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by sipior 2y ago
No need to take the piss, venson.
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by sipior 2y ago
No, I think they added that "feature" about a year after I purchased my lifetime Plex pass. My usual timing.
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by sipior 4y ago
I think the only saving grace there is that the sentients sending such transmissions would presumably want to be understood, and would ensure a Rosetta Stone of sorts was packed along with the message; the common element of reference probab
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by sipior 5y ago
Why don't you move to Europe, and find out for yourself? I thought much the same as you, twenty years ago. Grass looks greener, etc., etc.
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by sipior 5y ago
Having lived in Europe for almost twenty years, with a spouse teaching in a European secondary school, and with the utmost respect to my European colleagues, please allow me to assure you that this is not even remotely the case.
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by sipior 5y ago
Generally speaking, American PhD programs expect that you'll be spending at least a year (and generally two) on graduate-level courses before engaging in full-time research. European-style undergraduate degrees are much more focussed,
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by sipior 5y ago
A lot of musicians these days keep their sheet music in digital formats; hands-off page turning is handy when playing. I'm sure there are many other use cases.
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by sipior 6y ago
That could very well be true. Do you have any data to back up your initial hypothesis?
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by sipior 6y ago
In fact the paper explicitly discusses (p. 14-16) potential synergistic effects between zinc and hydroxychloroquine, and provides references to another study suggesting the same. Care to comment, Doctor?
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by sipior 7y ago
You might find mblaze ( https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze ) interesting; it's not too far off from what you describe.
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by sipior 11y ago
I have to say, the links you post don't really do much to bolster your case. Was there something particularly damning in the first link that I missed? I'm also a little unclear on what Ugandan fundraising has to do with this. Does
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by sipior 11y ago
Most of the claims from neovim seem over the top and off from factual i.e. vim base code is so bad it is unreliable. To be fair, the one example you give is from a person not directly (to my knowledge) associated with the neovim fork. The
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by sipior 11y ago
I'm not disputing your last statement. I'm saying that, if you are going to quote someone, quote the whole sentence , at least, and don't leave out words that are substantial to the point they are making.
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by sipior 11y ago
To be fair, what they actually said was, "Bytes and octets are the same today ". It's a little disingenuous, I think, to quote everything but the last word, especially since the qualifier "today" was kind of their
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by sipior 11y ago
Well, that's a fair point, DanBC, but I generally regard laws about jaywalking to be a bit silly, and one of those things that I mentioned we'll need to fix at some point. If you're interested, I encourage you to Google &quot
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by sipior 11y ago
Well, cletus, perhaps I can shed some light on this troubling question for you. Generally speaking (and there are naturally many exceptions, humans being the delightfully-flawed creatures that we are), the American government prefers to tre
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by sipior 12y ago
That's the wrong question. It makes an incorrect presumption; Why should we have heard them? Do you think a highly advanced civilization is going to be using something as archaic as "radio signals" to communicate across vast
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by sipior 12y ago
At the risk of speaking for the parent, I believe their point was that the only fusion "reactors" on a nuclear submarine are the warheads it carries.
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by sipior 12y ago
Uh huh. Pro tip: using the phrase "radical libertarian orthodoxy" is a strong indicator that perhaps you're not really interested in even-handedness.
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by sipior 12y ago
While I certainly won't take issue with your last paragraph, aren't you just taking exception to the fact that people disagree with you? You don't really know why the people who down-voted the parent comment did so, and are
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by sipior 13y ago
Thanks, chubot, I think I see the point now.
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by sipior 13y ago
Could I trouble you to elaborate on that a bit? I'm not sure I understand why XML would be better than JSON in that case.
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by sipior 13y ago
I used to think this as well, until I moved across an ocean. I'm a big fan of packing light nowadays.
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by sipior 13y ago
Yes, I believe you are still obligated to file. Not sure how rigidly that's policed, though.
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by sipior 13y ago
Yes, although there is a high deductible (~$80k, as I recall). It's never been something I needed to worry about, but FATCA most definitely will be. I don't know the answer to your last question, but I've never personally hea
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by sipior 13y ago
I don't disagree with your last statement, but I also wish to point out that there are, believe it or not, other reasons to encrypt email that do not involve the NSA.
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by sipior 13y ago
Actually, I don't believe you when you say you have no desire to solve the problem. Your referenced comment suggests otherwise. Taking the piss out of the mailpile folks is probably professionally satisfying, on some level, but I think
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by sipior 13y ago
Yes gioele, I know. But we're not talking about flaws in the mailpile cryptosystem. Obviously their implementation of GPG will have to be professionally vetted. The other flaws (vulnerability to traffic analysis, reliance upon the re
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by sipior 13y ago
Okay, Harry, let us know when you're done with that :-) I suspect most of the rest of us would prefer the perfect not be an enemy of the good.
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by sipior 14y ago
When the announcement of this plan was made at last year's GenCon, they were very clear that more books would be added as time went on, likely in short order. It's a pretty big catalogue.

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