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If those books were from the British Library, then they're available for free online from the British Library

you're replying to the author, and maintainer, of spiped.

it's mentioned in the article that microfilm is digitised

and you've just conflated anti-semitism and calls to boycott Israel, which I would certainly class as intellectually dishonest.

wikipedia describes the situation here [0], but i think in general "literate" has a specific meaning here, that you need to know x amount of characters. Some cursory googling leads…

memory is has been getting better over the years, thanks to the memshrink project though. https://www.areweslimyet.com/

But, no? I don't understand how you could possibly draw that conclusion. The "WMD" ISIS have discovered were decommissioned WMD from the 90s. They aren't capable of being deployed.…

2.0 should maybe work, 3 probably never :( http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1748

in the sense that there is a personal ceiling for you, yes. but if you've never trained at elite level, then you can almost certainly improve it up to your (personal) ceiling.

oh, she was asking for it! well, that changes everything.

Yes, I have the 2013 model of the X1 carbon and it's about perfect for me (running Debian). But I have no idea why they ruined the keyboard on the latest model.

Feel free to not trust it, but it does indicate whether the message to be send will be encrypted or not: in the current version, a padlock will be locked or unlocked on the send bu…

"Yet in the slides for his talk[1] under theories he writes..." I think you may have misunderstood. He is at this point theorising why the service is enabled outside of developer m…

I dunno, it's hard not find something to agree with, particularly the rather tone deaf "let them eat soylent". I regularly read the Guardian, and it seems they are very tech positi…

few days late, but thought I'd share my anecdote. several years ago now, I was on a road trip through the largest island of Japan, Honshu, and was staying at a cheap roadside motel…

Written by Max Blumenthal though, who I don't think you can correctly describe as a "Jew-hater". I submitted it because it was interesting, but also referenced the role technology …

I feel i should point out that will not use an index. DELETE FROM Table WHERE CreateDate < DATEADD(year, -2, getdate())

I completely agree he shouldn't have been running this service in the first place. I also agree it's a bit late to find some principles when you've been happily complying with thes…

That Marc Twight article appears in the recently published book "Training for the new alpinism" by Steve House. Seriously recommended.

i did an experiment where my raw & converted jpegs ended up compressed by about 12% overall, if that's any help.