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by gbog 12y ago
Are you sure that the article and connex ideas (e.g. Rousseau) really have no flavor of "modern humans and their artificial life are evil, while the good old savages and their natural life were much better"? I would connect this t
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by gbog 12y ago
There is this angle that says that natural laws are good, better than "artificial" laws. It seems trendy nowadays and is emphasised in the article. But another angle, that seem to describe more closely the long term evolution and
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by gbog 12y ago
I agree that the article makes no sense, but I think that modern society "requires diversity" might be some kind of party line in the West and might be no fully true. An example of successful society that is not highly "diver
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by gbog 12y ago
Well not feeling the same. At first it was ok but now in the mails I get the 50 answer to "what are good advices for a good life?" And the nth reply on topic China by a user who regurgitates the western party line that I know alre
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by gbog 12y ago
Or Wikipedia?
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by gbog 12y ago
Serious question: why not python?
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by gbog 12y ago
That's great! I think all the people changing their minds on Microsoft (cool again) and Bill gates (good guy) should put this elephant in the balance: almost all companies and institutions depend on ONE software provider for their most
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by gbog 12y ago
I feel the complete opposite: the phone I use everyday and has become more important in my digital life than my pc, must be hacked (owned) by me even more. Hacking means making it work to your needs, despite all the limitations some clever
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by gbog 12y ago
Same here, I had to choose the European edition of the galaxy note 3 N9005. The most difficult part was to buy this exact piece of hardware. Then I played two days with the Samsung oily os, and got the real android with CM11.
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by gbog 12y ago
China is at risk, yes. So are all countries. I was just in a guest house this week-end and there were some books about China left left by the guests. Maybe five of them were about the imminent fall of China. One was published in the ninetie
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by gbog 12y ago
Better or worse cultures: this is sensitive in the west but I do not see why it should be taboo. First it can be disconnected from racism, because one can equally respect all human beings while still having a preference for some cultural va
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by gbog 12y ago
> People buy large cars in the U.S. simply because they are useful. You surely know that this cannot be true. In China, again, many rich people buy expensive luxury cars, and really have no need for them, except if you include "soci
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by gbog 12y ago
Ok I actually have the same usage pattern as you and I have a minivan, which I think optimizes quite well the size. Also, you say you didn't kill anyone. Great but how much room did cities you crossed have to plan for you? How many oth
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by gbog 12y ago
In this discussion I very rarely see mentioned how heavy are cars. Since when do we need multi tons machine to move a being that is usually below 100kg from a to b? Here in northern China, many people have very small egg-cars, which are not
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by gbog 12y ago
Can't check your site because I'm on a phone. I would interested to know how you solve this issue.
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by gbog 13y ago
This is a valid question. When things become complex I found that decorator is a bit too magic, and should be used with moderation.
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by gbog 13y ago
Said otherwise, the python oneliner is likely not what you want, in real life you'd have to check for fields existence, purpose defaults or warn, etc. So you must likely end up with a few kings of code anyways.
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by gbog 13y ago
This is not a phone, as someone noted in another comment. It is a good old pocket computer, and it is modular, and mine may (or may not) have a telephony module. I have a Galaxy Note, I think I use it as a phone twice a week on average. I u
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by gbog 13y ago
> every individual behaves in their best interest Daniel Kahneman says this has been proven false in his book Thinking Fast and Slow. It think it is wrong on two levels. First individual's "perceived best interest" is ofte
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by gbog 13y ago
I also tend to wrap loops in expressions like that. Then, in almost every interesting loop, I suddenly want to log something or add intermediary computation, and have to refactor into the good old boring for loop.
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by gbog 13y ago
For those not in the knowing, avoiding import side effect means never having top level code in any python module except class, functions and constant definitions, other imports and the occasional if name = main. And constants must be built-
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by gbog 13y ago
Replace "best option" with "only practical option" and you're good to go.
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by gbog 13y ago
Great. Would it be possible to add interactivity to this map. E.g. I am now in China, checking some website hosted in France. Can it tell me the usual routes? Could it trace route real time and show me which one was chosen?
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by gbog 13y ago
> bold accusations require at least /some/ proof. Can you expand? I thought all accusations needed strong evidence.
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by gbog 13y ago
I spent two days trying to get grunt, nodejs, ruby working on my PC some month ago, all with the help of seasoned front-end devs. To no avail. So, well, your argument can be reverted: why try to install a big "let's do it all&quot
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by gbog 13y ago
> conflict is the natural law of things. if you keep suppressing it for too long, the backlash will get even bigger. Yes, but we civilized humans, with the helps of centuries, went against nature, and decided we are no beasts. We institu
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by gbog 13y ago
I do not read Soros' prose on a daily basis. From the interview it seems he dreams of some financial Europe fitting his dreams and needs. It is unlikely that a majority of Europeans would share his values. So he is no enemy, but his co
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by gbog 13y ago
It is funny to see the construction of Europe, which is arguably the first time in human history that different groups of people willingly tend towards a common political entity without external threat and blood spilled all over, criticised
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by gbog 13y ago
3) not using the terminal, which is the best way to have a shell nearby, and the shell with its extensible toolset is necessary for any serious coding task.
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by gbog 13y ago
I can share my experience as a wechat user: yes it is a platform, yes people want and need much more than sms. In fact it is very easy to imagine a wechat phone that will fulfill the needs of users. And it is extremely dangerous: this platf

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