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by jules 10y ago
The UK does not have that shared French Revolution tradition at all, and neither do a large number of European countries that are still monarchies. Instead of a violent French Revolution, the UK had a nonviolent change of power from royalty
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What would be the advantage of that over doing zillions of particle interactions in an actual particle accelerator? If history is any guide then theories of physics are extremely simple. All the way from classical mechanics to special relat
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The problem of being out-lawyered by a richer opponent exists in both cases, so I don't see how that's an argument for or against either system. The point about potentially discouraging lawsuits has a grain of truth in it, but not
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It won't though. The supply of people willing to sell their soul to make easy money contains more than one person.
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This comes up every single time, but it remains false. Loser pays does not mean that the loser has to pay a gigantic amount for the opponent's extremely expensive lawyers. Loser pays means that the judge determines what is a reasonable
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In the talk when he showed the 3 similar maps getting equal score, and then the green one getting a much higher score, that could easily be because people couldn't decide between the 3 similar maps, to they went with the one different
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You can make decisions in the face of uncertainty based on an assessment of the risk and the probabilities of the possible outcomes. If you get in your car you put your seatbelt on without knowing whether you're going to need it for th
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The ability to deal with uncertainty is not the same as cognitive dissonance. There is no cognitive dissonance involved in accepting that mutually contradictory propositions P and Q could be true, you just don't know yet which is. Cogn
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The part about no support isn't really true, at least in the Netherlands. There has been an endless stream of government programs, and billions upon billions of euros invested, which unfortunately had only a small effect. So I have lit
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I have not put any words in your mouth. Instead of considering that the opposing side may have good reasons for their opinions, you analysed their psychology as racist and stupid. I see this attitude a lot, but particularly on the left, whi
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Yes, you made that assertion.
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I'm speechless.
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Come on, your whole comment was about people being stupid and racist. Here's one line: "It's far easier to blame "those dirty foreigners" than it is to accept the vagaries of economics.". The rest was very much
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> My response assumed that talking about Trump and globalism was dog-whistling for the less pleasant elements of society Yes, and my response was precisely about that assumption, which is really a different issue than economic policies l
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Imagine a conversation between a pro-EU politician and this car mechanic. P: Vote for me! Free movement of labour is great. C: Why? Then I will face competition from people who are willing to work for very low wages, and so will my kids. P:
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How did you jump from talking about racists to tariffs for China?
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That's the point...
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Realistically, how does the ability to move to Poland help the person working in a local car repair shop? Is that hypothetical worth the risk of getting fired in favour of a cheaper worker? What about the job prospects of his/her kids?
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It's not about running out of memory altogether, it's about the heap filling up with dead objects while the GC doesn't yet know that they are dead. Of course things are great when they are great and the GC can keep up with th
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How is the EU a guarantor of democracy? Our national governments are far more democratic than the EU. Free movement of labour isn't necessarily something that's good for working people, particularly at the lower end of the income
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How ironic. Have you considered that maybe people who vote for certain parties may have good reasons for it? I don't like those parties either, but saying people vote for them simply because people are stupid racists is ridiculous. You
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> How exactly? Heap fills up, you need a full collection. During that collection your program is running and allocating, but runs out of space, so it grinds to a halt. Look, there is a reason why Rust is a thing, why realtime collectors
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It doesn't affect mutator performance, until it does, and your program grinds to a halt for several seconds.
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Tracing GC is not always faster. GC time is proportional to the size of the allocated memory, reference counting time is not.
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Is there a natural justification for the logistic distribution though?
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Does 1 based indexing actually matter? It does if you are doing index arithmetic for rolling your own multidimensional arrays for example, but one shouldn't do those kind of things anyway.
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That's what they thought a couple of decades ago too. I've heard of some research into programming languages decades ago not getting funded because "in a few years we won't need programming languages anyway". It mig
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It's very common for professors and researchers, which I guess he kind of is.
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That comparison is not valid. God is supposedly omnipresent, so when a baby is being killed somewhere he sees it and is able to stop it with no effort yet he lets it happen. Just imagine being in a situation where you see a baby being kille
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There is a lot of suffering that does not come from people's own choices, such as natural disasters. Even for the evil that does come from people's choices that position is rather questionable. If a person saw somebody about to ki

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