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by fvdessen 9y ago
You should have a look at JSON5 http://json5.org/
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I would guess that a major part of "On The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin is still heretical in San Francisco.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Sam is asking people to be more inclusive of different ideas, not excluding one group for the benefit of the other. I don't quite get how one jumps from 'we have to tolerate different ideas' to 'people will be excluded&#
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There is absolutely no difference between what you and I said. The Post Office does limit the priority of a business delivery unless that business pays a premium (express delivery). The reason this doesn't goes terribly is that there
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Net Neutrality is like preventing the US Post office from providing express delivery as the extra speed comes at the expense of regular delivery and there is a risk that only big companies would be able to pay for the service.
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Hitler was an art student, Mussolini a journalist.
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The Muslims in my city seem to have no problem raising large families in a urban environment despite having less financial resources than the other cultural groups, so the explanation cannot be entirely economic. Culture and religion seem t
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Well, pandas and grizzlys are both mammals, not different kind of genus.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
All those inequalities you cite are paradoxically the consequence of the vast increase of wealth and services accessible to everyone. The retirement insecurity is a consequence to lifetime expectancy having increased vastly beyond retiremen
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by fvdessen 9y ago
The inequality problem only exists if you look at absolute wealth numbers, and not the level of confort and opportunities that wealth affords. The amount and the quality of goods and service that is available to even the lower income bracke
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I am thinking of Outbox, a former US tech startup that digitalised mail, and that was shut down by the U.S. Post Office.
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The difference is that when a private program is run badly, it goes bankrupt and is closed. When a public program is run badly, it keeps going on forever.
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Worst case scenario is that the private's solution is too good and the state thus regulates the private competition to be as bad as the public.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I think my original point about wine was misunderstood. Good wine is not good because it is scarce, it is good because it is good, but it is more expensive because it is scarce. If you could produce infinite quantities of Chateau-Petrus, it
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by fvdessen 9y ago
How are scarce goods more labour intensive ? It doesn't take any more labour to make a good wine than a bad one.
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Only if the tests and business code are not written by the same engineer.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Tests can become technical debt themselves, there's nothing special about test code that makes it immune to all the programming pitfalls.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
In my experience the usefulness of Unit Tests is very dependent on the quality of the team and its grasp on the business requirements. Some programmers can write high quality code that doesn't need unit/integration testing at all,
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Maybe you should get a cat ?
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> Rhyming songs kept the names of Cagot families known.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
That not enjoying wine can be a profound experience that makes one search for meaning involving philosophers, politicians, multiple countries, mathematics, science, music, history, art, and social intrigue spanning dozens of people.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I feel like this article told more about the people reading and writing at The NewYorker than anything else. The lexical field is fascinating.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
What is the reason for the fork ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I'm fascinated by sentences like "He created a textbook hostile work environment." and "Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequences". I see them more and more, repeated verbatim, to justify why someone had to
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Apparently the matter came when some women started to complain that they had been pressured into accepting management positions, didn't like the added stress, but had no possibility to move to other positions due to manager shortages.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
A friend works at the European Commission, where there is a strict 50/50 male/female requirement for all hires and all positions. Apparently it is causing problems because too many women refuse to be promoted in management. So the
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by fvdessen 9y ago
> all the evidence points to the former. There is an interesting documentary called "The Norway Paradox"[1] that explores why do we see a much higher rate of gender segregation in developed countries. The thesis the documentary
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Can an American business serve "whites only" ? Are you advocating that American businesses should have the right to restrict service based on skin color ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Where did they say they wanted to block ships ? All I've seen is that they wanted to film & document the ONG's activities, to see if they are not engaging in human trafficking.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I wonder if this applies to human relationships as well; friendship, love, employment, etc.

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