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by cema 11y ago
I think technically it meant that the Geneva conventions were applicable to them, but as the enemy combatants, not civilians. (There is an important distinction with unlawful combatants there.)
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by cema 11y ago
Things didn't use to be that way. But they did. The most successful series of books of all times (the Bible) was written by a people who were beaten, broadly persecuted, and generally not considered victors in any practical mat
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by cema 11y ago
Jokes do not work well in HN altogether, with few exceptions. Many people consider them not adding value to the conversation.
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by cema 11y ago
I was and still surprised they didn't grab a bit of Syria. Does not seem to be Israel's mode of operation.
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by cema 11y ago
I think NSA is mostly staffed with residents of Maryland. Technically.
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by cema 11y ago
Mud can be shaped in a large number of useful and beautiful things.
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by cema 11y ago
Rather, it gives you something in many ways similar to Unix and not necessarily in Unix.
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by cema 11y ago
Well, emacs certainly can be many things, if not all things. But is it? There is a difference.
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by cema 11y ago
I think both factors are at work: what you said (the feeling of security) and what the parent said (compliance).
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On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit [pdf](journal.sjdm.org)
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Construction Permits Revoked on the Thirty-Meter Telescope in Hawaii(space.io9.com)
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by cema 11y ago
True, for the most part practicing scientists have not had a good exposure to proper software practices.
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by cema 11y ago
I think the core of the problem is that coding and documentation are not considered part of the "science". Contrast it with writing papers, which is understood as communication with scientific peers, the community, and therefore i
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by cema 11y ago
Yes, it is a different culture. I really would like to learn how to help the scientists absorb the proper software culture.
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by cema 11y ago
Oh, so it's political. Never mind then. (If it is not political, I still would like to see the answer.)
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by cema 11y ago
Why global warming?
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by cema 11y ago
Russians treat their culture as sacred I cannot even begin to understand what it means. Could you clarify please?
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by cema 11y ago
From my personal experience, there are too many people in Russia who are, according to your last statement, not quite in their right mind...
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by cema 11y ago
I don't remember you guys having a homeless problem? Or, huge masses of people in extreme poverty. Both existed. Homeless people were escorted outside of big cities (often jailed, but not always), so foreign journalists woul
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by cema 11y ago
Lobbyists yes, but not lawyers.
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by cema 11y ago
I agree, but I think you mean "above a certain age".
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by cema 11y ago
I've been on polling boards in a much (much) smaller country A different country. Different culture. Different people. Cannot extrapolate.
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by cema 11y ago
A good one, but it only works in Polish.
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by cema 11y ago
You refer to "the 1990s push to expand NATO to include Ukraine", what is that about?
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by cema 11y ago
A coffee session is a great idea. Thanks!
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by cema 11y ago
Even though C# is in many ways like Java, it allows (via unsafe blocks and pointers) to better perform memory management. Not sure how widely it is used in practice.
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by cema 11y ago
grep is working fine in msys/mingw, and has been for many years. I do not remember if I have ever seen it not having the recursive option there. It has been working for my in Cygwin, too. As well as many other utilities ported from uni
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by cema 11y ago
It is my understanding too, and in my opinion a very important fact (if it is correct), that the cause of the accident had been known to the engineers who had to subtly and perhaps surreptitiously make it known to whoever had a political in
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by cema 11y ago
The Green line(s) in Boston are like that, underground in a large portion of downtown, up on the street the rest of the way. Some share the way with cars, some use a separate right-of-way: a noticeable difference in travel time and convenie
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by cema 12y ago
It's good to have a choice.

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