graemep

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by graemep 4mo ago
That is my point. It might be better for some use cases, but those are very different from the ones Rust is best.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Are you familiar with the term techo-feudalism coined by economist and former minister of finance of Greece Yanis Varoufakis? The dark ages were fine. Feudalism replaced a violent slavery based empire and evolved towards greater human right
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by graemep 4mo ago
Its been the most anti-slavery religion and was the main motivation for the abolition of slavery. There is no Christian objection to 'miscegenation' and its a weird concept only taken up in America and a few other places like Sout
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by graemep 4mo ago
Which Enlightenment values? Racism? Sexism? Colonialism?
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by graemep 4mo ago
Elixir is great, and I have recently started using it myself, but its not a substitute for Rust. Try writing device driver in Elixir, or anything CPU intensive.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Caucasian includes South Asians and some East Africans according to that definition.
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by graemep 4mo ago
There is a considerable history of the US wanting Greenland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_acquisi... > The problem is who do we ally with that we can trust now. "We have no eternal allie
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by graemep 4mo ago
The EU exists mostly to promote economic liberalism and free trade. It started out as a purely trade arrangement, then evolved to become a broader union.
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by graemep 4mo ago
> The Western countries invaded Iraq under false pretenses True, but I would say the current refugees are not those who most need refuge. Religious minorities who are the most threatened by ISIS are under-represented. > it is already
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by graemep 4mo ago
The UK's system for processing applications is: 1. highly inefficient: its slow and badly run. 2. seriously considers applications that clearly false - people from Canada and the EU do not need to claim asylum! Those numbers are tiny b
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by graemep 4mo ago
Are you sure the claim is false?
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by graemep 4mo ago
They certainly look white to me. Are Spanish people white or Hispanic according to those definitions? 'Original peoples' is an interesting phrase. Neanderthals? Beaker people? A single category for everyone from Pakistanis to Japa
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by graemep 4mo ago
> assuming they are still interested in external adoption rates. If they are not it would be a good reason to move away from it.
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by graemep 4mo ago
> Anyone still doing ongoing business with them in 2026 is, imho, a fool. So that would be almost everyone.
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by graemep 4mo ago
That is the original definition, but then all immigrants are expats, and all expats are migrants. The words become synonyms. Then its become very interesting to ask why people prefer one word over the other for particular groups of people.
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by graemep 4mo ago
What dimension of genetics? Race is not genetic. If you try to cluster people by genetic similarity the end result does not look like people's idea of "race" at all, and different (even closely related cultures like the UK an
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by graemep 4mo ago
Other big industries. Finance and banking switches to English the moment you deal with anything international. Academic publications and conferences in many fields are heavily tilted towards English. You have more specialist textbooks in En
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by graemep 4mo ago
> I have experience in what you describe, as I live far from London in a place I'm not from. Me too, but people have been pretty friendly and welcoming, and i have not been here long. > A lot of it is 'not from here [the vil
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by graemep 4mo ago
> Have you visited London recently? I have and did not experience any of that. Not all that different from when I last lived there in the last 90s.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Ireland seems to be hostile to immigrants. Singapore is well run but not to everyone's taste. Are the others really any better than the UK?
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by graemep 4mo ago
> people generally prefer to be with others similar to themselves. Similar how? Why skin colour rather than say eye colour? Why not similar language, culture, religion, politics...?
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by graemep 4mo ago
> Japan is also, famously, extremely racist. seems to contradict > I suspect a lot of the defensive patriotism there is a product of being so badly treated for so long. Racism can also take different forms. India has the world's
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by graemep 4mo ago
I think "supposed" is the key word there. Lots of people live somewhere for decades and still call themselves, and are called, expats.
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by graemep 4mo ago
> I've done some traveling in non-English speaking countries and it was a huge hurdle not being completely fluent in the local language. It just seems like common sense to me to dive in all the way if you are moving somewhere long t
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by graemep 4mo ago
Hard to know because its very rarely overt IRL and social media does not give you a good sample.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Lots of people want to migrate from one country to another, so they clearly think their own lives would be improved (bar a few doing it altruistically). As for including the locals lives, how? You might be bringing skills they need, or mone
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by graemep 4mo ago
I often find things are more expensive on the manufacturer's site than they are on Amazon or Ebay. I assume because they know you are ding price comparisons on marketplaces.
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by graemep 4mo ago
The notes column also sometimes explains current status. Some historical bans and the reasons for them are very interesting too.
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by graemep 4mo ago
+ some smaller European countries not in the EU such as Norway. Companies also move to the US (e.g. Stripe) or are bought big American companies (e.g. Deepmind)
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by graemep 4mo ago
They did say that last year: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2025/07/25/microsoft-ex...

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