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by berntb 14y ago
>>provide for your needs without depending on a global supply chain. Hmm... reminds me of a discussion (@Stross' blog) about how many people were needed in a society, to support a technological civilization. Stross argued we would n
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by berntb 14y ago
I wonder, whenever that subject comes up, there are comments denying/obfuscating any Turkish responsibility. But directly when a Wikipedia link is posted, you hear nothing more... Is there some Turkish "50 cent army" thing?
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by berntb 14y ago
I'll leave the semantic discussion aside, since English is neither of ours native language. >>Only direct, total democracy leads to peace. Huh? Check the democratic peace theory on wikipedia. It says that democracies don't make wars
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by berntb 14y ago
The Pakistani government couldn't argue that, but Japan and most every other country ("It was a previous government, doesn't reflect us as a country at all"). It isn't that simple, sadly.
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by berntb 14y ago
>>"taking responsibility". Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan all have received the wrath of US military power and paid With "take responsibility" in English afaik, it means that you take responsibility for the situation (often implied I bel
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by berntb 14y ago
First comment from a nine minutes old account... Ask with your real account and I'll answer. Edit: Oh, wtf... see the censoring of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Also afaik, they don't teach in Pakistan about what happened in Bangladesh i
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by berntb 14y ago
>> I wonder if there is a name for such a double take? "Funny"? (Sorry for a non-serious answer to a serious comment, I'm making a point that you should relax. The lack of taking responsibility (school education etc) for what happen
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by berntb 14y ago
Well, I'm all for military research. But it seems like a criminal waste of resources to build the developed stuff -- and train lots of people. This decision have no good reason (North Korea? Hardly), it is forced because China haven't democ
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by berntb 14y ago
>>If it weren't for the iPad I believe we would have gotten so much further with eink devices. No. EInk had more than a decade before the iPad was announced, but nothing happened. I've been waiting for an A4 eInk reader that could s
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by berntb 14y ago
I don't believe the explanation in the article. Lisp variants can be seen as a scripting language equivalent -- with efficient compilation. It was (and still is, to a large degree) an obvious win compared to Perl/Ruby/etc. Academic stigma a
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by berntb 14y ago
>>most prisoners aren't psychopaths " In a typical prison population, about 20 percent of the inmates satisfy the Hare definition of a psychopath, but they are responsible for over half of all violent crime. " http://www.hare.org/l
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by berntb 14y ago
Let me do some free advertising -- Jenkki professional chewing gum don't have any artificial sugars. They only have xylitol and some base. You can only buy it in Finland, not even in Sweden (grumble).
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Do you really, honestly think the author will be happy - and for long I don't give that good odds for their happiness. But as good odds as I give my self. It is 9 months in, the author and the woman are incredibly in love. Many pe
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Shell was implicated as having leaned on the Nigerian government to get rid of this troublemaker which they promptly did. I can't find that in the Wikipedia article? Can you? I wrote: " If Shell was involved (why would they murde
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by berntb 14y ago
>>"everyone is doing it" or "they might do it to us, so we should do it to them first" are not really valid excuses. Not a relevant answer to what I wrote. I noted, amongst others, that the atrocities in question were SOP (Standard
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by berntb 14y ago
You just ignored 90+% of what I wrote as answers to your strange opinions. Sigh... OK. Wiki page says " outspoken critic of the Nigerian government ... hanged in 1995 by the military government " 1995 is not "today" -- and the whole executi
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by berntb 14y ago
OK... So, only crimes done by a corporation -- not a state. And the crimes can be 600 years old, no statute of limitations!! And there is no bookkeeping for boons the corporation(s) did for victims (industrialization etc etc etc). Probably
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by berntb 14y ago
There are lots of documentation of atrocities made by states. So, you judge the west with a differently different yard stick because there are corporations here and they are different in quality from e.g. the mass murders of Communist par
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by berntb 14y ago
>>us Humans are a vicious bunch" is merely a statement, not a valid excuse. If I understand your position: 1. Occupation, slavery and aggression were parts of most/many historic societies. 2. Just because a behaviour is universal am
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by berntb 14y ago
>>I fail to see the link between the Scandinavians and their current state of welfare and the Vikings, as far as I know the Vikings were no better or worse than what the rest of Europe was up to at the time But according to your pre
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by berntb 14y ago
Your attitude makes it harder to reinvent yourself [edit: in a major shift]. But if you are happy with doing things which more or less builds on previous experience, all through your career while the world/you change, congratulations.
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by berntb 14y ago
I remember how shocked I was ten years ago when talking to a newly educated guy about languages -- and he didn't know any C?! Then I realized... "of course, they only learn Java now". I left for scripting a long time ago, but still: Sad.
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by berntb 14y ago
$ perldoc perlop
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by berntb 14y ago
I still don't really get your point. :-) Anyway, it is probably a good thing if conspiracy theories abound when the local government overstep boundaries -- even if there are no conspiracies, it keeps the politicians' behaviour in control. :
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by berntb 14y ago
(Voted down by mistake, sorry. Damn trackpad on Linux.) I understand where this comes from. Personally I sketch/think on paper/org-mode a long while, then throw code at the wall, then iterate back to paper... Afaik, Perl/Moose has better st
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by berntb 14y ago
I think I miss your point (or you misunderstood)? My theory re democracies is that you get these harsh reactions from politicians' overarching need to keep the voters happy. (That doesn't apply to those juntas which can to a large degree ig
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by berntb 14y ago
It seems democracies with terrorism problems tend to throw out the law book and human rights. Examples are afaik US, Germany, Italy, Israel, GB, Spain, etc. Doing everything possible (and illegal) to stop terrorism is a logical result of tw
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by berntb 14y ago
You probably shouldn't do this in an inner loop: :-) m = re.match(r'(\d{4})', buf) 'map' is more general than just the single, convoluted statement of list comprehensions, which really seems as a kludge from unwillingness to accept m
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by berntb 14y ago
You claim to really not be aware that table is for a quite different language -- Perl 6? That point has been made many, many times. Edit: To the cultural question, there might be a point. I might add that I don't know Perl 6, but it see
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by berntb 14y ago
>>My comment above may be perceived as a bit trollish As I quoted, you also posted another obvious troll comment. So the shape of your ears and body odour are quite obvious through the screen... >>My experience may be "anecd

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