graemep

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by graemep 5mo ago
I agree with you insofar as modern societies are over centralised. In my view the cure for this has to be more than just political - the economic structure (domination of the economy by big businesses) and technology and other things would
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by graemep 5mo ago
its my SOP is it? I did not know I had one! Maybe you count stating facts as an "SOP"? So you have moved ground from all non-westerners to just Muslims? Your original claim was "The only people who didn't vote along ethn
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by graemep 5mo ago
DBeaver does a good job of this and works with most databases. I would not use MySQL Workbench or PGAAdmin now. This might be a good implementation but is it not easier to use something that can connect to your database than having to copy
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by graemep 5mo ago
The problem is that there are effective mechanisms for punishing irresponsible drivers (and motor cyclists), but none (at least here in the UK) for punishing irresponsible cyclists. The other problem is that cyclists often share space with
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by graemep 5mo ago
Teenagers do dangerous things on normal bicycles too. The nearest I have ever come to an accident with a bicycle while driving (in the UK) was a teenager shooting out at high speed across the road from behind a parked van. Having cyclists s
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by graemep 5mo ago
None of that justifies rape and torture. None of it makes Gaza remotely similar to the Warsaw Ghetto. Why do you not apply the same logic to Israel? The occupied territories were occupied as part of a long running conflict with people who w
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by graemep 5mo ago
You are picking one of the weak points of the standard library and an unusually popular replacement (and AFAIK it is built on the standard library). I cannot think of many others that are widely used. Maybe lxml ? A Python codebase might we
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by graemep 5mo ago
You are right the syntax is a small part of it, but it is more important than you say in this case because Python syntax is one of the things that makes it very readable. Even if you dislike the direction Python is going in, a lot of what a
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by graemep 5mo ago
Not recently, but there are things like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50752217 and there have been claims the UK interfered in American politics in about 1940 to get US support in WW2.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Fair enough. I am just a lot more sceptical than you are about firstly, how well anarchy would work (I do not think it would scale up to the size of modern societies), and secondly how quickly it would be replaced by else and how bad that s
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by graemep 5mo ago
Arch is fine if you do not use AUR. If you use AUR check everything. Most distros are too. All the big distros have pretty good track records.
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by graemep 5mo ago
1,500 packages out of 107,000 so pretty bad, ameliorated by only affecting installs of those in a window of a few days. AUR comes with a warning that its up to you to check what you install from there.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I think its possible to take a stronger position as the roots of the modern idea are definitely pre-modern and not significantly influenced by ancient Greece. Democracy and human rights evolved together. From things such as the Witan and
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by graemep 5mo ago
> But thank you for confirming my hypothesis in another comment that you are indeed inspired by neo-fascist thought. A look at their comment history would do that!
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by graemep 5mo ago
So did they stop any Iranian companies doing business with Iran? Did they stop China or Russia doing business with Iran? If Google Deepmind has to stop doing business with non-US citizens what will they do with their R & D in the UK and
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is true, but it also means that multiple parties does not solve the problem of the parent to my first comment in this thread which as "You can pick which of the two possibilities, neither of which is even close to your political v
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by graemep 5mo ago
> The only people who didn't vote along ethnic lines were westerners in the past 40 to 80 or so years, and that is rapidly changing and will almost entirely disappear in less than 50 years. Lots of countries (including many western
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by graemep 5mo ago
Certainly to stop people with US businesses from doing business with Iran or Cuba. To stop an American owned British company from doing business in the UK? To stop a French company doing business in France? To stop either doing business wit
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by graemep 5mo ago
To add, the multiple parties in the UK just means I have more choices that are not close to my political views!
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is what I meant by anarchy - the state anarchism wants to achieve. Collins dictionary says anarchy is "4. the theory or practice of political anarchism" but it seems it might be a British usage. I do not think it is somethin
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by graemep 5mo ago
Google Deepmind is headquartered in the UK and has R & D in multiple countries. How would the US ban non-nationals from using something that is largely developed outside the US by people who are not US nationals? Mistral might be a bit
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is only an issue if you have sufficiently deep ethnic divisions within a country that people automatically vote on ethnic lines.
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is true in the US, but that is not typical. I cannot think of another democracy that is as firmly two party as the US. Even the UK which I felt was too two party has always had some smaller parties (for many decades the Liberals, and t
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by graemep 5mo ago
The alternative is worse. No government at all implies anarchy which is worse that all but the very worst governments, and from which IMO some form of government will emerge anyway.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Not in the US, and not addressing whether the governments controlled were tyrannical or not (in many cases the rebels were definitely bad) but there are lots of wars around the world that were started by people with small arms and home made
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by graemep 5mo ago
Or if you compare a poetic translation to a literal one, of different translations of the same work to the same language to each other.
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by graemep 5mo ago
It can spot mistakes made by a human if asked to review code or write tests. GP is is over the top ins saying humans will "be inferior soon" but AI can be a nice additional check so AI review might be come standard.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Mandatory where? it is already the preferred format of the British government, and I think I have read about other adoption, and as well as some governments adopting open source office suites which would push them towards ODF. Other governm
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is all the more reason for governments not to rely on foreign suppliers.
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by graemep 5mo ago
You seriously think that those countries are bound to Europe? That Europe is their imperial capital? Anyone from those countries here who feels that Europe is their imperial capital? Those countries also have trade deals with each other, an

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