crispinb

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by crispinb 10y ago
Why can't something as complex as a historical change have multiple causes? And when the rise of social/economic inequality is such a clearly-evidenced part of the mix, why should those who have reaped unsustainable benefits from
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by crispinb 10y ago
Of course they're responsible too. But mass-scale movements come from somewhere. They have systematic causes. The tech industry, and the ideology driving it, is manifestly amongst those causes.
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by crispinb 10y ago
Attacks on Canadian dual citizens; attacks on the international order for dealing with refugees.
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by crispinb 10y ago
Many HN readers (and Dem voters) are among the tech elite who at best benefit (and at worst promote) the fundamentalist neoliberal-corporate ideology that has crushed the US citizenry and contributed substantially to the von Clownstick revo
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by crispinb 10y ago
Will your brave PM institute any sanctions against the US? Tweets are cheap as.
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by crispinb 10y ago
Some will speak (Hollande already has I think?), but no-one will do anything to risk their precious $$.
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by crispinb 10y ago
It is always hard to forgive nations whose democratic governments you deposed. Conversely von Clownstick finds it remarkably easy to forgive nations he personally has no business with: http://www.smh.com.au/world/donald
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by crispinb 10y ago
The unfortunate fact is no-one who matters cares about this. Who matters? Not the US public: von Clownstick & co know it will be forgetten in a month or three, and by the next election (if there is another election) enough red meat can
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by crispinb 10y ago
This is a straightforward business deal. Saudi Arabia is a major arms client. Iraq is just a poor nation that the US smashed and its citizens are to be thrown as red meat to 'patriots'. Iran is irrelevant to the issue, but 'p
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by crispinb 10y ago
I'd love to know how (precisely) closing visa access to nations that don't send terrorists to the US (Iran) but not to that those that do, but which happen to make scads of $$ for Trump's business pals (Saudi Arabia), makes A
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by crispinb 10y ago
If you only create redundancy when you are sure it's necessary, you're too late.
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by crispinb 10y ago
Oh sure it would be nice to see it adopted more widely. I just mean it's not in the vulnerable position of most new(ish) languages. Kotlin is ready for use in any suitable project by anyone who likes it. Though I'm a bit raw with
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by crispinb 10y ago
This is one of those cases where it doesn't matter that much. World domination is overrated. The JVM's prevalence largely takes care of platform availability. Java interop ensures enough libraries will continue to be available for