justadeveloper2

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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
People have been killing each other long before guns were invented, so I doubt very much it has any real effect. The "uncontrolled US weapons market?" Give me a break! The biggest seller of weapons to those countries is the US
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I'm not sure how I feel about your statement. I see a lot of Venezuelans with no recourse other than to start fighting. I don't see how order is more important than having a chance at a future at all? It is frustrating to watch
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
That does make me wonder how many angry people I encounter each day, especially drivers, who are just constipated?
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Me too. The point about Apple is that they are abetting human rights violations. The Chinese treat their people like animals.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Oh, I see, they only take on "moral" issues when it comes to the US elections? Companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook can sway the world right into totalitarianism via their support of censorship and disregard for basic human
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It still works if you use the groovy-eclipse plugin in Maven, otherwise no. A lot of the Groovy interop tooling has fallen behind in 2017. For example, the developers I work with who use Eclipse could not run Spock tests because the plugi
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I drove cars without airbags for most of my life. I even still have a car without airbags. Whether it's a good idea or not is debatable, but your statement that it's dangerous doesn't resonate with me. Airbags are a false
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I moved to Raleigh back in '97 under the mistaken impression that it would be a major tech hub. While there are many good tech jobs there, the RTP area fell pretty far short of my expectations. Also, the dot-com crash gutted that are
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Amazon phone, lol.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
The liberal backlash against Amazon is also coming. I have nothing against Musk in particular except that every one of his companies runs off of government largesse one way or another--SpaceX is pretty cool, though, I give him that. We shou
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I wanted to offer some thoughts to the author of this piece. I don't wish to belittle you or make light of your situation. But I do want to point out a few things. Foremost, you need to understand that free expression is not illegal
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
50 million dead attributed to that war.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I would say the biggest issue with declining birth rates are social and psychological in nature and NOT physiological. People simply work too much, for just one example.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
That is due to coliform contamination, though. Those countries have feces in their water supply directly and in huge amounts.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
What if the water evaporates and eventually rains back down? We should all drink rainwater or pure grain alcohol, just to be extra safe.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I'm intrigued, but I suspect that the dilution of whatever millions of women can pee out is still in our favor luckily.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Before you jump to there, you might consider taking a look at the methodology of the study itself. On the face of it, it seems like too broad of a claim. There's been nothing wrong with my sperm counts, for example. So maybe paintin
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Putting it all in perspective: If you lived through the 1940s at all you won the freaking lottery.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
They'll be happy to torture you regardless. The Soviets did it all the time--take people in and beat them senseless for no reason other than to intimidate others into compliance. The Chinese do it, probably the US 'intelligence&
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
There was an XKCD that demonstrated how crypto fails in the real world--if a state wants something, they either beat it out of you or threaten to harm your family members, friends, your dog, destroy your ability to earn income, etc. Crypto
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Not only is it a social construct, but the concept of money took thousands of years to evolve, with fits and starts, to what it is today. No matter what, some new technology isn't going to just show up all of a sudden and completely re
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Are you familiar with Assassination Politics?
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The library burned down, iirc. Largely due to societal rot as you suggest--invasions, pestilence, and probably the deaths of the original founders and their vision did not translate to the following generations.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Librarians are always worried about preserving garbage, which is what the Million Dollar Web Page is. Now before you downvote me, bear in mind I did Information Science in grad school, so I hung around with a lot of librarians. I know the
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It's the same reason why companies buy licensed software even when decent open source alternatives exist--they know they can pick up a phone and yell at someone when something goes wrong. Also, there is a ton of folklore built up arou
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
If we get a UBI, I'm quitting my developer job and just going to coast the rest of my life. I don't care how many corners I have to cut, lol. Gonna milk that cow as hard as I can. My dad used to ask to be laid off jobs (blue col
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Plus, back then, people weren't shy about tar and feathering ingrate politicians.
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I always thought the Carolinas should do the same thing--no reason to be out doing things in that brutal, mid-day humidity in the summer.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
A lot of this DRM hoo-ha could be avoided if we just had sane copyright durations instead of the ridiculous "life of the author + 75 years" bs that companies like Disney successfully lobbied our do nothing for the regular guy Cong
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It was all explained extremely well in "Team America: World Police."

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