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The interview is from 34 years ago.

The UN was founded in 1945. I have reason to believe that countries existed long before that.

I just rebase my feature branches before merging. Keeps the tree more or less linear.

Anything with e. coli I presume.

The author didn't say "most", she puts the number murdered at 300. Either way most people rightly describe the incident as a massacre.

Who are "they"? The "chicom globalists"?

There's a command for that. " Use Unix line feeds. :set fileformat=unix " Use Windows line feeds. :set fileformat=dos " Shortcut :set ff=unix " See the current format :set ff

He didn't declassify them. They were scheduled to be declassified. Trump's involvement was that the IC asked him to stop them from being declassified and he ignored their request, …

I'm no Chinese expert, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I've found that the Chinese word 茶 (cha) doesn't always necessarily mean tea, but can refer generically to a number …

Or maybe he deactivated it to get attention.

Why would you ever exit vim?

How does one secure a deer to their bumper anyway? I figured a better place would be the roof or the bed of a truck. A Google image search for "deer on the bumper" only turns up ro…

The problem that the author describes is that eBay does not accept proof and offers no way to submit it.

It's worth noting that there's a Taiwanese BBS established in 1995 that's still extremely popular, with "over 150,000 users online during peak hours" according to Wikipedia. https:…

Do you mean Ramblin' Jack Elliot? If so then it's ironic because Bob Dylan wrote in his autobiography about Elliot's voice and guitar playing and that he was jealous when he first …

Taipei, Taiwan. * Clean and modern. * Very safe. * Nice people. * Excellent public transportation. * Good housing (relatively inexpensive). * Great restaurants (extremely inexpensi…

It's all fun and games until somebody with less noble intentions hacks his account to access all those passwords. I'm sure somebody's working on it.

> maybe I should go back to Snow Leopard; I can't think of a single valuable change to OS X since then... I wish I had that option, but I'm an iOS developer, so I upgrade when Appl…

> most of the public content is under free licenses Is it? I've read reports that all but a fraction of Github repos are single-commiter code dumps. > the TOS explicitly dictates t…

> one of the leading complaints being that it takes a lax approach to software licensing I never understood this criticism. There's plenty of software I haven't bought a license fo…

Much better article IMO. Introducing the low level commands that the higher level ones wrap around is a much more fun and interactive way to understand the .git schema to me.

Yeah, the non-phonic nature of written Chinese leads to dozens of dialects in which two Chinese speakers can read the exact same sentence without a single overlapping syllable betw…

I've been using http://10minutemail.com/ for years now. It's not pretty, but it works and I can't recall any of the generated addresses ever being rejected.

> McVoy was adamant: "sorry, we're not in the business of helping you develop a competing product," he replied. This business model is precisely what lead to a killer competing pro…