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by astine 7y ago
I'm doubtful that mouse usage is really faster than keyboard shortcuts for experienced users, but supposing it is, there are at least two reason that I prefer to have keyboard shortcuts available. The first is that keyboard input is mu
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by astine 7y ago
"When I say people should study logic, I don't mean necessarily its formal presentation." If that's the case, you probably shouldn't have linked to that Wikipedia article because it's mostly about formal logic
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by astine 7y ago
'Logic' as a topic generally centers around processes of formal reasoning whereas critical thinking usually also discusses human cognitive biases which is not something usually covered in discussions of formal reasoning. This is i
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by astine 7y ago
Oh sure. I'd rather they shoot this at someone than a fricken hellfire missile. But how much did it cost to develop? We still have the possibility that just assassinating people from the sky at all creates more terrorists than it kills
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by astine 7y ago
Hopefully it'll result in fewer innocent deaths. Though I can still see ways for this to go wrong. Become overconfident in our ability to hit a target and then miss. Not to mention, a lot of the innocent casualties of American bombing
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by astine 7y ago
Even when I'm searching other people's stuff, I don't always just want to browse through it linearly. Sometimes I want to skip around. Meaningful keys such as timestamps would be better than just page groupings, but page grou
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by astine 7y ago
Only Congress can declare war. Just about anybody with authority in the military can start one. Regardless, Congress has effectively abnegated its authority to the president through the war powers resolution.
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by astine 7y ago
I'd be very surprised if this were true. My experience is that in actual offices, MS Office is king and it would be very hard to move most workflows away from it without exactly replicating it bug-for-bug.
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by astine 7y ago
" Ironically enough, people do not live year-round in centralized hotels with cleaning services provided. They live in their own decentralized homes, and make an economic decision whether to take care of their cleaning needs by themsel
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by astine 7y ago
I have my complaints about some of the details of the SQL langauge and syntax as well but I don't understand this desire to import features of iterative and functional programming languages into SQL. These are totally different domains
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by astine 7y ago
" That's different to the US, where if you try to cross the road at all, outside of a crossing, you're a 'jaywalker'. " This is incorrect. In the United States you can generally cross at any intersection if the
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by astine 7y ago
I don't think it's logically valid to take a statistical difference between two places and attribute it entirely to one policy or cultural difference. The US has twice the vehicles per-capita than does the UK which might also have
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by astine 7y ago
Plutarch was a Greek.
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by astine 7y ago
" I should clarify and say code can be declarative with the correct language support. I agree that it's probably not well suited to C# in its current state. " Ok, but which language do you think would work? Lisp? I like the t
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by astine 7y ago
Nah, Corinth was considered important too, but Sparta is much better known in the modern world. And Plato is pretty important here. Sparta gets relatively high praise in the Republic which is probably one of the more influential books from
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by astine 7y ago
" Economic output? Influence abroad? Cultural contributions? Trade hub? " Yes, Yes, Obviously, and not as much. At its height, Sparta was one of the more important military powers among the Greek city states. After the Peloponnesi
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by astine 7y ago
" The only real strengths of XML are that 1) it's declarative, 2) it's hierarchical, and 3) it's diffable. But code can be too, without all of these other drawbacks. " Code generally isn't declarative or hierar
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by astine 7y ago
" Notice that you can't serialise a Powershell stream. " Not sure what you mean by this. This code works fine: $credential = Get-Credential -Message "Enter Credential" $credential | Export-Clixml "cre
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by astine 7y ago
" But using the phrase “biological gender” isn't using them in the old way: the way in which they were synonymous is in reference to a idea which conflated sex, gender identity, and socially ascribed gender. " You just contra
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by astine 7y ago
Thousands of people in Britain put 'fags' in their mouth everyday. People understand your meaning through context.
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by astine 7y ago
The distinction between a social construct and biology is artificial. Reading and writing are a social construct but learning to read and write at a young age has a profound impact on your brain structure.[1] I think what you mean to say is
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by astine 7y ago
The problem with this argument is that you are using descriptivist reasoning ("Language is fluid", "Words are social.") to support a prescriptivist conclusion ("There's no such thing as a 'biological gende
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by astine 7y ago
Supposedly, people have tried to claim it in the past but have been rebuffed by both Egypt and Sudan. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the...
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by astine 7y ago
" There was a lot of internal pressure to pick one language as soon as possible. Python, Tcl, Scheme itself were all possible candidates. So Eich had to work fast. He had two advantages over the alternatives: freedom to pick the right
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by astine 7y ago
"Microeconomics classes in America teach undergrads that 'rational' people only care about increases in wealth and do not care about non-wealth-increasing activities." This is not true, (or if it is being taught, the pro
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by astine 7y ago
Yeah, the word for this is 'negligence'. Sounds like someone should get sued at the very least.
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by astine 7y ago
Stallman founded the FSF at a time when people licensed their software from companies and as a result didn't truly own the machines that they used. We've transitioned to a time where people don't even own most of the hardware
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by astine 7y ago
" I'm talking about the predictions that the Sacramento valley will flood, as I mentioned upthread, and various other doom-and-gloom predictions that clearly haven't come to be. " What prediction? Who said this? When? Yo
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by astine 7y ago
I think that it's the conjunction of the password and the harassment accusation together that make this a fairly straightforward case. If it were just a creepy password, well, that demonstrates a certain level of creepiness but doesn&#
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by astine 7y ago
Not really. We're talking about economic growth not equity. The argument that widespread private investment is better for growth than widespread hoarding is better established than the argument that government spending is better for gr

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