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by crispinb 7y ago
I read taneq's (admittedly sketchy) comment as suggesting that the Gandhian part of the Indian independence struggle was effective not because of its nonviolent tactics, but because of the relatively benign nature of British colonial g
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by crispinb 7y ago
True enough on the not taking it as fact. I don't, though I think it carries more weight than so-called 'commonsense' (which I dont' share your apparent respect for). Obviously it should be subject to good empirical crit
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I hear a variation of this semi-often And I read that cookie-cutter response almost every time. Fine. Whatever. We have different experiences. I accept yours (because I think most people are more-or-less truthful). You don't accep
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by crispinb 7y ago
I have a feeling you haven't read much British colonial history. Amritsar? Boer concentration camps? Indian emancipation had nothing to do with British goodness. It had much to do with mass uprisings, clever tactics, and more than a fe
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by crispinb 7y ago
As she explains in the video, that was Erica Chenoweth's a priori guess too, before looking at the data. Her study, looking at all the available data from every resistance movement involving more than 1000 people since 1900, apparently
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by crispinb 7y ago
I guess touchpads must be far more important to some of you than they are to me. I'll only touch mine on the rare occasion I'm lazily reading on my laptop rather than a tablet. I'd hardly miss if it stopped working.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Windows is perfectly viable for doing development, so is Linux. Viable, yes. I've spent the last year (since replacing a 2013 MB Pro) with a Dell 15 XPS, roughly 50/50 Windows & Linux (Ubuntu then Fedora). Both work. They
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Much better than community is family. This is so contrary to a century of results from social research from multiple disciplines from all over the world it would be hard to know where to start to counter it. Community is fundamental to
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by crispinb 7y ago
Jeremy Lee deserves to become an Aussie legend.
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Self-representing worker defeats employer's mandatory biometric data collection(abc.net.au)
1 points by crispinb 7y ago|0 comments
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by crispinb 7y ago
True enough
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by crispinb 7y ago
Good find, though I do tend to doubt mere company employee claims (lying is endemic to every corporation I've known from inside). In any case the user making the claim you link to came from a throwaway login.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Agree. And, yes, secrecy breeds suspicion. We should be suspicious of secretive organisations. But statements of fact go beyond suspicion, and surely require a basis in evidence.
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Do you have a source for that?
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‘Extraordinary thinning’ of Antarctica ice sheets(theguardian.com)
7 points by crispinb 7y ago|1 comments
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> what we need is a significant global shift in mentality and culture Agreed, though whether we have time for this to happen seems doubtful. It would require a dramatic slowdown of faux-growth to enable natural systems to recover, while
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by crispinb 7y ago
> it misses the fact that the Earth is not a closed system How so? It's not an argument per se - it's just a description of the physical reality that what economists falsely describe as 'growth' is actually a transfer
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by crispinb 7y ago
The main issue is where we get our energy from. No, that's just the most currently newsworthy of literally hundreds of causes of the global ecological collapse. Ecologists have been mapping many of these causes for decades. The overa
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by crispinb 7y ago
An unlimited growth in a finite environment isn't possible Even limited 'growth' has not actually happened. It's a fiction. The physical reality is that complex sustainable evolved systems have been broken down to feed
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by crispinb 7y ago
What I don't understand is why this is so controversial. Meticulously planned political & media interference campaigns run by fossil fuel companies and related think tanks. They understood the implications of climate change by th
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by crispinb 7y ago
I thought on initially reading the title he was claiming the company had ADHD, which seemed like carrying corporate personhood a bit far. Though it could be briefly diverting to diagnose the disorders of major tech companies.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I think there might be an ever so tiny sliver of space between every bracketed jocular aside needing a reference to a peer-reviewed double-blinded study, and falling into redditland. Intellectual rigour applied wisely is clearly a virtue.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Is this based on your anecdotal observations, or is this opinion based on something concrete? Not every semi-flippant comment has to be a bloody double-blind epidemiological study. Get a grip, man! Go and have a beer.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Nabokov spoke with a pleasant accent to my ears (and brilliantly of course), but no-one from the UK would think for a millisecond it was native.
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Fluency is a matter of comprehension just as much as production. English is a global language spoken with a wide range of accents. Users of English who can only understand a narrow range of accents (Americans, I'm looking at you!) simp
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by crispinb 7y ago
Oh, true of course, especially from the big guns. But there was a flourishing ecosystem of great apps like Textmate, Things, Acorn, and a bunch of others from outfits like Omnigroup, Panic, IconFactory. These tended to fit beautifully on th
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by crispinb 7y ago
I honestly think the days of the cohesive desktop platform are done. It arguably reached its peak with OS X (perhaps circa Snow Leopard), but the idea has been falling into disrepair even on the mac. It's hard to see any strong force m
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by crispinb 7y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood you. If you meant that lack of software isn't the Linux deal-breaker it used to be, for many types of use I'd agree. It has all the main generic apps I need except for a proper Google drive client. What it
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's a year or so since I used it, so I don't remember all the details. But off the top of my head: crashy, terrible IMAP implementation, mails often stuck in outbox, very incomplete keyboard shortcuts, links opened in Edge rathe
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by crispinb 7y ago
> UWP is great for the end consumer It it? I've never developed windows GUI apps, so can't comment on a technical level. But from a consumer perspective all the UWP apps I've tried, including those shipped by Microsoft wit

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