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What do you mean? There's $1370 earmarked for the lease.

What does reading a great novel or starting a garden specifically accomplish? People do some things for reasons that aren't easily quantifiable. It seems to me that you are startin…

As mentioned in the next clause of that sentence, the aperture ring does not work on Olympus bodies.

"Our first priority is to minimize sylliness, but I think our second priority should be to maximize silliness. And 'thirty squared twelfths' is certainly sillier."

Maybe printing the first (last?) line of a file whenever a terminal is opened would work

Is there a collection of type theory axioms anywhere near as influential as ZF or ZFC?

If 1% of the last 10 billion people to live were academics and published on average 5 papers (many only had one, i.e. their dissertation/thesis, but a small fraction will have had …

I think it's a brilliant example of how to use data to make a point. https://xkcd.com/1162/

Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now

Saying something and doing something are different. They claim it is true, but they haven't demonstrated it by doing it. If a company says they've built the fastest car in the worl…

The vast majority of readers won't get any information from anything in the article. Why not pseudonymize everything and scramble the place names? I at least appreciate that in pri…

It's not a transliteration. What supposed writing system are Vietnamese originally writing in, before they transfer it to Latin script?

> as opposed to what? human editors? ...yes? If I go to a website called "_ News" (present company included), I expect to see either news stories aggregated by humans or news stori…

There's even a 'perspectives' section that tries to contrast two of the sources, but they're the same article.

His Master of Arts is in economics. His master's thesis was "Fiscal Triumvirate: Examinations of Federal Deficit Spending and Interest Rates, State-Level Taxation and Domestic Migr…

No, they sound like Socrates' friends begging him to properly argue for himself in court, in order to not be condemned and killed. I don't think Stallman is abrasive out of a sense…

That's the systemd article, and this is the forum post explaining why arch moved to systemd: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530

It's not a digraph, it's pronounced /gm/

Wow, this really makes me think. Thanks for making that up and commenting it.

Christ, what an asshole!

It simulates CRT pixelization and low resolution

In addition to case, it's testing tense (went to have seen) and plural vs. posessive (ducks cousin)

And yes, if I was telling someone a story, I might say "cast your mind to the snowy wastes of Canada..." as a fairly standard rhetorical flourish for someone who doesn't think of t…

Only if you think there's something wrong with play.

If I read something that isn't in my native language and don't understand it, I don't claim that it's poorly written.