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by lou1306 6y ago
A successful ECI must be officially addressed by the Commission. I agree they can just sweep it under the rug, but that's true of any "citizens' initiative" process.
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by lou1306 6y ago
Have you taken a look at FSharpPlus [0] ? It attempts at... "reproducing" higher-kinded polymorphism by means of abstract classes and operators for Functor, Monad, Applicative, and so on. It's a bit clunky (and if compilation
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by lou1306 6y ago
> But I'll make it explicit, if irony is considered too snarky: Exposing more gifted children to less gifted ones might be beneficial in small doses, it isn't in general. One group will always be detrimental to the other I do s
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by lou1306 6y ago
Not sticky notes, but plain old notebooks are what works best for me. About 10 years ago, moleskines + GTD [0] or Bullet Journal [1] were all the rage, but I only started appreciating such a system in grad school. Personally, I use a very i
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by lou1306 6y ago
Posting snarky replies on HN is beneficial?
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by lou1306 6y ago
School should also teach kids that they live in a complex society, where people have different backgrounds and, yes, different skill sets. I'm afraid that relegating "more gifted" kids (whatever this means) into a world of th
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by lou1306 6y ago
In Italy we are lucky to have a very good medieval historian, professor Alessandro Barbero, who has done a great deal of work to popularize "peasant history" among the general public. Most of his talks, are available on YouTube a
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by lou1306 6y ago
I think it's common military training in a lot of places. I'm italian, my dad did his service in the Engineering corps (Genio) and he told me the same story. No lock step while crossing bridges.
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by lou1306 6y ago
In OCaml and F# you can use `when`: match status with | n when n = not_found -> ...
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by lou1306 6y ago
Ouch, that's indeed pretty bad. I do expect `not_found = status` (that's how pattern matching works in several other languages), but it should be in its own scope, so that `not_found` is still `404` outside of the `match` block!
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by lou1306 6y ago
> Yeah but most people aren't paying for g-mail ...Or are they, except not in cash? :) Jokes aside, that's a fair observation, but then one should be able to "transfer" their address by paying a one-time fee, rather t
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by lou1306 6y ago
The point is, when you switch your phone operator, you don't have to pay the previous operator, in perpetuity, for the privilege of using your number without your calls being blocked.
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by lou1306 6y ago
Agree. I find it odd that so many people bring up this argument, like these companies aren't sitting on piles of cash that could be invested in systemic, human-in-the-loop improvements. (Ok, maybe except Twitter)
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by lou1306 6y ago
It is unfair from a consumer standpoint, but at least it would avoid Google's self-dug grave from getting deeper. From a B2B standpoint, it's just the name of the game. If a partner business is a strategic asset, you fast-track th
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by lou1306 6y ago
Of course Smaug does get referenced (in Fellowship, Frodo actually meets Glòin, i.e. Gimli's dad and one of Bilbo's fellow adventurers in The Hobbit). But still, it's fair to say that there are no actual dragons anywhere in
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by lou1306 6y ago
But "dropping trade restrictions, import taxes and need for touristic visas" automatically leads to production shifting towards the countries with the loosest regulation and the lowest wages. So, you need at least a supranationa
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by lou1306 6y ago
And the irony is, you actually were reaping a lot of the perks while not being "in the club" under many, many respects (the €, first of all). Just a sad, sad turn of events all around.
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by lou1306 6y ago
The misquote I find most laughable is > It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons ...since, you know, Lord Of The Rings does not feature any dragons! (The "fell beasts" that Nazguls ride are not d
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by lou1306 6y ago
Checks and balances are part of any functioning democracy. Sure they make things less efficient, but once you take them out, you end up with a tyranny of the majority.
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by lou1306 6y ago
> Having 2 elected houses is monumentally stupid idea that allows politicians to trap the system in blockages, while pointing fingers at each other for no repercussions. A democratic system's main concern is not efficiency, but rath
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by lou1306 6y ago
The Senate is intentionally designed to give more power to smaller states. Otherwise, the 10-15 biggest states could routinely gang up and pass federal legislation. Not a really nice outlook for a federal government.
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by lou1306 6y ago
But at least the US has a pretty sognificant percentage of people that reach the upper echelon of society from basically nothing (Obama, RBG, Biden). And the dinasties you mention are what, 50 years old? In the UK it seems that the ruling c
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by lou1306 6y ago
Not the commenter, but I hope to add something to the discussion. Generally, expanding on the current state of the art is paramount in academia. In this case, I guess that defaulting on closed-world and unique names is frowned upon because
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by lou1306 6y ago
It probably won't, but it makes it harder for such narratives to reach other people that may otherwise get radicalized.
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by lou1306 6y ago
"They" = Zuckerberg & his minions after acquiring Whatsapp and falsely promising that no, they wouldn't dare mining Whatsapp user data or -god forbid!- integrate WA's backend into FB's.
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by lou1306 6y ago
Agree. Another issue, when discussing this topic, is that Romans are believed to have adopted the Greek culture after the conquest of Greece. This is indeed mostly true, but not when it comes to the attitude towards foreigners, which coul
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by lou1306 6y ago
By today's standards, it is. However, we should not use today's worldview to judge another era's way of thinking. Also, a citizen was not just a "subject". A citizen from a conquered province could rather easily bec
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by lou1306 6y ago
On a similar note, during the 1960 Olympics in Rome, wrestling competitions were held at Massentium's Basilica [1]. If Rome ever gets to host another edition of the Olympic Games, the Colosseum would make for an incredible setting. [1]
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by lou1306 6y ago
Tauromachy (bullfighting) is a very ancient ritual: the spanish one is just one of its most recent formalisation. Venationes (hunting games) were common practice in Rome. The picture of gladiators fighting lions in the Colosseum is iconic
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by lou1306 6y ago
> “So rather than anti-barbarian, they were mostly anti-barbarian-identity.” Indeed. The Roman empire was not really "anti-barbarian" (except in its final throes): the Roman Emperorl considered himself to be the ruler of the wh

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