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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
In the US and other western countries, women clearly have de-facto more rights than men. They are much more leniently punished for the same crimes, they are much more rarely homeless, they do get more attention (and money) from social servi
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
soundness question when considering variance What is this question? Have you got a reference?
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
The semantics of OO languages is really messy and complicated and probably has the least well understood theory of all sequential forms of computing.
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
This is not quite true. There is SPJ's famous "The implementation of functional programming languages" [1]. Then there is lots of material on various
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
The lack of side-effects and equational reasoning in functional languages let you get a lot of details out of your way. Actually ... You (kind-of/sort-of) need side effects when implementing a language with higher-order func
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Why is programming way easier in Ocaml than in C? I've written vast amounts of Ocaml and C/C++, certainly over 100K LoCs in each. Programming in ML dialects is so much easier than C/C++, it's not funny. I&#x2
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
You are well intentioned but politically naive. The false claims of harassment and more generally victimhood are integral part of the corruption (and detrimental to dealing with real harassment).
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
We are quite on topic as I'm giving a performative demonstration of just how a small minority uses censorship as a form of harassment in the service of their own struggle for power. We saw this from the likes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot ..
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
You demonstrate this groupthink to an extreme degree in the complete absence of nuance of your description of a well-known anti-corruption movement. So maybe you should reflect on the conditions that have duped you into taking such a simpli
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Why do you draw a false analogy between a racist group and a distributed online movement that has been extremely successful at exposing corruption in games journalism?
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Not to mention Belgian colonialism.
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Please don't forget that that assassination was planned, coordinated and paid for by the Serbian government via Serbian military intelligence chief, Dragutin Dimitrijevic. Serbia was aided in this by the Russian military attache in Be
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Let's assume John goes to a Ferrari shop and can't afford the latest California T model because it's to expensive. John borrows the money from Tom and gets the car, promising Tom to pay back. John then doesn't deliver on
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Yes, the "clean hands" thing is true, and it's about the only positive that Syriza has to offer.
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Sure, but it's a tried and tested way of getting rid of one's debt. Many (most?) countries have used it in the past, see [1], including the USA. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_default#List_of_sove
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
I'm not sure I see your point. Greece has a perfectly democratic way of getting rid of its debt: default. Russia in 1998 was the last big European country to do so. Iceland's banks also defaulted on some wholesale depositors a fe
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Why do you keep talking about German and French banks only? As Atropos pointed out, Greek banks had the highest exposure. German banks had quite a low exposure. In the light of this (and the power structure of the EU/ECB) the German t
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
Are you not in effect saying: never pay back debt at all? For whenever you don't pay back debt, then it's the lender's fault, nobody forced them to lend, it's their own risk. While this is a consistent position that has
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
I don't think Greece is playing hardball. I think the game is "chicken": everybody involved knows that Greece cannot and will not pay back that money and will leave the Euro. But both sides want to avoid being the first mover
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
The money was lent to improve the Greek economy. It was largely spent on an unnecessarily large army, a large, inefficient and extremely well remunerated civil service, olympic games, cushy early retirement deals and shenanigans like that.
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
unelected officials trying to smack down democratically elected wishes Greece can immediately get rid of EU and IMF officials if they want. All they need to do if forgot the free money that has been raining down on Greece.
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by NotableAlamode 11y ago
I don't believe that. Most prostitutes in the countries you mention render their services voluntarily. Could you please give credible references for your claim? In the context of prostitution, the term "human trafficing" its
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
PS The name of the reporter was Richard Bradley, who's written a good new overview of the UVA situation: http://www.richardbradley.net/shotsinthedark/2015/04/07/in-t...
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
They first went along with the hoax. They should never have done this, as the Rubin Erdely article was obviously a hoax. But damsel-in-distress articles just sell very well (see mattress girl, also obviously a hoax), and few people have the
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
But why was the premise of reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely taken seriously to start with: "what it’s like to be on campus now ... where not only is rape so prevalent but also that there’s this pervasive culture of sexual harassment/
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
To put this all into perspective, it looks like somebody got fired at the Rolling Stone over a negative review of a Hootie & the Blowfish album: http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-09/entertainment/ca-1313...
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
I'm not sure I can agree. I didn't say that the type of the array function is independent of the choice of error propagation mechanism. If you think an array is a partial function from integers to some value domain, say A, then in
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
This is an orthogonal issue. Arrays are clearly partial functions. The Try[.]-vs-exceptions issue is to do with the question whether failures should be reflected in types (the Try[.]-option) or not (exceptions). There are good arguments for
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
> () is used for function calls, grouping, and tuples, while [] is used for array literals and array indexing. Array indexing is a function call, because an array is a function from its index set to the set of the values the array stores
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by NotableAlamode 12y ago
> here really should be a "Do this, not that" guide ... There should be, but this would only be doctoring the symptoms. The real solution is to abolish the ridiculous, sexist/misandric alimony laws. In the past there was s

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