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No need to take the piss, venson.

No, I think they added that "feature" about a year after I purchased my lifetime Plex pass. My usual timing.

I think the only saving grace there is that the sentients sending such transmissions would presumably want to be understood, and would ensure a Rosetta Stone of sorts was packed al…

Why don't you move to Europe, and find out for yourself? I thought much the same as you, twenty years ago. Grass looks greener, etc., etc.

Having lived in Europe for almost twenty years, with a spouse teaching in a European secondary school, and with the utmost respect to my European colleagues, please allow me to ass…

Generally speaking, American PhD programs expect that you'll be spending at least a year (and generally two) on graduate-level courses before engaging in full-time research. Europe…

A lot of musicians these days keep their sheet music in digital formats; hands-off page turning is handy when playing. I'm sure there are many other use cases.

That could very well be true. Do you have any data to back up your initial hypothesis?

In fact the paper explicitly discusses (p. 14-16) potential synergistic effects between zinc and hydroxychloroquine, and provides references to another study suggesting the same. C…

You might find mblaze ( https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze ) interesting; it's not too far off from what you describe.

I have to say, the links you post don't really do much to bolster your case. Was there something particularly damning in the first link that I missed? I'm also a little unclear on …

Most of the claims from neovim seem over the top and off from factual i.e. vim base code is so bad it is unreliable. To be fair, the one example you give is from a person not direc…

I'm not disputing your last statement. I'm saying that, if you are going to quote someone, quote the whole sentence , at least, and don't leave out words that are substantial to th…

To be fair, what they actually said was, "Bytes and octets are the same today ". It's a little disingenuous, I think, to quote everything but the last word, especially since the qu…

Well, that's a fair point, DanBC, but I generally regard laws about jaywalking to be a bit silly, and one of those things that I mentioned we'll need to fix at some point. If you'r…

Well, cletus, perhaps I can shed some light on this troubling question for you. Generally speaking (and there are naturally many exceptions, humans being the delightfully-flawed cr…

That's the wrong question. It makes an incorrect presumption; Why should we have heard them? Do you think a highly advanced civilization is going to be using something as archaic a…

At the risk of speaking for the parent, I believe their point was that the only fusion "reactors" on a nuclear submarine are the warheads it carries.

Uh huh. Pro tip: using the phrase "radical libertarian orthodoxy" is a strong indicator that perhaps you're not really interested in even-handedness.

While I certainly won't take issue with your last paragraph, aren't you just taking exception to the fact that people disagree with you? You don't really know why the people who do…

Thanks, chubot, I think I see the point now.

Could I trouble you to elaborate on that a bit? I'm not sure I understand why XML would be better than JSON in that case.

I used to think this as well, until I moved across an ocean. I'm a big fan of packing light nowadays.

Yes, I believe you are still obligated to file. Not sure how rigidly that's policed, though.

Yes, although there is a high deductible (~$80k, as I recall). It's never been something I needed to worry about, but FATCA most definitely will be. I don't know the answer to your…