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by astine 7y ago
" The hiding-from-rape argument has been pretty much debunked by the 7 year timeframe. I don't know what Assange was up for in Sweden, but it beggars belief that he would get more than 7 years jail for a non-violent crime. A fine
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by astine 7y ago
Is it really the majority however? Or just how the majority appears? I know that it can sometimes feel like one is in the minority because disagreement stands out more than agreement.
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by astine 7y ago
Right. As I recall, a lot of the prior discussion revolved around the rape charges. One side argued that Assange was hiding from a rape charge and the other arguing that the rape charge was a cover for a secret extradition agreement between
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by astine 7y ago
His specific claim was that the Swedish rape charges were a cover so that Sweden could extradite him to the US. He still hasn't been extradited by Sweden. I wonder if he wouldn't have been better of going to Sweden.
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by astine 7y ago
" People on HN " Thousands of people comment on hacker news, including people who said the opposite of what you attribute to HN. It's unwise to to treat the people that you are arguing with on Tuesday as if they are are the s
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by astine 7y ago
I like the interior of the first church more than the exterior. I feel that it manages to capture the spaciousness and lightness that you expect in a cathedral, though I wish it had more of the ornamentation that you see on the older cathed
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by astine 7y ago
The claim is that the original is no longer being maintained. Is that true? It changes a lot about what I would think of this move.
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by astine 7y ago
Your statistics don't support your claim. Non-verbal people can use toilets. People with an IQ less than 85% can learn to use toilets. 'Developmental, neurologic, chromosonal and genetic conditions, includes ADHD and dyslexia, nei
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by astine 7y ago
" Most people on the spectrum will require help to go to the bathroom or complete other basic tasks so them making medical decisions is unlikely. " What's your source for this claim? Is this the majority of all people diagnos
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by astine 7y ago
" The lower you go on the spectrum the higher the chances for comorbidity for a lot of other conditions, mitochondrial and metabolic syndrome, fragile x chromosome, gastrointestinal diseases and many many more horrific things. " O
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by astine 7y ago
I find that the bigger problem for me is the number of RDBMs that use 'SQL' in the name somewhere means that non-technical people get confused between 'knowing SQL', as in knowing how to develop SQL code, and 'knowi
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by astine 7y ago
When I do that, the less technical people I report to get it confused with MySQL which is not what I want.
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by astine 7y ago
" Run X Windows and you have the same thing on Linux as on Windows. " No you don't. X Windows is still run from a shell. The Windows GUI, by contrast, is not. Any application run in Linux or Solaris or whatever can drop down
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by astine 7y ago
" Its designed to be integrated into everything. " But it isn't. Try managing AD servers using powershell. You have two options. Either the powershell AD module, which is incomplete and doesn't cover the entirety of Acti
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by astine 7y ago
While Powershell is pretty great and I use it all the time, I still think it falls short of Bash in terms of how integrated it is with the rest of the system. The shell is the default way to get things done in Linux but it feels more like a
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by astine 7y ago
I'm happy to be wrong.
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by astine 7y ago
There are some open source components here, but I don't think the .NET platform as a whole is being moved to open source. The core compiler and runtime are open, but some of the most popular libraries and frameworks are still closed, i
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by astine 7y ago
" Does this boil down to the fact that, in the current political system, wealth can be traded for political power, and if that exchange didn't exist, then wealth wouldn't be an issue in the first place? " I think so. Fin
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by astine 7y ago
In general, people will put up with a lot of governmental issues so long as their own personal lives are fine. There are still issues with wealth inequality leading to some groups having an outsized influence in government which is a concer
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by astine 7y ago
Just because you also listed deprecation doesn't mean that you didn't also list removing features and not caring about the existing user base. You didn't clarify which was the better option so it's hard for me to parse t
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by astine 7y ago
" have i suggested anywhere to suddenly make releases with features removed? " Yes you clearly did: " legacy code and backwards compatibility are dumb excuses to not cleanup the codebase and make bad practices like those list
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by astine 7y ago
" sorry, i don't buy it. it's not a matter of attitude, it's just common sense and sanity. " It's not 'common sense' or 'sanity' to break existing code bases. Companies and individuals have
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by astine 7y ago
US States can't request extradition though because they can't maintain diplomatic relations internationally.
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by astine 7y ago
" Another weaker argument is the incredible lengths various governments have gone to suppress Wikileaks. " This is an extremely weak argument. Various governments have gone through great lengths to suppress neo nazi propoanda but
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by astine 7y ago
It sounds as if lard was never a very big thing in Norway whereas it was at one point in the United States. It seems as if it could just be a coincidence what happened in the States and in Europe.
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by astine 7y ago
" Just to have an open source alternative? " Seems to be a good enough reason for me. Open source isn't just about price. I don't know how I'd install Resolve, but for the minimal amount of digital video editing I d
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by astine 7y ago
" Argument: "If earth was flat it would look flat. Earth looks flat therefore it must be flat." It's no longer faith, it's reason now. Doesn't matter that you ignore all the counterarguments. " Exactly! Ot
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by astine 7y ago
" How do you know god said so? How do you know there even is a god? How do you know god wouldn't lie? " I don't know any of these things. I don't believe in a God. But you're missing the whole point which is th
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by astine 8y ago
Well, if you don't believe in the Catholic religion it would be hard to argue that one should assent to its teachings. But Catholics really do believe that their beliefs should be subject to reason. They wouldn't necessarily agree
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by astine 8y ago
I have a polisci degree. I write computer code for a living. More seriously, most of my classmates have either gone on to law school or gotten jobs with political fundraising groups.

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