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they did not manage to stop the law. what i am saying is that the leaders were trying to pass a necessary law and the population was against it, so you can't pass off blame for the…

European societies are the most truly democratic states there have ever been. You have educated populaces making decisions with full information (comparatively more than anywhere e…

who owns the rain? what if it was just going to fall in the oceans?

nah i'll take the crime thanks

perhaps because the threat of "comply or there will be consequences" worked.

Babur, in his own words (the Baburnama), explicitly talks about the slaughter of apostates and infidels, creating towers of their skulls, the glory of being a killer of non-Muslims…

when do you think the British Museum will be able to publish an article on the neoclassical watercolors of Adolph Hitler without mentioning antisemitism, the holocaust, or WWII?

there's got to be a reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices" if a company decides they function b…

It doesn't take place in Antarctica, but The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard describes such a future - the last remnants of civilization have retreated to Greenland, and London is a …

but... this is not true? McGaugh himself [1] mentions that there are mass discrepancies even using MOND analysis, and that this favors the dark matter paradigm [2]. [1] https://twi…

are you saying an environment is only appreciable if it's a biosphere? why? that seems utterly arbitrary. i'd quite enjoy bouncing around in 1/4 gravity, or sailing over lakes of h…

So does UofT - I myself and at least a dozen other 1T7 grads I know personally are headed south as soon as we graduate. This is a Canada-wide problem which won't be fixed unless sa…

UMontreal has Bengio, UofT has Hinton. Toronto also has Google Brain, and many UofT phd students and postdocs have ended up there (Sutskever, Karpathy).

It's a collection of articles, not a single text.

Donald Trump has stated his opposition to net neutrality [1], although it is unclear to what extent he intends to pursue this issue. Trump's picks for his FCC transition team are b…

There's also a video following this guy (Ian Purkayastha) on one of his daily routes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sJ6IJZJhUU

It's pretty simple. bash, zsh, fish, powershell are shells. iTerm, Terminal, and Hyper are terminals - wrappers around a shell.

His position (which is explained on his webpage: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html ) is a little more nuanced. Relevant section: > Email is a wonderful thing for p…