fidgewidge

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   by fidgewidge 4y ago

   How would one go about establishing themselves as an academic authority on a topic or field which one believed was based on nothing real?
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   by fidgewidge 4y ago

   Issue is that the "we" in your final sentence is really governments and their science agencies. At some point there's a tradeoff between funding particle accelerators or stuff like defense, social care, medical subsidies, wel
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   by fidgewidge 4y ago

   The issue is that without the US there wouldn't be NATO, and Europe wouldn't have replaced it with anything effective. The closest attempt at an equivalent is the EU army which has never got off the ground, and if it did would be
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   by fidgewidge 4y ago

   Also other internal languages: borgmon, borgcfg. Don't think they use borgmon anymore though.
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   by fidgewidge 4y ago

   It's got some novel ideas: better than many new languages! Don't quite grok why it eliminates the need for ref counting though. Tree structures are fine when you have them, but frequently you don't. The docs claim Rune progra