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by berntb 11y ago
(How could non-3 Python have good Unicode support? :-) ) The default Python regexp gets into a tailspin on less well formulated regexps, which did work well with both PCRE and Perl 5. (I wrote an application (specialized query language) a f
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by berntb 11y ago
Google shows what they know: Advertising. :-) At least it worked for me, it just became more likely I switch to Android next time (there are a lot of heart problems among my relatives). This also have a high chance of literally saving the l
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by berntb 11y ago
That is true, but the GP's implication is designer babies. Then normal selection is out the window. For already living, it is hard to predict how hard it will be to go from in vitro to in vivo for gene modification. At a minimum, with
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by berntb 11y ago
How is the Chinese attitudes outside China to that the Communist Party killed many more Chinese than even the Japanese? (And probably a large reason for the focus on anti-Japanese films is just as a distraction from that?) I guess that ther
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by berntb 11y ago
>> The quant hedge fund world is possibly the area where secrecy hurts the most. Cool comment, thanks. I always assumed that the secret world of spies, secret organizations and their technology development was more inefficient than th
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by berntb 11y ago
You miss that the subject changed from media in general to NY Times. It is like mixing apples and ... well, rotten pears. (Not claiming that NY Times is perfect. Of course. There are other good sources, too. But NYTimes isn't like the
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by berntb 11y ago
The British case seems to be a democratic country where a moral panic influenced policies similar to 1970s complaints about "satanic" hard rock? It is a bit hard to seriously compare that with a dictatorship trying to control the
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by berntb 11y ago
Except for the 1984 implications, I have to wonder about the trade agreement implications with copying business plans and keeping the users inside the firewall. There really ought to be lots of clauses about illegal support of national comp
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by berntb 11y ago
Some people just can't learn the programming part. I studied (and helped with labs a few times) two of these. Mathematics and theory was fine, but the rest not. Weird, I wouldn't have believed it was possible after years of univer
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by berntb 11y ago
If you read wikipedia etc, there seems to be a consensus that the Bush administration really believed that Saddam Hussein's Iraq still had the weapon programs going. Personally, I think that with all the leaks it would be known if Bush
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by berntb 11y ago
It might be too much stress or too little coffee, but I don't understand the last part. Why would you need to replicate behaviour and tests? You mean it will take time before you trust the "use Perl 5 code in Perl 6" bridge t
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by berntb 11y ago
Check the Orion project (Freeman Dyson's son wrote a good book). We could have been further out than Mars... 40 years ago. :-( The motto was "Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970" (but that was probably optimistic... by maybe five ye
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by berntb 11y ago
Does "Linux Deploy" work? I am an iOS user, but I would go Android (a clean one, with O/S security updates) if I can have a tablet GUI with a working Emacs, Bash etc under Debian.
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by berntb 11y ago
At least it isn't dead slow for us that are hellbanned anymore. :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
You troll, then insinuate I troll. Classic trick to blame others for what you do yourself -- someone browsing will just see two people calling each others names. You wrote this weird garbage: >>Communism isn't worse than anything
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by berntb 13y ago
The subject was war. You started talking about your USA hatred. I asked for examples after the cold war (stupid of me to feed the trolls). You don't have anything relevant here either, so you list cases that are 40+ years old... This i
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by berntb 13y ago
Sigh... The subject was war not realpolitik games of common interests, which all countries play (and lie about). Most of those games also went away with the cold war. An irrelevant question about your claims: I don't know about Cuba&#x
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by berntb 13y ago
>> Bear in mind that the US has been fighting wars against far weaker opponents for over sixty years now That is only natural. The democratic peace theory (see Wikipedia) seems to work, not even USA have wars with democracies but with
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by berntb 13y ago
I wonder from which textbooks you get your "facts"? >> casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the 7 figures) I assume that is from the Lancet reports? Highly doubtful, see the reality check from the Iraq Body count [1]
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by berntb 13y ago
Your link does not support your claim that little Finland was planning an invasion of Soviet. Only that Soviet claimed to feel threatened(!) and faked a Finnish artillery attack (just like the Nazis did with Poland, btw) so they could decla
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by berntb 13y ago
>>Lots of people are still using Microsoft products [which are really good/important]. And lots of people are using Kalashnikovs e.g. the LRA, so they must be good? Please don't just write simple opinions like that on HN. Le
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by berntb 13y ago
Here is another theory argued by some sociologists, which is even worse: Lack of women is a volatile situation and ripe for crime, war and violence. Both China and India have large gender imbalances -- and with a border conflict... :-( &quo
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by berntb 13y ago
That is just not honest. Finland was Soviet's, according to Ribentroff-Molotov. Soviet tried to invade. Far before Soviet was surprised by the attack from their Nazi allies, so you can't use that as motivation. Without Soviet&#x27
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by berntb 13y ago
From a Scandinavian viewpoint, the US prison system looks like the 19th century in many ways. I have no problem with that, longer sentences for repeat offenders with many crimes would be better than rebates(!) on prison time, like in Sweden
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by berntb 13y ago
My point was that Finland etc wasn't covered in your reference to excuse Soviet for ignoring all international law. But you knew that. But you didn't touch my other points either, so I guess that wasn't so bad. >> How b
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by berntb 13y ago
You didn't touch the other expansions -- Finland etc. So you seriously argue that it is a moral defense to invade countries and do anything, if it makes strategic sense. And you yourself decide how threatened you are... with a review g
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by berntb 13y ago
Copy/paste was introduced to the market first by Apple. For the Lisa. Not forever, it seems...
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by berntb 13y ago
Uh, no. That was about tactical considerations inside Downing Street at a specific point in time for a subset of the invaded countries!? (The access to this was from spying, not from signed documents with Soviet.) And if the breaking of
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by berntb 13y ago
('gdy' is a karma 38 account, posting most of a day later.) The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact has been officially acknowledged by Russia since 1989. It is hardly honest to argue the innocence of USSR by blaming the victims. http:/
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by berntb 13y ago
Uh, no... There are large effects on behavior of psychopathy, people that are affected by a psychopath will mostly -- at a minimum -- make a point of warning everyone else they know. That is very detrimental for the psychopath. (Note that h

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