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Yes and when was the last time a reigning monarch exercised those powers? The answer is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Militia_Bill

Wikipedia disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke As do I, I personally have never heard someone refer to a nuclear fission power plant as a nuke, but I guess I don't hang ar…

I agree with this - I was making the point that austerity, by the terms of its own argument, hasn't worked. Reducing public spending has demonstrably not reduced our debt burden ev…

I'm genuinely curious to the reasoning behind austerity - I confess to not having any academic qualifications in economics but it does seem to me that deliberately removing service…

No indeed, let us continue to double down on austerity, given its truly astonishing success so far

They actually have already - PyTorch works straight up with ROCm, and so does Tensorflow. There is a little faffing to do to get it to work but they've made great progress in the l…

No sure, just you have strongly dismissive opinions of someone you mockingly refer to as a mere blog author, and I felt I had to weigh in. I confess I definitely don't know nearly …

To this particular point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartiate would seem to suggest (admittedly poorly cited) that there was in fact a distinction made within Spartan society b…

Herodotus made a hell of a lot up, relied on oral reports and explicitly states that none of what he writes is intended to be relied on - it is merely what people told him. I think…

They aren't synonyms, though they are related concepts: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10459/what-is-th... I admit the distinction got me at first as it is quite a sub…

Sorry but no it is selfish - that is the definition of selfish. 'It won't benefit me; it will benefit the whole of society but I don't give a shit about them so I'm not going to' i…

Which I recall being touted as one of the major advantages of systemd - specifically that binary log files would make for much easier log aggregation as it would be more efficient …

M62 Song by Doves is a good one

"In the long term this will lead to novel types of assets, and make ownership extremely liquid. Imagine using your phone to buy shares in a recording artist you just discovered, an…

Voynich Manuscript as Lorem Ipsum is my favourite theory so far!

Oh no, I fully agree with you - in a normal organisation that respects operating according to the burden of responsibility placed on it, reporting these things would be a duty. As …

I would report someone in my company who attacked someone else with no provocation. Or murdered someone. I don't think this comparison is as good as you think it is.

"University-educated people in my social circle are often woefully unaware of economic trends that have swept the US, be it the gig economy, X-as-a-service, the nature of Venture C…

This, exactly this - I remember one of the most bandied about reasons for the binary log format was that it made replication over the network easier, or something. Fast forward 10 …

I would refer you to New Zealand which has, last time I checked, had one infection and zero fatalities. Sure this is not "preventing any infections" but I would argue that the roun…

s/probably//

I've recently made the switch to VimFX as a result of this and I have to say I couldn't be happier - it may not have some of the more powerful features (that I'm unaware of) but it…

And of course tax law has been the same since the dawn of time, there can be no argument to brook with the idea that it currently does not work. Morals musn't enter this argument, …