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by gbog 10y ago
"the boxy prison of Chinese characters" What does it even mean? We are all "prisoners" of our language, because we can't easily think and express anything that cannot be molded in this language. But Chinese characte
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by gbog 10y ago
If you're seriously asking, you're misunderstanding the purpose of this law and of the legal system in general. This rule is there to avoid foreigner to renew indefinitely their tourist visa while they're actually working for
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by gbog 10y ago
What's the population of Greenland already?
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by gbog 10y ago
But we are not talking about formal logic here, we are talking about ethics. We use words that have a meaning, and we all know how to recognize a "sign of tolerance" and it's opposite. There is no need for a formal definition
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by gbog 10y ago
Your previous "exits" are Algeria, Greenland, St Bartelemy. Do you really think it counts as precedents?
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by gbog 10y ago
Because it will be more convenient for the Scots to not have to get out of Europe and in again when they travel to France to get their red wine.
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by gbog 10y ago
Apparently some do not like this idea that Europe's fate will be better with brexit. True I didn't see it in the papers, but it seems very natural to me dit many reasons. First Europe should a choice. For many European nations it
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by gbog 10y ago
Picking the good strawberries and repackaging not only should be allowed, it should be mandatory. How are we gone so far away from (agricultural) reality that such a simple and necessary task is /forbidden/ ?
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by gbog 10y ago
I'm a European, I love the project of building peacefully a political entity aggregating countries that have been at war for centuries. This is Europe, and migrants issue is only a very small part of the equation. And, actually, Britai
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by gbog 10y ago
Free speech is only one aspect of freedom, it is possible to have free speech only within a bigger framework enabling the more general freedom.
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by gbog 10y ago
I have read Paul Ricoeur, and I think it's a better entry point in ethics.
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by gbog 10y ago
Yes, but they will not be too clear about their elephant in the room: this will have demonstrated that free speech is not possible. Many here seem to believe in free speech, freedom to express anything, is an absolute. But it is not and can
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by gbog 10y ago
Yes, and more often than you seem to think, "waiting" is a good choice, because it leads to better opportunities in the long term. I don't advocate to stay in the same company forever. I suggest to do exactly the opposite of
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by gbog 10y ago
Why strange? Staying there when difficulties arise, future become incertain, keep working when it becomes boring or very messy or unrewarding, being able to do the work of the designer or the project manager because they are gone, all these
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by gbog 10y ago
Well yes and no. Let's take another example, voting. I think an ideal democratic process should be that people vote selfishly for their own "well-understood" interest. This "well understood" is crucial, it means all
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by gbog 10y ago
> To help kids become more creative, we actually need to start doing less. Yes to doing less, yes to let kids getting bored, because "boredom" is fertile and even necessary. But the aim is not to make kids "more creative&q
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by gbog 10y ago
You were right in tell GP that if you want to change a country you should continue talking. But what I was reacting to is the idea that other countries should be "improved", which always mean to follow Western's value and cul
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by gbog 10y ago
Why would you want them to change? And change to become what? To become more like you? To me Western civilisation has this recurring feature to want other people to be like them. It was the case with proselytism, colonialism, etc. I underst
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by gbog 10y ago
I remember that one big lesson learned after heartbleed bug was that we should not develop in C anymore. To me, this has probably many exceptions, but still should be especially true for web dev.
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by gbog 10y ago
I always disagree with "always". I think Django and Flask in python world are used a lot, and didn't notice a flood of complains about them.
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by gbog 10y ago
A nation gives its government the mission to drive it trough hard times toward the future. One part on this mission can include some limitation on public speech, why not? I personally think it is dangerous and often useless, but some other
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by gbog 10y ago
Ideally newspapers would control themselves and would not be tight to the number of eyeballs generated by a given piece of news. If the government or the law making process can be considered as an emanation of the citizen, it becomes legiti
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by gbog 10y ago
20 different operating systems would have shown the necessity of a common open protocol for the filesystem being it, and would have given much more space to creativity on the computer.
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by gbog 10y ago
Why only military infrastructure? Image a war between, say the USA and Russia, and imagine that the USA manages to shut down or cripple all Windows machines in Russia, this will probably put the enemy on the kneels, even more than weeks of
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by gbog 10y ago
That's true but even more so when applied to the computer network. Nowadays, in case of a war, closing emails or zombying all Windows pcs could do more harm than food supplies.
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by gbog 10y ago
Thinking critically is only the second order. The first order is to read, understand, memorize, and think. Also, if kids are fed with good books, they'll learn from the book itself to think "critically", because good books wi
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by gbog 10y ago
That. And GP. And this is exactly the reason why I don't believe a single word in all the stuff about AI and deep blabla. If Facebook cannot suggest better news, it's because it's most probably impossible to simulate how my b
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by gbog 10y ago
I'm surprised that apps are still so popular, I thought silicon valley had already realised that users do not want to download apps upfront and manage them later, they want web apps or pages for their mobile devices. Maybe the trend is
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by gbog 10y ago
"Fastest Growing Platform" Does this refer to growth in number of users or in number of modules? Or maybe just counting the number of lines of code?
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by gbog 10y ago
Low moderation and high level discussion is very possible and very common, but it depends on the topic and maybe the language. Just yesterday I've been on a French language forum on gardening, and this kid of dedicated community do not

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