peterfirefly

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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
It takes a lot longer if the immigrant groups are (locally) large. They are a lot more than just locally large in Sweden. It also takes a lot longer if the state bends over backwards to accommodate the immigrants, which Sweden does.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> stronger in numbers. we are the majority still. That won't last long among the young in Sweden, actually. Not if the current immigration policies continue, that is.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> one montessori teacher can handle 30 children. Montessori kids tend to have parents that produce better kids (both in the genetic sense and in terms of how they are raised). It's a selection effect (also on the teacher side), not
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> First of all it causes migrants to destroy their documentation and to be less coöperative with the immigration process. They already do that.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Not all cultures are compatible. It's nothing to do with "races".
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_consul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> There ARE bad actors, they must be kept out. There are very good (and well-documented) reasons to believe a large part of the recently immigrated foreigners in Sweden are exactly such bad actors. Your arguments don't really work t
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_finance_in_Sweden > is that any individual is able to pour millions into a political party of any persuasion. It's an even bigger problem that political parties are heavily s
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> don't understand the language Seriously? It's not like the Somalis have been in Sweden that long.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Israel got an entire country out of it. A less flamebaity response is that the Soviet Union ended up as one of the winners of the second world war. They lost a lot people (Stalin didn't care) but almost all of that was because of Stal
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
I see several pro-mass immigration posters who try to pretend opposition to mass immigration is about racism. Don't think any of them are bots.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> Had I moved to, say, Hungary or Finland I'd probably have had a bit more trouble learning the language but that'd only have added a few months to the process. Probably a lot more than just a few months. You underestimate how
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Ford is not as protected from competition in Europe.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
They will mysteriously suddenly be able to afford houses (plural) without making much more than 50K a year.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
It was awesome in the sense that it was a really, really good solution to the problem they had when the 8086 was being designed: * we want to stay 16-bit * we want to make porting extremely easy * we want to make gradual upgrading o
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
You can do the equivalent of the hypothetical ADSC instruction I mentioned in another post using normal instructions. It's just that you need an uncomfortable amount.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Any protected mode (if enabled). It was introduced with the 286. The operating system/DOS extender could choose to let tasks (programs) run with the highest privileges, which would turn off some of the checks but not all of them -- yo
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Just sweat more blood.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
A single one would require a ported app to understand that it worked with bigger registers in order to take advantage of the bigger address space. Some really old computers did work like that, but to allow several apps to coexist in memory
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
And 32-bit Windows has this kind of banking when 4GB* per app isn't enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Windowing_Extensions *: not actually 4GB, because that makes the kernel code harder to write and te
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I remember that at some point compiler ads would brag that the new "Microland" compiler could do "segment pointers" where only the segment was stored. I don't remember when it was, but it was fairly late in the DOS
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
No, that was C (and C++). Turbo Pascal 3.x always had a single code segment, a single data segment, a single stack segment + a heap. Heap allocations were paragraph aligned (ofs=0). All pointers were far pointers. Turbo Pascal 4.0 and up
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
btw, we only really need ADSC for the ES register.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Segment prefixes were rarely needed and you didn't need to spend any of the precious mod/rm bits on segment registers. The GPR count was limited to 8 partly because of the 3 bits allocated to specifying them and partly because of
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Could have been fixed with an ADC-type instruction that operated on segments. Imagine if you could have done something like this: add si, some-delta adsc es, 0 in order to move a seg:ofs ptr forward by 'some-delta' byt
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Copper prices may be higher in 2035 but I'll be astonished if lithium prices are. I expect lithium to be much cheaper by then. Note that we kept extracting copper long after people said we would run out. We even increased production
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
A lot of those rising costs are also due to a (much) heavier regulatory environment.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Remember when the world ran completely out of copper?
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
There are two relevant decipherment ideas: the new one that is the first one sufficiently "un-bad" to be taken seriously and the one by the Dutch emeritus. The Dutch guy thinks he can recognize some names (personal and toponyms) a
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
True, but Arabic and Hebrew use a large number of implicit vowels. Only some of the vowels are actually written (except in school books in the early grades). I don't really understand how they can leave out so many vowels and still fi

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