roles, marriage, Trump, the EU, etc. just doesn't follow. It's obvio
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by mytddu 10y ago
This is so wildly off-topic.
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by mytddu 10y ago
The extent of NSA surveillance was known to thousands, if not tens of thousands of people before Edward Snowden clued the general public in.
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by mytddu 10y ago
I've tried both pdftotext and pdf2txt and I remember not being satisfied with either. Neither seem to handle non-ASCII characters very well, but I'll take another look soon though.
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by mytddu 10y ago
My gripe with PDF is that it's the standard format for academic publishing, rendering a whole mass of scientific knowledge largely inaccessible for text processing purposes. I've wanted to analyze the Libgen archive of journal art
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by mytddu 10y ago
Many die. Are you surprised from watching the videos that it's dangerous? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_solo_climbing#Notable_acc... One of my favorite climbers and free soloists, Dan Osman, also died in an a
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by mytddu 10y ago
Vaporwave is inspired by hollow consumerism and the false promise of technology ("vaporware"). Vaporwave takes it aesthetic from dated software, corporate brochures, etc. of the 80s and early 90s and often takes samples from muzak
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by mytddu 10y ago
The article says they're not sure if it was volcanic activity that triggered the release, or something else.
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by mytddu 10y ago
> The invasions initial execution was beautiful (first few days) The initial "Shock and Awe" campaign in Baghdad killed an estimated 6,600+ civilians. [1] It's stated purpose was to " impose this overwhelming level of