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by barumi 6y ago
The world didn't mobilized for ww2. One country mobilized and started to threaten the existence of all.its neighboring states, and those who managed to leverage geographical and climate barriers managed to prepare themselves to interve
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by barumi 6y ago
I agree that these people should be lauded for their achievements, but nowadays fame comes at the expense of 24h/day scrutiny of everything they ever done or did or said, which just fuels the fire of all those Cardinal Richelieus who a
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by barumi 6y ago
> In the US the top 1% pay more in income tax than the bottom 90% combined. Are you referring to percentage regarding revenue/income?
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by barumi 6y ago
Unfortunately that description isn't very different than today's wage slavery.
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by barumi 6y ago
Or arguably launching aerospace companies that are dedicated to vanity projects.
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by barumi 6y ago
Your example is not compatible with your claim. You're just referring to conspicuous consumption, and how affluent individuals enjoy signaling their wealth and status by flashing their disposable income in status-seeking expenditures.
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by barumi 6y ago
> VSCode always looks and feels like a webapp that runs locally. It really doesn't. It's snappy, and the only thing that feels out of place is the different keyboard shortcuts on macOS and windows/linux, but that's wh
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by barumi 6y ago
Vscode feels like kate done right, even in spite of being a webview app. With the arrival of all these extension-powered webview text editors, I don't see kate as becoming relevant beyond being bundled with KDE.
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by barumi 6y ago
> First things first, though: if you're really worried about storage reliability on these things (or anything), please stop prefacing your hardware suggestions with "cheap." What would be the cost implications of adding SA
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by barumi 6y ago
> I guess that’s democracy? "Democracy" isn't a magical word which renders everything problem-free and perfect. Direct-democracy is a concept which is plagued with a multitude of problems, both technical and practical and
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by barumi 6y ago
Once I bought a USB cable on Amazon through a seller with a good rating. Surprise, surprise: the cable went bust after a couple of weeks of mild use. I posted a one-star review stating that the cable broke, and called it a day. After a coup
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by barumi 6y ago
> Well, again - videos of poll watchers being denied access to polling places Are you referring to the cases where the place was packed above capacity (and packed with both dem and good observers) and those wanting to enter had to wait f
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by barumi 6y ago
> The argument is to increase the integrity of elections, I find it terribly odd that all this concern about the sanctity of the electoral process only dawn upon the Trump administration after a) realizing they were going to lose the ele
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by barumi 6y ago
> You read the volume of news I do day after day and you’ll find some humor in how the common vocabulary morphs in unison across the channels, and it’s notable when it happens. “Widespread fraud” is right there with “mostly peaceful”. I
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by barumi 6y ago
> I may never understand why people are willing to depart from the form factor of a keyboard, but still adhere to the staggered (as opposed to ortholinear) layout of the keys themselves. Split keyboards allow users to free themselves fro
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by barumi 6y ago
> The media response that “there is no evidence of fraud” shifted to “no widespread fraud” at some point in last three years. What a blatant red herring. The media did no such thing. What "the media" did was listen to the Trum
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by barumi 6y ago
> Instead of saying, we see no evidence of widespread fraud - where we have no idea in what context you’re using the word - let’s turn the conversation to making solid attestations about the integrity of the processes, which we certainly
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by barumi 6y ago
> That really can't be noted enough. That the count took so long is specifically because several legislatures decided to not allow any preprocessing of mail ballots, and to count mail ballots last. Indeed this bears repeating. The w
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by barumi 6y ago
> I mean they will count all the ballots, this is just the DDs of the major news groups seeing that its statistically improbable (like, less than 3 std devs) and projecting the winner. We're talking about people who spread conspira
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by barumi 6y ago
> Exactly. USA may not get it because they never really had fascism, but some of us in Europe do. It’s not pretty. The scariest part, to me, regarding the way the Trump administration whitewashed fascism is that those of us who live in c
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by barumi 6y ago
> Are we watching the same election? We just had an election with historic turnout and easy voting and Biden will have won by less than Obama did twice. I won't comment on whether the US is red or blue or purple. However, it's
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by barumi 6y ago
> Not really. Once the models project that it's basically impossible (...) It's only "basically impossible" if the amount of votes to be counted are still enough to sway an election. You should think things through an
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by barumi 6y ago
> Unfortunately, Trump's brand of conspiracy theory populism resonates with a significant number of American voters more so than any other political ideology. The problem runs deeper than that. Unfortunately Trump's blend of p
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by barumi 6y ago
> The media was way too cautious in making the call here, It's my understanding that it had zero to do with caution and all to do with the fact that the election was not decided. If there are still votes that were not counted and th
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by barumi 6y ago
> Please stop making random guesses about my life. I'm not second-guessing anything. I'm referring to the facts stated in the article. You would do well to do the same instead of trying to run away from the discussion by goin
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by barumi 6y ago
> This is not an issue from my point of view. If you do GraphQL the right way you'll always use persisted Queries. But that's not using GraphQL "the right way", is it? I mean, GraphQL's value proposition is quite
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by barumi 6y ago
> Most of the time your APIs will reflect your database associations `{ users { posts { comments } } }` which should be indexed anyway. That's not exposing database associations. At most that's exposing aspects of the domain mo
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by barumi 6y ago
> GraphQL completely unfit for purpose for any purpose. It's not even a Query Language. It's as much a query language as JSON. You have to build almost everything yourself. Here's an idea for pet project: an interface for
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by barumi 6y ago
> You do not get to decide what impact social isolation has on other people. You're describing skipping a party or two as "social isolation". You make it sound like they are exiling people remote island-prisons until the e
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by barumi 6y ago
> Where are you seeing this? Why, for starters right on GraphQL's own slogan? In the fact that GraphQL is sold as the API layer for front-end applications? "Faster frontend development"? "Iterate quickly on apps witho

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