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A contest between on one side a comedian with joke policies and on the other side Count Binface!

The citizens of Byzantium identified as being Romans. Interesting, many Greek Christians still did at the time that the modern Greek state was created. When told they are "Hellenes…

Being pedantic the only nuts we generally eat that are actually nuts are hazelnuts. The rest are seeds, drupes, or as in the case of peanuts legumes.

Yes and as a corollary, it has nothing to do with Venezuela having the largest oil reserves of any country.

Is one reason that Russia is an empire, created as the same time as the British and French empires, ruling over countries with their own long histories and separate cultures that w…

Sure, but my point was that RAII doesn't need to involve the heap. Another example would be acquiring abd releasing a mutex.

Open a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor. RAII with 0 allocations.

If they are trans or not he still "died for his beliefs", as he had said: "I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can hav…

Reminds me of parts of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Model

Why can't you use this for the comparison operator: bool operator y.min return false; return x_max

Possibly however homo erectus used the same design for their hand axes for over a million years. This implies the design was hardwired in their brains, in the same way the design o…

English and Scots are also of course remnants of a foreign invasion.

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." Donald E. Knuth

Single cell organisms can be light sensitive. Can move away or towards light. The signal cell erythropsidinium even has an "eye": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropsidinium

It also the fault of the guys in Marketing and Product Management who want features to match a competitor's, or to beat a competitor on some pointless metric, or to create differen…

Also there would be the use of new materials, such as diamond films.

An amnesty for what, mass murder, a policy of multiple genocides? Also the Nazis claimed the German army was not losing WW1, but were betrayed by politicians. Perhaps WW2 would not…

No doubt he is intelligent but intelligent people can still behave stupidly, a "wise fool" to quote Gandalf.

Dropping a lump of plutonium on the heads of the inhabitants of Europa might be seen as an unfriendly act! :)

You could argue education is wholly about the transfer of knowledge, but research isn't. The fundamental difference between research and education is the discovery of new knowledge…

I don't disagree with what you have just said except I understand education to refer to the transfer of knowledge while research is the discovery of new knowledge.

But he is not talking about education, about doing a course, where "getting the right answer makes you file smart". He is talking about research where nobody knows the right answer…

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