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by olavk 9y ago
I don't see the contradiction. They didn't exterminate people of German descent in the conquered territories, rather they were supposed to become the new elite.
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by olavk 9y ago
It was an ad for a TV-show. I wouldn't really like if deceptively concealed ad's were bundled as part of Firefox proper either.
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by olavk 9y ago
I don't think you can argue that. Jesus argued it was acceptable for Jews to pay taxes, but certainly not that it was acceptable for Jews to worship the emperor. In any case, only some emperors where proclaimed divine, and it only ha
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by olavk 9y ago
Indeed, and Akhenatens was heneotheist also, since he elevated Aten to the primary god, but still allowed the other gods.
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by olavk 9y ago
"We might soon learn that the Russian Collusion story was mass hysteria in hindsight." To be fair, the article is from August, two months before Papadopoulos pled guilty as the first in the investigation. Still, it doesn't ex
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by olavk 9y ago
> I would like to not discuss it over Internet because So you would like to make your statements, but not to have them challenged?
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by olavk 9y ago
Hungary also got a piece. All with the blessing of UK and France, but not the USSR which opposed the treaty. Presumably this is what forced the USSR to sign their own separate treaty with Germany. There is really a lot of blame to go around
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by olavk 9y ago
> soviets really brought us more harm than nazis durning WW2 I presume you are not counting the three million Polish Jews who were murdered by the nazis?
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by olavk 9y ago
Not really, no. It has been speculated that Akhenatens elevation of Aten above other Gods inspired the monotheism of Moses. But AFAIK this is pure speculation without a shred of evidence. Moses might not even be historical anyway, and the c
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by olavk 9y ago
Why would it mention the pyramids? It is not a tourist guide.
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by olavk 9y ago
It would very much depends on who you were. If you had German ancestry you would be better off under the Germans, if you were Jewish you were far worse off. A lot of people in the former USSR occupied areas like the Baltics or Ukraine actua
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by olavk 9y ago
> Europe relies on US to spy on it's people so technically they are not spying on their own people. Where on earth did you get this idea? Are you suggesting European countries does not have police or intelligence agencies performing
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by olavk 9y ago
Do you know why both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice still exists?
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by olavk 9y ago
Hipsters care a lot about signaling that they prefer fringe/niche/"non-mainstream" culture. Since it is all about social signaling rather than actually enjoying a wide variety of culture, it is just as important for them
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by olavk 9y ago
It seems to be an internet myth that Poland was laregly spared. Some guy over at AskHistorians actully dug into the evidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/79dwua/why_d... - it is a fas
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by olavk 9y ago
> What possible line of reasoning can you be using to say that someone who is formally trained and educated in a discipline is worst or equal to someone who is not? Are you saying that formal education is a total waste of time? I my expe
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by olavk 9y ago
Thats just gatekeeping. According to the dictionary, an engineer is someone who designs and builds machines or structures. That definitely applies, even if her machines are deliberately shitty.
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by olavk 9y ago
The last paragraph is rather hipsterish.
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by olavk 9y ago
So he is a musician creating original (even amazing, surprising and exotic) music by playing with and exploring ideas on a musical instrument. And you consider this as something less valuable than trying out "theoretical concepts"
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by olavk 9y ago
Ulysses is not unreadable, it just takes a lot of effort. For programming, the criteria is not if it is hard to read, but whether the same thing could be expressed in way that would be simpler and easier to read. But I not sure to what exte
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by olavk 9y ago
Spolsky wrote the (for me as a young developer) eye-opening article about why you should never rewrite from scratch. But even then, it was clear that Wasabi was taking this to an extreme. VBScript is one of the worst and most limited script
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by olavk 9y ago
Whether we want a computer which can think like a human is a separate question. The Turing tests is only concerned about whether we have such a computer. Of course you can redefine the word "thinking" however you want, and sta
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by olavk 9y ago
Such a specialized AI would probably be more useful in practice, but that is not really what the Turing test is concerned with. The Turing test is a behaviorist approach to deciding the question if a computer "can think". In any c
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by olavk 9y ago
people have already chatted with an AI without noticing it was an AI an not a person I'm sure this have worked in some limited context where the human was not actively trying to figure out if it was a human or AI. I mean, I have some
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by olavk 9y ago
I'm not convinced that the odds are "very very poor". Some names (like Robert Smith or Maria Garcia) are quite common. And a hobby club is not a random selection of people, members would typically tend towards a specific geog
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by olavk 9y ago
Yeah I was surprised by this in an otherwise great article.
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by olavk 9y ago
We already tried that - Java Applets. Silverligt was the same idea. And Flash I guess? All attempts failed in the marketplace. It turns out using higher level standards like HTML, CSS, URL's etc actually provide a a lot of value.
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by olavk 9y ago
Note that the recent presidential election was in large part decided by which groups didn't vote. The viewpoint that politicians are all the same, voting doesn't matter etc. is a also a political opinions which benefits certain
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by olavk 9y ago
And you have never seen an OOP project succeed?
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by olavk 9y ago
Oh certainly, but that does not necessarily mean you "can't say" such things. I would definitely treat a colleague differently if I discover they write a blog arguing in favor of Hungarian Notation. Of course people will judg

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