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by alvatar 3mo ago
English literature heavily overrepresented
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by alvatar 7mo ago
what third party do you need? The program can be opensource. The verification can be done onchain
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by alvatar 7mo ago
zero knowledge cryptography solves this
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by alvatar 8mo ago
Should be mandatory training to obtain the ESTA permit to enter USA (even if just for transfers)
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by alvatar 8mo ago
Just writing here a line in defense of Rothko. His paintings are far harder to paint than it looks like. There were hundreds of layers, thinly applied, and carefully thought and with a developed technique. Try to paint that by yourself and
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by alvatar 8mo ago
Actually Rothko is way harder to paint than it looks.
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by alvatar 5y ago
Very cool! I'm gonna give it a chance for sometime as a default instead of DuckDuckGo
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by alvatar 5y ago
I trust the billionaires more than I trust governments. Which doesn't mean that I trust billionaires.
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by alvatar 5y ago
For a split second I thought a composer from the English Renaissance era wrote a book about logic.
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by alvatar 6y ago
I hope this fixes my issues with bluetooth on Linux. When I'm on battery the audio breaks all the time. I've tried all sorts of obscure config tweaks with Pulseaudio.
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by alvatar 6y ago
This just made me install Element right away and finally get away from Signal (and of course Whatssap) and bring as many people with me as possible
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by alvatar 6y ago
So true. As a spaniard I do it all the time. Love/hate my country.
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by alvatar 6y ago
I think it's easier to port everything elisp to Scheme (with some help by automation perhaps), than having an Emacs implementation in a Scheme that runs in all implementation of Scheme. I've worked many years in Scheme and the dif
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by alvatar 6y ago
I mostly agree with your comment. My main counterpoint to this angle, which is strictly correct, is that many people lack the same kind of context that you described, and do interpret “Spanish flu” and “Wuhan/Chinese flu” as “caused by
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by alvatar 6y ago
Correct, my comment was devoid of opinion or arguments, it was just that, a comment. I also don’t see how your last paragraph contributes any better to a healthy debate though. Regarding the false equivalence though, I didn’t imply that, si
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by alvatar 6y ago
I agree with the stigma associated to locations. I believe this stigma also affects past events, even if less so. So I think the argument for renaming the 1918 pandemic holds as strongly as not naming any new one based on the geographical l
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by alvatar 6y ago
I find it interesting that it’s ok to call it Spanish Flu (while it wasn’t even originated there), but is politically incorrect to call this one the Wuhan virus or the Chinese flu. Political correctness has always a political intention I gu
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by alvatar 7y ago
You are right. Sometimes I wish I were better at English.
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by alvatar 7y ago
I almost die in Java too.
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by alvatar 9y ago
Very cool! I use Clojure on a daily basis for coding, this is a great addition to the arsenal :) Actually, my main argument against _not using it_ is that Bash has this awkward syntax that is hard to remember if you don't use it often.
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by alvatar 9y ago
Here you have a hint of the indoctrination: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/world/europe/spain-catalo... “We are not even allowed to wear a bracelet to school with the Spanish flag’s colors, but
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by alvatar 9y ago
You are probably reading biased media. Spain has not consistently escalated tensions, it's been done by both sides. I disagree that something like this is commonly understood as fundamental. Referendums need to meet some conditions and
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by alvatar 9y ago
Should I infer from the downvote that the general consensus is that there are a good and a bad sides in this story then? I'm interested in knowing if that's the case. I have a hard time otherwise understanding the downvote, unless
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by alvatar 9y ago
Please don't bend the facts for your own bias. The king doesn't appoint those judges, will just ratify and is pretty much symbolical. They do have political influence but is kept balance traditionally. Just because everyone has po
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by alvatar 9y ago
You can actually check my previous claims. They are not vague. Is just too extent, so if you want to dig deeper feel free to read both sides of the story, and not just what your particular media tells you.
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by alvatar 9y ago
They do have plenty of freedom, own embassies, own top-level domain, lots of local laws, complete control over education (that is basically the foundations of the strategy of independentist movements during at least 20 years). It is basical
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by alvatar 9y ago
I do have a bias against independentism/nationalism because I've lived through it. I cannot give concrete documents about this because there aren't such. Contrary to police violence of which there are. You don't have to
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by alvatar 9y ago
I want to make a very clear claim here, as a Spaniard who lived in Menorca (one of the so called "Paixos Catalans", what the expansionist independentists call "their territories"). I used to speak Catalan (or rather, the
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by alvatar 9y ago
Videos are taken mostly by those out in the streets, so there are obviously biased towards one side. Is it so hard to believe that both sides exert some kind of violence? Do you really believe that one side is entirely pacifist and the othe
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by alvatar 9y ago
I apologize for my interpretation and response. It wouldn't be the first time that I read or hear comments of Catalans being superior to the rest of the Spanish.

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