Rexxar

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Science ultimately never answer to "why?" but to "how?". Science give us a model to describe universe but won't tell you why it exists.
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> Notice how you are attempting to dismiss my premise by categorizing me as a "right wing nitwit" He didn't say that, he say your argument will be used by those people to justify anything.
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Replace letters by line of codes and it will have the same result.
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I don't see why something "going back decades" can be an argument on the validity of a philosophy.
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Carbon offset can be done somewhere else or later, biodiversity is lost forever.
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There is a lot of difference. Morally, why European people should be responsible of regime that oppressed them and against they rebel multiple times ? Economically, European peasants that were the great majority of population didn't ge
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99% of European didn't have anything to do with this trade and slavery was progressively forbidden on the territory of nearly all European countries during middle age (since 1315 for France for example but also in other countries http
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Using an "if" doesn't mean coercion if first action is legitimate - I'm going to refuse your offer if you don't propose something better. - I'm going to work on it if you don't want to - I'm going to
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> But what would be the point of further discussing it? If you have a limited number of vaccines, you can vaccinate the propagators first and have 80% of the benefit of full population vaccination for 20% of the cost.
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Indeed, for some reasons the two books are very near in my memory and each time I think to one of them memories of the other comes.
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Are Intel claims valid somewhere ? They are probably not in Europe where patents generally cannot be used to prevent interoperability.
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The law doesn't require this style of pop-up. They are voluntarily made annoying by some site owners (same for ads, it is the site choice).
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So "big brother" that want to track everything use a reference to 1984 to criticize a law that protect against it ? Perfect double speak in action (sadly).
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Indeed. It also show us that using "good taste" or "code smell" arguments are wrong because there should always be good technical reason to justify the choice. Sometimes we have the good intuition and the technical is ha
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> Also there may be better news aggregators when it comes to Linux or LLVM or Postgres or famous IT/Math people I would be grateful if someone can list some of them. (Maybe https://lobste.rs/ but I always forgot to
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I'm not American and I don't live in USA. But when a communication center with high density of population is infected at the beginning of a new epidemic it's quite logical this happening. When the pandemic expand to low densi
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Or it will be seen as a strange thing that old people like to use for no reason.
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Meta note: 4819 votes on the poll and 152 points on HN. I'm surprised that only 3% of people that vote on the poll are upvoting the story.
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Generating SVG for the Prime Knots(prideout.net)
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If the name is quite unique it's a good indicator because some site with high pagerank and lot of seo that list other websites/companies/software are sometime higher than the original site (stackshare.io or alternativeto.net
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I'm all for this functionality but if the said users go to Chrome because "Firefox has no privacy" this is ridiculous. Firefox is our best browser in this domain, let's not kill it by complaining indefinitely on it.
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Hopefully, people will just start to use site that comply without being malicious. I just close more and more often the page when I see this. The reality is that they need readers/users more than we need them.
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We will probably only know it in 10 or 20 years. Very often it takes time to see what is really valuable and what was just a trend.
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Et même les mots clefs : https://www.spip.net/fr_article1498.html
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You are the one who is judging others. There is just an (implicit) rule that there are better places for humor than here and that it's better in the long run for everybody to keep discussions on topic. So yes, as for every other rules,
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Alexander Stepanov (the author of the book in question, and the co-creator of the c++ STL library) and his way to approach programming is inspiring and sadly unknown to the great majority of developers. If you want to have an idea of the co
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A wrapper around wxWidgets would be nice in my opinion. Every language community has a tendency to want a "pure" implementation of everything in their prefered language and utltimatly this just splits efforts and let everybody wit
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This forget (at least) three factors: - Repetitive manual labor is prone to failure. If failure is expansive and automated task could be better just for the additional safety. - Once it's automatized the frequency at which the task is
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And surprisingly, it's always downvoted but people are still doing it.
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> Cummings suggested that a no-deal Brexit could allow the Government to offer state aid to the country’s most promising technology businesses The second level irony is that it's the UK that has always been the main opponent to ever

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