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by n4r9 2y ago
I assume then tha you have no arguments to make in support of Heinlein's characterisations. Thanks for the discussion I guess, in a way it's been vindicating.
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Generally agree. There are some subtle edge cases like price dumping, but even that's still ultimately an attempt to gain market dominance.
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Anti-competitive behaviours such as price-fixing and over-broad no-compete clauses can be problematic even without a monopoly.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Just to note; it would be really helpful if you could ease up on the ad hominem. It's not going to stop me and doesn't add to the weight of your arguments. It just drags the discussion down and makes it harder to figure out what y
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You now acknowledge at least that I have read the books?
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Sent. I don't have the patience to parse whatever you're trying to say here, but it's not you I'm worried about either way.
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Will email you some links/screenshots later today to demonstrate that I've read them (and expand on my points). Would post them here but keen to keep accounts separate.
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I meant that you might offer a defense of Heinlein against my initial points: for example, that there's a strong element of wish fulfilment in his characters. This is neither an extreme nor an uncommon critique. You clearly disagree wi
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I've given you lots of opportunity to offer a defense to the points I raised in my first reply to you. I've offered to go into more detail. I've contrasted Heinlein's work with contemporaneous works. Saying "you sho
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Substantive as in about Heinlein's work, rather than attacks on me or my motivations.
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At this point I'm mostly just intrigued to see whether you'll keep replying and whether you'll make any substantial points.
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In Dune there are female characters with their own desires and designs on the world, who go out and take what they want. There is profound loss, and personal transformation. There is coming to terms with intensely sad or painful circumstanc
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I've read the books, mulled them over, discussed them with others, and done some reading of what other critics have to say online. I've given my opinion and some of the reasoning behind it. If you want more of my reasoning I'
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I'd be happy to receive any pointers on how I'm wrong - perhaps I've misinterpreted what I've read, or there are characters in the rest of his work that defy my stance.
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Yes, that Clarke. Sorry for putting you to the extra effort. I spelled it correctly in the initial post you replied to. Guess I assumed that people would spot the back-reference.
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by n4r9 2y ago
Not sure if it will help me saying this, but that's a disappointingly dismissive and avoidant response well below HN standards. I'm very willing to engage with any counter-arguments in good faith. I don't use Twitter (or Mast
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The difference between Kinoautomat and Eno is that Eno actually doesn't give the user more freedom, since the scenes are randomly selected rather than selected by the audience. To put it another way: if you watch Kinoautomat twice, y
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It's cool to see how fast the trains go on different lines. But... where's the Elizabeth line? You get the tooltip when you hover over it, but the polyline is missing.
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Yeah true, in France the SNCF [0] both maintains and operates the railways. In most other EU countries (and the UK) the railway infrastructure is maintained and developed by a state-owned organisation and operated by a mixture of state-owne
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[The italics and punctuation suggest your comment is sarcastic, but I'm going to treat it as serious just in case.] Yeah, I'd say characterisation is a weakness of his. I've read Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Hars
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I've only read the first Foundation novel by Asimov. But what you write applies equally well to many other Golden Age authors e.g. Heinlein and Bradbury, plus slightly later writers like Clarke. I doubt there was much in the way of aut
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Yes. We have several solutions that include WinForms projects. Migrating those from Framework 4.8 to .Net 8 was as simple as changing "net48" to "net8.0-windows" in the csproj file.
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It must depend on the cities and how far in advance you can book. I just checked on Amtrak and you can get a train from Seattle to Spokane for $37 in July. This website suggests a comparable cost for driving: https://www.travelma
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Denmark and the Netherlands have income tax rates and public services much more similar to France than to the US.
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Even for inter-city trips, though? Some quick googling suggests that Waymo costs around $3 per mile. That would have to come way down if you wanted to compete with trains over a thousand or more miles. And you'd still be way slower,
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by n4r9 2y ago
> the average EU country is quite a bit smaller than the average US state I ran some rough calculations and this is true but the distinction is perhaps not as great as you imagine. USA has land mass 9.1 million km2 50 states => 182000
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Where is `getOrCreate` defined? Is it a custom extension method? There's also a chance we're thinking in different languages. I was writing C#, yours looks a bit more like C++ maybe? Readability incorporates familiarity but also c
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Are you telling me you've never seen code like this: var ageLookup = new Dictionary<AgeRange, List<Member>>(); foreach (var member in members) { var ageRange = member.AgeRange; if (ageLookup.ContainsKey(ageRan
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I see. According to this [0] website spring break finished typically in mid-March last year. Perhaps that explains why the blue line in OP dips back to 0% around mid-March. [0] https://www.eduvast.com/news/spring-break-
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You make a great point about values. It's potentially the biggest issue with the linked article. You got a weirdly large number of dissenting replies, so I just wanted to say that. I think it's irrelevant whether or not there are

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