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The current IPCC report is readable and pretty comprehensive: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

Spending two weeks in a hotel room with all the amenities you can imagine (Contact to your beloved ones, television, internet access) is in no way comparable to solitary confinemen…

You are right, we shouldn't ever do anything, since nothing will ever completely solve a problem in one swoop.

Groundbreaking idea there. Why has noone ever before thought of just giving everybody the same opportunities?

You could consider going to Laos, the air is definitely better here

What do you mean by victim culture in this context?

This still has nothing to do with the point they were making, that black people in the U.S. are still disadvantaged due to historical reasons.

I think it's pretty clear they were talking about the U.S., which IS a white majority country where white people DO have an advantage

More like strangers taking pictures of you without your consent (and often knowledge) with the intent to increase their profits and not sharing any of that with you.

Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)

In 1991, Israel evacuated 14325 Ethiopian Jews in 36 hours using 35 aircraft, with up to 1122 passengers on a plane [1]. It's such an impressive feat, those must have been some of …

That is what is well-done in the Haskell book imho, the combination of someone just learning everything and an experienced programmer

They did not say that blacks don't kill blacks, just that the reason for those killings is not the victim's skin color.

They are not simply banning new foreigners from entering the country (which alone would be bad enough, imho), but also many green card holders who were legal residents and now face…

I thought the same, e.g. this: > There's actually a special Haskell search engine to search for anything related to Haskell, because of the funky syntax not playing nice with Googl…

I think LFE is at least not unheard of, but anyway, that's not really the point here probably ;)

I think what it means that they got the idea for the tracker after losing the laptop, they didn't lose it after securing their funding

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

Chlorophyll does actually help against bad breath, since it absorbs gases. You can still buy dragees in pharmacies

Ok.

Maybe if you think about the local environment (rainforest) as the medium in which the population is dispersed, like colloids :-)