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by astine 9y ago
I dunno. I'm mean, sure, you can express stupid ideas with any writing style, but it's easier to obscure weak ideas with difficult writing. PGs thought on a given subject might be simplistic, but at least I can tell what they are.
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by astine 9y ago
I notice that there is a lot of conflict these days about what should be called 'racism' or 'sexism' and a lot of it stems from words with overloaded meanings. People actually come to blows over this.
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by astine 9y ago
Pretending that this is anything but a spurious distinction in this case, you're still wrong as the UK has absolutely admitted to using depleted uranium rounds in combat.[1] If you believe that Russia has not used depleted uranium (and
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by astine 9y ago
"BTW, only USA uses DU!" Not true at all. Both Russia and the UK use depleted uranium in their main armor piercing rounds.
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by astine 9y ago
I don't think that changes it real estate law are same thing as 'land reform'. The latter usually refers to some sort of overt redistribution, which is what I was talking about. I'd agree that events like the enclosure o
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by astine 9y ago
By that logic, pollution in the US is also the property of all the countries that the US sells to. That pollution in Flint Michigan is the rest of the world's fault because they buy US cars.
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by astine 9y ago
I'd be interested in some examples of land reform done right. Most examples I'm aware of were disasters (Venezuela, for example.) One thing to keep in consideration about the South African situation is that land reform in South Af
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by astine 9y ago
I think that there is a utility to the odd names. 'cons' is really just a pair while 'car' and 'cdr' are just the first and second member of that pair respectively, but this pair is a specific kind of pair for
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by astine 9y ago
"The country underwent a devastating war, and was subjected to decades of economic and political marginalisation, with the constant threat of another war hanging over it." If by 'decades of economic and political marginalisat
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by astine 9y ago
I have trouble countenancing people using the Korean War as justification for North Korean belligerence today. Yes, many North Koreans died during that war, but many South Koreans did as well... and those at the hands of their North Korean
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by astine 9y ago
Your characterization of events seems to be a bit of a simplification: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework Major reasons for the breakd
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by astine 9y ago
Thanks, I got the answer to questions I was asking from CDB FAQ, actually. I just wish this article in particular was less fluffy.
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by astine 9y ago
Sooo, being able to distribute data globally is good for performance? Who knew? The thing about distributed systems, including distributed databases is that they need to navigate around the the CAP theorem(Consistency, Availability, Partiti
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by astine 9y ago
It always amuses me to see articles which talk of monasticism as something of the distant past. These traditions are alive and well. Also, a lot of these features exist not just in monastic practice but also in the practice of lay Christian
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by astine 9y ago
I think that it's less the quantity of the regulations that matters and more the quality of the regulations. Poorly designed regulations and create big problems even if they're really brief.
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by astine 9y ago
Sweden and Denmark are often described as socialist countries because they have major political parties with historical ties to classical socialism but the reality is that classical socialism and social democracy (what Sweden and Denmark cu
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by astine 9y ago
I attended this event because I do some work with Salesforce and my company was willing to pay for it so it was basically a cheap vacation. I feel like it's largely a marketing event to showcase new features of Salesforce and showcase
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by astine 9y ago
Ever seen an eclipse? It generally not obvious that it's happening until just before totality and it's fine to look at during totality. Generally when people go blind watching an eclipse, it's because they knew it was coming
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by astine 9y ago
Why would Catalonia and Occitania be one province? The Pyrenees mountains make for a pretty strong natural border. Catalonia doesn't trace back to ancient Rome but the middle ages. It's one of the medieval Christian kingdoms that
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by astine 9y ago
Joins are the thing that make relational databases worth using. It's not about creating the correct representation of the data; it's about providing the correct data with the correct relationships. The power of the relational data
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by astine 9y ago
I was a Solaris admin at the time of the acquisition and some of the Sun folks I was in contact with were glad that it was at least not IBM that had bought them out because IBM had always been their primary 'enemy.'
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by astine 9y ago
This is the only reason necessary, really. Yeah, every website could use the same amazing icon set but it would get samey after a while. Having some different icon sets to pick from is nice.
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by astine 9y ago
I had read that there was resentment against the Mongols and Yuan dynasty in China due to the destruction they caused. It could be that my information is not so current. I'm willing to be wrong on that point.
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by astine 9y ago
I've never personally felt guilty for imperialism, but if I were to visit my brother I would meet a number of native Americans who's ancestors were beat down by people of the same race as my ancestors. Those natives still suffer t
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by astine 9y ago
"That is not an argument. It's speculation." So is the stance that there are fewer women primarily because of social factors. Regardless, when attempting to establish a statistical effect, you have to rule out alternative e
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by astine 9y ago
"Men and women don't have to have the same interests to find programming equally interesting, since there are a great many different respects in which someone might find programming interesting and rewarding." This just doesn
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by astine 9y ago
"Please lets not have any more of this absurd straw man argument that men and women must be equally good at programming because men and women are exactly the same. No-one thinks this." Sure, but you seem to be implying another str
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by astine 9y ago
Not all mummies were Pharos. All Egyptians regardless of class were mummified. The wealthy and powerful could afford a better job but it happened to everyone. So there is no reason to assume that the mummies being examined were royalty.
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by astine 9y ago
Postgresql, SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL, properly configured can handle larger loads than some people assume. Even SQLite is pretty performant; you just need to write some kind of front end to make it usable as a service. Of course, it dep
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by astine 9y ago
"I'll admit--the Microsoft stack is a walled garden. It offers some nice features like Visual Studio integrating with Visual Studio Team Services with its own issue tracker and build server and so on. If Microsoft supports your wo

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