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by gonvaled 9y ago
Elon Musk is the exception used to sell you the american dream.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Only if your economy has jobs. Let's say AI revolution brings 90% unempoyment: then it's easier to revolt than to find a job, if: - you still can: you are not yet a slave, with the ruling class + machines not yet fully in control
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by gonvaled 9y ago
I am expressing my point angrily as an humanist rant. Avoiding nationalism is exactly what I would like to see here. Good for you to call me out on my manners, but, as we in the "international" community are quite used by now, rul
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Have you even, for a fraction of a second, considered what it meant, for example, to invade Irak and kill thousands / millions of civilians, while destabilizing one of the most dangerous areas of the planet? And you are worried that, i
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by gonvaled 9y ago
What a load of rubbish I see in the comments. The US has been using all the tricks in the book, for decades, to further its economic dominance, including shaping international law in its own interest (copyright & IP law) and other nicet
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Sorry to be pessimistic, but although I agree that technological progress has the potential of dramatically improve our lives, I fear that instead we will get more capital concentration. Put another way: social forces will balance out any p
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Isn't that the case in the US? In the EU, you can be fined for driving too close to the car in front of you. I think that driving close to the car in front of you is the number 1 cause of accidents. Much more dangerous than driving fas
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by gonvaled 9y ago
During the 200 thousand years of human history, technological progress was pretty flat. Low hanging fruit like electricity and nuclear power took a long time to develop. Most of our dreams remain just that. Recently, apart from CS and genet
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by gonvaled 9y ago
I still get tired of the shoes, they still smell, fashion keeps on changing and 10 year old shoes are not the same as new shoes, no matter how good they are. Most shoes last for years, even cheap ones. I still put them in thr cellar after 2
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Tariffs should also be imposed.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
They closed, once or twice - for all practical meanings of "closed"
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by gonvaled 9y ago
I"ll try that, but I am in the EU, no idea if it applies.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
No I haven't. The prospect of spending 200+€ in shoes, which are going to last forever, but which I am not going to use for long because they will optically deteriorate and I will anyway get tired of, is not alluring. My criteria for s
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by gonvaled 9y ago
You meant "negative"?
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by gonvaled 9y ago
I never buy expensive stuff, since I assume that all I am paying is marketing. I have no time to research better, except for things I understand well and I really care about, i.e. a laptop. And even then repairability is not on my list, sin
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Per capita? Per-capita-per-century? Per-capita-since-the-industrial-revolution? What is the aggregated CO2 emission by the USA since the 1800, divided by the total population since then?
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by gonvaled 9y ago
How is the electricity used by the ev produced? Electricity is not clean or dirty per se, as it is only a method of energy transport (well, it is a bit dirty per se, since it has losses - which can obviously be discarded if it is used to co
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Nokia not doing android was a political decission by M$ to push Windows phone. It was not an economical decission.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
What is this "Budgie" thing? It is called "Bionic Beaver"! Since when do we have extra names? What is "Trusty Tahr" then?
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Can you ellaborate?
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Interesting. I have been researching how to dump the database of google authenticator (currently over 20 entries, some non recoverable), but the solution involves rooting my android phone and accessing a protected sqlite file, with a propie
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by gonvaled 9y ago
? Somehow we started with a single dollar in a string, and now I am dealing with sql, here docs, and TDD? There is a place for everything in life: for small helper makefiles, which I write simply to support me in my workflow and even to rem
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by gonvaled 9y ago
So in order to deal with the real world possibility of spaces in filenames you choose to ditch a real world, useful tool? Perfectly reasonable if spaces in filenames are a hard req. In lots of scenarios they are not, and I prefer to assume
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Just because of the dollar? Exactly my point.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
And I need that because of ... a dollar! Extra complication to avoid if possible.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
You can do it. The question is whether you should if you can avoid it. When writing a shell script or makefile to deal with repetitive tasks if is easier to assume some things.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
What is the runtime? Always the same. More than C? Ha! The platform where your js is running is probably written in C!
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by gonvaled 9y ago
You do, since different communities use different build tools. And they even switch tools, for the new kid on the block.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Exactly as easy as without tabs. Now do that the whole day, sometimes with tabs, sometimes without.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Please write a makefile that uses an environment variable as a mysql password to connect to a mysql server and perform an arbitrary administrative task. Now do the same, assuming that the password can have a dollar in it. You can do it. It

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