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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Just so the original author doesn't accidentally misinterpret my complete and utter disgust for his statement as ignorance; I pretty much guessed it instantly. It might be a new term, but as far as I'm concerned it's as banna
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Sperging out? Are you serious?
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> I feel like your comparison of sexual orientation to ethnicity is a bit of a stretch. How, apart from perhaps ease of concealment, is there any difference between the two?
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I, for one, am pretty fascinated by the down votes critical comments like yours and mine are getting. It seems that there are people for which the mere perspective that strong AI may never happen, or would not have a profound impact if it d
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I love this kind of thinking, but we can't even talk with dolphins yet. What makes you think computer sentience will be any different?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Thanks for the response. It's a well-reasoned gem and I'm a wiser man for having read it. In my mind the two are still categorically different, mainly due to the self-servingness and media contortions, but I agree that there'
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I've been following all international reporters on the ground from day one (Twitter journalism is truly a game-changer) and corroborating it by getting personal perspectives from people related to Maidan and within Crimea. My partner i
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My Russian is not that good, but doesn't this also mention some irregularities which cast some doubt on that number? Regardless, if a single polling station in a fairly pro-Russian area, kept on its toes by (amateur) observers, gets a
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Well; the Maidan insurgency was suicide for quite a few of the protesters. History is littered with insurgencies that won through losing. But as for Crimea vs. Kosovo; without international intervention the Kosovo situation would still ha
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I agree that marriage and 'rights conferred by marriage' could have been split. That's actually how gay marriage was introduced in the Netherlands, through something called a 'cohabitation-agreement.'
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
OK. I stand corrected on the genocide. Still; the NATO intervention was to stop a war between insurgents (supported by the populace) and a government that started waging war against the insurgents. In that case the equivalent would have bee
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
OK. It's pretty clear that you've been heavily exposed to a single perspective of the situation. There is no way in hell 97% of the population voted in favor with 80+% turnout; especially given that 30+% of the population is Tatar
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Navalny, the Russian opposition, is already under house arrest and was threatened with jail just for 'breaking his house arrest' by publishing the blog post about his ideas on who to sanction; even before any sanctions were actual
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Crack cocaine vs African Americans is rather more indirect though. Being anti-gay marriage directly means "I want gay people to not have the following rights: x, y and z," and in that sense it is directly anti-gay. It's n
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Go watch any of the videos of gay husbands and wives who were denied access to the hospital to witness their loved ones die. That gay men and women weren't allowed to bring their partners into the country is another major one. Edit: Th
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive overview! Sounds about right to me. I hadn't heard about the 'pirate website' law though. Do you have some more info on that? Also, just to be clear, I wasn't arguing that the Ukraine conflic
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Navalny is a Russian opposition leader. The founder of VKontakte is Pavel.
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In Kosovo there was active, widespread genocide going on. Absolutely nothing of such kind was happening in Crimea. Additionally the Kosovo constitution offered room for secession and it's secession was consequently recognized by the va
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> there could well be better places to "start a median small business." In Germany, which is the prime example of the EU model in that sense, there is even a word for that kind of business: Mittelstand ( https://en.wi
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'm not sure Paul actually even meant that; but in my mind the difference is pretty simple: The US is set up to achieve the maximum amount of runaway breakout successes at the expense of average of quality of life. The EU is set up to
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It more seems that the seriousness of the conflict depends on whether you see this as an isolated incident (which just happens to be the worst violation of territorial integrity in Europe since WWII) or as yet another indicator that the ex
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Except that the US isn't in a steep decline. The US doesn't start invasions and pretends it's someone else's military. The US doesn't cancel leases for pro-Snowden news outlets. The US doesn't send protesters a
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News about Pavel's departure started appearing ever since the hostile takeover well over a year ago. His actual departure was today which makes it very much possible, if not likely, that it was connected to recent events which undoub
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It says it in the article. Navalny was making statements condemning the Crimea annexation and giving advice on how best to apply economic sanction to the Kremlin-elite surrounding Putin. After the US followed his advice Navalny even tweeted
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Most people don't realise that Russia is a brutal petro-chemical dictatorship in economical decline which is clamping down hard on human rights, freedom of the press and radicalising its population through propaganda. I've been fo
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I couldn't find your question. What exactly did you want feedback on?
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> Sprinkling clojure in your job postings isn't magic. If you're trying to find these developers through job postings I don't think you're going to have much success. Your target market is developers passionate abou
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It's about not blaming bad code/product on developer incompetence though. It's a leftover from a time when I unfairly criticised a number of programmers who were actually heroically fighting to deliver a quality product und
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Interestingly enough (in the context of this thread) my personal corollary to that is: "Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by bad management."
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I wasn't drawing any conclusions; just sharing an anecdote and the impression it left on me. At Clojure meetups there's a palpable sense of eagerness in everyone I talk with that isn't using it on a daily basis yet though and

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