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by mercurial 9y ago
> There's historic precedent for that kind of divorce between actions and consequences, and it is not pretty. There's a certain French doctor you should google: his name's Josheph Guillotin. I'm not sure what analogy
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by mercurial 9y ago
> It seems that you're implying blatent disregard for the environment and pollution began (and possibly ended) in China. Absolutely not. What I am saying is that the protection of environment was not, until recent times, particularl
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by mercurial 9y ago
> Turkey will never be part of the EU proper. 'Never' as in: not in a couple of life times. Turkey has been given the runaround for the last 30 years or so not because there ever was a serious push to integrate them into the EU
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by mercurial 9y ago
I think paywalling reddit would kill it. It's not like Reddit Gold is very expensive ($30 a year). But I do think that simple friction (needing to hand over one's credit card information) is a barrier, combined with the fact that
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by mercurial 9y ago
"In China" was implied, not that I'm convinced that there was great environmental concern before that, even if the means to pollute were lacking compared to the post-Industrial Revolution west.
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by mercurial 9y ago
Blatant disregard for environment did not start with western companies, "development" of land was already a disaster under Mao.
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by mercurial 9y ago
Clearly a "modest proposal".
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by mercurial 9y ago
That's not a genocide, that's a deportation followed by forced cultural assimilation. It's bad, too, but it's not the same thing as exterminating a population.
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by mercurial 9y ago
Is it really that much faster? I mean, Rails is a separate problem, but I would have put Erlang in the same perf bracket as Ruby/Perl/Python.
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by mercurial 9y ago
The performance question is a good one. Erlang has never been a performance wonder, so I'd be surprised to hear that Elixir is noticeably faster than Ruby.
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by mercurial 9y ago
> (And even if it was "that a land-based invasion of Japan would be extremely costly for both the invaders and the civilian population" still wouldn't justify nuking civilians. War crimes are not excused when they make one
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by mercurial 9y ago
> You can skin a cat in many ways. For one case where the architects of the genocide did not get away with it there are multiple where they did. Of course. The US genocide of Native Americans did not lead to the Nuremberg trials. > I
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by mercurial 9y ago
> Why bother when you can just drop some atomic bombs to test on them (to "make them surrender")? Why the scare quotes? It is still debated, and the fanaticism of the Japanese resistance (for instance, in Okinawa) makes a fairl
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by mercurial 9y ago
> Every single time that the United States has engaged in conflict with Asian countries, it has waged not war but programs of systematic and indiscriminate extermination. No. There were no US Einsatzgruppen, there was no US equivalent to
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by mercurial 9y ago
Virtual machines are a thing.
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by mercurial 9y ago
1) There is a conservative majority in Turkey, which has flourished under Erdogan, both economically and societally. They have no reason to stop supporting them. 2) Not wanting a military coup does not make one a supporter of Erdogan. But y
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by mercurial 10y ago
I am not naive about what the US has done and still does. But reading a "list" is not nearly enough. Studying the US support to anti-Soviet forces will tell you much about how funding various insurgent groups goes, if the fact tha
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by mercurial 10y ago
> Assad is trying to hold on to legitimate power where the US is attempt to purge Syria of his government using terrorists relabeled freedom fighters who have destabilized the entire country. I think you are widely overestimating both th
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by mercurial 10y ago
> out variables are there because people were used to coding like this This does not invalidate OP's point that it is terrible design. You do not need to take every bad idea in older languages in the name of familiarity.
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by mercurial 10y ago
> but you'd still have to contend with OPC (Other People's Code) and if the language allows it, you just know it will turn up somewhere and ruin your day! ;) Yes, like the standard library's Dictionary.TryGetValue()...
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by mercurial 10y ago
C++ is notoriously hard to bind. The only high-quality Qt bindings I know of are Python ones (Pyside).
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by mercurial 10y ago
> Of course they do, the actual change has always been done by engineers and scientists That is demonstrably false. Caesar brought lasting change around him, just like Napoleon did. Alexander the Great, though his empire crumbled after h
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by mercurial 10y ago
French (expat) here, can't remember ever seeing any when I lived in France. Have I always been at the wrong restaurants?
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by mercurial 10y ago
That's why you include a checkbox underneath with the label "Do not show me this warning in the future (insecure)". And then a setting to turn it back on. It's not rocket science.
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by mercurial 10y ago
> And by cheap I mean cheaper than OS threads. The reactor pattern still adds a lot of CPU overhead to each I/O operation. You need to pay for concurrency one way or another, there is always going to be some bookkeeping overhead. Wh
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by mercurial 10y ago
> If you can't correctly write a function that meets a given specification, what makes you think that some random recombination of code you've previously written will meet the specification? Absolutely. There are three addition
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by mercurial 10y ago
Syria was invaded by NATO?
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by mercurial 10y ago
This might be in this particular case, but in a climate where newspapers are struggling, it's not difficult to imagine that journalists would be reluctant to investigate the group owning the paper or one of its main advertisers.
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by mercurial 10y ago
This joke works better with Haskell.
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by mercurial 10y ago
Not to mention that there is a lot of stuff, especially for UI, that is either hard or impossible to write tests for...

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