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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   > Government should have no say what a private entity can/can't do in their walled garden. I have some sympathy with this point of view. I would like to see a world where anyone can build whatever website they want, and the amo
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   > There's such a thing as "Psychological violence". That's a dishonest redefining of a word. The motivation behind it is: people think violence is bad, we'll call this thing violence even though it isn't, so
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   Or let the pirates board and then go underwater.
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   The link on the Introduction page to "on GitHub" is broken.
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   I got "Error establishing a database connection", maybe this wouldn't have happened if they had used MongoDB :-)
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   Copyright and patent laws amount to extortion because they are enforced by initiation of force.
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   > (though to be fair, finding this could have been difficult) When you do a Google search on "Orwell European Union", the article is the 3rd result. Looks like the writer couldn't be bothered to JFGI.
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   Actually, Orwell wrote an essay "Toward European Unity" http://orwell.ru/library/articles/European_Unity/english/e_t... in which he explicitly argues for something like the EU: > the spectac
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   by cabalamat 10y ago

   > European Court Of Human rights is merciless with States giving in to their instincts on refugees Is it? Do you have examples?
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    > it sickens me how these "refugees" are choosing what country to stay in Why is it sickening? Surely it makes sense for any person to choose the best option of those open to them?
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Why is Medium blurring out images? It negates the whole point of having images, i.e. to see them.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Russia makes a habit of invading European countries.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Yes but only one of them invented computers, the internet, the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the jet engine, the steam turbine, aircraft, modern medicine, anasthetic dentistry, etc. If it wasn't for the West, humanity w
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    > What culture do Germans, Greeks, Latvians, Bulgarians, Fins, and Spaniards share? The one that used to be called the Roman Empire, then Christendom, and is now called Western Civilisation. It is also arguably the greatest achievement o
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    > The EU does not have a common enemy to force it together. Yes it does, Russia.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Here are some more facts: 1. the Vice President of the USA, Joe Biden, has publicly called Julian Assange a terrorist 2. the US Government has a policy of assassinating people it considers to be terrorists. Make of these facts what you will
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    > You don’t write code to be beautiful, you write it to be functional. Speak for yourself. > You really write code so it uses the least amount of memory, and is efficient. No I don't.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    > Not every submission to HN was created as or intended for a Hacker News audience That's a good point.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    This would be a good deal less irritating if it was written as an essay and not a slideshow.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    > Human females (and males) are reproductively capable at 15 and yet who would consider them mature and capable parents at that age? Evolution would.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Google Search. Sure, Google still do a search engine, but it is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Power needs to be controlled in a distributed way that doesn't put too much power in anyone's hands. Because power corrupts.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    Probably since 1834, when the Conservative Party was founded.
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    by cabalamat 10y ago

    What is the motivation for the company/organisation behind this website?
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    by cabalamat 11y ago

    > that's "economic activity" True > but it sure as hell isn't the productivity that GDP says it is No, because GDP is just a measure of economic activity, not useful economic activity.
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    by cabalamat 11y ago

    What would it mean for them to interact chalantly with devices? (I'm curious as to your hyphen).
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    by cabalamat 11y ago

    I imagine people learning Latin might find it useful as well. And have a mouseover for conjugation / declension.
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    by cabalamat 11y ago

    I tried it with: The red car This red car Your red car And it marked "Your" like "red" and not like "The" or "This". Surely "your" is a determiner and not an adjective? I me
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    by cabalamat 11y ago

    I'm currently going through the book Functional Programming In Scala, and recommend it.
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    by cabalamat 11y ago

    > It's Twitter's platform; they can do whatever the fuck they want. What if the same company controlled Twitter, Facebook, and Google? And what if that company decided to subtly give more prominence to political views they like