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by berntb 10y ago
You started by agreeing that there were different levels of gray, now you really argue the same position as Putin's propaganda -- there is no real difference between the democracies and the dictators. Without doing any real discussion
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by berntb 10y ago
>> there is no objective yardstick by which to measure which country is worse. That can't be intellectually honest. There are lots of metrics. E.g. human rights compliance, press freedom, number of murdered journalists in the cou
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by berntb 10y ago
Let me put the simple point like this: Every country do something wrong. To go from "no country is perfect" to "all countries are equally bad" is Putin's propaganda position -- and the whole democratic world disa
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by berntb 10y ago
Still not touching my point: it is not NY Times/CIA claims vs Putin's propaganda. It is claims by the democratic world vs Putin's paid propaganda.
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by berntb 10y ago
I have not talked about the "international community", I talked about that the democratic countries agree, regarding Putin's propaganda. Elegant rewrite, by the way. And so on.
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by berntb 10y ago
Ah, it was a mistake to mention anything else with you, even in parenthesis... You are not going to touch that the international community, not only US and Sweden, agree that Putin's Russia is much worse. (As you are certainly well awa
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by berntb 10y ago
This was not relevant to my point. 4 comments (in 2 places) without touching my point... :-( You are not serious, bye. You argue also in the other comments that there are small differences between USA and Russia -- my repeated point is th
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by berntb 10y ago
>> the American and Russian media narratives evoke a polarized situation. As it said in what you comment on: Not only "American" -- most every Western democracy. I think you are very much aware of that you didn't touch
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by berntb 10y ago
My main point here is: The whole Western democratic world is more or less saying the same thing about Putin. You have answered two comments of mine without touching that. (Also -- check the democratic peace theory. USA don't start wa
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by berntb 10y ago
1. Can you condemn Putin for starting wars and annexing area in Europe, just like Hitler in the 1930s? If you refuse I will assume that you work for the Russian junta. (To _only_ condemn USA instead is not an answer.) 2. My sources are e.g.
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by berntb 10y ago
1. I am sorry, but you will have to settle for very light gray and very dark gray. Not black and white. 2. It is not just the media of US and Sweden -- most of the democratic world say the same thing. For most subjects, the democratic count
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by berntb 10y ago
We are not talking just "a government agenda" -- as far as I've seen, the whole democratic world (not only USA and Sweden) say something quite similar regarding Russian propaganda.
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by berntb 10y ago
The last ones in Europe that made a habit to invade countries and appropriate area were Hitler and Stalin. So whom else could I compare with? Are you willing to condemn Putin for doing similar invasions and annexations..?
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by berntb 10y ago
After the Crimea takeover, the Swedish internet was filled with comments with very, very bad Swedish who defended Putin. There were some articles that interviewed the people in St Petersburg employed to write these comments. The main differ
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by berntb 10y ago
I use a simple method to recognize Putin's propagandists: Ask if someone is willing to condemn Putin for doing similar invasions as Hitler did in the 1930s. If the only answers you get to that question are personal attacks and attacks
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by berntb 10y ago
Considering the large slave trade that filled the harems etc with black female slaves, there should be quite a lot of black ancestry in the Arab world? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl... Bu
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by berntb 10y ago
We talk about a claim that complex social/psychological behaviour is a result of a way to organize a country's economy. This phenomenon is seen in different continents in quite different countries. So where are you "coming fr
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by berntb 10y ago
I don't think my situation is different -- I did write that to do things right at work was such a sublime and motivating experience, that I did it with my free time... :-(
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by berntb 10y ago
I spend a few weekends implementing something that might save lots of time at work, mostly done now. If it works and is as useful as I believe, I'll ask for time off to compensate. I don't do this to excel. Maybe I just don't
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by berntb 10y ago
I should explain my reasoning since it went away on racism(!) accusations, even if it is so late no one will read it. :-) According to what I've read, the biggest difference in social parameters from my native Nordic place and Romania
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by berntb 10y ago
Quite big claims, do you have serious references?
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by berntb 10y ago
I'm Scandinavian and live in Romania right now. I have quite good experience with the computer people, but the other locals... If I go to two dentists and ask what needs to be done, it is ~ 30% risk they both insist on expensive treatm
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by berntb 10y ago
So why not use grammars, if regexps are too complex...? https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars (The extensions to regexps in Perl 5 (and presumably now also in PCRE?) have made it possible to write them more like gra
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by berntb 10y ago
Since you won't risk any problems for implying that the Western countries are oppressive dictatorships, that warps the culture to hatred of others -- I'd say the West have gotten a little bit on the way. :-) (assuming you live in
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by berntb 10y ago
I passed the small museum of Turda ("unfortunate name", as the Lonely Planet Guide put it) in Transylvania. Around when we were doing the 30 year war et al in Western Europe, the East Europeans of the area were writing edicts abou
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by berntb 10y ago
Thanks, will read after work. :-) It was surprising. From what I've read, people living for a long time in dictatorships are quite intolerant and hateful. (There were quite a bit of intolerance in East Germany after 1989, too. And exam
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by berntb 10y ago
Where typing is really useful, in my experience, is in an external API. Most heavily used libraries in most dynamic languages, not only Python, ought to have assertions with type checks for parameters. In the external API calls to the lib.
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by berntb 10y ago
Interesting thought. If you're guessing correctly, this will probably be the future of the development business.
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My music of the time was more singer songwriters, balkan gypsy, modern jazz and death/black. :-)
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by berntb 10y ago
Today a discussion like this make me so jealous I get vertigo... :-) Yesterday evening I spent two hours just to trace and understand the dispatch for a really simple and small part of a big, old web application. (To save time, the answer t

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