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by magpi3 7y ago
Of course. Nation states have not been round that long. Just a few hundred years. Jewish culture exists throughout the world. All religious cultures actually. Islamic culture. Immigrants often retain many aspects of their culture when they
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by magpi3 7y ago
The conflation that is happening in this thread is between culture and ethnicity not nationality and ethnicity. When someone of mixed race says they are "all Japanese" they are obviously talking about their culture and not their p
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by magpi3 7y ago
If mixed ethnicity makes you less Japanese than of course you will be discriminated against. At the very least families who want their descendants to be "more" Japanese will resist allowing their children to marry those who are &q
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by magpi3 7y ago
> let things go From everything I have read, challenging the cartels in Mexico is suicide for individuals, and often even for governments (at least it is for politicians). I would "let things go" if I lived there too.
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by magpi3 7y ago
It is not.
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by magpi3 7y ago
I know some couples might have an understanding about such things, but I consider penetrating someone who is sleeping rape.
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by magpi3 7y ago
Thank you!
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by magpi3 7y ago
It would be really useful if large organizations like universities mirrored wikipedia. It is the only website I truly miss in China.
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by magpi3 7y ago
I am in China:-). That link is blocked.
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by magpi3 7y ago
Does wikipedia have any read only mirrors?
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by magpi3 7y ago
I know you are joking but for me vim was never meant to replace the command line. For me the terminal is the IDE. Vim is the editor, gdb is the debugger, grep is for text searching, etc. The desire to include more and more in vim mirrors wh
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by magpi3 7y ago
That is arguable. I am sure there are a lot of Harry Potter (and Star Wars, etc.) fans that have spent a lot of money on merchandising，which is not as accessible as DLC but is kind of the same idea.
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by magpi3 7y ago
In a worst case scenario, couldn't you simply bundle a static version of an old library with an old open source app to avoid the problem of a distro dropping old dependencies?
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by magpi3 7y ago
Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows.
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by magpi3 7y ago
In a Linux distro you specify dependencies by library version and you are never required (as far as I know) to upgrade to a new major library revision. Games compiled for SDL1 are not required to upgrade to SDL2. There are some absolutely a
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by magpi3 7y ago
The open source model expects apps to be open source. And if they are then an app can be recompiled to support new library versions. It is the hybrid open source library / closed source app that causes problems like this.
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by magpi3 8y ago
Arguably a "complicated mess of cobbled together archaicness" describes most old software, Windows included. I think that's just the nature of how software evolves.
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by magpi3 8y ago
> Come to think of it, this is also a problem with the Unix philosophy in general, in that it requires trading off performance (user productivity) for flexibility (developer productivity) “Sure, Unix is a user-friendly operating system.
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by magpi3 8y ago
> But if society is already floundering around with aimless discussion in a lot of areas, with big conflicts in terms of the basic moral or ethical premises of the world, then writing succinct, direct stories that have a point may be mor
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by magpi3 8y ago
With writing like this, I think trying to "get the point" is... missing the point for lack of a better expression. For me the question is simply does this piece make you feel something or not? A piece like this invites the reader
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by magpi3 8y ago
Academia not graduate school.
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by magpi3 8y ago
> Yes, that is the idea. But you can "white label" legislation too. What's stopping "you" (in the broader sense) from simply competing with ALEC? I lack the resources to compete with large corporations. Are you a
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by magpi3 8y ago
Flappybird I think
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by magpi3 8y ago
Debian is a non-profit, but it is also a volunteer run organization and many of those volunteers work at companies (Ubuntu being one of them) that are for profit and depend on the development of Linux for that profit.
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by magpi3 8y ago
There are subreddits. I am in China now so reddit is blocked for me, but try /r/webcomics
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by magpi3 8y ago
The point the author is trying to make IMO is that the parents dismiss the relationships as shallow and contextual, while the children themselves, the ones actually in the relationship, have no choice whatsoever. Of course relationships w
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Why Do We Murder the Beautiful Friendships of Boys? (2017)(medium.com)
35 points by magpi3 8y ago|9 comments
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by magpi3 8y ago
Not a great comparison. We are talking about musicians getting paid for composing music, not for performing. If you want to go with this analogy, then you would note that you DO get paid for the composition (of the software) but not its per
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by magpi3 8y ago
I think an even easier way to describe this phenomenon: can you commodify what you do? If you can, you can sell it and make a living. If you can't, you can't. Albums and three minute songs became a popular format to record in beca
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by magpi3 8y ago
If the bribe taker donated all of the money to charity, would that make it any less unethical for the University/basketball coach? A bribe is a bribe, and the spot that was taken in the University could have and should have gone to som

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