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by Latty 9y ago
At a glance, those two maps don't really correlate, and are completely useless anyway - if immigrants are more likely to come to poorer areas, for example, I could imagine a link between crime and poor areas in general, so acid attacks
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by Latty 9y ago
I don't understand your point - the thread is about the issue in the UK - it could be completely different to the issue in other places. Your assertion that it has to be the same is, quite frankly, naive - existing crime levels, media
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by Latty 9y ago
> There is a correlation between the % of Muslim population and # of acid attacks. I haven't seen that stated, let alone proven - can you back up that statement?
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by Latty 9y ago
Just like the Jews in post WW1 Germany, it's great (from a certain point of view) to have some group you can point at and blame everything on. Much easier than actually addressing problems and gives people targets to hate. The UK has b
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by Latty 9y ago
A lot of the UK is "immigrant-heavy" (I've lived in Leicester and Boston, both of which fit that bill). Seems highly unlikely to be a causal link unless you can show a pattern across many areas. Seems highly likely to me th
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by Latty 9y ago
Your first link, there is truth to it, the most obscure and small stuff won't be pirated. Does that matter? I don't think anyone is only looking to defend things that are that obscure. Anything with even a middling number of peopl
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by Latty 9y ago
You are missing my point - I agree entirely. Streaming services offer a (mostly) better experience than BitTorrent - but only when they are supported by the device you want, and the DRM doesn't get in the way. My point was that DRM doe
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by Latty 9y ago
The issue you are ignoring is that only one person needs to "save and distribute" it, then the pirated version becomes easier to view than the DRMed version. The proof in the pudding is that every TV show and film is instantly ava
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by Latty 9y ago
As I said, it's a different definition of "just works" - obviously no non-technical person is going to run Arch - it's never going to be Ubuntu and it's not trying to be. I wasn't trying to make that claim. As
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by Latty 9y ago
That's just not true. My desktop is Arch and I run maybe 5 or so AUR packages - and they are all for dev tools. You can definitely run a completely functional desktop without them.
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by Latty 9y ago
I meant more as in "as someone wanting to use something", rather than the security aspect. Most AUR packages I have seen have been incredibly easy to read - if you really don't want to use them, it's still a good framewo
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by Latty 9y ago
I think all of the 'other package managers' are just wrappers around pacman to give more functionality. I haven't seen any competing completely different package managers. Packaging, yeah, some stuff is only AUR, but that&#x2
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by Latty 9y ago
The biggest "just works" thing for me with Arch is that, because you configure everything yourself and set it up, you know what is in your system and how it's slotted together. Less magic, when something goes wrong, you have
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by Latty 9y ago
No one wants to wait for a transaction. "Let me wait 5m for my ATM to give me my money."
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by Latty 9y ago
The usual excuse is 'Linux users will just want to use the command line tools anyway', which implies to me that the grand claims about the tooling being better are untrue. A windows only dev tool in today's day and age seems
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by Latty 9y ago
You can enjoy what you have while still looking to improve it. I don't follow your argument that just because people want further improvement they are somehow "entitled". Just because something is better than the past doesn&#
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by Latty 9y ago
Why not both? Most people vulnerable enough to eat up the Nazi ideology are probably in a bad place. Case in point, post-WW1 Germany.
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by Latty 9y ago
> I can lament that my kids don't know how good they have it. They could counter by saying that 150mbps is a thing and it would enable them to do more. Are either of us really wrong here? Why do people need to "know how good th
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by Latty 9y ago
Endless sequels, remakes and adaptations aren't necessarily a bad thing - it's just that they are sequels made without having good ideas for sequels, and remakes/adaptations done worse than the last time. I really hope that t
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by Latty 9y ago
I think that good languages offer features that make your code better, not let you write it faster. Sure, it may take me two months to write that thing in Scala still, but I'll have more confidence it will work well, and it'll b
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by Latty 9y ago
I wrote with a Lamy through my schooling, they did well for me for sure. Of course, the most I write by hand these days are notes or a shopping list, so no need for fountain pens for me.
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by Latty 9y ago
That's interesting - I have accounts with three of the major banks and all of them have me them (they do use it different amounts, some only for signing transfers, some for everything including logging in).
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by Latty 9y ago
The ones in the UK are a standard - every account I have uses the same ones and they are interchangeable. Everyone I know had one - they are ubiquitous as the chip and pin standard is here.
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by Latty 9y ago
What about employees or students who have to use the equipment? They can't force their employer or educator to spend the money, but it's their fingers that'll be lost. Maybe laws to ensure that if you are employing or in any
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by Latty 9y ago
Human desire might be, but human ability isn't. If we don't raise the level of education everyone can get, and to a lesser extent even if we do, some people just will not be able to do any of the jobs that aren't automated -
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by Latty 9y ago
Maybe a more charitable reading would be that programmers are positioned to give away their work in a way that other professionals can't necessarily do.
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by Latty 9y ago
UBI is in the focus for a lot more than attracting people to an area - it's a solution to a future (present?) where we don't need everyone to work. The reality is when all the menial jobs are automated, you have to reclassify anyo
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by Latty 9y ago
I remember reading an impressive statistic where the implant actually has a higher real world success rate due to more botched/healed ligations. Edit: http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/implant/ -0.05% failure rate on imp
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by Latty 9y ago
I keep seeing this kind of thing get said, but I'm not sure what the point is - are people really expecting people who espouse diversity to literally accept any opinion? Am I meant to work alongside a person who has literally said he w
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by Latty 9y ago
It is entirely possible to claim to be for something while actively doing things that are negative for it. The author didn't get to decide if his manifesto is anti-diversity any more than the KKK get to decide if they are racist. I hav

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