graemep

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by graemep 6mo ago
I have heard lots of people who refer to it as Saudi and that would be a reasonable way to do it IMO.
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by graemep 6mo ago
Thanks, that sounds pretty good.
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by graemep 6mo ago
> If you aren't American I am not American, and I have had two kids (now adults) and had a hatchback for many of those years. No problem fitting everything in. Split folding seats help a lot. The biggest car I have had is probably
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by graemep 6mo ago
How many kids do you have that you need two SUVs to carry them all? its not common.
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by graemep 6mo ago
So you have to use a phone or does it work without one? Does it handle credit card payments?
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by graemep 6mo ago
They are applying the same spam policies they apply to search to AI crawlers. It was SOOOOO successful with search, right?
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by graemep 6mo ago
The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
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by graemep 6mo ago
Failover is supposed to protect you every time, unless something really exceptional happens. While its possible to to isolate the effects, judging by how many things stop working when there is an AWS failure a lot of people fail to do tha
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by graemep 6mo ago
I can think of one quite easily! I am in the UK where the influence of religion on politics is very much positive IMO. For example, we have an established church that often speaks up for the poor, against war, etc. Religion is in the forefr
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by graemep 6mo ago
I am saying that big company funding of some FOSS is exceptional compared to the economy at large. Most public goods are not funded by bug companies. They do not do the same for roads or public health services, or free education or public l
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by graemep 6mo ago
It depends on what you mean by a religious society. Do you mean theocracies ? Democracies with a religious electorate? Countries with an established religion?
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by graemep 6mo ago
Public goods are not generally funded by large corporations.
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by graemep 6mo ago
The overall point fails because it requires those points. Religions grow by appealing to a wider audience than that which is already interested. That is precisely how Christianity spread in the first place. What the Catholic Church is doing
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by graemep 6mo ago
In 1971 there was an insurrection that nearly succeeded in overthrowing the government so the emergency was initially justified. I think we have different definition of authoritarian: yours is broader. Sri Lanka did continue to have electio
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by graemep 6mo ago
German text too. That was in exceptional circumstances to enable rapid secret distribution of the text
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by graemep 6mo ago
Funniest HN comment on religious topic ever. Literal LOL.
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by graemep 6mo ago
> The last one has been Sri Lanka in the 70s Sri Lanka did not become authoritarian in the 70s. It did adopt a presidential system.
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by graemep 6mo ago
Modern democracy developed in societies dominated by religious values and at least partly because of those values. What you describe as an appeal to democracy could also be described as a statement of Christian values. The idea that every i
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by graemep 6mo ago
With regard to souls its intelligences vs animals rather than human vs alien intelligences. I doubt there will be a definitive position in AGI until we known what a true AI is like.
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by graemep 6mo ago
> I'm an atheist too, but I don't think religions should appeal to outsiders. Why not? When i was an agnostic I liked the Catholic church as an institution (and many other religious organisations too). > The idea is that by
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by graemep 6mo ago
A big chunk of it was the improvement in China, which started with a recovery from a previous disastrous decline. The last 100+ years have also been atypical. Two world wars which disrupted economies in ways that lead to redistribution, hu
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by graemep 6mo ago
> Tell that to native Americans who were forcibly converted and enslaved. Tell that to those were were protects by the influence of the Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_of_the_Indians > Tell that t
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by graemep 6mo ago
> Pre-industrial world didn't have much human value. Your were a lord or a serf. There was not much in between. A lord's life had value, a serf's value was nothing. Not true. Serfs had rights that varied a lot between soc
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by graemep 6mo ago
That explains it. I interpreted PM as project manager.
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by graemep 6mo ago
> If you asked a random person what Columbus discovered, what would they answer? Round here I think most people would say that Columbus discovered America. By landing in San Salvador and then Cuba. Do they actually know where he landed?
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by graemep 6mo ago
I do have the advantage of having grown up speaking two dialects (but they are not THAT different) so I am probably better than average at understanding spoken English. I think the biggest difference is attitude: I am not thrown by hearing
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by graemep 6mo ago
> For example, there are spoken varieties of English that are mutually unintelligibl Which? I have travelled to, worked in, or lived in multiple countries with English speaking populations (by which I mean some people speak English as a
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by graemep 6mo ago
In English that would be "the Americas". I am quite surprised no one is bothered by the fact that the name is that of a colonialist and slave trader (he personally took part is slave raiding).
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by graemep 6mo ago
Not going to happen. Governments are very complacent. The UK only recently banned Chinese IP CCTV cameras from sensitive government sites! Its impossible to do with anything that gets updates. You never know what the next update will bring.
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by graemep 6mo ago
> PMs should be able to clearly form a customers' world model, fit that into their business, and clearly articulate needs to the "builders": UX designers and software engineers What your describing fits a job I did many ye

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