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by ajuc 2y ago
YAML is just doing too much and trying to be too clever.
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I worked at a company that makes machines reading books/press/whatever to people with impaired vision (or altogether blind). It wasn't the best paid job, but the satisfaction when you can talk with someone who uses your produ
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by ajuc 2y ago
There was almost no advertising in my country when I was 7. I live in Poland and till 1989 it was communist puppet state of USSR (not through our choice, obviously, so the moment we could - we noped out of it). There was no point advertisin
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by ajuc 2y ago
YAML: when you wished json made you count spaces to avoid syntax errors I don't even mind indentation for nesting, but this key: value vs key:value is EVIL.
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The only 2 countries on Earth - USA and China. You don't have to choose between oligarchy and communism. There's normal countries out there.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Counter-anegdote. I grew up in the countryside, I am allergic to hay, pollen, dust mites, cat and horse saliva, and more. I moved to a big city when I was ~20 and my symptoms got better, but I'm still allergic to all that - it's s
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by ajuc 2y ago
I have allergy, asthma, colitis ulcerosa. I'm allergic to hay, pollen of trees and grasses, dust mites, cat saliva, etc. I've lived in countryside till my 20s, then moved to a big city. My allergies got better when I moved to a c
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by ajuc 2y ago
Is Canada or Sweden a better comparison then? Poland was just the easiest example for me (cause I live here). It's not unique nor the best at these things. The idea that USA's got it right when most of the world does it differentl
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by ajuc 2y ago
I love code golf as much as anyone, not sure it's worth it on such small methods tho. Any of the propositions would be fine. Anyway: def oddness(n): return ["Even", "Odd"][n % 2] BTW this trick with r
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by ajuc 2y ago
The discussion started with > That's not what people voted for (agreeing with the government) I could play your game (asking at every point how do you know). And we will get to the point that we both agree it's just our interpr
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's not controversial, it's the truth. BTW I worked for 6 years at one company, then I started job-hopping every 2-3 years. Much better for career.
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"The right" isn't one thing. MAGA is a particular brand of "the right" that is pretty clearly evil/dumb. Ultimately USA is just 350 million people. Without its allies it's just another country. You can&#x2
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by ajuc 2y ago
Do you think it's realistic to expect a new party to win elections in USA in the next 20 years?
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Visit EU.
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Social democracy is orthogonal to immigration policy. You can have welfare state with close or open borders and anything in between, and you can have libertarian state with close or open borders. For the last few years most EU countries hav
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by ajuc 2y ago
I know what they want and I know what they need. The difference is precisely the problem.
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There are safety features built-in in more recent democracies. USA is just a very early implementation and hasn't been keeping up with the patches. 2-party system is bad. Regional representation instead of population representation is
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by ajuc 2y ago
Taxes aren't the problem. How do I know? Because my parents earning ~1000 USD per month each living in Poland have higher standard of living than most Americans. Despite paying ~30% taxes. You have to add up what the taxes pay for in t
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's the ironic part. Trump is the result of anti-system vote by people who were ignored for decades by both parties. Trump obviously won't solve their problems. Inequality won't decrease. Healthcare won't become more ac
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by ajuc 2y ago
They know enough to understand which way should their ignorance be pointed to support their worldview. I've seen this countless times, I'm from eastern Poland, we had our own MAGA ruling for 8 years, and eastern Poland is where mo
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by ajuc 2y ago
People have choosen to believe obvious lies because they wanted them to be true, not because they thought they were true. It's as much their fault as the politicians who lied to them.
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by ajuc 2y ago
If life is chiral it weakens the hypothesis. If life is not chiral it changes nothing. Nonzero-weighted sum of something and nothing is something.
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They don't support imperialism, but they also don't care enough to be against imperialism. They care about egg prices or their favorite culture wars more than about people dying elsewhere. It's egoism, simple as that.
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> Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians. Their taxes still support their governments and so do your purchases if you buy there.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Philosophy is only useful for generating questions anyway, so the harm is minimized - but yes, it's not something you should base your worldview on.
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They are script kiddies ;)
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In a zero-sum game you benefit only when somebody else loses and vice-versa. Which means if you make a deal with someone and they benefit from it - you lost. In other words - you should only do deals that hurt others. It's a truly vile
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by ajuc 2y ago
If you redefine words and ignore logic - you can salvage anything, sure. I'm not sure what's the point tho. If you start with abandoning logic - you cannot later return back to using it. Starting with 0==1 you can prove anything.
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by ajuc 2y ago
1. Astrology was debated even longer and also still exists. It's not an argument. 2. I'm not claiming to be genious. In fact I was pretty hardcore Catholic for like 22 years before I stopped lying to myself. > You seem to forge
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> This does not necessarily mean direct punishment, but rather the natural repercussions and influence of one generation's behavior on the next. This is a rationalization. If you try to interpret it honestly you can find dozen diffe

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