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by bazoom42 11mo ago
So which one is the quickest to learn? I think Python is easy to learn and C++ is hard, and Scheme is easy and Haskell hard.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
> I would first ask what happened such that Denmark owns Greenland in the first place I think there is some misunderstanding of the issue here. While Greenland isn’t fully independent, many domains, including social services and child pr
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
The article is about tests administered in Denmark by the Danish authorities. Greenland has its own child protective services ran by Greenlanders, presumably with a better cultural understanding of their own citizens (although cultural diff
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
> we all know what education social workers get, ie. 6 months of legendarily easy theory with zero tests. Social worker is a 3 1/2 year education in Denmark.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Just to clarify, this is about Greenlanders living in Denmark, not about Greenlanders in Greenland.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
What about child sexual abuse? Unfortunately many Greenlandic children are victims of sexual abuse.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Note this is not about what happens in Greenland, it is about Greenlanders living in Denmark.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
No, it is in Denmark. The stories are about Greenlanders living in Denmark.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
> Now it has become the highest-priced comic book ever sold, fetching $9.12m (£7m) at auction.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Who knows, but some comic books characters like Batman and Spider-man are bigger that ever, while others like Tarzan is losing relevance.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Why? Similar comics have been sold for upwards of 6 mill, and this one is better graded.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Your scheme involves getting a fake appraisal for a value higher than the market price. But this does not explain high prices at an auction.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
In movies, the characters go through some experiences in order to learn something. You can’t just tell them the thing they have to learn. While movies usually are not realistic, that part is often true.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
This is an even crazier claim. Modern art was created by Braque, Picasso, Duchamp, and many others, primarily in Europe, and it was established as a major artistic movement a long time before CIA existed. The more realistic claim is that CI
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
They didn’t “establish” abstract expresssionist art. They helped promote it just as they helped promote jazz music and other US culture. It was not like CIA developed art or jazz musicians in a lab, they just realized it was great marketing
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
A charitable interpretation would be he critizises e.g JavaScripts silent type coercion which can hide silly mistakes, compared to e.g Python which will generally throw an error in case of incompatible types.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Clearly there is some contradiction if you claim the first chapter in a book is the “zeroth” chapter but the first man on the moon in the first man.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
So you agree it is a strawman?
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
It is a strawman because nobody actually equates the ease of programming with the ease of making undetected mistakes.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
OK but I’m not sure I get your point then. Are you saying Edwin Aldrin was the first man on the moon because Neil Armstrong was the zeroth?
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Can’t you just do the xslt transformation server-side? Then you can use the newest and best xslt tools, and the output will work in any browser, even browsers that never had any built-in xslt support.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
The 1x1 pixel gif hack arrived shortly after Netscape 1.1 introduced tables. I belive this was before colored text and tiled backgrounds became available. So the hack is definitely part of the “golden age” of web design.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
The patient-0 terminology arose from a misreading of the label patient-O, where O is the letter O. When numbering discrete elements you usually start with 1, so first is 1, second is 2 etc. Indexes in C are not ordinal numbers though, they
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
It is just a classical Dijkstra strawman - hiding a weak argument behind painting everybody else as idiots. In fact it is much easier to make dangerous undetected mistakes in C than it is in Python.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
It is a bit like architecture is just physics or painting is just chemistry. Technically true in some reductionist sense, but not necessarily the most useful way to think about it.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
And Dijkstras argument is actually quite weak if you read carefully. But he has a certain way of writing which make it seem almost like a mathematical proof. And then he sprinkles some “only smart people agree with me” nerd baiting.
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
It is not obviously correct. The unstated premise is that programming is - or should be - similar to writing mathematical proofs.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Isn’t the two hyphens just a traditional way to emulate m-dash in ascii? I believe Word does the same.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
We don’t know. The painted reconstructions are based on pigments found on the statues, but we dont know exactly how the painting looked. But the paintings which have been preserved from antiquity are quite beautiful.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
No, most ancient people believed in a steady decline from a golden age in the past.

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