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by grondilu 10y ago
There are articles about politics, and there would be no surprise if for instance articles about Marx are written mostly by Marxists. There is nothing wrong with this. But the author here is going beyond that, as she states that she edits
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by grondilu 10y ago
What about things like "pass the salt" or "I love you"?
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This is barely an acceptable behavior. You're supposed to use a neutral point of view when editing Wikipedia. As this editor publicly admits she's editing Wikipedia as a form of activism for her political views, she at least dec
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> Anonymous communication is an important part of democratic societies and freedom of speech. Is it?
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> France has one of the highest fertility rates in the developed world, Not by much, and it's still not enough to renew generations.
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by grondilu 10y ago
On the other hand it can also some kind of proof of honesty and transparency. "Hey, I did that work alone, which is slightly odd, but hey at least I'm not hiding this fact." I agree with haddr above. People should not be as
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by grondilu 10y ago
Isn't it fairly known that less educated people have more children?
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To me that's a stretch. AI is not a carpet under which you put everything you don't know about how the World works.
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Kind of related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iriBuIunNYM
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Crashing and landing are about as similar as dying and sleeping.
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Automation reduces prices. Eventually when everything is automated, prices go to zero. So no need for money then. Self-solving problem.
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> what's the difference between robots replacing American jobs and foreigners replacing American jobs? Complaining about the latter makes you sound xenophobic.
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The title itself sounds like the archetype of FUD.
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By this line of reasoning you could indeed decide to give less of a voting power to old people, arguing that all political decisions have important long term consequences. There are plenty of reasons why that would be unacceptable, and I&#x
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It is discrimination by definition, whether you think it is justified or not.
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> The saddest part is that older people(fact) practically decided for the future of the younger ones. Why is it sad? Do you think the vote of young people should weigh more than the vote of old people? That'd be discrimination.
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> The freedom of movement for European citizens was not only "convenient" but in fact an important civil right. Borders exist so the concept of freedom of movement is not absolute. Now, maybe that's a bad thing and we sho
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by grondilu 10y ago
In politics, I don't think bigger is better. I'd even say it's dangerous.
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> I would guess no small part of them will try to move to the remaining EU states. You seem to underestimate the language barrier. I once talked to a few British young people about which country they would like to move to and I recall
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by grondilu 10y ago
Have you ever looked at Perl 6, by any chance? We have most of the features you list, except for instance Tail Call Optimization, but we'd love to have someone implementing it!
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by grondilu 10y ago
You can nest lambdas to get the equivalent of several expressions. I once wrote a Runge-Kutta example on Rosetta Code showing this: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Runge-Kutta_method#using_lambda It does not look as bad a
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Politicians should never have to protest the Law since they make it.
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If the Republican party prevented that vote inside the constraints of laws, procedures and whatnot, there is nothing to protest about. In fact I agree with OP : politicians should never have to protest for anything. There are procedures to
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If the goal is to avoid high-frequency trading, why not use a blockchain-like technology?
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Funny coincidence that I just stumbled upon a nice video about sound crafting for cinema: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/wonderful-short-film-reveals-the-p...
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Video games could use something like that. Especially for collisions. Games often struggle to do them correctly and completely absurd results are not rare.
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The machine stops on the side of the road and calls a human.
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How long until someone is capable of making really big diamonds? I mean big like a soccer ball or something? Is it silly to wonder if we will one day be able to use diamond as a structural material?
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> granting stronger voting rights to long-term shareholders would make takeovers harder, That sounds like a reasonable idea, but I think it fails to see how capital markets work. The thing is, voting rights can be sold. If you create d
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When talking about megafauna resurrection, it is often said that it's not possible because DNA degrades too much after a few thousand years. Yet apparently the DNA of this plant was still viable. What am I missing?

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