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The list of sound defeats is kind of a who's who from back in the day: Black, Hawk, Robison, Klein, Leo the Jap, Price, Stein.

> ... it is hard to think of a competitor in all of history more dominant over his sport or game than Tinsley. I've got another one: famous hold 'em poker player Stu Ungar never lo…

Commenters excoriate the methadology. First thing I checked was for comparisons with Aleksandr Suvarov, who "never lost a single battle he commanded."¹ Glaringly absent from the ex…

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQiIhrutmA

The darkest Sesame Street skit I ever saw had a muppet jumping up and down on a manhole cover, gleefully repeating "99! 99! 99! ...". A second muppet shows up wondering what it's a…

Link didn't work for me. Direct link did: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3534854

Right! Didn't think to look it up as a term of art. That means the missing information is temporal: the subsitution in point III narrows indemnity to only those claims which satisf…

Does anyone know the meaning of "all finally settled claims" in point III? > III. Blanket indemnities. I'm not wealthy, and my insurer won't cover claims that you settle without th…

> ... you are abusing OOP and think it's the only way of doing things > ... when you then say you decided to stick with C, you contradict with yourself Figments of your imagination…

> Denying people information ... on-brand for Dan Luu. Just to be clear, he does not deny the information. Chronology matters a lot, danluu knows this, and he does make it availabl…

You mount the remote file system as a volume and traverse it as part of the local file system. Super convenient for comparing contents of a local folder to a remote in the command …

Holy crap I had no idea this was Galbraith's insight. I've heard William K. Black talk about Gresham's dynamics a few times, but always wondered why his use of the term didn't comp…

Seconded. I subscribed to Financial Times for a year, whose prose, editorial balance, and coverage insight are noticeably inferior to The Wall Street Journal's. I also subscribed t…

You missed this part: > Only mentioning this here just in case the PR spin doctors threaten the researchers into removing mention of Intel on this one.

Politicians sometimes do the wrong thing is a truism, no?

Knock-on effects can just as well be ascribed to alternative targets for those Apollo funds. Those don't take much imagination to come up with, e.g. reducing the student-teacher ra…

On the face of it, no politician wants to risk tanking an org that employs a significant part of their jurisdiction. Providing even minimum wage employment to thousands is an objec…

It seems you missed the point of the OG article? It's not about MAiD or the ethicality of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms but about systemic, community-wide failures to…

I agree, and I'll go further. Jan Tschischold didn't think we should use serifs unless text is justified. That convention was one of Wikipedia's main reasons for settling on sans-s…

The turning point for me was when they canned Victoria from r/ama. My experience with it got progressively worse thereafter. I might sign in to it once a year now (using old.reddit…