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by mvc 5y ago
Maybe, maybe not, but who do you think has the right or power to declare that Ukraine will remain neutral?
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by mvc 5y ago
How much do you think the GDP of China would be impacted if there was nothing left of NATO to buy their wares? We're all dependent on each other. This retreat into isolationism just presents an illusion of non-dependency. We need to st
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by mvc 5y ago
Elections have consequences but electors sometimes need to come face to face with those who bear the consequences to remember that.
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by mvc 5y ago
Yes, UK and US foreign policy has been, and in many places around the world, is currently, ethically, morally questionable. As a UK citizen, of voting age for 20 years now, I'm guilty as charged. I voted for Blair before the Iraq war,
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by mvc 5y ago
I was against the Iraq war at the time. Still think it was a bad idea. I'm generally anti-war. But in this case, as in WW2 it's the only thing that will stop an agressor hell-bent on an idiological mission to restore the Soviet Un
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by mvc 5y ago
They have already encircled a sovereign nation with their army and are moving in. Our "proportionate" response so far has been to shut down a couple of banks. I'm not talking about a nuclear strike. All out nuclear war is cle
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by mvc 5y ago
We drew a line in the sand when we persuaded them to get rid of their own nukes, ensuring that we'd have their back. That we don't actually have their back will be noted by despots the world over.
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by mvc 5y ago
So we wait until they're doing this in Poland? I think I've seen this one before. Doesn't end well for anyone involved. Better to hit an enemy when they're not expecting it.
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by mvc 5y ago
I think the assumption is that when the system is threatened, the leaders of all the countries benefiting from said capitalism would grow a pair and do something. Because if they don't, and the system collapses, then what?
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by mvc 5y ago
Are we in favor of economics/capitalism here or are we not? Because the economics literature is quite clear that international trade is beneficial to all involved. It's what we insist that developing countries focus on exports whe
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by mvc 5y ago
> I would expect that it is a lot easier to dehumanize people that look really different from anyone else I wonder when this has ever got us into trouble as a society before. Maybe check yourself if you find yourself experiencing feeling
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by mvc 5y ago
> just enjoying a personal hobby wtaf!! I mean, what is the point of life if engaging in your hobbies is fair game for hostility from society? The thought that this is something a lot of people actually think scares me to the core.
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by mvc 5y ago
You seem to be a cyclist so I'm surprised that you never appear to have been scared by a car passing you closely at 100km/h? Anything less than 2m away at this speed is likely to feel very scary to the cyclist. So whether there ar
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by mvc 5y ago
> why they should not receive a loan from the bank for the newest iPhone Excuse my snarkiness but as someone who's been poor and needed a phone, I'd have got a loan to buy a 2nd hand phone if anyone would've given me one
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by mvc 5y ago
Oh look who sponsored the committee on covid testing. Seems like the government welcomed these people with open arms https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/covid-testing-comp... Which cabinet member has got a f
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by mvc 5y ago
Words of someone who's never been a target.
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by mvc 5y ago
I'm from the generation of people who "grew up" with Facebook (~40 fwiw, so I guess I'm one of these "older" people). There are of course folks older than me who use Facebook but they all got to adulthood befor
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by mvc 5y ago
I think Clojure quite explicitly rejects "encapsulationism". As does the "data on the outside" philosophy of event driven systems.
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by mvc 5y ago
This is the first I'd heard of migra but I can definitely imagine a solution involving piping the schema-diff between two databases (e.g. uat and local-dev) into some file that eventually gets applied in prod. Seems easier than manuall
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by mvc 5y ago
Sounds a bit like bootstrapping a lisp.
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by mvc 5y ago
Whadya mean my operating system is not multi-user? If another user wants to use it, they just buy another machine and use it on that.
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by mvc 5y ago
> Supposedly seniors relying on recruiters and job offers instead of using their network, if they've worked with people in the past, and can't draw on that, I wonder how that is, is it that everybody they worked with are not ni
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by mvc 5y ago
> And therefore, why cannot the UK fund PhDs more effectively than the EU? I always assumed the whole raison d'etre of Brexit was that Conservatives wanted to avoid the obligation of paying into funds like this. Sounds lovely in the
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by mvc 5y ago
I don't understand the attitute that most software engineers seem to have with recruiters. My early years as a software developer were in locations where opportunities were not like they are in your big tech centers. In those years, re
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by mvc 5y ago
Yep I did. Thanks.
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by mvc 5y ago
There really isn't a choice. Nobody pays more than they have to, to secure a house purchase. If the price paid is 1M, that's because that's the price the seller wanted. They'd have demanded that price whoever bought it.
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by mvc 5y ago
There's two sides to every transaction. Why blame only the buy side?
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by mvc 5y ago
Can we blame a manager for the suicides of burned out workers?
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by mvc 5y ago
Record an event log and reliably connect it to a variety of 3rd party sinks using off-the-shelf services
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by mvc 5y ago
5%! Pfft you kids have got it easy. My first mortgage was 7.8

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