antientropic

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by antientropic 7y ago
Greece is a sovereign country. It could have defaulted if it really wanted to. Maybe it would have required an exit from the Euro, but that would have been its choice. That they considered this worse than the alternative was also their choi
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by antientropic 7y ago
Completely unrealistic. If Eurogroup meetings were to become open, they would simply become like any other kind of parliamentary "debate", with politicians holding speeches directed at their voters rather than genuinely intended t
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by antientropic 7y ago
It's also bigger than the next four countries combined, so that's not entirely surprising.
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by antientropic 7y ago
No. My experience is that Rust compile times are pretty reasonable compared to typical C++ projects (and it's often an apples-to-oranges comparison: an initial Cargo build does a lot more, building all your dependencies in the configur
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by antientropic 7y ago
> So, no to free trade? Because that sounds very much like protectionism to me. Yes, absolutely. And this is why China has successful tech companies like Baidu and Europe doesn't. As long as the EU allows US giants like FAANG access
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by antientropic 7y ago
You're generally not allowed to point a camera at public roads in the Netherlands: https://www.politie.nl/themas/camera-in-beeld.html?sid=05783...
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by antientropic 7y ago
The European Commission was created by the member states to ensure that the rules that they collectively agreed upon are enforced; it is not "flexing its autonomy". Any member state that no longer wants this is free to invoke Ar
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by antientropic 7y ago
Nobody is proposing that sex trafficking should be legalized. On the wider issue of prostitution, there is a fundamental difference between it and the crimes you mentioned: murder, rape and kidnapping are always wrong, regardless of whether
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by antientropic 7y ago
> closed shop nature of being able to contribute This seems like a really bizarre characterization of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has had millions of contributors over its lifetime and something like 130K active editors. Anybody can hit the &qu
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by antientropic 7y ago
That's pretty much what he says here: https://github.com/pgbovine/OnlinePythonTutor/blob/master/un... . "If you don't get a reply from me, assume your issue will NOT be addressed. Please do
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by antientropic 7y ago
That's an oxymoron: how can you tell if it has stuck if it's recent?
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by antientropic 7y ago
> Switzerland (like EU countries) depends a 100 % on the US for defense, in the sense it would basically turn into Russia / China overnight if the US wasn't a military power protecting them. Neither Switzerland nor the EU depen
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by antientropic 7y ago
Ehm. What systemd advocates use arguments like "we don't have anything else" or "Red Hat forces it"? Those are the arguments of systemd detractors .
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by antientropic 7y ago
What you ask for already exists: it's called the tree hash (which can be obtained by doing `git log -n1 --pretty="%T"`). The tree hash is unaffected by history, so if you for instance revert a commit, the tree hash will also
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by antientropic 7y ago
> And they paid twice as much for their electric bikes ($2000) than they did for their pedal bikes. Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon their pedal bikes. This is nonsense. Those ebikes are pedal bikes, they&#x2
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by antientropic 7y ago
According to this page, mixed teams are not allowed in the Premier League: https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/12206/can-a-woman...
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by antientropic 7y ago
GWB's "axis of evil" was Iran, Iraq and North Korea, not the countries you mentioned.
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by antientropic 7y ago
The headline is wrong: the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU court. There is also no such thing as a "European Union Convention on Human Rights". You'd expect a website that specializes in legal news to get this rig
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by antientropic 7y ago
Millenials should keep in mind this quote from Milton Friedman: "We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers ca
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by antientropic 7y ago
If this social norm is so "phenomenally clear", then why are there such wildly different ages of consent even among western countries and US states? It seems strange that the ability to consent magically appears the day you turn (
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by antientropic 7y ago
Why is that strange? It seems rather obvious to me why people are reluctant to route all their DNS queries through a for-profit company in a country with no real privacy laws (and one that you have to assume is backdoored by the NSA).
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by antientropic 7y ago
I think you have an incorrect idea of "logic reasoning" if you think that that's a scientifically sound argument. To know whether this contaminated water will be insufficiently diluted in the ocean to cause problems, you def
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by antientropic 7y ago
Of course people invest in those bonds. After all, if they didn't, those countries would have to offer a higher interest rate.
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by antientropic 7y ago
This already exists: applications can receive memory pressure events (such as the system reaching "medium" level, where you may want to start freeing some caches) via /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/.../memory.
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by antientropic 7y ago
The possibility that the US shares your opinion that something is a "natural right" does not change the fact that it is just an opinion. You're perfectly entitled to feel that certain rights should be universal and inaliena
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by antientropic 7y ago
Is there any empirical evidence that these perceived benefits to society actually ever materialize? It's clear that there is a benefit to a trader from knowing something milliseconds before the rest of the market (otherwise Goldman wou
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by antientropic 7y ago
If you want to be pedantic, dual_dingo wrote that the university wants to (not will ) hire only women for the next 18 months, which is a pretty accurate representation of their new policy. So if suitable female candidates show up for eve
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by antientropic 7y ago
The Budapest Memorandum contains no such commitment (see https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Securi... ). It states the parties' commitment "to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and th
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by antientropic 7y ago
How do you explain the difference with Europe? European pedestrians presumably are just as likely to be on their mobile phones...
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by antientropic 7y ago
Probably because these are not "historical facts". I mean, genocide? Harvard University tried to exterminate the Russian people? Who knew a bunch of academics had that kind of power... Of course, this also neatly ignores the respo

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