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The Proescution and Punishment of Animals and Lifeless Things in the Middle Ages and Modern Times https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... https://en.wikiped…

> In legal usage throughout the English-speaking world, an act of God is a natural hazard outside human control, such as an earthquake or tsunami, for which no person can be held r…

Arhives for those 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20170910220313/http://www.lhup.e... https://web.archive.org/web/20121216101917/http://www.yorkto...

David Friedman (Milton Friedman's son), has written about how saga era Iceland could be considered libertarian. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/Iceland.html His piec…

re Redhat deprecating btrfs: > People are making a bigger deal of this than it is. Since I left Red Hat in 2012 there hasn't been another engineer to pick up the work, and it is _a…

Seems pretty reliable these days. Are you commenting based upon personal experience? If so, when was it that you used btrfs?

Snapshots don't seem to be done yet.

Does btrfs met your requirements?

What about people who lose their jobs or don't get hired in the first place?

command W cabbrev w =(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'w') cabbrev q =(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1 ? 'W' : 'q') cabbrev q! =(getcmdtype()==':' && getcmdpos()==1…

Game Tools on Samsung devices have this feature. For apps that aren't games you need to add them in Game Launcher so the Game Tools button appears in those apps.

At the low end, in Chromebooks, I think Arm processors are a better way to go. These days Chromebooks run Android apps and Android on x86 hasn't been great.

Off topic, but Sony really needs to get better with naming their products.

command wq command w command q

That is what the author says in the next paragraph. > I don't know. I rather suspect that there's no way to actually reach that hypothetical universe.

They published a report that alleged Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress. Mueller had to break silence to issue a denial about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/…

Judging by the paper[1], I would say any or all of Inria, Nanyang Technological University, and Temasek Laboratories. [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf

What is considered sufficiently far future may change with life extension technology.

I think human nature incentivizes top-down corporate business structures and disincentivizes co-op businesss structures.

Nothing stopping people from doing that.

Do you know what Citizens United actually was about or allowed for? This video on campaign finance might surprise you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpy1uzOvrY

Thank you personally for allowing corporations to exist.

Most people seem to prefer lower prices to higher quality. That is why airlines have responded that way.

To pick a state as an example, Iowa speed tests had a mean download speed of 71.39 Mbps in 2018. That is twice what Google says is the requirement for 4k Stadia. So even if prime t…

Is this a counter argument? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...