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by berntb 13y ago
I've browsed this discussion and I must miss something? You seem to imply Ruby's/Rails' speed matter? Usually, the DB is the limiting factor in most web applications, few should need to execute more than a few millisecon
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by berntb 13y ago
I love my iPads. But where can I get something like Dark Souls for them? The console niche puts more GBytes of graphics etc into a world. You just don't do that for the iPad. Not this year and probably not the next either, anyway. (Edi
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by berntb 13y ago
Yeah, but wasn't this sold as something qualitatively new ?
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by berntb 13y ago
To me this looks like a Lisp variant with a large set of utility libraries. Am I missing something? Is the point the quality/volume of the support libraries?
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by berntb 13y ago
The ending was a bit fun for a Swede: >> But whereas progressive Swedes view their state as able to set positive goals, Germans (the Greens, especially) mistrust the state on questions of personal morality as a hypocritical and author
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by berntb 13y ago
I answered a comment which I assumed was ironic. I'd appreciate if the down voters or someone else could explain, if I misunderstood? Edit: Without your comment, I would have assumed it was for my stupid joke. Ah, never mind.
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by berntb 13y ago
Hey, you almost got the self irony... here is half a cookie. :-) More seriously: There is a serious position to have -- identify with the process of getting your opinions _less_ wrong, not with a particular set of opinions. In fact, there
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by berntb 13y ago
Every place has problems. E.g. Sweden is consensus oriented and has only one officially accepted opinion at a time, so much stuff just can't be discussed. This along with being a small duck pond (the elites, media etc generally know ea
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by berntb 13y ago
Thanks for the overview, but... I am a hard line atheist anti-idealist that don't make that much difference between islamists, socialists and astrology readers. Idealists lie to themselves and others, because they mix up their self ima
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by berntb 13y ago
>> Good for china Let me fix that for you: "Good for the communist party leaders, bad for China and the majority of Chinese people" This is selling the democracy movement down the river. :-(
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by berntb 13y ago
Perl is better at sharing memory for hash keys by default, this particular problem might not show up enough for your use cases.
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by berntb 13y ago
There is a scary pattern with what you read about Pakistan, even criticizing politicians are targeted there. The Pakistani oppression is done by the Taliban, which works with the drug gangs in Afghanistan. Another similarity. (The main diff
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by berntb 13y ago
Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but I seriously think black humor is a good tool to give perspective -- the left around where I grew up pushed tens of millions of dead under the carpet. (E.g. the stories from volunteers that left for Soviet
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by berntb 13y ago
I only got a down vote and no references to show why my reference is wrong? Despite that all the left idealists reading this very much wants to? :-) But it is wasted of course, no idealist changes his/her mind just because they learn t
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by berntb 13y ago
You only had a complaint about one point of all those? :-) It is funny when you show someone completely wrong with lots of examples -- and just get a down vote. If I have a thesis in life by now, it is that idealists lie, not only to themse
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by berntb 13y ago
If there is a good counter to this discussion of the Shock Doctrine, I'd be interested: http://www.cato.org/blog/johan-norberg-vs-naomi-klein-round-... (Besides, 3000 dead and 27000 incarcerated and many of those
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by berntb 13y ago
So we should accept your "facts" with a "straight" face...? :-) At least the V party stopped being Stalinists early -- directly when Moscow told them that Stalin was bad... At least the Vänster party started early to har
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by berntb 13y ago
If you asked Swedish police, you'd get much lower support for extreme right and pure racism than the national average. They probably aren't lower, but they know that these opinions aren't tolerated. Swedish journalists are ve
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by berntb 13y ago
>>However, [the statistics are the 2nd highest on the planet] because Sweden's definition of rape is including so much more than any other country. I've seen that claim often, but never some real facts which compares data. Y
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by berntb 13y ago
I've lived in Sweden and Finland. That sounded more like Sweden. In Finland the police is trusted and appreciated. Among the most trusted civic functions in interviews, afaik.
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by berntb 13y ago
Comparisons with Sweden is probably hard. I seriously think of Swedish media as something out of Animal Farm these days. Or 1984. I got vertigo a month or so ago, when the editor of DN (largest non-tabloid, or so they claim) discuss how goo
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by berntb 13y ago
Not so much with the usual coding standards (see "Best Practices" book etc).
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by berntb 13y ago
If we put it this way, you answer your own question: :-) >> How do you know the data becomes more normal as your add [data points]? That said, yeah this is crazy. The worst problem with stack ratings is not what it do (firing people w
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by berntb 13y ago
The "scientific method" -- which I commented on -- needs to formulate hypotheses, test them and so on. That can't reliably be done in any mostly historical science, by definition. (And of course you can randomly test some t
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by berntb 13y ago
There are lots of non-experimental subjects at any university -- history, archeology, etc. The ideologists wanting to demote economics never seem to want to also throw geology out of the university. (In the future, some gigantic geo enginee
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by berntb 13y ago
... and Sweden went down lots of places in the economic comparision charts a bit after the high tax economy was implemented.
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by berntb 13y ago
I follow the Mid East because it is informative about my Swedish media. (The journalist profession was more or less taken over by the extreme left of the 1968 generation, it gives a hair raising insight to compare what doesn't get into
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by berntb 13y ago
Interesting and well thought out. (I don't even know if it is a conspiracy theory or not. :-) ) Regarding Sabra and Shatila, afaik two separate courts said he couldn't be proven to be responsible? He should have considered the r
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by berntb 13y ago
Oh my, this is funny. What would work for the Indians is the English English cliche of British civil servants -- everyone understands English if you make a point of speaking sloowwllyy and e-nun-ci-ate cleeaarrllyy. (Not a native speaker, e
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by berntb 13y ago
Google memory problems statins. FDA published a warning a month or two ago. By anecdotal information, don't believe the memory problems will necessarily go away...

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