gakada

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by gakada 10y ago
It's a Hindu model of marriage, a Chinese model of marriage, … Hell, even the Ancient Greeks didn't practice gay marriage (as far as I know!)
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by gakada 10y ago
Brevik committed unthinkable acts in an attempt to change Norwegian society. Applying anything other than the established law to him, let alone ending the European moratorium on capital punishment, would gift him success.
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by gakada 10y ago
I agree. The correct way to discriminate between low- and high-resource requiring functionality is "on battery" vs "plugged in". The specific battery level is completely useless.
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by gakada 10y ago
What's your definition of racism? Under the Equalities Act 2010 'Race includes "colour", "nationality" and "ethnic or national origins"'[1]. I feel like this will only lead to a boring semantic d
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by gakada 10y ago
> I know from the way they make up stories about why people voted out and then insult them - its quite unpleasant You dismiss the possibility that they are right. Many people do support Brexit for wholly racist reasons (e.g. my father wh
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by gakada 10y ago
Isn't what you're describing called biodiesel? Palm oil, rapeseed oil, etc. The problem is that however much humans need electrical energy, they need food a hell of a lot more. Electrical energy has to come from the land we&#x27
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by gakada 10y ago
It seems that marriages in capitalist societies are inherently unstable. If rights are equal, then women are incentivised to divorce to "cash in" the value of their husband. If the rights are unequal, then men are incentivised to
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by gakada 10y ago
It's amusing that these statistics are on the CDC website.
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by gakada 10y ago
> fillet. Origin: Middle English (denoting a band worn round the head): from Old French filet ‘thread’, based on Latin filum ‘thread’. If this is correct then it's not a French word, it's an English word that was long ago inspi
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by gakada 10y ago
Today must be a golden age for writers. Many local libraries are struggling. With the historical source of free books in peril, writers can once again prosper! Most fiction writers don't face a piracy problem, they face a marketing pro
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by gakada 10y ago
That would be a breach of the contract between designer and the company. If you quote someone a rate, they agree, you do the work, but they don't pay you, then you can sue them regardless of whether a copyrightable work was created. Co
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by gakada 10y ago
It's all relative. As the paper shows, 164cm is average male height in some countries. The average person is only a plane ride away from being either a short or tall person. Unless they are Dutch. Women certainly don't want to dat
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by gakada 10y ago
In what way are EU states 'allowing this stream of immigrants'? The refugees are entering through illegal crossings. By definition, their entry is not allowed, but happens regardless.
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by gakada 10y ago
Policy in the UK is dictated by the newspapers. If it makes the Sun and the Mail happy, then it's a good policy. No doubt this fits the bill.
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by gakada 10y ago
The other one was Turkey joining the EU. They claimed that Turkey was imminently going to join and the only way to prevent Turks coming to Britain was to vote to leave. In fact, UK has a veto, and Turkey won't be able to join until it
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by gakada 10y ago
I'm sorry, I can't capture such a complicated issue with a pithy example. You will have to settle for my illustrative one. The most general definition of the restriction is that C++ code cannot throw exceptions through exception u
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by gakada 10y ago
Exceptions in C++ are rotten. void read_file_by_lines(const char* path, void (*callback)(const char* line)) { FILE* file = fopen(path, "r"); size_t length = 0; char* line = NULL;
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by gakada 10y ago
Twitter, as a platform, is not geared towards discussions. It's impossible to have any sort of debate in 140 characters, it forces all arguments to be reductive. So I think they did you a favour.
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by gakada 10y ago
Headscarves not tolerated either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_c...
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by gakada 10y ago
In the documentary they said that ~70% of Syrians who made it to the UK were granted asylum. So evidently the UK is doing its own background checks.
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by gakada 10y ago
Leadsom is the most dangerous politician I've ever seen. There's an infamous video with her and Krugman. Whatever you might think of Krugman, you can least be sure that he understands basic economic theory. Yet she talks to him in
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by gakada 10y ago
It's more DRY.
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by gakada 10y ago
That's the last thing they will do because then it would encourage every EU country to hold a referendum and do the same thing, which would kill the EU easily. [What I see as more likely is that the UK invokes Article 50, goes through
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by gakada 10y ago
But the prediction was that the status quo would continue.
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by gakada 10y ago
> Without considering the result of the referendum, do you know of any other country that would allow visiting citizens from another country to vote on something so serious? Yes, UK European Union Referendum, 2016. Resident Irish and Com
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by gakada 10y ago
Single market. Despite some bigots who don't want Polish people existing near them, having free movement of people, goods, capital and all the rest of it is really good for the participant economies. Can you imagine if US citizens had
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by gakada 10y ago
The standard you are applying is pacifism: do not use violence even if violence is being used on you.
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by gakada 10y ago
The London underground ticket barriers support both Apple Pay and contactless cards. Using Apple Pay is a guaranteed way to enrage everybody standing behind you in the queue. It's not fast enough. The fingerprint reader isn't perf
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by gakada 10y ago
Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison were best buddies. The dream died the year after.
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by gakada 10y ago
uBeam isn't like Theranos because uBeam isn't defrauding anybody. They have honestly described how the product works. The product just happens to be a horrifying deafness ray. Some VCs will fund that.

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