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that was my favorite part too - anybody can get a visa to move to the US - just wire yourself a couple years of US level salaries. easy.

saint augustine?

i had totally forgotten about smit - good times

i had a solaris workstation on my desk from 2000 to 2005 and we had an industrial fridge size IBM pseries running AIX to run big linear programming problems on. You could not run l…

I am happy to see i am not the only one who remembers Oz and i wonder if there are any connection between those projects.

Functional logic programming was all the rage when i started my career 30 years or so ago, but besides some obscure use cases it did not have a lot of success - i wonder if this wi…

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ not to undermine the NYRB, but this is in the public domain, for anybody interested

considering lafargue was born in 1842 in cuba on a coffee plantation and was of mixed race he probably had a pretty good idea of what slavery was.

"Problem is, a lot of CEOs in industry and the financial sector can’t tell a bra from a ket" i do not know enough about quantum computing to judge whether this article is accurate …

Latour pretty explicitely thinks of himself as a post Marxist - one of his latest work was "la nouvelle classe ecologique" where he was making the point that environmental question…

we are cousins!

If that is true, wouldn't that be a de facto monopoly which Apple could be sued for?

I am surprised he is getting away with publishing this in english only - there was a time were you had to have french versions of everything at french government institutions, and …

Will there ever be more than a fringe of the population willing to be exposed to the mortality risks motorcyclists are exposed to? Last time i looked your chance of being killed is…

I went to FKK camps in croatia in the 80s when it was still yugoslavia - in my memory they were mostly for German/Dutch/Swiss tourists, were way more expensive than the state camps…

the mix of whatever is left of victorian prudishness with decades of agressively commercialized porn sure makes for a complex and unhealthy relationship to the human body

FKK was and still is very much a german movement which seems to indicate you can have nude beaches and competent engineers in the same culture.

Headline is "no one in the trial developed severe symptom" - i am not sure how your computation proves this wrong.

whereas AG is just as obscure and hard to utilize, even with a computer...

I find it fascinating that geometric algebra and algebraic geometry are two distincts and totally different things and i wonder which term came first.

I have always felt putting case-insensitivity at the filesystem level was a bad idea which would have died in the 80s if it was not for some Apple product manager being stubborn. B…

Only for MacOS though

how is the executive order in the news today not preventing economic competition exactly?

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentratio... on concentration camps, experts happen to differ with your opinion

The fact that there is an API to publish verse by verse the text of one book, i.e. a handful of megabytes uncompressed, is interesting. The fact that this book happens to be a book…