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Wow. Meta-Orwellianism.

edit - I think I'm done here, bye Dang. You do a hard job, but this is utterly ridiculous. In the ongoing attempt to edit out anything contentious, this place has completely jumped the shark.

I believe it means volatility of covfefe.

'If you are not careful you can rip the metal off the circuit board, and if that happens, there is very little you will be able to do to fix that.'

I've done that before, managed to fix it with silver based conductive paint.

Magnus Soderlund, a behavioral scientist and marketing strategist

I was utterly confused as to how someone could end up quite so disconnected from civilised society's established concepts of morality, that is until I read that the researcher works in marketing. Then it all made perfect sense.

Is it related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio.... ?

Well, let us examine this possibility by reading the article.

That was in 2009 and according to the featured article, in 2010 he was promoted to the President and Vice Secretary of the Communist Party of Xinjiang University and he only recently disappeared in 2017.

So I am guessing it would be rather unlikely.

It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.

This is also something of a problem in the commentary, it would appear.

But the Trump map is unusual. I cannot find anything truly comparable. We had a map that was already out there that he actually mutilated, and in a very obvious way. This guy shows absolutely no subtlety at all. And then people try to make excuses for him. I have never seen anything like this.

I can think of one good comparison, from Catch 22 -

"For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.

When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left."

In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna."

edit - wow that got flagged quick. Now we know what it takes to make HN uninterested in cartography.

edit2 - and then unflagged in the time the last edit took to write, funny.

edit3 - and the article is flagged again. Is up and down like the Assyrian Empire, this one.

Alternatively, given Plato knew damn well what he was writing down, it is one of the earliest surviving examples of a postmodern joke.

Also, the dialog is not against writing, it merely states that dialog is superior for presenting and exploring ideas or knowing what someone is about.

It also says that writing is something you can do as a pastime in later years, but it is not the serious pursuit of one's life, which I also suspect is Plato commenting upon himself from the text.

Good call. Since they demonstrated 2 channel already, maybe drive that with a standard electric guitar and then have a Tesla coil driven by a bass.

Can someone wire one to a guitar and pair it with a rydberg vapour cell as the recieving antenna, so the audiophile community can finally have something to justify their pricing.

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5099036

Are you getting in a pissing contest about how many shitty things the US Government has done? Because, let me tell you, that is a contest you are going to lose.

Hi from the UK. I think we are still in the running. Mind you, we did have a head start.

The other technical alternative is constructing a global network of electricity interconnects, though storage is probably politically more achievable and cheaper, given lithium batteries are already being used instead of upgrading existing interconnects.

I didn't know that, thanks. That is probably where she has got it from. She's English, however her partner is French but grew up in the UK.

Given Nero was Roman, his name will presumably be from the Latin. If the Greek version of the spelling differs, then 666 surely must be in error.

Unless they meant that the number of the beast is Nero's name when you attempt to write it in Greek, though that seems something of a stretch, even for numerology afficionados.

I like the random numerology, really adds weight to the argument:

We’ve reported that a squadron of 66 bombers were launched on August 6th (666) to bomb the municipality of Imabari, even though Imabari. had been bombed already, twice.

This bombing squadron may well have fire-bombed Hiroshima instead, as Hiroshima was not far away.

According to early surviving versions of Revelations, the number of the beast is actually 616 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080110172555/http://news.natio... - however this revelation doesn't appear to have filtered through to the conspiratoraly minded as of yet.

Insurance is a form of subsidy, that is inherent in splitting the cost of a shared risk. If you have health insurance and do not need to claim, you are providing a subsidy for those who do and vice versa. You are also, on top of that, subsidising the company itself, assuming it is run to generate profit for owners and investors.

The actual threat is the danger of neural network bots eventually overrunning social media with far more entertaining content.

I hear 'faggot' being used more often as a slur than as the food, with the term 'fag' used pretty much synonymously.

Then again, I'm a man who sleeps with other men, went to a crumbling concrete block of a state school and often can be found working in factory environments and hanging around with bikers.

I guess it varies greatly according to one's milieu.

True. People even manage to ask if they can have a wee suck on my fag when I'm done 'cos they are absolutely gagging, without even giggling once.

Am still a smoker, people are still asking for twosies on fags.

includes a word offensive in the UK

In the UK, 'fanny' is pretty much the least offensive term for female genitals available, other than vagina, however vagina is considered a bit clinical. A friend of mine uses the term 'foo-foo' instead, which I find hysterically funny.

The word is a perjorative for homosexual across the UK and in the private boys schools since the 1700's, fagging has been the term used to describe the practice of senior pupils enslaving younger ones, who are then known as fags.

The perjorative is the most common use, however it also describes a food and small bits of firewood. People generally seem to work out the meaning from the context relatively easily, homonyms being a thing.

To illustrate, here is a picture of a man with a giant cock - http://cdn.ecommercedns.uk/files/5/227995/1/5014991/kmk023-h...

I'm talking about having a domestic supercharger. You can get up to 70kW at the company head fuse as a standard residential customer in the UK. You can also go higher, but you have to apply for a quote, so at the moment getting a true domestic supercharger is a bit pricy.

However, they are going to have to upgrade it all anyway if we get loads of electric cars.

As for the coolant loop, I wasn't suggesting to have a valve that can open, just a closed loop to the socket and a heat exchanger that then heats the water flowing through the handle of the plug.

You then store the water in an insulated tank and use it as a preheated supply feeding your main water heating system.

"So if proper mathematicians aren’t interested in a proof of the odd order theorem, what are they interested in?

Example: Perfectoid spaces.

(Topic) - Proof of odd order theorem - Perfectoid spaces

Got author a Fields Medal? - Yes (1970) - Yes (2018)

High level mathematics? - No - Yes

Lots of PhD students and post-docs working in the area? - No - Yes

Talks happening about these things all over the world? - No - Yes

Mathematicans interested in 2019? - No - Yes

Earlier this year, Patrick Massot, Johan Commelin and myself formalised the definition of a perfectoid space in Lean. I am getting invitations from across the EU to speak in mathematics departments about the work. Serious piece of research, or elaborate PR stunt? Maybe both."

They may be learning more than programming from their contacts in the computer department. Is always much easier to get something out there when it is fully buzzword compatible.

Is easy to imagine. People go all over the place and people love interfering. History would be dramatically different otherwise. And probably a lot shorter.

Was wondering about if you could put a liquid coolant loop from the battery to the charging socket on the car, then have a heat exchanger in the plug and run water to and from it using a jacket round the cable, so you can have a rapid charge that also helps heat your bath water.

They should open source their platform and provide a variety of online services and also support on running the platform internally, then offer it to the global market of taxi companies, delivery providers and enterprise level car fleets.

Become the Redhat of vehicle logistics.

They'd probably survive and it would also likely kill off Uber.

'We’re born naked and the rest is drag' - RuPaul

Now this is a wild guess on my part, not being a nuclear engineer and all, but I reckon that the foot is probably not just as lethal now it is inside this 'New Safe Confinement' thingy, unless they have gone and named it really, really badly.

If the authors point is that the institution is morally rotten, then whether or not they have been successful and which particular economic system they have used to achieve any success, is neither here nor there. I don't know why you find it damning. Is orthoganal, if anything.

Thanks for the understanding of what I am trying to get at.

I'd just like to add that for an athiest, I am a great believer in redemption.

I don't think that it is time reversible however, that theory was thouroughly tested during the crusades with the system of automatic indulgences and by all accounts it did not go well.

Also, redemption is unfortunately rare enough that you shouldn't cut people much slack over anything genuinely serious, while waiting for them to get around to redeeming themselves.