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by berntb 13y ago
>>hard numbers that you've basically made up. Here are quick overviews of the facts I claimed in the GP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sudan http://www.oxfam.org/en/emerge
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by berntb 13y ago
Let me note that you are arguing something completely different than you started with. >> Your complaint is that the media criticism is not proportional to the level of harm. The hyperbole is in your measurement of the criticism Wel
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by berntb 13y ago
>> [E.g. Sudan's atrocities is at least a factor thousand worse than anything from Israel] is hyperbole. And that is not an argument. I motivated my position, you're calling names. I wrote specifically that Sudan is at least
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by berntb 13y ago
I am far from an expert in either case, but that doesn't seem logical. The Russian government is killing press freedom and stealing the oil income. They need external enemies and blame the west. Any criticism from the Western world see
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by berntb 13y ago
>> Israel and Russia are considered 1st world countries. [There are higher standards for them] I acknowledged that when I wrote "How many thousands of times is reasonable for different standards?" So, how many factors of ten
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by berntb 13y ago
On consideration, sorry for being pissy (English slang, iirc). Your comment was relevant to part about what I wrote and very well written. I posted a theory about something I find strange -- and waited with bated breath for either support o
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by berntb 13y ago
I gave another example. It is easy to give more examples of the hypocrisy I talked about -- without Russia. Edit: Not that it is relevant, but I've liked most every Russian I've spoken to more than five minutes. And Putin scares m
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by berntb 13y ago
Are you a Turing Test program that misunderstood and went off on a tangent? (That would explain a lot on HN, recently.) Or are you just trying to change the subject?
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by berntb 13y ago
If totally different standards for different people/countries regarding intolerance is neither hypocrisy nor racism -- what is it? My theory above is that totally different standards for different parts of the world really is political
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by berntb 13y ago
>> the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy. You must live on a different planet than me. :-) Let me take an example I saw this week: I have some Eastern Europeans with different opinions in my Facebook.
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by berntb 13y ago
>> We're just not overly vocal about using it That doesn't sound like the Python users of my experience... :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
Please read up about e.g. statistics, [radiation] risks and Avogadro's number. This cool xkcd link was posted just next to my GP comment: http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Look especially at the the varying background ra
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by berntb 13y ago
>>hundreds of years after we are all dead >>Radioactive contamination of [...] the oceans Sigh... bad scare mongering. How many percent has the background radiation in the Pacific ocean increased by Fukushima? (Hint: radioactive
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by berntb 13y ago
I can tell you that you live really well for quite few Euro after tax in Transylvania (as long as you don't go to West Europe for vacation). This is quite easy to check, Google: living costs Cluj London http://www.expatistan
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by berntb 13y ago
I realise this is important for people that isn't a bit colour blind like me, but if I cared enough about prettiness to install this then I wouldn't be an Emacs user. :-) Edit: It is worth reading as nice elisp code.
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by berntb 13y ago
>>It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails) [Compared to CakePHP]. Interesting claim. Do you have references? (An account with a couple of hundreds of Karma making extreme claims? Please surprise me by no
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by berntb 13y ago
You are talking about something from year 2000 -- and ... ah, you've written 5 troll comments, the last 4 in 12 minutes. There were less than 30 total comments in this discussion, including those five. You must be the saddest troll o
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by berntb 13y ago
I could be happy using either just a nice Lisp or Perl the rest of my life. (Perl do look more likely, since e.g. the last time I checked the Lisps I didn't even find good Unicode support, etc.) But you didn't expect a serious ans
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by berntb 13y ago
Well, you have a ~ typing system for attributes, good roles, etc. And if you don't like the syntax, see e.g. http://search.cpan.org/~ether/MooseX-Method-Signatures-0.44/... http://search.cpan.org&#
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by berntb 13y ago
Ah, so you left the Perl world just before Moose -- and don't even know about it? :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
>>OK, I admit it was a cheap shot. But I'm not the only one in the thread making it. Thanks for making HN a bit more like bad Reddit today, with even more brainless language wars! [Edit: Seriously, why even write if you have noth
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by berntb 13y ago
This was funny. Yesterday, cmccabe was snarky about subtle changes in versions of the Python/Ruby std libs. Today, he/she is snarky about a similar language, which really take backwards compatibility seriously. (Google darkpan&#x2
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by berntb 13y ago
Sigh... and without the US involvement, we in West Europe would at best have learned Russian in school just like they had to in the enslaved East Europe. Not even the Nazis were uniquely evil. (For instance, I have been in Romania a bit a
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by berntb 13y ago
>> a surprising number of Americans (also commenters here in Hacker News) seem to lack that kind of sense of symmetry. Russia is quickly turning away from [Edit: the road to] democracy, the state seems to become integrated with organ
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by berntb 13y ago
You might want to check chromatic's comment on this subject in this comment tree (he has written, amongst other things, my favorite Perl book and hence has gone over these subjects carefully). He argues the halting problem for the pars
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by berntb 13y ago
You really show your troll nature when you complain about "personal attacks" (being called troll) while doing two personal attacks yourself: >>Ah, I see you're still struggling with the 'no personal attacks' s
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by berntb 13y ago
1. You really have no theories you want to share, about why we see this kind of trolls from Python people continuously? >>Moreover, I've avoided making personal attacks on anyone. I argued you wrote extreme flames about subjects
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by berntb 13y ago
As you showed (see chromatic's answer) in your first comment, you have no clue about even the small built in library in Perl. Yet you have lots and lots of really flaming opinions about something you obviously haven't used enough
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by berntb 13y ago
References do suck. All languages have ugly misfeatures, by nature. (Some language groupie collectives are in denial...) But you get named parameters ( and type checking of them!) for functions/methods through CPAN. And lots of other
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by berntb 13y ago
>> Perl 6 is a toolkit for outright hostile obfuscation making it damn near impossible for a team of developers to wrap their heads around each others' code. Not surprisingly Perl is fading into the past. I don't know enough

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