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by pif 3y ago
That's a solved problem, just ask the thiotimoline research group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline
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by pif 3y ago
> I wish we could start over and redesign everything ... I wish we all could learn that "because it works now" is a valid reason to resist change, and that assuring back compatibility is a condicio sine qua non for every change
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by pif 3y ago
A hammer working fine today, that you own, is better than a machine tool tomorrow, that you'll have to pay.
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by pif 3y ago
"We have to do something" is often just the reflection of reality. Whether it leads to good laws is secondary. By the way, working "to fix the situation within the existing laws" fits the definition of "doing someth
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by pif 3y ago
Not at all! "Peacefully attending a public gathering in yellow shirts with printed slogans" is my perfect definition of a protest. You take a message with you, I can read it and decide whether I'm interested in joining your p
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by pif 3y ago
I agree with you, apart from the "fascism". Unless you want to call right-leaning and left-leaning dictatorships both "fascist".
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by pif 3y ago
> I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy. I do, too. I would have sympathised more with them in any other day, though. Actually, I per
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by pif 3y ago
> Am I not exercising free speech if I talk over you? In civilized places, we do not talk over another. We take turns to speak. > Why is interrupting a motorcade any different? It is not different indeed. They are both wrong. Especial
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by pif 3y ago
> is effectively required for a protest to have any result at all I'll say it again: you don't have the right to expect that your protest be successful. Democracy (and the UK is a democracy) means that the status quo is fine f
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by pif 3y ago
Nobody is condemning the rudeness against the royal family, but against all the people who like to give special treatment to the royal family for whatever reason, and especially to all the people who just want to keep giving special tre
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by pif 3y ago
> There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy. They may be right, they may be wrong. They surely have the right to express their opinions. But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually:
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by pif 3y ago
Sure it is, but you cannot pretend it. Why should your right to be seen be more important than the right of the government to organize a nice party for an event that will be in history books? You have the right to protest, but the others mu
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by pif 3y ago
I was replying to: "protest is meant to be disruptive". I agree that holding up signs is not a good reason for an arrest.
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by pif 3y ago
I was replying to: "protest is meant to be disruptive". Speaking in a public place is free speech. Interrupting a motorcade is not free speech. Pushing people around to get in from of cameras is neither. By the way, I'm using
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by pif 3y ago
> based on 'a problem of the moment' there are new laws passed Well, a problem of the moment needs a solution now . I hear many fellow leftists complaining about several "authoritarian", "fascist" laws, but
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by pif 3y ago
> most people have expressed to me that it was rude for there to be protestors at the coronation... Yes, it was. > But that's the point of protest!! No, it is not. From Cambridge Dictionary: "protest": a strong complain
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by pif 3y ago
As such, they are not a human right. You have the right to talk; you don't have the right to force the others to listen to you.
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by pif 3y ago
My mother taught me to read on her magazines. The first words I read were "Sole Piatti", from a dish soap advertising.
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by pif 3y ago
Thank you for exposing my thoughts in better words than I could.
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by pif 3y ago
You are right on "unbelievably". In my experience, bank service in France is fine.
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by pif 3y ago
At the same time, foreign allies had a formal proof they were being spied as well. Domestically, it was a win; internationally, it was a catastrophe.
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by pif 3y ago
> We are currently begging for transparency. Beware, transparency is a double-edged sword! Modern nations are not small villages, where secrets can be shared within a community AND kept out of reach from foreign ears.
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by pif 3y ago
While foreign allies showed a lot of interest in his revelations. Notwithstanding his morally high intentions, it's debatable whether the USA as a whole got a positive outcome from his actions.
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by pif 3y ago
> sun light for crying out loud. Spot on! Plants without solar lights are for labs, not for food.
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by pif 3y ago
> This crap is what prevents me from subscribing US press. I know this issue is not limited to the USA.
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by pif 4y ago
> Then again it is entirely the state's own fault for driving businesses away. What does that refer to? Honest question, never lived in the USA. Thanks for explanations!
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by pif 4y ago
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur whatever has been said in Latin seems deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(Q)
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by pif 4y ago
What a lot of hot air!
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by pif 4y ago
> Your sources root is also your output root Only if you learnt to program by reading Microsoft examples. Unix developers do not mix compiled files with source files.
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by pif 4y ago
> The consequences of failure in America are lower; Several fellow commenters have already pointed out as the contrary is actually true, and I'd like to add a corollary: risking everything you have in a business is simpler in the US

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