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by peteretep 5y ago
> India now has a representative democracy So did the Romans for 500 years
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by peteretep 5y ago
Do you believe it was an empire under the Mughals? If so, what's changed?
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by peteretep 5y ago
Are we saying a country with 1.4bn people, 22 official languages, 5 major religions, over 100 ethnic groups isn’t an empire? Before the Raj, most of it was the Mughal Empire (1500-1800). Before that, the Delhi Sultanate, pretty definitely a
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by peteretep 5y ago
If you don't think the goal was violent insurrection then what, specifically, do you think the people were doing there? They were protesting just fine outside of Congress, why did they go into congress? Why were they trying to find Nan
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by peteretep 5y ago
I spent the first ten years of my programming career without a degree, like you. I got a SoftEng MSc at 30. It was worth it. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know.
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by peteretep 5y ago
And they got Capone for tax evasion. Brushing off a conviction under 18 U.S. Code § 1752 -- which seems to be what people are being charged[0] with -- as "petty nonsense" is itself misleading, as it's the part of law that dea
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by peteretep 5y ago
A quick Google has about 40% of FARC as being women; do you have a better source? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/fa...
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Actual public safety is an afterthought Are we talking about the people who participated in a violent insurrection against the US, or is this another group? If you want to have nice things (eg: a democracy) then you can’t be letting pe
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Therefore I suggested SubVersion This author has much to teach us about evil after all
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by peteretep 5y ago
Almost sounds like they’re providing a utility, and should be regulated
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by peteretep 5y ago
The best time to have your email on a personal domain was ten years ago, the second best time is now. Trivial to register a domain, setup Fastmail, and then download all your Gmail one-off and then ongoing. Over the next year or two, correc
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by peteretep 5y ago
How do Apple, Amazon, and Netflix operate like this?
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by peteretep 5y ago
Cloud computing feels like one area we have fantastic competition in, even if there are only 3 major players (with one or two smaller ones). Feature and price competition between AWS and Azure is fierce, and if you’re dumb enough to have an
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by peteretep 5y ago
I’m sorry for you dude, that sucks
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by peteretep 5y ago
I am partial to the Zoe studies, as their cohort seems to be large, stable, and include people who haven’t been infected. Write-up: https://covid.joinzoe.com/us-post/long-covid Paper: https://www.medrxiv.org
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by peteretep 5y ago
I used to live in a Muslim neighbourhood with a wide variety of malted drinks for sale, albeit not advertised as beer. Seems humans just like the taste. When I lived in the Caribbean you’d see Supermalt everywhere too
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by peteretep 5y ago
Have you tried a shandy? Easy to order in a bar, easy to make at home, and if you use a sugar-free mixer then you’re cutting the calories in half too
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by peteretep 5y ago
> some get paided per interview I guess over a large enough number you’ll find people doing anything, but with a long history with the recruitment industry in a couple of countries, I’ve never seen this. With good reason too: there is no
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by peteretep 5y ago
It’s pulling data from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/global_...
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by peteretep 5y ago
McD SF is paying you $35k[0]. For 2018 figures: «A $35,000 income in the United States has enough buying power to put you in the 82nd percentile globally for per-person income. Within the United States, your income falls around the 20th per
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by peteretep 5y ago
No, recruiters get paid for placements, not interviews
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by peteretep 5y ago
Most rich governments are a lot more chill about dissent.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Good. As someone who moves around a lot esp to countries where I need to use a VPN, this bullshit is the bane of my life
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by peteretep 5y ago
Wikipedia has him leaving in 2008, what am I missing?
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by peteretep 5y ago
I was excited to hear I was being awarded the “CAR Hoare” prize from the same institution, only to find out it was a measly £200, if we’re doing humble brags
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by peteretep 5y ago
> it's been pretty clear Do you mean something other than “my guess is” here?
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by peteretep 5y ago
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/10/facebook-p...
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by peteretep 5y ago
That’s a weird framing. One party would introduce single-payer in a heartbeat, the other demonises it. Let’s not pretend we’re talking about “government” as a whole here, rather than the GOP
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by peteretep 5y ago
> United Healthcare framed the maneuver as a way to contain costs Profit in 2020: $15,403,000,000
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by peteretep 5y ago
The US has some very technically advanced adversaries who’d happily share their data with the Taliban

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